[boroboi]

Fudzilla is notorious for guesstimates rather than hard facts, or statements which can be taken in many different ways.

The increase in transistors is natural because of the changes made to the power distribution, they retimed the entire chip and added a decap ring which increased the chip's size (to cancel out signal noise). 3 Million transistors is nothing in today's semiconductor world. Shader effiency can only be increased by a clock bump or an update to the shader clusters, which would see a more dramatic change in transistor count.

The increase in fill rate though is consistent with a clock increase, not a shader effiency increase