Monday, January 18th 2016

AMD Working on Two "Polaris" GPUs: Raja Koduri

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AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) head Raja Koduri, in an interview with Venture Beat, confirmed that the company is currently working on two 14 nm FinFET GPUs based on the "Polaris" (4th generation Graphics CoreNext) architecture. He was quoted as referring to the two chips as "Polaris 10" and "Polaris 11." He remarked that the two chips are "extremely power efficient."

Koduri ran Venture Beat through what's new with these chips, besides being built on the 14 nm process and GCN 4.0 stream processors - a redesigned front-end, new geometry processors, a new multimedia engine, and new display controllers. GCN 4.0 lends the chip an up-to-date API support besides significantly higher performance, the new multimedia engine features native h.265 hardware acceleration, and the display controllers support the latest DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI 2.0a connectors.
Source: Venture Beat

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37 Comments on AMD Working on Two "Polaris" GPUs: Raja Koduri

#26
john_
julizsTwo new Gpu's will be enough.

1. R9 490X
R9 490 (disable some cores)

2. R9 480X
R9 480 (disable some cores)

Rebrand the rest if you need to, not interested in those anyway...
The second GPU is a small one. AMD put it against GTX 950 in their efficiency demo, so it is not an R9 480/R9 480X GPU. Is more like an R7 460 or R7 470.
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#27
deemon
DeeveoAPU with 8GB HBM could be a thing of wonder, you could make solder version with a mb with no memory slots at all. El cheapo system eh?
if only 8GB were enough.
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#28
RejZoR
For low to mid end device which would end up having 4GB for system and 4GB for VRAM. But I think 12GB would be desired. 8GB system memory and 4GB VRAM.
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#29
Kanan
Tech Enthusiast & Gamer
The first GPUs can have many more variations, they can do many configurations with deactivated shaders based on 1 chip, like HD 5870/5850/5830, it's not definitely limited to 2 graphics cards.
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#30
HumanSmoke
KananThe first GPUs can have many more variations, they can do many configurations with deactivated shaders based on 1 chip, like HD 5870/5850/5830, it's not definitely limited to 2 graphics cards.
Typically the second salvage part usually has too many features fused off in relation to its power consumption to be very effective. The HD 5830, 6930, 7870XT weren't particularly stellar performers (neither have been their Nvidia counterparts like the GTX 465, GTX 560 SE, GTX 660 Ti, or the GTX 780 if you take into account what the later full chip is capable of).
Definitely handy is chip yields aren't great - certainly beats tossing them away - but very few second salvage parts are planned as anything other than short-life special editions.
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#32
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
I don't give two shits what the rebrand in the midrange as long as the top end cards are new, good performing and priced well.
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#33
happita
Will it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?
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#34
xfia
happitaWill it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?
The way I see it is NV is in a much better position for making the most out of some more rebranding being there is performance segments they fill well with good power draw.. if AMD went another round of rebranding they might get into some real trouble.
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#35
Deeveo
I'd hope that we won't see any rebrands this round, just getting the low/mid end parts first and the high end a bit later. Maybe someone has more info, but we'll propably know more in a few weeks/months when the actual release gets closer.
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#36
Kanan
Tech Enthusiast & Gamer
There's always rebrands or let's say it's very likely they will rebrand some cards again.
Will it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?
Unlikely.
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#37
jabbadap
Yeah eagerly waiting 40nm gf119 reincarnation as geforce gt 1010...
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