AMD Radeon 400 series is based on Polaris microarchitecture

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/01/2016 01:56 PM | source: | 21 comment(s)

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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Kloet075
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#5213345 Posted on: 01/01/2016 02:49 PM

Photoshopped?

If this is a quick photo, then tell me why the "for" and the word "every" are not in line of context? it seems photo-shopped, could be so you could read it, but this is certainly not the original. :question:

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#5213348 Posted on: 01/01/2016 03:04 PM

Yeah that image just looks all kinds of wrong.

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#5213352 Posted on: 01/01/2016 03:43 PM

That image is probably just edited with what would be otherwise not visible. You can even see that "n" in inspiration is also shorter than it should be.

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#5213365 Posted on: 01/01/2016 04:27 PM

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?

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#5213370 Posted on: 01/01/2016 04:37 PM

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?

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.

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