Caporegime
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As the versions of GCN have increased each consecutive model that version of GCN has been in has tended to be made more dense and/or larger. which in essence increases heat density.
AMD has always managed to cram more transistors in less space compared to Nvidia, but the trade off is that it inhibits overclocking.
I do also think the optimal GCN clockspeeds are sub 1GHZ too - look at the AMD professional GPUs for example.