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What's so good about 7nm?

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Basically you can fit more transistors in the same space because they are smaller. 

 

At 16nm, there are 12 billion transistors in a 1080ti.
At 28nm there was 8 billion in the 980ti

 

This increase in transistors is what drives power/performance improvements.

 

 

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

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Could someone please explain or link below a post / video about it?

 

All I found is how AMD is moving to it (along NVidia), and how others might hold their RTX purchase to wait for the 7nm GPUs, but not exactly what that thing is and why it is so good.

 

Thank you :)

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Basically you can fit more transistors in the same space because they are smaller. 

 

At 16nm, there are 12 billion transistors in a 1080ti.
At 28nm there was 8 billion in the 980ti

 

This increase in transistors is what drives power/performance improvements.

 

 

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

For a longer read through.

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Die size.

 

The simplest I can put it is they can fit more transistors in less space which will also take less voltage to power resulting in higher clock speeds.

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