02-16-2015, 10:29 PM
There's no innovation here. AMD's game plan for last generation and the next is simply "let's keep adding more cores to our aging architecture." Obviously not a scalable plan, and that's why they're releasing a reference design card that requires water.
Water cooling is an automatic non-starter. The power consumption is grotesque for a single GPU card. They claim 300W which means it will draw around 375W in practice (that's 6990 territory!). But of course PowerTune will try to keep power consumption under 300W, so the card will throttle under load regardless of the temperature.
This card is proof that AMD's days are numbered.
Water cooling is an automatic non-starter. The power consumption is grotesque for a single GPU card. They claim 300W which means it will draw around 375W in practice (that's 6990 territory!). But of course PowerTune will try to keep power consumption under 300W, so the card will throttle under load regardless of the temperature.
This card is proof that AMD's days are numbered.