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AMD’s Next-Generation Polaris GPU Architecture Leaked

How is no one getting what there on about ?

Volcanoes are usally around 700-1250c meanwhile our star is about 5500c which mean's amd will be finally start to produce a gpu that i will quite literally be able to cook a good full english breakfast on :D

Kidding aside though that is now nvidia and amd saying there is going to be huge gain's in there next gpu's i just really hope they dont cut corner's and milk us like the cow's we are! :P
 
Marketing people will be marketing people, I'm really not bothered if they name GPU families after islands, volcanoes, or their favourite types of cheeses - the only important thing to me is how they perform. The only bit of the article I'm interested in is when they said this will be an architecture that is going to be on the whole range of GPUs, so hopefully this will be the big step forward that the 7000 series was over the 6000, rather than the little steps and shuffling about that's been the later series. Don't get me wrong, the Fury series looks really good but always struck me as an early adopter proof-of-concept kind of thing, and I'm really happy with the performance from my 290's, but I really would like to be able to get a single card (initially) that performs the same or better than my current two.

Roll on the long awaiting die shrink and new architectures from both sides, I for one can't wait. :D
 
2x grunt power per watt compared to current tech means 2 different things
a) the new AMD gpus going to be as fast as current but at half the power consumption, which imho is not good enough. The "power efficiency" cost difference is so small that a gtx780/780Ti had to run for 10h per day at full load for 25 YEARS straight to justify the extra cost over the 290/290X compared both running same time....
And the titan black 45 years.
b) AMD going to put chip on sale needing same power as today but is twice as fast. Which is what we want. And an FYI. At stock speeds a FuryX with crimson beats a stock 980Ti now. So you have to overclock the 980 which means the 30watt difference goes out of the window making the 980 bigger power burner than the fury :) for same perfomance

Happy New Year
 
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Panos said:
2x grunt power per watt compared to current tech means 2 different things
a) the new AMD gpus going to be as fast as current but at half the power consumption, which imho is not good enough. The "power efficiency" cost difference is so small that a gtx780/780Ti had to run for 10h per day at full load for 25 YEARS straight to justify the extra cost over the 290/290X compared both running same time....
And the titan black 45 years.
b) AMD going to put chip on sale needing same power as today but is twice as fast. Which is what we want. And an FYI. At stock speeds a FuryX with crimson beats a stock 980Ti now. So you have to overclock the 980 which means the 30watt difference goes out of the window making the 980 bigger power burner than the fury :) for same perfomance

Happy New Year
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This, not to mention the people saying fury was overhyped are ignoring that it basically was a titan killer. Same performance for far lower price, if this was a 970 performing like a fury for 970 prices Nvidia fanboys would lose there marbles but when AMD were hyping a card (which we have to consider AT THE TIME) was going to be far better for the market than the stupidly priced titans then it'd make sense for marketing to hype that. It flopped on overclocking but short of that it was a perfectly good card and as you say, beats 980ti at stock still too.

I hope for good things and I'm no overclocker myself but I'll buy factory oc'd cards so that was still a bit of a hamper for AMD for me but if they sort out the overclocking then I imagine AMD will have a good run next year. Not to mention you can easily get a nice AMD freesynch monitor without being price gouged like an idiot and come away with far better specs and experience ;)
 
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LOL "seems"
 
trisp said:
How is no one getting what there on about ?

Volcanoes are usally around 700-1250c meanwhile our star is about 5500c which mean's amd will be finally start to produce a gpu that i will quite literally be able to cook a good full english breakfast on :D

Kidding aside though that is now nvidia and amd saying there is going to be huge gain's in there next gpu's i just really hope they dont cut corner's and milk us like the cow's we are! :P
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5500c will be the surface temp, it's a tad hitter inside!
 
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Well, they had better come in with at least comparable to Nvidia current Power consumption with phrases like that.
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The nano already beats the 970 on perf/watt so there isn't exactly a huge gulf or anything, but I'm more interested in performance as long as it can be cooled acceptably. Power use is only of interest due to what high power use causes.

Can't say the slides fill me with excitement, though to be honest that kinda presentation never does.
 
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All very interesting. Glad I've got a few quid in my "technology" fund :) With VR just around the corner I think both sides will have to go all out on the power as failing to have enough grunt for VR would be a PR disaster.

Will HDR take more resources to use as from what I've read it has a very noticeable effect on image quality. Getting quite excited for all the new stuff coming in the next 12 months. If there are lots of people on an older system like me (Sandybridge) the PC industry may get a boost with people finally upgrading.
 
Panos said:
2x grunt power per watt compared to current tech means 2 different things
a) the new AMD gpus going to be as fast as current but at half the power consumption, which imho is not good enough. The "power efficiency" cost difference is so small that a gtx780/780Ti had to run for 10h per day at full load for 25 YEARS straight to justify the extra cost over the 290/290X compared both running same time....
And the titan black 45 years.
b) AMD going to put chip on sale needing same power as today but is twice as fast. Which is what we want. And an FYI. At stock speeds a FuryX with crimson beats a stock 980Ti now. So you have to overclock the 980 which means the 30watt difference goes out of the window making the 980 bigger power burner than the fury :) for same perfomance

Happy New Year
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I imagine it is not the cost of the power but the detrimental elements created by this power that is behind the reasoning for wanting lower power usage.
 
They had to stop with the Volcanic Islands nomenclature because the inference of heat by-product from something containing Lava was just not hot enough for the next gen GPU, they've had to move on to stars/suns.
 
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