AMD Capsaicin live stream

enigma27 · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:20

did that slide just confirm HBM2 wont be till Vega?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:21

Hmm,so that indicates two families - Polaris will use GDDR5 and Vega,HBM2??

Vega appears to be either late 2016 or early 2017.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:22

AMD also confirmed they will be using MRS,like Nvidia for VR.

Ayahuasca · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:23

Some Polaris cards will be using HBM I'd imagine.

Muz333 · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:27

Ubisoft interested in VR? Will it come in a cinematic 24 fps?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:27

WTF?? Ubisoft person is on stage - thought they tended to be in bed with Nvidia??

Might be why,The Division runs OK on AMD cards??

Ayahuasca said:
Some Polaris cards will be using HBM I'd imagine.

I think AMD is having TWO families - Polaris and Vega which are launching in the next 12 months.

From the comments made,it seems Polaris is more targetted towards value for money so probably is using GDDR5. I expect Vega will be the performance card.

thebennyboy · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:28

Muz333 said:
Ubisoft interested in VR? Will it come in a cinematic 24 fps?

Wouldn't expect any less from Ubisoft.

Ayahuasca · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:29

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I think AMD is having TWO families - Polaris and Vega which are launching in the next 12 months.

From the comments made,it seems Polaris is more targetted towards value for money so probably is using GDDR5. I expect Vega will be the performance card.

I'd be extremely surprised to see no new HBM cards from AMD this year.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:31

Ayahuasca said:
I'd be extremely surprised to see no new HBM cards from AMD this year.

Well,AMD has tended to launch their top end cards towards the end of the year - I expect we might see Vega launched in December this year.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:32

Polaris 10 - Hitman 60 FPS at 1440P.

JediFragger · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:32

Well I suppose this pretty much confirms the big boys are coming next year

Although Polaris 10 should be quite a performer if it's 350mm+ :cool:

Mtom · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:36

Ayahuasca said:
I'd be extremely surprised to see no new HBM cards from AMD this year.

It sounds like we thought. AMD and NV both will launch the big HBM guns late in the year.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:36

JediFragger said:
Well I suppose this pretty much confirms the big boys are coming next year

Although Polaris 10 should be quite a performer if it's 350mm+

Polaris 10 was running Hitman at 60FPS at 1440P.

Unless the demo was run at lower quality settings - that indicates close to Fury level performance??

JediFragger · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:38

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Polaris 10 was running Hitman at 60FPS at 1440P.

Isn't Hitman locked at 60fps? Not that impressive then

Mtom · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:39

Just looked up if it ran over 1440@60FPS in Hitman then its faster than Fury X and 980Ti

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:40

JediFragger said:
Isn't Hitman locked at 60fps? Not that impressive then

Look above!

Not even a Fury can hit 60FPS constant in the title at 2560p. They said it was running 60FPS constant,so unless they dropped the quality,it indicates a 232MM2 GPU which they said is going to be competitively priced is Fury level or maybe better.

Ayahuasca · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:41

Mtom said:
It sounds like we thought. AMD and NV both will launch the big HBM guns late in the year.

That's fine but it still doesn't make much sense apart from cost saving to limit all Polaris cards to GDDR. HBM even at 4GB has shown excellent signs at 4k, I just can't see there being no new HBM1 card from them this year.

Mtom · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:43

Ayahuasca said:
That's fine but it still doesn't make much sense apart from cost saving to limit all Polaris cards to GDDR. HBM even at 4GB has shown excellent signs at 4k, I just can't see there being no new HBM1 card from them this year.

It is because of cost. Its just not worth it on a 300$ card

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:44

Ayahuasca said:
That's fine but it still doesn't make much sense apart from cost saving to limit all Polaris cards to GDDR. HBM even at 4GB has shown excellent signs at 4k, I just can't see there being no new HBM1 card from them this year.

Well,they said they were trying to address price/performance during the talk.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2016 at 23:47

Next Total War is meant to be DX12 according to the dev,so looks like another AMD sponsored game.