Polaris 11 running 4k VR content pictured

[Paragon_X]

Ryan Shrout said he witnessed the Polaris 11(which is the lower end Polaris) running 4k VR content  while passively cooled, and Polaris 10 rnunning hitman at 1440p, 60fps . If you ask me that's damn impressive.

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AMD's Polaris 10 engineering sample has been pictured and shown running Hitman at Ultra Settings at a constant 60+ FPS at 1440p, which is an impressive feat given that in our testing the the R9 Fury X was not even able to average 60FPS at these settings. 

Sadly AMD was keeping details about the Polaris 10 PCB and design secret, meaning that pictures could only be taken from the outside of the PC, but it still shows us that AMD has upgraded the display outputs  their new Polaris 10 GPUs and including a DVI output. 

It has also been reported that AMD's Polaris 11 GPU, a lower end Polaris GPU design, has been shown running passively while playing 4K VR content, which is a very impressive feat.  

 

I did get to see AMD's Polaris 11 GPU running PASSIVELY while playing back 4K VR content last night. Pretty impressive. #AMDCapsaicin

— Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout)

March 15, 2016

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Edited March 17, 2016 by Paragon_X
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[Sir Asvald]

Nice.

[Octagoncow]

I've only used Nvidia cards before, but I'm SUPER excited about Polaris. I'm going to switch to the red team unless this somehow turns out to be a flop (or Nvidia shows off something impressive before Polaris launches).  

[CommandMan7]

It might be the perspective messing me up, but it looks like that card is only 3 or 4 inches long. even shorter than the nano....

[Spectrez]

1 hour ago, CommandMan7 said:

It might be the perspective messing me up, but it looks like that card is only 3 or 4 inches long. even shorter than the nano....

i think the camera flash is tricking you and casting shadow on the rest of the card behind the case

[Stefan1024]

Passive cooled you say? I'm in

[Bouzoo]

4K VR? So that's 90 FPS? If so I'd like to know what content that is. 

[inkyserifs]

This looks really promising. For something like this I'm willing to wait a good few months before breaking open the piggy bank.

[VagabondWraith]

This sounds just as believable as Fury X running 5K maxed out .

 

[MEC-777]

HYPE!!!

 

Will wait and see how good Pascal is compared to Polaris. If it turns out Polaris spanks Pascal, I may have to go back to the red team... 

 

Ryan is not one to be easily impressed nor is he the type to stretch the truth/over hype things. So coming from him, this sounds very promising and impressive.  

[DocSwag]

This is very interesting....

If AMD can achieve this much performance on such a small die (232 mm^2 is rumored) who knows what they can do with Vega....

[Humbug]

when he says 'playing back 4k VR content'

does he mean like playing back a VR video in 4K or does he mean rendering a scene in real time

 

because Polaris11 is supposed to be the low end one. Find it hard to believe it could do this, let alone with passive cooling... If he's just talking about playback then it would make sense

[captain cactus]

You had my attention, now you have my curiosity.

 

Polaris keeps sounding better and better with each day. I like that.

[Nena Trinity]

How will it run in Linux?

[Citadelen]

3 hours ago, VagabondWraith said:

This sounds just as believable as Fury X running 5K maxed out .

 

Transistor count has doubled, why's it so hard to believe.

[TheRandomness]

The card is leaning to the right. Also, how I wish they took a picture from further to the left.

[Doobeedoo]

Lowe end part running 4K VR content passively cooled is no doubt great. Though I'm more impressed higher end part running new Hitmat at 1440p at constant 60 fps.
Looking forward to reveal of new flagship GPU for sure

[Stefan1024]

2 hours ago, Humbug said:

when he says 'playing back 4k VR content'

does he mean like playing back a VR video in 4K or does he mean rendering a scene in real time

 

because Polaris11 is supposed to be the low end one. Find it hard to believe it could do this, let alone with passive cooling... If he's just talking about playback then it would make sense

Play back means play back and not rendering

But there is still a lot of stuff to compute like motion tracking and interpolating the view between the different cameras of the recording as well as decoding the video.

 

Also with a bit of effort you can even passive cool an AMD Pro Duo.

 

[VagabondWraith]

Never mind.

 

 

[Citadelen]

Just now, VagabondWraith said:

A low end card? Bullshit. I've learned to never trust AMD's BS marketing from them, in relation to, or their affiliates. This is their "overclockers dream"/ "running 5K games with a Fury X" BS all over again.

 

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."

 

 

The over clockers dream quote was when someone was talking about the cooling, and that the VRMs were actively cooled. You can run 5K games with a Fury X, not very well. but you can.

[Bouzoo]

10 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

Also with a bit of effort you can even passive cool an AMD Pro Duo.

That thing is gonna be really hot, I'm curious if it's even possible w/o throttling. Has anyone passively cooled a Fury before? Or do you accept the challenge? 

[Watermelon Guy]

4 hours ago, VagabondWraith said:

This sounds just as believable as Fury X running 5K maxed out .

 

They didnt every claim that. They said high settings, not maxed out. at about 50fps. But that cooler does not look that bulky, it looks small. and not full cover. Maybe a very low power chip (100 to 150 watts) which would be pretty cool if they could pull off 4k at 60fps, under the 175 watts of the R9 nano. 

Edited March 17, 2016 by Watermelon Guy
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[Stefan1024]

Just now, Bouzoo said:

That thing is gonna be really hot, I'm curious if it's even possible w/o throttling. Has anyone passively cooled a Fury before? Or do you accept the challenge? 

My two GTX 980 have a combined TDP of 330 watts, the Pro Duo is 350 watts. So it's certainly possible.

 

But I'm waiting for Polaris as I can fit even more compute power into the power envelope. But send me one (or convice AMD to do so) and I will accept the challenge

 

[Watermelon Guy]

3 hours ago, Humbug said:

when he says 'playing back 4k VR content'

does he mean like playing back a VR video in 4K or does he mean rendering a scene in real time

 

because Polaris11 is supposed to be the low end one. Find it hard to believe it could do this, let alone with passive cooling... If he's just talking about playback then it would make sense

If it was low end, why does it have 3 display port, 1 hdmi and 1 dvi? 

[VagabondWraith]

3 minutes ago, Watermelon Guy said:

They didnt every claim that. They said high settings, not maxed out. at about 50fps. 

High settings at 50fps 5k still doesn't sound believable. Unless they're running pacman.