NVIDIA claims having 12nm Turing is more efficient than the 7nm AMD Vega

During the last week’s GPU Technology Conference, no new GPU architecture was presented by NVIDIA, however, NVIDIA left some interesting comments about the Turing architecture and the behavior of the Radeon VII, which is the first consumer graphics card with a 7nm node.

NVIDIA, NVIDIA claims having 12nm Turing is more efficient than the 7nm AMD Vega,
Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, addressed this issue during the GTC 2019 conference, during which he expressed concern that the company was in no hurry to get its first 7nm GPUs due to the trust invested in Turing.

Turing uses a 12 nm node and is more efficient than AMD at 14nm (Vega 10 = Radeon RX Vega 64) and 7nm (Vega 20 = Radeon VII). He said:

What’s special about us is that we can always develop the most energy-efficient GPU in the world and need to use the cheapest technology. Check out Turing, for example, the energy efficiency is so good even compared to the 7 nm of others.

In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of the latest generations of GPUs, NVIDIA has learned the fiasco of Fermi at its time and far surpassed it, with crazy operating temperatures at the upper end (GTX 480). AMD was the first to reach the 7nm node with its new Vega 20 GPU driving the Radeon VII, but even with the new node, the Vega architecture can’t even touch the efficiency and raw performance of the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture. Even the previous 14nm Pascal GPUs are more efficient than the 7nm Vega 20.