Monday, May 9th 2016
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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
A.) polaris is far better than pascal, with a huge advantage in that tiny die, perhaps it is more power efficient or scales better. AMD knows this, knows that they can match nvidias performance at a lower price, and can make a hefty profit while nvidia will have to cut prices across the board to keep up, a reversal of what happened with the 300 series. They keep this news secret until just before pascal's launch, then reveal Polaris, and ruin nvidia's launch day sales.
B.) Polaris is weaker than AMD expected. They have gone on about power efficiency, but now about performance much, suggesting polaris isnt the smash hit they expected. They are keeping mum until they can figure something out marketing wise to sell polaris.
My guess is A.) is more likely. Polaris is an enhanced GCN design, and has a smaller die than nvidia, much like evergreen vs fermi. And polaris is the first major project that lisa su has been CEO for a majority of, so this could be the fruits of AMD's labor. If AMD can pull a $300 card, with the rumored 390/390x performance at ~130 watt TDP, AMD would be in a pretty good spot.
Don't you guys ever learn?
Don't know if this has been posted yet, but Polaris isn't looking too high end: videocardz.com/59725/nvidia-gtx-1080-polaris-10-11-directx12-benchmarks
I love the releases it's like the new Manolo Blahnik shoe ranges - sooo exciting my luvvies!!! :D
....No!!!!!!!!!!! where would the fun be in that! :roll: