What does factory overclock even mean? Doesn't overclocked mean clocked over what you get from the factory? Wouldn't "factory overclock" just be "higher clock"? Are you paying $50 extra for someone else to push a button for you?
If you buy a regular version, it might be stable at this same overclock on stock cooling, but it also might not. And even if it does work, it’s possible the better binned units have headroom to go even higher.
The term is rather silly when the card is coming directly from AMD though.
I am wondering on the state of GPU Compute on Mac, CUDA, OpenCL, ROCm. Apple has now abandoned OpenCL and working on their Metal Compute, which is ( I think ) only available on iOS. CUDA is not available on Mac, and ROCm is only available on Linux.
Sure, I guess, but it is probably still winning because it is manufactured on a new node - transistor count isn't the only thing that matters.
Performance is frequently power-limited, so because 7nm is more efficient it can achieve higher performance.
If you took the same design from 16nm (or 28, ...) and simply shrunk it to 7nm, you could achieve higher performance with the 7nm version - even though the number of transistors hasn't changed.
