cdawall
where the hell are my stars
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2006
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System Name | Moving into the mobile space |
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Processor | 7940HS |
Motherboard | HP trash |
Cooling | HP trash |
Memory | 2x8GB |
Video Card(s) | 4070 mobile |
Storage | 512GB+2TB NVME |
Display(s) | some 165hz thing that isn't as nice as it sounded |
It's sad to see how blinded people are thinking Polaris is more efficient than Pascal.
Blinded by what? There are already a couple consumer bins in the 80w range for the RX480. Not every card is the 150-200W cards we saw at initial release. If you look closely at the cooler design you can tell the initial plan was for a GPU in the 80-100w power envelope. Same goes for the power delivery circuit that was on the cards. Literally every single thing points towards a much lower wattage card design. It has been assumed on multiple fronts that GloFo couldn't give AMD enough good dies and that led to what we saw. AMD bottom of the barrel grabbed dies to have a product on the market. We will continue to see lower and lower wattage polaris parts as time goes on and yields improve.
Another example of AMD's preferential binning. The macbook pro can get a full fledged RX460 that is sitting at a 30w TDP.
Hell my cards with a massive overclock are still only hitting the 150-200w range with a voltage bump and air cooling.