AMD Arctic Islands 400 Series Set To Launch In Summer of 2016

[Mr_Troll]

AMD Arctic Islands 400 Series Set To Launch In Summer of 2016 – Features 2X The Performance Per Watt, 14nm / 16nm FinFET And HBM2
 

The Arctic Islands family of GPUs has been subject to numerous leaks in the past, unfortunately none of which had any information about when they were actually going to be released. There hasn’t been any reliable information about Arctic Islands’ release timeframe, that is until today. We have confirmed that the company is planning to introduce its next generation 14nm / 16nm family of graphics cards throughout the summer of 2016 and into the back to school season. The launch is still too far out to make out any specific details and we have yet to confirm what the new series will actually be called, so we’re going to use “400 series” as placeholder until then

This goes hand-in-hand with what he had exclusively reporter last month about AMD successfully completing the design of several “Arctic Islands” R 400 series GPUs which have been taped out and are on track to begin mass production.  TSMC’s 16FF+ process already is mass production with good yields, with additional capacity and mass production expected by next year as both Nvidia and AMD ramp-up their next generation 16nm products. All in all the company expects to triple its 16 nm capacity by the end of the year

 

 

AMD Radeon 400 Series Arctic Islands – Second Generation Stacked Memory “HBM2” & 2X The Performance Per Watt
 

AMD’s President and CEO Lisa Su confirmed this past October the company’s plans to update the entire lineup in the coming quarters with a new set of products that have “2X the performance per watt” of the current Radeon R9 Fury and 300 series of graphics cards.

 

Despite the existence of three+ different iterations of GCN, namely GCN 1.0 ( HD 7000 series ) , GCN 1.1 ( R9 290 series) , GCN 1.2 ( R9 285 and 380) and Fiji ( R9 Fury X, R9 Fury and R9 Nano) which is based on an updated GCN 1.2 design; according to AMDs Chief  Technology Officer Mark Papermaster AMD only recognizes having introduced two main generations of GCN so far. With the next major iteration to come out next year in the form of the “Arctic Islands” family of graphics chips.

Arctic Islands will feature three major improvements over AMD’s current current R 300 series and Fury series line-up. These include second generation HBM, next generation “Arctic Islands” GCN architecture as well as a more advanced 14/16nm FinFET manufacturing process. The three of which mean that for the first time since 2012 we’re going to get a truly next generation family of GPUs, with performance and power efficiency levels that vastly exceed what we see today from the 28nm 300 series and Fury series

 

 

 

Summer 2016 cant come soon enough. Hoping for the best.

 

Source:http://wccftech.com/amd-1416nm-arctic-islands-launching-summer-2016/

 

[don_svetlio]

So Arctic Islands releasing before Pascal's gaming cards? That's a surprise

[SPG]

looks like they aren't dragging their feet this time around so thats good

[SkilledRebuilds]

2x perf/watt compared to Fiji or older arch?

[Master Disaster]

Awesome sauce.

AMDs 300 series have scared nvidia enough to warrant a permanent price drop and a new SKU to tackle a gap in their existing line up when compared to AMDs.

I genuinely hope they can turn things around with the 400 series and Zen.

Its a safe bet that most of the 400s will be rebadged Fury cards running on HBM 1 though with only the top tier SKUs being 'full fat'. I'm wondering if Nvidia are gonna do the same thing with Pascal or if they'll do a full refresh using HBM 2 across the board?

[don_svetlio]

Awesome sauce.

AMDs 300 series have scared nvidia enough to warrant a permanent price drop and a new SKU to tackle a gap in their existing line up when compared to AMDs.

I genuinely hope they can turn things around with the 400 series and Zen.

Its a safe bet that most of the 400s will be rebadged Fury cards running on HBM 1 though with only the top tier SKUs being 'full fat'. I'm wondering if Nvidia are gonna do the same thing with Pascal or if they'll do a full refresh using HBM 2 across the board?

I believe this might be a whole new line-up - like when we went from 6000 to 7000 series. No real reason to rebrand Fiji.

[SolarNova]

INB4:

X2 performance per watt, Half as many watts ...same performance

[Tech_Dreamer]

Hype!

[Bouzoo]

I hope at least one of them will properly use HBM. Fury cards were good but not good enough to upgrade for me, make a very good HBM2 card with full DX 12.1 support and it's a buy for me, be it AMD or NV. Been waiting too long for an upgrade. 

[AlwaysFSX]

INB4:

X2 performance per watt, Half as many watts ...same performance

Ooh ooh ooh. What about twice the watts and 4x the performance?! That'd be sweet.

[AlTech]

Ooh ooh ooh. What about twice the watts and 4x the performance?! That'd be sweet.

How about 2x performance and no increase or decrease in power consumption. I would be down for that. Although I know they'll make it faster and more efficient.

[PlayStation 2]

INB4:

X2 performance per watt, Half as many watts ...same performance

That's be a decent win-win here as they'd be beating Nvidia at their own game.

[Master Disaster]

I believe this might be a whole new line-up - like when we went from 6000 to 7000 series. No real reason to rebrand Fiji.

That would be awesome if true, I won't hold my breath though.

Also HBM 2 yields are yet to be determined so we might end up in a similar situation to what happened with HBM where they can't build enough modules to meet supply.

[patrickjp93]

Oh look who was right about his predictions of the launches: me.

Nvidia will launch late Q2 into early Q3. 2016 shall be quite interesting.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Now I can tell my mother to stop worrying, it's going to be a hot summer next year.

 

Eh, did I just make a terrible power consumption joke.

 

Sorry. I'll excuse myself.

 

PS: I'll probably be buying one of these cards.

[captain cactus]

I like this. Arctic Islands, Pascal, the whole lot. I hope we'll get some sweet competition again.

[Master Disaster]

Oh look who was right about his predictions of the launches: me.

Nvidia will launch late Q2 into early Q3. 2016 shall be quite interesting.

Indeed, in fact it seems the only hardware company who won't be joining the 2016 release party will be Intel. And no, I don't count Kaby Lake as it's just Skylake Refresh.

I'm still waiting on Zen to come along with 8 core consumer SKUs, hopefully Intel will finally release a cpu with more than 4 cores that's not prosumer.

[zMeul]

AMDs 300 series have scared nvidia enough to warrant a permanent price drop

what the hell are you talking about? this quarter nVidia had a market share, discrete GPUs, of over 80% (!!!!) http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/484409-jon-peddie-research-q3-pc-graphics-add-in-board-aib-market/

while year-to-year AMD lost 10%

nVidia dropped the prices because it's the holidays and they are preparing for a new product lineup - and they will do anything to squeeze AMD

depending on next gen GPUs, the market share can have a way different shape than currently is

[EmeraldKiwi]

R9 490X, here we come!

[Alurit]

my guess would be a lineup with lower power consumption and 30-50% gain in performance. the 380/380x might be rebranded as 470/470x.

[Master Disaster]

what the hell are you talking about? this quarter nVidia had a market share, discrete GPUs, of over 80% (!!!!) http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/484409-jon-peddie-research-q3-pc-graphics-add-in-board-aib-market/while year-to-year AMD lost 10%nVidia dropped the prices because it's the holidays and they are preparing for a new product lineup - and they will do anything to squeeze AMDdepending on next gen GPUs, the market share can have a way different shape than currently is

I was waiting for the resident Nvidia bum chum to appear.

So explain why the initially announced the price cut as a black Friday exclusive deal but then saw AMD drop their prices and changed it to a permanent cut?

For the first time in a long time people are talking about AMD R9 300s as a decent competitor to Nvidias 900 series, I now have zero issues recommending the 390 as a 970 replacement and neither to lots of other users.

This is the first time in a long time AMD cards are gaining ground and eating into Nvidias market share. You can quote stats all you want, they prove nothing. It's the stats from next year that will show exactly how much AMD have gained back from Nvidia, it takes time for market fluctuations to become apparent.

Also love how you cut out the 660ti from my quoted comment, that thing is designed solely to take on the 380X, nothing more than that.

[Samfisher]

I wish companies would stop announcing stuff according to the seasons.  Living in a non-seasonal country, Summer/Spring etc means nothing.  I wish they could just use Q1-Q4 and be done with it.  /rant over

[MrDynamicMan]

So Arctic Islands releasing before Pascal's gaming cards? That's a surprise

that's a really good thing for AMD.

[VagabondWraith]

that's a really good thing for AMD.

I don't think anyone knows that for sure. Everything is speculation right now. We haven't heard a word from AMD or nVidia.

[don_svetlio]

I wish companies would stop announcing stuff according to the seasons.  Living in a non-seasonal country, Summer/Spring etc means nothing.  I wish they could just use Q1-Q4 and be done with it.  /rant over

We have 2 seasons over here

"Fucking Cold" and "Fucking Hot"