Quote from: DantePierttyr on August 30, 2023, 14:23:41sorry for the sincerity, but this is basically spreading fake news.
This is not a limitation of RDNA2, it is a limitation of Samsung's manufacturing process efficiency curve. Just compare SD 8 Gen 1 vs SD 8 Gen 1 plus or even Vega 8(12nm) vs Vega 7(7nm) to see what effect the best manufacturing process has on maximum clockrate and overall efficiency.
If the SD 8 Gen 3 was in an inferior process it would also suffer from clockrate limitation.
Plus variant usually have higher clock rate. That's why they are called as plus.
nvidia 2000 and 3000 series are made by Samsung. So I don't think it's their manufacturing issues.
(Don't compare 3000 series and 4000 series because the node difference is significant between them .)
samsung has improved their manufacturing process recently. Just compare newer Exynos 1380 and old 1280. You can see more efficiency of 1380 even though both are same node process.
Also newer snapdragon 4gen2 is made by Samsung 4nm . It's efficiency is also good .