AMD Radeon 400 series is based on Polaris microarchitecture
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Kloet075
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:
somemadcaaant
Yeah that image just looks all kinds of wrong.
Backstabak
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.
PinchedNerve
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?
Undying
DeskStar
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....
schmidtbag
xIcarus
PinchedNerve
Denial
TDurden
Why would AMD want to scrape GCN? GCN is well known for AMD software engineers, early tests show perform well on DX12, is same architecture used in consoles and 14nm should make it power efficient too. Plus its cheaper to improve on GCN then create completely new arch.
Probably Polaris is just a name for new GCN version 🙂 why should nVidia be the only one with fancy names 🙂
theoneofgod
As said, Polaris is most likely GCN 1.3/2.0
Dazz
Reddoguk
Everything in the near future is light based. I think this is just a reference to it's power though.
As in Polaris is 2.5 times faster than GCN. That i doubt is totally true. Not 2.5x faster than their fastest GPU. 2.5x faster than GCN 1.1 or even 1.0.
I've been reading up on these light based processors of the near future, were they just replace copper traces in the PCB with fiber instead.
Since we are getting close to the end of Moores Law(with silicon based tech) they are looking for ideas for a new way to use current silicon but with better/faster latency and throughput using light based internal connections.
I very much doubt AMD will receive this new tech with Polaris but the light based CPU/GPUs will start making an appearance in 2016 that i have no doubt about.
It's very clever tech because they can stretch out Silicon usage for longer while they look for alternatives.
I've read that they might not even bother aiming for 8nm and 10nm will be a huge risk as well. So they are looking into ways of using 12/14nm for much longer and that means they need to find new ways of using 12/14nm.
These light based processors have already been given the green light so expect half Silicon, half Quantum real soon. 🙂
Lavcat
Brightest visible star in the sky?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars
PrMinisterGR
As I posted in the AMD subforum, I believe it means 2.5x more energy efficient (watt/transistors packed), and the 169bce reference probably means 16.9 billion transistors for the top part.
Tree Dude
Reddoguk
Xendance
BColt
Im guessing the 2.5 more effective, combined with another slide that says HDR 1080 better than 4k... means the cards will be 5% more powerfull that this gen, but a bit more efficient. So no mid-range 4k gaming soon 🙂
Also my 6th sense says the 14nm parts and HBM2 will probably be reserved for the top parts only. Mid range maybe HBM1 at best, or the new GDDR5. Also most likely 28nm wont go away this year. 470 ( or even 480) might be 28nm aswell?