Scorpio’s evident clockspeed gains are likely due to the 16nm slowly coming into its own: this is something that we’re seeing in the desktop space with the RX 580. AMD’s base spec for the 580 has raised boost clocks by nearly 100 MHz. But, tellingly, custom RX 580s are coming to market clocked above 1400 MHz, unheard of with the 480 (I can vouch for this—I didn’t have much luck overclocking the RX 480).
All in all, the process gains appear to be enough that Microsoft can squeeze the Scorpio’s GPU into a console-sized box, with a console-sized power budget to boot. Whatever the reason may be, that’s a mighty impressive feat in and of itself.
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