If the card has 2 8pin plugs it's likely a power sucker. examples: every card released with 2 8pinlol
both my 1080 ti and 2080 ti have 2 8pin plugs![]()
Meh my vega 64 has 2 8 pin and it draws 221w max on load.
Not running stock power settings though, right?
Simple auto undervolt now from wattman which tells me amd was simply lazy when it came out with its initial driver.
It has nothing to do with when it was made. It's all about Silicone Lottery.
If you think the efficiency of the chips doesn't get better as the process becomes more and more mature, you crazy. Yes, some people have had great results with early adoption Vega64's, that is silicone lottery - however the cards that have been made a year after will absolutely be more matured, efficient chips. Nature of the beast on that one.
When is this card out? Also what is the logic of the moniker 7?
For efficiency to change, they have to make modifications to the process and the design aka revisions. Neither was done, as it was Go-Flo doing the chip manufacturing and we all know Go-Flo sucks, and we know AMD didn't make any new design change to the Vega 64 You don't just get more efficient chips by making more following the same identical process and design. Now, if you where comparing different versions.. As an example: Ryzen 1 vs Ryzen+, that is a demonstration of the process becoming more mature which is all in correlation to changes they did to the process and the design. Non of that was done with the Vega 64 on the reference boards, with no revisions being done that we know of.
For efficiency to change, they have to make modifications to the process and the design aka revisions. Neither was done, as it was Go-Flo doing the chip manufacturing and we all know Go-Flo sucks, and we know AMD didn't make any new design change to the Vega 64 You don't just get more efficient chips by making more following the same identical process and design. Now, if you where comparing different versions.. As an example: Ryzen 1 vs Ryzen+, that is a demonstration of the process becoming more mature which is all in correlation to changes they did to the process and the design. Non of that was done with the Vega 64 on the reference boards, with no revisions being done that we know of.
Yields often improve over time. Intel has some graphs of this with various process nodes. Obviously I can't say for certain this happened at GloFo, but I just assumed that it probably would.
To be clear, this is only speculation on my part. There's no practical way to actually prove it without having data to hundreds of cards produced at different points in time. I suppose AMD or GloFo would have data on the yields, but I don't expect they'll be telling us.
I'll agree with you that Silicon lottery is still going to play a part in any case.