AMD Polaris Tech Day is Today

[Notional]

3 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

This benchmark shows the 1080 having a bigger delta in performance vs the Titan X in DX12 games than it does in DX11 games, so that claim that it's Maxwell shrunk sounds pretty dubious.

 

 

Not saying it's just a shrink, I'm saying it's a modded Maxwell with little improvements in IPC. Not saying there aren't any.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Pls...tell me it's going to be here...

[Doobeedoo]

Well let us see Polaris cards already

[Energycore]

4 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

The 1070 comes up for sale in exactly two weeks, at which time AMD is going to have to slash prices on everything. If it's taking this long for them to get their cards out you can't help but think there is some fire behind the smoke we have been seeing about them having trouble with their clockspeeds. I was expecting a real response from them, maybe even a hard launch on June 1st at their Computex presentation. I think a July launch will be devastating for them. They need Polaris out ASAP before they have to compete with GP106 in the midrange, they needed a reason to make people not want to jump on the GTX 1070.

Do we even have an announcement date on GP106? Polaris will come first, otherwise we would know.

[awesomeness10120]

1 hour ago, Energycore said:

Do we even have an announcement date on GP106? Polaris will come first, otherwise we would know.

It's safe to assume that Polaris would be quite competitive with GP106. It all hinges on pricing.

[Energycore]

Just now, awesomeness10120 said:

It's safe to assume that Polaris would be quite competitive with GP106. It all hinges on pricing.

The way I'm predicting it will go, P11 < GP106 < P10 but I'd have to look at numbers on GP106

[Misanthrope]

Honestly even though I have been an ATi proponent for a while, I have serious reservations about this new "Won't compete in the high end" strategy. Or whatever they call this highly untimely delay.

 

Then of course I am asking some semblance of competence and coherence from the fucking AMD PR and Marketing teams: Like trying to pick fly shit out of pepper.

[awesomeness10120]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

The way I'm predicting it will go, P11 < GP106 < P10 but I'd have to look at numbers on GP106

If P11 is priced lower than GP106, then it won't be a big deal.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

Like trying to pick fly shit out of pepper.

That's the most amazing equivalent of "needle in a haystack". Legit chuckled.

[Energycore]

God dammit double posted

[Misanthrope]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

That's the most amazing equivalent of "needle in a haystack". Legit chuckled.

I shamelessly stole that from the nerd

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

I shamelessly stole that from the nerd

WHILE WEARING BOXING GLOVES.

 

I am done derailing this thread.

[Humbug]

35 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Honestly even though I have been an ATi proponent for a while, I have serious reservations about this new "Won't compete in the high end" strategy. Or whatever they call this highly untimely delay.

The high end vega will probably be great when it comes. e.g. Hawai R9 290 and 290x was also a few months late compared to GTX 780 and original Titan. But over the years it has proved to be the superior architecture.

I agree though the delay is very bad for AMD's bottom line. If people who are in the market for high end GPUs or due for upgrades blow their money on Pascal before Vega launches...

[Big-G]

7 hours ago, Notional said:

Not saying it's just a shrink, I'm saying it's a modded Maxwell with little improvements in IPC. Not saying there aren't any.

So GCN 4 is like GCN 3 with little to no optimisation? Polaris... Just a modded old AMD uArch then... By your statements 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

5 minutes ago, GidonsClaw said:

So GCN 4 is like GCN 3 with little to no optimisation? Polaris... Just a modded old AMD uArch then... By your statements 

 

GCN 3?

[Bouzoo]

1 hour ago, Pohernori said:

 

GCN 3?

Apparently it's GCN 1.0-4.0, not 1.0-1.3 as we know it.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

3 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

AMD calls it GCN 1.0-4.0, not 1.0-1.3 as we know it.

 

That's why the "GCN 3?" 

 

Where the fuck did gcn 3 come from.

[Bouzoo]

10 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

That's why the "GCN 3?" 

 

Where the fuck did gcn 3 come from.

Yes, that's why. It's GCN 1st - 4th generation so it makes sense. Iirc it was on their official slides some time back. Or maybe some site called it that and everyone stuck with it. Don't take my word for granted  

I still prefer 1.1-1.3.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

4 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Yes, that's why. They call it GCN 1st - 4th generation so it makes sense. Iirc it was on their official slides some time back. Or maybe some site called it that and everyone stuck with it 

 

Its only been 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 4.0 iirc. Unless amd did some magic and i wasn't aware

[Bouzoo]

9 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

Its only been 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 4.0 iirc. Unless amd did some magic and i wasn't aware

1.2 is Generation 3 according to AMD documentation and Wiki (it was the third one to be released and the document is called GCN 3). Gen 1 was the "zero one". My logic is that GCN X.0 was taken from GCN Gen X.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

21 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

1.2 is Generation 3 according to AMD documentation and Wiki (it was the third one to be released and the document is called GCN 3). Gen 1 was the "zero one". My logic is that GCN X.0 was taken from GCN Gen X.

 

They call it GCN 3rd Generation/ Generation 3, not exactly GCN 3. Some peeps just started coming up with their own names for it. No wonder I was confused. Marketing wise, AMD wanted it to be called GCN 1.2. 

[Thiback]

Does someone know at what time of today we will get the infos from AMD from their conference ? This would relieve my F5 key greatly.

[Castdeath97]

33 minutes ago, Thiback said:

Does someone know at what time of today we will get the infos from AMD from their conference ? This would relieve my F5 key greatly.

http://www.amd.com/en-us

[Bouzoo]

50 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

They call it GCN 3rd Generation/ Generation 3, not exactly GCN 3. Some peeps just started coming up with their own names for it. No wonder I was confused. Marketing wise, AMD wanted it to be called GCN 1.2. 

Market wise I still call it 1.2. Yes, the only place I could see GCN 3 is the documents name and that's it. It's getting really confusing for most people with everyone calling it as they want.

[Thiback]

Linus just posted this on Twitter 

Might mean AMD is about to release VR potent Polaris GPUs, or just demonstrating some other high end stuff to be released later this year.