AMD Radeon 400 series is based on Polaris microarchitecture

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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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