People let a bunch of the AMD twitter bros work them into a froth over power efficiency. Everyone knew it was basically a 2-node leap (Samsung 8nm is a 10+ nod

People let a bunch of the AMD twitter bros work them into a froth over power efficiency. Everyone knew it was basically a 2-node leap (Samsung 8nm is a 10+ node, it's about on par with TSMC 10nm, so there's 2 generations of improvement there), the bullshit from the twitter gang was utterly unfounded since day 1. Everyone who wasn't in the tank was telling you god's own truth: NVIDIA is going to leap two nodes, it was always gonna be a huge leap, bigger than Pascal. They were drowned out by the AMD hypetrain crowd as usual who desperately wanted a flop and were trying to will it into existence. It does go to show just how far NVIDIA is ahead on architecture... they could fight RDNA2 to a standstill with basically a whole node of disadvantage, and they did the same thing with Turing vs RDNA1 where they were using TSMC 12FFN (which is literally 16FF with the "your mom-sized" reticle - there is no optical shrink in 12FFN) and managed to fight 7nm cards to a draw on both performance and efficiency.