AMD Polaris 10 GPU To Offer Near 980 Ti Performance For 299 USD?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/26/2016 09:03 AM | source: | 215 comment(s)

An interesting news item appeared on game debate yesterday, they claim that AMD held an event in Taiwan and has been showcasing it's upcoming Polaris GPUs. The interesting bit is that Polaris 10 would perform very close to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti but would be drastically cheaper at 299 USD.

Now then, first let me state this, AMD never shares prices this far away from launch, but still it is interesting info. The website also claims that Polaris 10 will get a 175 Watt TDP maximum.

The Polaris 10 GPU is the successor to the 300-series, which AMD views as its mainstream range. This means Polaris 10 is not the next Fury and Fury X, but rather a 300 series successor, which is up to and including the R9 390X. That equates to the eventual Polaris 10 powered Radeon R9 490X being capable of GTX 980 Ti performance for a price tag in the region of $300-400. Click to expand Polaris Price Performance Comparison The Polaris 10 GPU itself has a maximum TDP of 175W, but AMD claims it will generally consume far less than that. Early benchmarks have the Polaris 10 scoring in the region of 4000 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, which puts it firmly in the ballpark of the Fury X and the 980 Ti. If AMD can hit the rumoured $300 price point with such a graphics card then it could have an absolute monster on its hands.

Also very interesting, the card would score roughly 4000 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, and that score is actually spot on with the Radeon R9 Fury X. Oh and guys, this post is based upon information of hearsay .. take it with some grain of salt is all I'm trying to say here.

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moab600
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#5263083 Posted on: 04/26/2016 07:37 AM

If true nvidia new cards will need to be reduced by price, also Polaris will help gain good amount of market.

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#5263084 Posted on: 04/26/2016 07:43 AM

Now this is very interesting.

If this is true I can see AMD selling these GPU's like hot cakes and with their added support for drivers now too. Things are looking up for them.

Add in the fact that we should see the back of 4GB VRAM and we should see GPU's with no less than 6GB VRAM from now on unless its entry level.

This is how I see it going

R9 470/X = 4GB RAM

R9 480/X = 6GB RAM

R9 490/X = 8GB RAM

R9 FURY2 = 12GB RAM (HBM1 or 2 or GDDR5X).

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#5263087 Posted on: 04/26/2016 07:55 AM

The red capes are coming... The red capes are coming!

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#5263088 Posted on: 04/26/2016 07:55 AM

Nothing can make me more happy than 300$ card with that kind of performance but.. i hope it not only words we see here :3eyes:

That's never ending process. By the time they release it new games will make them midbudget not capable of providing modern image quality with decent fps.

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#5263090 Posted on: 04/26/2016 07:56 AM

**** i was hoping for at least a 10~15% performance increase. My 980TI needs replacing... Its not enough at 3440x1440 21:9 :bang:

Truly hoping that the GP104-400 is a beefed up version of the GP104-200 '1080' :pc1:

That's never ending process. By the time they release it new games will make them midbudget not capable of providing modern image quality with decent fps.

Haha yeah said the samething about the org. Titan (bought one). Its a great card but now its not even midrange. At 1080P High it struggle's with Rottr...

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#5263096 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:19 AM

Will this not mean having to reduce the price across their own range as well?

Would be great if it was true, but more often than not new cards end up being a lot more expensive than the leaks suggest.

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#5263097 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:19 AM

That would be a super upgrade from my 290X

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#5263098 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:20 AM

so?
the 1080/1070 will end up in similar performance and price range, do a little ocing and i get the same...

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#5263106 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:45 AM

This is quite hard to believe. While I expected AMD to clock higher on 14nm. Even 1500MHz would not give us such performance in this price range.
14/16nm FF wafer costs around 2.5x as much as 28nm wafer. Due to increased density it makes cost per transistor on 14nm only around 1.2~1.5times higher (based chosen density).

But even with only 1.2times higher price/transistor and 50% increased clock. It would give GCN only 25% increased performance/$.
Is remaining 75% coming from Drastic GCN changes (lower transistor count required per ROP/TMU/CU or lower clock count required to do certain work)? Or GCN on 14nm clocks that damn high?
I do not think even both of those would grant such increase in performance.

But with 10nm, I would expect this. As 14/16nm are about much better energy efficiency than 28nm. But 10nm main advantage over 14/16nm is actual manufacturing cost.
(But, who knows how well will 10nm clock...)

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#5263108 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:52 AM

so?
the 1080/1070 will end up in similar performance and price range, do a little ocing and i get the same...

Then it comes down to pricing again, which was a main weapon of AMD in the recent past.

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#5263109 Posted on: 04/26/2016 08:52 AM

so?
the 1080/1070 will end up in similar performance and price range, do a little ocing and i get the same...

Why would you need to OC it? If 1080 can't match 980Ti, it will be a pointless product from Nvidia and wasted development costs.

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#5263115 Posted on: 04/26/2016 09:04 AM

Wow. So amazing if true!
So... when is the release date for these Polaris? I did a quick Google search and most said shipping in April but..... 4 days till end of April!!

I am on the verge of buying a 390X/Fury/Fury X but truly does seem pointless if Polaris are literally around the corner. I am too impatient to wait for NVIDIAS Pascal in June/July! (?)

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#5263120 Posted on: 04/26/2016 09:11 AM

I certainly hope that's not the 490X. I'd expect that card to perform well over a 980ti.

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#5263122 Posted on: 04/26/2016 09:13 AM

Imo no, because even if true, the demand will be overwhelming huge, and shortage always leads to higher prices. So better preorder now!

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#5263124 Posted on: 04/26/2016 09:16 AM

Will they finally be OC:able?

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