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Names with nm are just so called commercial names. They don't match from company to company.

Transistor density in millions of transistors per square millimeter is more relevant. For example: Intel 10nm is 101 MTr/mm², TSMC 7nm Mobile is 97 MTr/mm² so they are very similar.




* TSMC’s 7nm+ EUV is 115.8 MTr/mm²

* TSMC’s 5nm EUV is 171.3 MTr/mm²

Source: https://www.techcenturion.com/7nm-10nm-14nm-fabrication

I also would like to find any historical data on MTr/mm² just to see if there high correlation with nm names.


Wikipedia has tons of transistor count and die size data for CPUs and GPUs. See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

When comparing across generations, you'll get the most accurate picture if you stick with the same kind of chip (eg. desktop-class GPUs) and same vendor so that they're more likely to count transistors the same way from one year to the next.




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