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AMD Computex 2016 - Polaris and Zen Revealed

AMD gives some details on their Polaris architecture. They announced that they are trying to support VR markets by releasing GPUs between the $100-300 dollar market. They are following up on trying to make VR for everyone. They are trying to reach VR to 100 million people in the next few years. For this, they announced the Polaris architecture. This was the Radeon RX 480. It seems to use the old referance design with the new Radeon logo. They confirmed it will cost $199 USD. They also say it is built like a $500 card. There is over 5 Teraflops, 36 CUs, 256gb memory bandwidth, 4/8 GB GDDR5, 256 but rate, 150w, HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.4 1.7x performance/watt with 14nm, and 2.8 with AMD technologies. Radeon software will use DX12, Vulkan, GPUOpen, and Crimson. It will have FreeSync, DX12 Async, and Multi-GPU support. It was said to run DOOM "Buttery smooth" and the video suggest it being able to run Ultra at 60fps. They also said in the video they said Polaris will have exclusive features. They said Ashes of singularity DX12 would run 58.7fps on a GTX 1080 and 2 480's would run at 62.5 fps at below $500 with the 1080 at $700 and the 480's are running at 51% and the 1080 at 98.7. They said it would be a huge performance boost for PC gaming and VR. 

 

So Polaris is much more then we expected. What do you guys think? Thanks!

 

I think this is an amazing boost and I am extremely excited for AMD. They have a huge boost over Nvidia this gen and it's going to be amazing for them. #TeamRed. This is super important as this could effect everything Nvidia and AMD comes out with for a while!

 

Edit: They are also feature Zen now so here are details on it. It is said to have high efficiency and has been worked on for ages. The CPU will be called Summit Ridge. Zen will have 40% IPC improvement with 8c/16 and AM4. This will be their mainstream desktop processor. Zen will also be scaled across multiple markets including Server, Notebook, and Embedded. Zen will be sampled in the next few weeks. Zen will be combined with Zen and forward GPU architectures. They say they are very confident in it and if the mainstream desktop is 8c/16t what is their high end?

 

So in total, they have show RX GPU's, 7th gen APUs and ZEN.

 

They have said Zen is going confidently hopefully meaning that with what they have said, it should be meeting or beating our expectations. 

 

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Great stream so far, seems a lot better than usual, she seems to be a better presenter too.

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1 minute ago, hex4 said:

Great stream so far, seems a lot better than usual, she seems to be a better presenter too.

I agree with that

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RX 480 Premium VR 200 dollars.. Game over nVIDIA.

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wtf is premium vr ?

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Did he just say "the goal of bringing console-class gaming to PC"?

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WAIT THE 480 is 200$ ???

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I'm seriously considering an RX 480, 200 bucks is killer and it's a beast in games.

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4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Did he just say "the goal of bringing console-class gaming to PC"?

Coding and efficiency, not actual gaming.

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2 RX 480's in crossfire for 500 bucks deliver higher FPS than GTX 1080 and only 50% GPU used, he mentioned that drivers will be worked for dual 480 solutions, this is big news considering how usually drivers are their after thought.

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I don't need to upgrade from my 290x at all, but now I want to - just to send a message that what we need more than anything else in PC gaming - is affordability. Intel and Nvidia are just spinning out of control with prices.

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 I don't remember him saying 2 480's but a dual card. ( a single card ) ( unless I missed something ).... for under $500.

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2 minutes ago, FOSHIZZLE said:

DUAL RX 480 FOR (400$) SURPASSING SINGLE GTX 1080 (700$)
RIP NVIDIA

IKR!!! Lucky I got crossfire on my mobo :D

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they showed 2 games side by side 1080 vs crossfire 480, I could clearly tell the 1080 was higher graphics settings and they advertised it as higher fps for their cards

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My 390 can already run Doom Ultra 60+ FPS.

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2 minutes ago, FOSHIZZLE said:

DUAL RX 480 FOR (400$) SURPASSING SINGLE GTX 1080 (700$)
RIP NVIDIA

I kinda saw that the demos had different graphics settings

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2 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

I don't need to upgrade from my 290x at all, but now I want to - just to send a message that what we need more than anything else in PC gaming - is affordability. Intel and Nvidia are just spinning out of control with prices.

but intel's pricing on consumer equipment is actually not bad at all i5's are only like 250$ and its really a great value.

 

I don't think Zen 8 core is going to be less than like 600$

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1 minute ago, Clanscorpia said:

IKR!!! Lucky I got crossfire on my mobo :D

and it only uses 50% of gpu lol while gtx 1080 maybe running at 90%

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2 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Because I want to spend $500 on two cards with bad scaling.

 

AMD. What. Are. You. DOING?!

 

AMD cards always underperform on/ before launch and grow with every driver update. For example the Fury X couldn't beat the 980 Ti in many many games at launch, a few driver updates later and they're on par with the Fury X winning in DX12 and DX11 when 4K mostly every game.

 

The point he was making was that additional headroom they have to improve its performance.

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1 minute ago, EarthboundHero said:

My 390 can already run Doom Ultra 60+ FPS.

and this isn't the replacement for 390.

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