RTG 2016 update - AMD Radeon Polaris Architecture Preview
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zer0_c0ol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3eQejGJ_A
vbetts
Moderator
So then Polaris is a new GCN based architecture?
ruiner13
Guessing much of that power savings is due to the 14mm lithography. Once nVidia shrinks their dies and gets HBM2, they will also have substantial power savings. Hilbert, I do appreciate you calling out the apples to oranges comparison they did to the nVidia 950... "our 2016 models are better than the competitions 2015 models (which aren't substantially changed from the 2014 models)!" I should hope so!
Denial
schmidtbag
BColt
So basically we will see 5% increase in FPS and some % lower TDP, is all I'm getting out of this.
zer0_c0ol
Twiddles
System used: i7-4790K 4x4GB DDR4. Wait whut?!
Source: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/articles/AMD%20Polaris%205.jpg
BColt
Noisiv
http://blog.neweggbusiness.com/news/best-selling-video-cards-of-2015/
And getting murdered, is what you forgot to mention
Having to use big-small Tonga die and feature-less Pitcairns to fight mid-sized GM206 - is anything but GOOD ENOUGH
But it's actually good compared to the state of AMD high-end GPU market share.
[spoiler]
Top Five Video Cards Ranked by Sales (Total Revenue)
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB PCI-e 3.0 x16 Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card
PNY Quadro K4200 4 GB PCI-e 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12 GB PCI-e 3.0 Superclocked Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB PCI-e 3.0 x16 Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB PCI-e 3.0 x16 SC+ w/ACX BP Video Card
Quote:
Top Five Video Cards Ranked by Volume (Units Sold)
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB PCI-e 3.0 x16 Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2 GB PCI-e 3.0 x16 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card
PNY Quadro K620 2 GB PCI-e 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
PNY Quadro K4200 4 GB PCI-es 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
PNY Quadro K2200 4 GB PCI-e 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
[/spoiler]
Noisiv
http://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/launch-analyse-nvidia-geforce-gtx-950/launch-analyse-nvidia-geforce-gtx-950-seite-2
Even custom OC-ed GTX 950 peak gaming power does not reach 140W
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_950_SSC/28.html
AMD labs strikes again 😀
GTX 950 - 140W LMAO
85W averaged across 9 reviews, G3D including
zer0_c0ol
BColt
Noisiv
Noisiv
zer0_c0ol
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9886/amd-reveals-polaris-gpu-architecture
did you even read the post i have given you, here it is again
The purpose of this demonstration for RTG was threefold: to showcase that a Polaris GPU was up and running, that the small Polaris GPU in question could offer performance comparable to GTX 950, and finally to show off the energy efficiency advantage of the small Polaris GPU over current 28nm GPUs. To that end RTG also plugged each system into a power meter to measure the total system power at the wall. In the live press demonstration we saw the Polaris system average 88.1W while the GTX 950 system averaged 150W. Meanwhile in RTG’s own official lab tests (and used in the slide above) they measured 86W and 140W respectively.
Noisiv
I did now. And it sounds very impressive.
OTOH 86W at the wall.....thats like 70W real consumption. Which means card + CPU are pulling 10-20W watts above idle.
I'd like to be wrong, but I think someone there needs to retake their electronics lab class 😀
edit: on a 2nd thought, it is a double node jump. so it's quite possible :banana:
edilsonj
Noisiv
Denial
My 4790K stress tests at about 45-50w. A GTX950 has a TDP of 90w.
It means the Polaris GPU is running at about 35-40w which is definitely impressive but it is on a smaller node. So we have no idea how much of that is architecture improvements vs node shrink. You also have to remember that AMD's architecture is heavily favored in Battlefront 3. For example, a 950 outperforms a 370 in nearly every other title, by about 20+%, but in BF3 the 370 ties the 950.