Polaris “Ellesmere” Has Around 100W TDP + specs - Rumour

[awesomeness10120]

[Belgarathian]

On 4/14/2016 at 2:38 AM, zMeul said:

if AMD is going to release notebook GPUs 1st, oh man .. gonna laugh my ass off

 

they are in a financial crisis and they're releasing low end GPUs?! what the fuck is wrong with them 

You're right, zMeul. Releasing their new GPU chips which (based on the above) seem to be targeted at increasing the power efficiency to the biggest consumer market (mobile and OEM) first makes no financial sense. 

[shdowhunt60]

I mean, it's not like it's the market where they could make the most growth or anything...

[DXMember]

9 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

People love to forget that if game devs did the right thing, AMD and Nvidia wouldn't need to release drivers to get games working properly on their GPU, and make them capable of utilising multiple GPU.

I know right?

 

[That Norwegian Guy]

Yeah no, I'm not gonna eat another sidegrade due to "power consumption reductions"

 

2x 8-pin connectors and full unlock, or GTFO

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

Yeah no, I'm not gonna eat another sidegrade due to "power consumption reductions"

 

2x 8-pin connectors and full unlock, or GTFO

I'd do the upgrade if I got the performance of my GTX 970, or even GTX 650ti, with the die size of my MR HD5650/HD5770.

[Jahramika]

On 4/14/2016 at 0:37 PM, Humbug said:

Probably it will represent a performance gain within the price point at which they launch it.

But if we are looking for something to leave Fury X and 980ti in the dust we will have to wait for December when they launch Vega GPUs with HBM 2. That should slot in above polaris at a higher price point.

Ya but think Nvidia is launching their 980ti replacement using GDDR5, unlike Amd is releasing low and medium ends

[Jahramika]

On 4/14/2016 at 3:10 PM, MMKing said:

Haswell was a 177mm^2 chip, Skylake is a 133mm^2 chip. No, that is not a 33% difference. Try 77% difference in area.

 

Yet the Skylake chip is very comparable in terms of performance.

Ya so they made more money since they used less silicon for each chip and only a 5 to 10 percent performance gain.

[dalekphalm]

7 hours ago, Jahramika said:

Ya but think Nvidia is launching their 980ti replacement using GDDR5, unlike Amd is releasing low and medium ends

Source? All we've got for this is a very vague and unreliable rumour, which states "facts" we know to be questionable. (Eg: Titan X '2' will be GP100 full bore, with HBM2.0, and '1080 Ti' will be GP100 cut down w/ GDDR5(X) - makes no sense, since they'll have to engineer a totally different memory controller for the same chip)

[SkilledRebuilds]

100w for a R9-290 shader count.....

Noice.

[Mihle]

personally i dont care about power consumption in other things than phones and laptops. in my desktop, performance for the money I want to spend is what I care about, not if its 10 W or 500 W.