Its 40% higher in DP performance than a GTX980TI. I wonder if AMD should have depreciated more of the DP performance,so they could actually run the GPU at a higher clockspeed in the same thermal envelope??
I don't see why it needs so much DP performance,when Hawaii is probably enough for said market??
I suspect it wouldn't have made much more of a difference. Gisting those more knowledgeable, the entire arch and its subsystems are geared toward general compute. So with that in mind, alleviating the die of a few transistors more (than already wrt dp) may not sufficiently counteract the burden.