There were some interesting bits of yesterdays AMD webinar:
Those two GPUs will have surely have their cut down versions and will have a wide range of different board designs"
"AMD also pointed out one of their key features in their Polaris architecture which is Asynchronous Compute."
"AMD is very keen on pushing this feature into upcoming titles and they stated they will drive it even more aggressively than before."
"they specified that they were able do get to get more performance out of each transistor not only thanks to 14nm FinFET process but also by virtue of the various optimizations within the Polaris architecture itself."
"We asked them if the efficiency improvements that AMD specified in their previous presentations are uniform for all GPUs AMD will offer or if it’s just for the most efficient GPU of the whole family. We were lucky enough to get my question answered with a little tiny bit of extra unexpected spice. AMD answered that there will be wide range of different board designs which means some will have different clocks than others. This means that some will be more efficient than others but generally the capability and improvements will be there."
"AMD mentioned AIB partners and that some of them will most likely try to drive the clocks as high as possible with their own designs, which would mean lower efficiency."
"AMD is not limiting AIB partners with clockspeeds for the sake of better efficiency"
This might mean they were mainly aiming for efficiency not performance, but AIB partnets might do the opposite. The former mention of 175w tdp but only 120-130w real power consumption pointed to the direction that they have room for improvement.
Those two GPUs will have surely have their cut down versions and will have a wide range of different board designs"
"AMD also pointed out one of their key features in their Polaris architecture which is Asynchronous Compute."
"AMD is very keen on pushing this feature into upcoming titles and they stated they will drive it even more aggressively than before."
"they specified that they were able do get to get more performance out of each transistor not only thanks to 14nm FinFET process but also by virtue of the various optimizations within the Polaris architecture itself."
"We asked them if the efficiency improvements that AMD specified in their previous presentations are uniform for all GPUs AMD will offer or if it’s just for the most efficient GPU of the whole family. We were lucky enough to get my question answered with a little tiny bit of extra unexpected spice. AMD answered that there will be wide range of different board designs which means some will have different clocks than others. This means that some will be more efficient than others but generally the capability and improvements will be there."
"AMD mentioned AIB partners and that some of them will most likely try to drive the clocks as high as possible with their own designs, which would mean lower efficiency."
"AMD is not limiting AIB partners with clockspeeds for the sake of better efficiency"
This might mean they were mainly aiming for efficiency not performance, but AIB partnets might do the opposite. The former mention of 175w tdp but only 120-130w real power consumption pointed to the direction that they have room for improvement.