AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

[AlamoX]

Sim Racing games would be good with ultra wide.

this is how you play sims

 

[pmc25]

Re: War Thunder ... I was going to start playing it, but then they announced a GameWorks partnership with NVIDIA ... shortly afterwards they released a patch which destroyed performance on AMD, completely removed CF (which worked perfectly previously), and also semi-broke SLI on NVIDIA. They haven't commented even once on it and it's been three months ... previously it was one of the biggest attractions for CF as performance scaling was pretty much 100%. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole now, especially as since this patch they've been bleeding users badly.

 

[andybird123]

Eww, just like others have said. Another useless effect like chromatic aberration, motion blur and depth of field. All of them disabled on first game load.

But a 32:9 curved monitor would be just right i reckon. would make a nice replacement for double and triple monitor gaming setups.

Wow, sense of humour failures all round tonight I see.

 

[Overlag]

today there is only 1 way to play Sims...VRrr

dunno if i can be bothered having a huge thing on my head.

 

[Gregster]

this is how you play sims

That looks pretty awesome and that is exactly how it looks in ED with my joystick and throttle, including all the buttons in the correct position. Really immersive and makes VR a showcase.

 

[Orangey]

Wow, sense of humour failures all round tonight I see.

You even used a smiley.

 

[FoxEye]

You even used a smiley.

The reason it's not funny is because someone, somewhere will be thinking about actually doing this, and trying to sell it to us as a new, premium "feature"

 

[flopper]

this is how you play sims

will look and play awesome with Polaris with low latency.
I just wonder if AMD going with some special Polaris VR solution designed cards for entusiasts.

I bet the adult movie industry is expecting a boom with VR enabled "head"sets.

 

[Mauller]

Would be good if the headsets came with HDR support, considering they are using OLED displays.

 

[Boomstick777]

This Nano is an absolute powerhouse, cool and quiet. Who knows how good these next lot of cards are going to be, Nvidia's HBM cards as well. Good time to be a geek

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Could be in for a wait.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/taiwan_earthquake_impacts_tsmc_chip_production.html

 

[drunkenmaster]

Could be in for a wait.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/taiwan_earthquake_impacts_tsmc_chip_production.html

If effects Taiwan and specifically only one of their 300mm gigafabs. It has zero effect on Samsung/GloFo production which is in Korea/Germany/New York.

TSMC only has two fabs that are slated for 16nm, 12 and 14. 14 is the one effected and how much of an effect it has is unknown as I can't really find any information on which got 16nm first, what capacity is run at each and even then both fabs only have part of the floorspace dedicated to 16nm.

If Fab 14 was where the largest capacity was or was coming then it could have potentially significant delays, if Fab 14 is pretty small for 16nm and Fab 12 is where most of the capacity is coming online it would have a minimal effect. Can't find that level of detail anywhere but ultimately it's looking like if it has an effect it will have an effect on Nvidia and not AMD.

 

[Gregster]

Could be in for a wait.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/taiwan_earthquake_impacts_tsmc_chip_production.html

A real travesty that and my heart goes out to the family and friends of those killed. GPUs can take a back seat for a while.

 

[tommybhoy]

AMD's James Pryor talking about Polaris:

We're using a brand new 14nm technology, nobody else in the industry is going to be using that, we're going to be first.

 

[Overlag]

isnt that sort of true, since Nvidia will be 16nm?

 

[Raviolay]

Should the medium Polaris out perform the current Fury X? If so what would you guys predict the pricing would be? As I will be plumping for one of these, if it is faster than a Fury X.

 

[flopper]

Could be in for a wait.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/taiwan_earthquake_impacts_tsmc_chip_production.html

Less than 1% or so affected.
No real delay.
Pascal is already late anyhow.

isnt that sort of true, since Nvidia will be 16nm?

14nm slightly different so not the same. 10% or so more dense etc..

Should the medium Polaris out perform the current Fury X? If so what would you guys predict the pricing would be? As I will be plumping for one of these, if it is faster than a Fury X.

If predictions holds up we are likely to see a comparable performance.
Pricing is a toss up, I would assume similiar to what todays card cost.
Pricing tends to be following the resolutions, 1080p, 1440p and 4k.
Up to 1440p there isnt much push needed as 4k is the real thing that needs more performance. We are likely to see a more power efficient line up from both camps. Nano shows a 175w furyx/980ti performance delta so next is a 120w performance delta or so for similiar performance as todays Nano.
Since AMD redesigned the GCN for both tesselation and other front end stuff its promising to expect a more balanced Polaris for various resolutions.

HDR adds a bit more and then Dx12/Vulkan/Mantle so the gameplan and field is changing over the next few years.
Games with newer engines comes out and new screens and what else.

Overall the biggest change to PC gaming is happening atm.
Thanks to AMD and Mantle.
HDR is a logical step forward for a better image and games visually.

 

[Raviolay]

If predictions holds up we are likely to see a comparable performance.
Pricing is a toss up, I would assume similiar to what todays card cost.

Kind of hoping the primitive discard accelerator, will make a huge difference especially with NV biased titles.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

AMD’s Baffin, Weston and Banks GPUs spotted on Zauba

http://videocardz.com/58308/amds-baffin-weston-and-banks-gpus-spotted-on-zauba

 

[Orangey]

Oh good more zauba trash to sift through.