AMD has unveiled 2 Polaris GPUs and will deliver "The most revolutionary jump in performance so far"

[AlTech]

AMD has unveiled 2 brand new Polaris GPUs. The first is the sucessor to the R9 Fury X, it is called Polaris 11. It uses 14nm Samsung/Global Foundries 14nm LPP FinFET.

The other is called Polaris 10 and is the size of Cape Verde (Same size as R7 250X but much more powerful).

 

 

 

 

 

Both graphics processors have been showcased to journalists at CES 2016. Although photography of these graphics processors wasn’t permitted, journalists were given the opportunity to take a good look at the actual silicon. Of the two GPUs one is very small, estimated to be around the same size as AMD’s Cape Verde which is 123mm² large. While the other is a large GPU, described as a successor to the Radeon R9 Fury X.

Enthusiast And Mainstream Versions To Power Everything From High-End Desktops To Thin And Light Gaming Notebooks

Raja reiterated the company’s plan to bring both GPUs to market availability by mid 2016. One is a high-end “enthusiast” version, while the other is a frugal power sipping console-class gaming GPU meant to deliver that level of performance to thin and light notebook form factors for the very first time. The small Polaris GPU will also target the mainstream gaming graphics segment for desktops, something which AMD’s CEO Lisa Su pointed out in a roundtable discussion at CES 2016.

 

We have two versions of these FinFET GPUs. Both are extremely power efficient. This is Polaris 10 and that’s Polaris 11. In terms of what we’ve done at the high level, it’s our most revolutionary jump in performance so far. We’ve redesigned many blocks in our cores. We’ve redesigned the main processor, a new geometry processor, a completely new fourth-generation Graphics Core Next with a very high increase in performance. We have new multimedia cores, a new display engine.

In summary, it’s fourth generation Graphics Core Next. HDMI 2.0. It supports all the new 4K displays and TVs coming out with just plug and play. It supports display core 4.3, the latest specification. It’s very exciting 4K support. We can do HAVC encode and decode at 4K on this chip. It’ll be great for game streaming at high resolution, which gamers absolutely love. It takes no cycles away from games. You can record gameplay and still have an awesome frame rate. It’ll be available in mid-2016.

 

 

And there's even more optimization and performance to get out  of it!

 

This is very early silicon, by the way. We have much more performance optimization to do in the coming months. But even in this early silicon, we’re seeing numbers versus the best class on the competition running at a heavy workload, like Star Wars—The competing system consumes 140 watts. This is 86 watts. We believe we’re several months ahead of this transition, especially for the notebook and the mainstream market. The competition is talking about chips for cars and stuff, but not the mainstream market.

 

 

 

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Personally this is really cool. But it leaves me with a few questions unanswered. Does this mean all other GPUs will be rebranded 300 series? I hope not but they can't really do 2 new GPUs and fill a new lineup (unless they plan on releasing a small amount of GPUs)

 

 

http://wccftech.com/amd-unveils-polaris-11-10-gpu/

 

 

Before anybody boards the WCCFTECH Hate Train please go and have unbiased opinions of tech news sites before looking at topics OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

[HKZeroFive]

Honestly, AMD creating Radeon Technologies Group (aka ATI 2.0) was a great decision. Especially when it's lead by Raja Kodur.

 

Can't wait for Polaris.

[Caleb1998]

They might just release those at first to get the high end and low-end, pre-built market then follow up with the 400 line or whatever they want to call it

[AlTech]

They might just release those at first to get the high end and low-end, pre-built market then follow up with the 400 line or whatever they want to call it

 

I have a feeling that they're ditching the old naming scheme for this generation of graphics.

[Sack]

As an nVidia fan, yes finally, I hope it's really good. We need competition in the GPU market!

[Tonzies]

I could easily see them doing the gpu line up as

• 490x - polaris 11
• 490 - polaris 11 w/ disabled parts
• 485 - Fury?
• 480x - 390x
• 480 - 390
• 470x - 380x
• 470 - 380

polaris 10 can be their budget part or laptop part.

[Bouzoo]

Well the bigger one is HBM 2.0 while the smaller one is based on GDDR5, that much is obvious.

I remember from a week ago from those shipments that some chips were cut down versions, so they could easily get 4 "different" chips based on these 2. Not like they haven't done that already. What I'm interested is in if they are gonna announce more chips. There is a huge gap between these 2 chips, enough to fit 1, or maybe even 2 more chips. And I'm not sure, but I remember some other chip in those shipments.

They also demoed one chip which they put in competition with GTX950, was that Polaris 10 or was that some other chip?

And where did GDDR5X go? Was that NV exclusive?

 

And the title is a bit out of context:

In terms of what we’ve done at the high level, it’s OUR most revolutionary jump in performance so far.

Just a heads up.

[Shoob]

I could easily see them doing the gpu line up as

• 490x - polaris 11
• 490 - polaris 11 w/ disabled parts
• 485 - Fury?
• 480x - 390x
• 480 - 390
• 470x - 380x
• 470 - 380

polaris 10 can be their budget part or laptop part.

Or probably a whole new lineup with Polaris 11 having HBM and Polaris 10 with GDDR5 for the lower end GPUs.

[zMeul]

Before anybody boards the WCCFTECH Hate Train please go and have unbiased opinions of tech news sites before looking at topics OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

I just this to be backed up by someone else other than "their word"

[AlTech]

I could easily see them doing the gpu line up as

• 490x - polaris 11
• 490 - polaris 11 w/ disabled parts
• 485 - Fury?
• 480x - 390x
• 480 - 390
• 470x - 380x
• 470 - 380

polaris 10 can be their budget part or laptop part.

 

Really? I'm thinking more along the lines of

 

Polaris 11 XT or Fury X v2

 

Polaris 11 Pro or Fury v2

• 490X - Fury X
• 490 - Fury
• 480X - 390X
• 480 - 390
• 470x - 380X
• 470 - 380
• 460 - 370
• 450 - 360

And then Polaris 10 somewhere else

[AlTech]

Or probably a whole new lineup with Polaris 11 having HBM and Polaris 10 with GDDR5 for the lower end GPUs.

 

I understood it to be 2 different GPUs not 2 dies or 2 whatever. It is 2 GPUs. The rest will come later.

[Shoob]

I understood it to be 2 different GPUs not 2 dies or 2 whatever. It is 2 GPUs. The rest will come later.

2 GPUs with different SKUs makes more sense imo, given the difference in die size.

[Notional]

So this is Greenland and baffin?

Ellesmere still to be presented then.

I seriously doubt amd will rebrand anything this time. 14nm will put everything to shame, so makes no sense to reuse older architecture.

Sounds like amd will finally have an alternative to nvidia on the laptop market. Sounds really good.

Also wccftech sucks.

[AlTech]

So this is Greenland and baffin?

Ellesmere still to be presented then.

I seriously doubt amd will rebrand anything this time. 14nm will put everything to shame, so makes no sense to reuse older architecture.

Sounds like amd will finally have an alternative to nvidia on the laptop market. Sounds really good.

Also wccftech sucks.

 

Nope this is Polaris. Greenland is nowhere to be seen.

[Misanthrope]

Really? I'm thinking more along the lines of

 

Polaris 11 XT or Fury X v2

 

Polaris 11 Pro or Fury v2

• 490X - Fury X
• 490 - Fury
• 480X - 390X
• 480 - 390
• 470x - 380X
• 470 - 380
• 460 - 370
• 450 - 360

And then Polaris 10 somewhere else

 

Wait! Polaris 10 = Polaris X so it will replace the Fury X

 

[AlTech]

Wait! Polaris 10 = Polaris X so it will replace the Fury X

 

 

Nope they said specifically Polaris 11 will replace Fury X.

[marldorthegreat]

 

 

Personally this is really cool. But it leaves me with a few questions unanswered. Does this mean all other GPUs will be rebranded 300 series? I hope not but they can't really do 2 new GPUs and fill a new lineup (unless they plan on releasing a small amount of GPUs)

 

 

490x - new gpu (I think 200 watt card)

480x- fiji rebrand hbm 2 and 14nm (I think 150 watt card)

470x- 380x rebrand 14nm 384 bit memory (I think 125 watt card)

460x- new gpu ( I think 100 watts or less) 

 

Yes rebrands were bad in 300 series, but this may not be that bad, 14nm will increase efficiency and cost, so there more like refreshes. I HOPE we dont see hawaii again though 

[raphidy]

Wow, the hype train is real. RTG keeps feeding us with info. Yet, we have nothing from nvidia. When the will they start marketing their stuff hard? E3?

[SurvivorNVL]

Man, I really want to see Arctic Islands and Pascal trading blows already.  Want to see who wins out.  Personally I support a system where it's basically:

Fury X v2(Polaris)
Fury v2(Polaris)

490x(Fury X 14nm )
480x(Fury 14nm)

470x(380x 14nm)
460x(380(?)14nm)

Hopefully they do it like that, or by some miracle could do 14nm Hawaii on the 470 and 460.  That'd be incredible, honestly.  Two gens ago flagship gets to be the office card.  That'd be the day.

[SurvivorNVL]

Wow, the hype train is real. RTG keeps feeding us with info. Yet, we have nothing from nvidia. When the will they start marketing their stuff hard? E3?

Before E3.  E3 is later in June, and Computex is -just- before that starting in May 31st - June 4th.  So, we'll probably see them launch on paper or flood the market then, or possibly sooner.

[LAwLz]

I seriously doubt amd will rebrand anything this time. 14nm will put everything to shame, so makes no sense to reuse older architecture.

I don't think (and hope they won't) rebrand anything either. It would create a huge gap in their lineup if they did, since we are making such a huge leap in processing technology. Re-engineering their old GPU architecture for 14nm doesn't really make a whole lot of sense either when they could just cut the bigger dies down.

I am really looking forward to the next GPU generation.

[Doobeedoo]

I'm sure this time around they'll change the naming of the new series. I also doubt they would use so called rebrands cause of new process and all. It would make no sense.

Power consumption sure looks to be amazing, though I'm looking forward seeing that large jump in performance they said new chip will have.

[Notional]

Man, I really want to see Arctic Islands and Pascal trading blows already. Want to see who wins out. Personally I support a system where it's basically:

Fury X v2(Polaris)

Fury v2(Polaris)

490x(Fury X 14nm )

480x(Fury 14nm)

470x(380x 14nm)

460x(380(?)14nm)

Hopefully they do it like that, or by some miracle could do 14nm Hawaii on the 470 and 460. That'd be incredible, honestly. Two gens ago flagship gets to be the office card. That'd be the day.

Why would they reuse old architecture when they've made a new and better one?

They need to change the old architecture and build new stock on 14nm anyways.

Simply not going to happen unless they have lots of 28nm cards in stock. I seriously doubt that though.

No amd has a new node exclusive to them on the Pc market and a new architecture that sounds really good. I see no chance they will reuse anything old after summer.

[AlexGoesHigh]

All this talk about next gen GPU's and i hope they deliver, the fact that they are jumping from 28nm to 14/16nm process should be a massive performance increase if its the same die size, i expect whatever is the predecessor to Fury X is almost 2x faster, and i mean faster not 2x perf/watt faster.

[kuddlesworth9419]

Finally I can't wait to get a GPU that actually has a significant performance jump. I could really use it for Fallout 4, running it at 2560x1440 at 144Hz with mods would be really nice. At the moment it running at about 45. If I could run it at at least 100fps I will buy the GPU. Or I will wait and see what Nvidia brings out.