No, I'm arguing against stupidity.
No you're arguing
from stupidity!
From a macro perspective, you could say something like '4.1 billion transistors for so many FLOPS'. There is at least some amount of value in that.
Gee wizz, you don't say?
blah blah blah
pointless election analogy
Look, this
is a
speculation thread.
There is absolutely no value in you coming on here saying we don't
know what the shader count is, or the die size, therefore we cannot
speculate
At this stage in the 4-6 week window before release, the numbers usually firm up pretty well.
- at the moment, in terms of rumors, there is only one spec that everyone is repeating - which is 1536SPs, 950MHz Clock (no hot clock), 256-bit bus, 5GHz DDR5, a Charlie die size of 320-360mm^2, performance around the HD7950
- so, any or all of these factoids could be right or wrong, but if you're participating in a speculation thread, then it's obviously got to be fair game to speculate about the most viable current rumor.
So, if you accept these factoids as a group, then it's perfectly reasonable of me to say
"but ditching the hot-clock gives massive benefit in terms of ALU density."
- i.e. there is no hot clock, and the numbers of SPs has effectively doubled from where you would expect them to be from say a straight 2x 28nm version of a GF114.
- sure there are other factors - such as the memory bus staying at 256-bit, and therefore being a smaller proportion of the die...
- but I don't see how you can call
"but ditching the hot-clock gives massive benefit in terms of ALU density."
anything but the bleeding obvious.
And in terms of the ALU, i.e. SP, it's a Multiply-Add block, it can't get much simpler, and not cease to be an SP.
- and if it were significantly less powerful, then 1536 new-SPs @950MHz wouldn't be able to give an HD7950 a run for it's money.
- so we can safely assume, for the purposes of a speculation thread that these are your typical, common or garden, SPs.
If you don't enjoy the speculation of others, then you should look elsewhere for your entertainment.