Radeon VII wasn’t a lower tier die. Every Radeon VII ever sold was effectively a salvaged Instinct MI50 that was unable to be validated for that particular market segment.
Sure, but couldn’t they make a bigger chip that performed even faster? Why did they reduce the size of the flagship, why not make it both smaller node and also keep the size the same?
Yeah, it’d take architectural changes to GCN, but, that’s not consumers’ problem, they’re buying products not ideas.
Isn’t that exactly what NVIDIA did with Ada, shrink the node but all the dies get much smaller, so a x80 tier product is now the same size as a 3060 or whatever?
Sure, but couldn’t they make a bigger chip that performed even faster? Why did they reduce the size of the flagship, why not make it both smaller node and also keep the size the same?
Yeah, it’d take architectural changes to GCN, but, that’s not consumers’ problem, they’re buying products not ideas.
Isn’t that exactly what NVIDIA did with Ada, shrink the node but all the dies get much smaller, so a x80 tier product is now the same size as a 3060 or whatever?