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Re:AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture by neilmovva on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:14PM (#14897410)
Vega is already drawing near 300W, and is so high up on the voltage/frequency curve that even a measly 5-10% gain in core clock can easily cost over 100W more.

Here, AMD is once again (see last year's Polaris) a victim of the inferior GlobalFoundries 14nm LPP process. TSMC 16nm would have been much better in perf/W, but sadly a very restrictive wafer supply agreement locks AMD to GloFo for the time being.

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Re:AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture by ksec on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:32AM (#14899013)
I would have had the same conclusion if Ryzen was not also a 14nm LPP with GloFo.

It is just sad AMD could not get both Graphics and CPU momentum at the same time.

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