GDDR5 uses more pins which caused the bigger die to be pad limited
I thought so, too, until I counted them. Turned out GDDR5 has 62 I/O pins per chip while GDDR3/4 has 69. GDDR5's has more pins total but that's just because it has 100 power/ground pins, while GDDR3/4 has 70.
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