AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

[pmc25]

Nah, i am not into apple products. i prefer my anoose to remain unviolated.

Probably later in Q3 then. Dunno how long it'll take, as Apple might refresh the iMac around the same time.

 

[r7slayer]

I'm interested in both threads so it felt worth mentioning that we need to maintain standards on both and not double standards like some. I do believe we should stick on topic of course but your post is no better really.

Not much can be said about polaris at this stage without waiting for more info but I'm most impressed by AMD's route into the Nvidia camp with the freesynch through HDMI. Don't know how I feel about it though as it's a route in and a route out as I might end up needing a gsynch monitor to make sure I can have synch with whichever card I want. Doubt I care too much though really, probably just get an AMD card if they don't mess up bad as I'm not the kind of person who cries over every 2% performance and tries to slam everything for being 2fps lower. If AMD carry on with the current trend of costs for freesynch monitors and amd cards it'll still be far better value than the Nvidia alternative.

I'm sorry isn't this a thread about AMD polaris architecture? Ive been at work all day and come home to catch up yet see two pages of people babbling on about nVidia. I came to look for news based on the thread title so i think my post is justified. Fed up of the usual people baiting and taking threads off topic. I also go into the pascal thread to look at the news and get just as annoyed when that's taken off topic although it happens more with the AMD threads as of late...

 

[FoxEye]

Polaris best future ahead is indeed brighter with AMD

What does this even mean?!???!

 

[bru]

What does this even mean?!???!

They have turned up the default gamma setting in their drivers.

 

[Panos]

Apple (if you don't mind paying Apple tax) are likely to oblige you in Q2.

Unfortunately true

Lets hope Polaris delivers and they have a mobile GPU out that is as fast as a 290X with low power consumption. Might see some cheap and powerful Freesync laptops out there, not sold by Apple also

Because the alternative are some ridiculously priced but pathetic in grunt power NV mobile GPUs out there.

Who forgot the Mobility Radeon 9800, had a laptop with it and was going strong all way to 2008. 2004 was as powerfull as the top of the range cards. And by that time (4y later) it died, the same power as the middle range cards.

Right now the "top of the range" 980M is pathetic compared to the middle range GPUS.

So crossing fingers.....

 

[Orangey]

What does this even mean?!???!

It means listen and believe.

 

[Boomstick777]

AMD Shows “Enthusiast” Polaris GPU To Journalists At CES 2016

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-shows-enthusiast-polaris-ces/#ixzz3wz1wT4XK

AMD has reportedly just revealed its 2nd Polaris GPU, an “enthusiast” class chip to succeed the R9 Fury X and R9 390X graphics cards. This update comes in via Tweaktown, who report to have been shown a second Polaris GPU besides the small Polaris chip that AMD has already demoed against Nvidia’s GTX 950 last week.

 

[Scougar]

(Orgasm noises).

 

[Mauller]

Just came on to mention about the 'closed door' showing of enthusiast class polaris.

Hopefully they divulge some more information on it sooner than later. Hopefully with them working with samsung it means they won't have as many issues getting HBM2.

All clear skies ahead, hopefully.

 

[David Bisset]

They have turned up the default gamma setting in their drivers.

Haha love it.

 

[Mtom]

 

[pmc25]

Just came on to mention about the 'closed door' showing of enthusiast class polaris.

Hopefully they divulge some more information on it sooner than later. Hopefully with them working with samsung it means they won't have as many issues getting HBM2.

All clear skies ahead, hopefully.

Doubt they'll be in any huge rush given that they seem to be miles ahead of NVIDIA on the new node(s). I'm guessing it'll be towards the end of Q4 for green.

 

[Seanspeed]

Doubt they'll be in any huge rush given that they seem to be miles ahead of NVIDIA on the new node(s).

Huh?

 

[pmc25]

Huh?

They're likely to have 4-6 months with no competition. They don't need to try and convince people too much before actual launch.

 

[Seanspeed]

They're likely to have 4-6 months with no competition. They don't need to try and convince people too much before actual launch.

I dont understand where you're getting this from? :/

 

[drunkenmaster]

I dont understand where you're getting this from? :/

Outside of silly rumours on forums, there is no sign Nvidia is due a Pascal launch before very late Q2, early Q3 and might be later than that. AMD are using a process that the entire industry believes is 6+ months ahead of the competition. AMD is showing actual working samples while Nvidia isn't even showing Pascal in show parts.

The general time line when it comes to trade shows is, mocked up parts, fake or dev versions with old parts in them. Then you get people showing a pcb with a real chip but not a working demo, then you get showing cards, working demos. These are generally weeks if not months between each stage. AMD was showing working demos to people by at least December, Nvidia a month later is still not showing any Pascal silicon to anyone.

AMD have also beaten Nvidia to a new process by a fairly large margin on the past 2, or 3 nodes(55nm, I can't remember). Nvidia have had increasing troubles on new nodes since 65nm where 280/285gtx had yield problems though nothing to bad. 40nm was a disaster and 28nm wasn't great for them either, finally stopping going to their big die first as that was their biggest problem.

 

[Seanspeed]

Outside of silly rumours on forums, there is no sign Nvidia is due a Pascal launch before very late Q2, early Q3 and might be later than that.

You're extrapolating release timing from the absence of evidence that it'll be sooner? Cuz that's not how it works. Might as well say there's no sign it'll come out before 2020 using the same reasoning.

AMD are also using TMSC 16nm, though we dont know for what specifically.

 

[tommybhoy]

Think somethings amiss as they usually have something to trump AMD's PR.

 

[Mtom]

You're extrapolating release timing from the absence of evidence that it'll be sooner? Cuz that's not how it works. Might as well say there's no sign it'll come out before 2020 using the same reasoning.

AMD are also using TMSC 16nm, though we dont know for what specifically.

AMD only using GloFo/Samsung 14nm...no 16nm parts for them

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

However,it will be a 300MM2 to 400MM2 chip at most I suspect,probably with some of the DP compute functionality that Fiji had stripped out restored.

So if the small Polaris is GTX950/GTX960 level,it will probably make the bigger Polaris chip around 25% to 50% faster on average than a Fury X at 1080P,if its closer to 400MM2.

Seems about right IMHO,as the HD7970 and HD5870 showed similar jumps over the previous generation cards.