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AMD Radeon 400 series is based on Polaris microarchitecture
I could tell you that I didn't know about the name, but that would be a lie. Anyway, Polaris is the new architecture codename empowering AMDs 2016 GPUs. We should have some more info on that next week. However, the naming leaked onto the web, so let's investigate a tiny bit.
Korean tech site HardwareBattle has leaked an image of seems to be an AMD presentation slide. According to some websites Polaris (North Star = brightest visible star in thes sky) will replace GCN as an architecture.
An astronomy Tweet by head of AMD Radeon Technology Group followed by a tweet from Chris Hook and Raja Koduri hint towards an upcoming Polaris-based GPU with performance accordingly. As you can see from a Twitter exchange in-between AMD marketing director Chris Hook and Koduri you can read in-between the lines with hinting towards a new micro-architecture.
Koduri references Polaris being "2.5 times brighter". Polaris would be the micro-architecture empowering GPUs like 'Greenland', based on the new 16 and or 14nm FinFET LPP process. We do hope that AMD's future is at least 2.5x more bright in 2016 with products that will shine like the North Star.
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#5213388 Posted on: 01/01/2016 05:07 PM
I have the R9 290 (basically the same thing) and for 1080p gaming it's probably the best-valued GPU you can get at the moment, with or without the bonus games the GPU may come with. I too am interested to see where the 400 series goes but I don't think you'd regret getting a 290/390.
Just something to keep in mind though - I don't know if you like doing BIOS mods but many of these GPUs have their BIOS totally locked-down. Also, seeing as you're in Flordia, I hope your AC works during the summer, because these GPUs exhaust a lot of heat.
I've been thinking about getting an Asus R9 390 Strix. Does anyone have an idea about how long it will be, before the 400 series is released?
I have the R9 290 (basically the same thing) and for 1080p gaming it's probably the best-valued GPU you can get at the moment, with or without the bonus games the GPU may come with. I too am interested to see where the 400 series goes but I don't think you'd regret getting a 290/390.
Just something to keep in mind though - I don't know if you like doing BIOS mods but many of these GPUs have their BIOS totally locked-down. Also, seeing as you're in Flordia, I hope your AC works during the summer, because these GPUs exhaust a lot of heat.
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#5213400 Posted on: 01/01/2016 05:23 PM
TBA 2016, just like Pascal.
R9 390 is a very good card. If you need a card now no need to wait something we still dont know nothing about.
Didn't Nvidia say a while back that Pascal would be released in Q1? What happened to that?
TBA 2016, just like Pascal.
R9 390 is a very good card. If you need a card now no need to wait something we still dont know nothing about.
Didn't Nvidia say a while back that Pascal would be released in Q1? What happened to that?
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#5213407 Posted on: 01/01/2016 05:31 PM
I have the R9 290 (basically the same thing) and for 1080p gaming it's probably the best-valued GPU you can get at the moment, with or without the bonus games the GPU may come with. I too am interested to see where the 400 series goes but I don't think you'd regret getting a 290/390.
Just something to keep in mind though - I don't know if you like doing BIOS mods but many of these GPUs have their BIOS totally locked-down. Also, seeing as you're in Flordia, I hope your AC works during the summer, because these GPUs exhaust a lot of heat.
AC works well.
The Asus Strix looks to OC very well, should I want to do that, so I wouldn't be looking to mod the bios. Running a Dell U2715H 2560x1440
I have the R9 290 (basically the same thing) and for 1080p gaming it's probably the best-valued GPU you can get at the moment, with or without the bonus games the GPU may come with. I too am interested to see where the 400 series goes but I don't think you'd regret getting a 290/390.
Just something to keep in mind though - I don't know if you like doing BIOS mods but many of these GPUs have their BIOS totally locked-down. Also, seeing as you're in Flordia, I hope your AC works during the summer, because these GPUs exhaust a lot of heat.
AC works well.
The Asus Strix looks to OC very well, should I want to do that, so I wouldn't be looking to mod the bios. Running a Dell U2715H 2560x1440
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#5213416 Posted on: 01/01/2016 05:47 PM
Nvidia never gave a time-frame other than 2016. But it's usually about 9-10 months from tape out to a chip launch. Which would put the launch around April. But this isn't a normal chip launch. It's the first Finfet GPU, it's the first HBM GPU for Nvidia, it's a new architecture and they are most likely going to use a mezzanine connector to a PCI bridge and ship the chip in modules to OEMs. All of these things will definitely complicate the time table for the launch.
Didn't Nvidia say a while back that Pascal would be released in Q1? What happened to that?
Nvidia never gave a time-frame other than 2016. But it's usually about 9-10 months from tape out to a chip launch. Which would put the launch around April. But this isn't a normal chip launch. It's the first Finfet GPU, it's the first HBM GPU for Nvidia, it's a new architecture and they are most likely going to use a mezzanine connector to a PCI bridge and ship the chip in modules to OEMs. All of these things will definitely complicate the time table for the launch.
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Maaaaaaaan I love the sound of new hardware on the horizon....!!
Either company could release their big dogs next and I think I'll scoop up at least one from each company this go around. Going to be nice rocking something new in a year or so....