With Hawaii AMD still isn’t entering the big die race that defines NVIDIA’s flagship GPUs, but AMD is going larger than ever before. At 438mm2 Hawaii is AMD’s biggest GPU yet, and despite AMD’s improvements in area efficiency Hawaii is still 73mm2 (20%) larger than Tahiti. The fact that AMD is able to improve their gaming performance by 30% over Tahiti means that this is a very good tradeoff to make, it just means that AMD is treading new ground in doing so.
Similarly, at 6.2 billion transistors Hawaii is AMD’s largest GPU yet by transistor count, outpacing the 4.31B Tahiti by 1.89B transistors, an increase of 44%.