Quote Originally Posted by Picao84 View Post
It wouldnt surprise me. We have to keep in mind the change in architecture, with hardware schedulers, instead of a software one on VLIW. That has to account for higher sized die (compared to one in VLIW) as well as higher power consumption. However, if the upgrade in performance is little, I will also say they didnt went overboard with die size. They are following the carefull strategy of not doing big chips. To keep the die size low, they traded a big increase in performance for the scheduller, not risking doing both this generation.
CGN won't be much better than the legacy VLIW architecture in terms of efficiency. CGN is more like the current VLIW without the clauses, but keeps a very minimalistic approach to HW scheduling. It's still way behind what Nvidia have done ever since G80 in therms of scheduling and reordering, especially considering what Fermi can do now.