A secret inside "Hawaii"...

**fellix_bg** · 12-31-2013, 04:20 AM

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**Tim** · 12-31-2013, 06:51 AM

Wasn't Hawaii originally meant for 20nm? Can they launch this on 28nm with good yields?

I'd imagine this would be their answer for Maxwell on 28nm. At least it will force them to tweak the cooling. January/February should prove to be interesting.

**AliG** · 12-31-2013, 07:43 AM

Wait, that's a huge increase in size for just a 20% increase in shader count

Edit: It says reverse engineered silicon description. Is there even any truth to this at all? It's clearly not an official slide

**Deux** · 12-31-2013, 08:07 AM

Pretty sure this has already been shot down.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=#post5221304

**Iconyu** · 12-31-2013, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Tim

Wasn't Hawaii originally meant for 20nm? Can they launch this on 28nm with good yields?

I'd imagine this would be their answer for Maxwell on 28nm. At least it will force them to tweak the cooling. January/February should prove to be interesting.

AMD would've disabled the extra shaders for yields, they may have kept some cards back that had the full amount of shaders working though.

Originally Posted by AliG

Wait, that's a huge increase in size for just a 20% increase in shader count

Edit: It says reverse engineered silicon description. Is there even any truth to this at all? It's clearly not an official slide

Hawaii has 37% more shaders than Tahiti.

You do both know that these are just pictures of the 270, 280 and 290 cores right?