Monday, May 9th 2016
AMD to Launch First "Polaris" Graphics Cards by Late May
The first AMD Radeon graphics cards based on the company's "Polaris" architecture are slated for a late-May launch, according to Thai tech-site Zolkorn. The company is reportedly planning an elaborate launch event in Macau, China, days ahead of the 2016 Computex trade-show in Taipei. AMD has reportedly already sent invites to media outlets, although to a very limited number (in comparison to, say, NVIDIA's GTX 1080 event in Austin, US). The event could see a paper-launch of the first Radeon R9 400 series graphics cards based on the 14 nm "Ellesmere" and "Baffin" chips, with AIB-branded cards being exhibited at Computex, and market-availability following shortly after.
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Zolkorn
107 Comments on AMD to Launch First "Polaris" Graphics Cards by Late May
in VR.
How awkward would it be if its on the 27th
Polaris is low-mid end, 390X performance for $200-$300.
Just saying be prepared to be amazed by Polaris, sorry to say it will make your Fury obsolete.
I will wait for the real power GPUs that will arrive with HBM2 first half 2017. I can't see a need for a new gpu 2016 for me since it wont be any games out this year that will be made for DX12 only anyways and also VR really need more power than what the first simple 14nm will offer.
The name of the game is to beat nvidia and if they make an product that is inferior to Fury AMD is doomed. They cannot compete with a 28nm product against 16nm, AMD have to make an 14nm GPU that is at least as powerful as GTX1080, in other words make the Fury obsolete.
They are NOT interested in the furthering the high end ($500-$600) market right now in 2016.
I think Nvidia is trying to strangle AMD by releasing these unnecessarily powerful cards and selling them at adequate prices. AMD wasn't probably expecting this, and had they known what Nvidia's was up to, they would have used their Polaris 10 chips very differently, by clocking them much more aggressively, which they most certainly could have given the rumored low power ratings of the Polaris 10 cards.
My guess is that AMD wanted the Polaris 10 cards to be a replacement for the 390/390X with slightly better performance and much better power ratings ( ~110W TDP ). The pricing they originally had in mind was ~$250 for Polaris 10 and ~$350 for Polaris 10 XT. This is obviously not going to work out because the GTX1070 is priced very close to the $350 price point. What AMD can do now is lower the pricing of the Polaris 10 cards down to ~$200 and ~$275, and try to bring forward the release date of their Vega based cards.
And remember the video released show far shows a 1080 running 500mhz+ over the boost clocks nvidia has released so there is always a chance you were watching one cherry picked as hell review sample.
Also remember times when this card beats out the titan X have been super specific with phrases like "using VR".
Theres a difference between what 16nm is capable of, and what Nvidia is allowing for the 1080. They always leave something in the tank for a refresh or 2, and the Ti version of 1080.
The 1080 is fast, but it doesnt crush current highend cards. Put it this way, if you have 980Ti or FuryX, there is no point in upgrading.
The way Nvidia is carefully crafting the marketing and PR around the 1080 launch, I wouldnt get carried away until real benchmarks are available.
1080 faster than 980 SLI ... should be pretty fast isn't it?
In the Witcher the GTX1080 is 1.7 times faster then the GTX980....980 not 980Ti or TitanX.
and thats their own slide as well...