AMD Polaris 10 GPU Reportedly Offers Near 980 Ti Performance For 300 USD

[I am an SSD]

11 minutes ago, IMPERIUS said:

Meh it didn't really "destroy" anything

Even then you wont find a single thread in LTT forums where there isnt one guy recommending a 300 series over the 900 series due to price to performance ratios. 

Tell them you're going for a 970. Get ready for people telling you to get a 390

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Agost said:

I'm actually quite hoping so.

They listed the full GP100 at 300W, highest ever for a NVIDIA GPU, while it has ~20% more cores than GM100 and the same area...

Eh, they could be pushing for an AMD approach of just powering through with hardware, while AMD could be pushing for a Nvidia approach of efficiency. This time, without the compute performance hit.

[Agosto]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Eh, they could be pushing for an AMD approach of just powering through with hardware, while AMD could be pushing for a Nvidia approach of efficiency. This time, without the compute performance hit.

Let's hope for PaSCALD

[Swndlr]

Grrrrrrrrrr

I hope these 2016 GPUs are good, I plan on getting a new one this year.

[Oberon.Smite]

23 minutes ago, IMPERIUS said:

I hope thats true

 

edit: the 300- series was also apparently going to "destroy the 900- series from nvidia" tho that didn't really happen...

True, it didn't really destroy it, but it did offer more per dollar than Nvidia's series, so it did put a dent in their sales.

[Shahnewaz]

On 2016-04-22 at 0:35 PM, zMeul said:

what mainstream means?! well .. you're not going to like it - it's about the performance level of a R9 260X or a R7 360X

I've called it! the information leaked about Polaris 10 was not encouraging at all - AMD is out of their minds if the spearhead of their new generation GPUs are low end and mid range brackets

and the performance bracket for Polaris 11 looks even worse, as it targets specifically the notebook market - meaning it's at the level of R7 240

Ahem....

[thekeemo]

18 minutes ago, IMPERIUS said:

Meh it didn't really "destroy" anything

for the price they did

 

[VagabondWraith]

17 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

We've already seen Polaris 11 displaying massive efficiency gains, and Polaris 10 was demoed live playing Hitman at 1440p 60FPS constant, which its self is better than a Fury X.

*AMD did refuse to disclose the settings they used to achieve that.

[Dabombinable]

So...can I hit myself with my GTX 650ti and GTX 970? I bought the GTX 650ti early 2014, and my GTX 970 November 2014. $800 fucking AUD total. And they get rekt. Literally the worst possible time for me to upgrade from my Pentium III 667EB and Riva TNT2, I could have had an even greater performance jump, for cheap.

[Citadelen]

1 minute ago, VagabondWraith said:

*AMD did refuse to disclose the settings they used to achieve that.

Well seeing as we now have evidence it performing better than a Fury X I would assume it was at maximum.

 

[VagabondWraith]

Just now, Citadelen said:

Well seeing as we now have evidence it performing better than a Fury X I would assume it was at maximum.

 

Nah, they were asked specifically what settings they used and they refused to say.

[zMeul]

4 minutes ago, Shahnewaz said:

Ahem....

right, you only wish it's true 

I laugh at this "rumor" - where is the source?! eh

[Citadelen]

1 minute ago, VagabondWraith said:

Nah, they were asked specifically what settings they used and they refused to say.

Well now we're both speculating, judging from this leak I'm going to assume it was at maximum. We'll find out soon enough though.

[Shahnewaz]

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

right, you only wish it's true 

I laugh at this "rumor" - where is the source?! eh

True or not, mainstream is mainstream. Your attempt at downplaying that led you nowhere.

As far as source, I've seen no rumors or leaks yet that show Polaris 10 or 11 running worse than what's stated so far.

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, Shahnewaz said:

True or not, mainstream is mainstream. Your attempt at downplaying

I'm not downplaying anything

it's based on what AMD already considers mainstream, not what you me and the average consumer considers mainstream

and 980Ti like performance is not mainstream at all, it's quite hi-end

[IMPERIUS]

16 minutes ago, I am an SSD said:

Even then you wont find a single thread in LTT forums where there isnt one guy recommending a 300 series over the 900 series due to price to performance ratios. 

Tell them you're going for a 970. Get ready for people telling you to get a 390

I agree with that, the 390 is better than the 970, its just that the 300 series didnt really destroy anything

[Fetzie]

8 minutes ago, zMeul said:

right, you only wish it's true 

I laugh at this "rumor" - where is the source?! eh

Mainstream is a price bracket, not a performance bracket. AMD want to bring VR to the mainstream (as it is the only way that VR will become anything other than a pipe dream).

[Citadelen]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

I'm not downplaying anything

it's based on what AMD already considers mainstream, not what you me and the average consumer considers mainstream

and 980Ti like performance is not mainstream at all, it's quite hi-end

AMD has already stated they want to bring VR level performance to an affordable level.

[VagabondWraith]

8 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

Well now we're both speculating, judging from this leak I'm going to assume it was at maximum. We'll find out soon enough though.

 

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The showcase at GDC involved Hitman running at 1440p, 60 FPS, although quality settings weren't mentioned

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4askfr/amd_polaris_10_engineering_sample_pictured/

 

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[–]_redditispropaganda_ 2 points 7 days ago
/u/AMD_Robert - Can you tell us what setting Hitman was on during the Polaris 10 demo to clear things up?
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AMD_RobertTechnical Marketing 8 points 6 days ago
"No. Because that would allow others to accurately triangulate the performance of the product, and we are not yet ready to publish those details. We will, in time, when everything is ready."
 

 

 

 

 

In other words, there were compromises. Which is okay but no way its maxed out.

[Stefan1024]

175 watts you say? That's perfect for passive cooling and if it has a lot of compute power it will be ny next card. Until Vega is released. Or Nvidia has a very nice offer, maybe the leftovers form the P100 with to many defects, but 300 watts is quite a challage to handle without a fan

[samcool55]

That would be nice, probably a bit optimistic but still, would be nice.

[I am an SSD]

1 minute ago, IMPERIUS said:

I agree with that, the 390 is better than the 970, its just that the 300 series didnt really destroy anything

True it didnt. Hopefully we're going to see a change now... Im not against Nvidia or anything but we need some healthy competition

[IMPERIUS]

1 minute ago, I am an SSD said:

True it didnt. Hopefully we're going to see a change now... Im not against Nvidia or anything but we need some healthy competition

Yes, we really need something exciting. Hopefully amd's cpu side will do something good with Zen too...

[Shahnewaz]

4 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I'm not downplaying anything

it's based on what AMD already considers mainstream, not what you me and the average consumer considers mainstream

and 980Ti like performance is not mainstream at all, it's quite hi-end

Oh, please tell me what you consider "mainstream". I'd definitely like to know.

And yes, if AMD can bring 980Ti performance to mainstream price bracket, then that makes your previous thread even more pointless.

[Aytex]

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The Radeon Pro Duo comes with dual Fiji GPU cores that are clocked around the same specifications as the Fury series cards. The Radeon Pro Duo comes with two Fiji XT cores (128 compute units), each chip comprising of 4096 shaders that adds up to 8192 on the card itself. Each core has 64 raster operation units and 256 texture mapping units while the core clock is maintained up to 1000 MHz.

 

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