Friday, May 13th 2016
More Polaris10 and Polaris11 Specifications Revealed
Industry sources revealed to TechPowerUp some pretty interesting specifications of AMD's two upcoming GPUs based on the 4th generation Graphics CoreNext "Polaris" architecture. The company is preparing a performance-segment GPU and a mainstream one. It turns out, that the performance-segment chip, which the press has been referring to as "Ellesmere," could feature 32 compute units (CUs), and not the previously thought 40.
Assuming that each CU continues to consist of 64 stream processors (SP), you're looking at an SP count of 2,048. What's more, this chip is said to offer a single-precision floating point performance of 5.5 TFLOP/s, as claimed by AMD. To put this into perspective, the company had claimed 5.2 TFLOP/s for the "Hawaii"/"Grenada" based FirePro W9100, which launched earlier this February, and that SKU featured all 2,816 SP present on the chip. So this chip is definitely faster than most "Hawaii" based SKUs.While "Hawaii" based SKUs feature TDP of no less than 250W, the new chip has a TDP rated no higher than 150W. AMD could pull off a "single 8-pin power connector" feat like NVIDIA, with quite some headroom to spare. The chip features a 256-bit wide GDDR5/GDDR5X memory interface, and 8 GB could be its standard memory amount. The first SKUs based on this chip could feature 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory.
AMD will upgrade the feature-set to include HVEC/H.265 hardware encode/decode acceleration, DisplayPort 1.3, and HDMI 2.0a outputs.
The smaller "Polaris" chip scheduled for 2016, which the press has been referring to as "Baffin," could feature 14 compute units, working out to a stream processor count of 896. It will be a mainstream chip, succeeding the "Tobago" silicon, which drives the current R7 360 series SKUs, although it wouldn't surprise us if it outperformed bigger chips, such as the "Trinidad" based R7 370 series. This chip has its peak single-precision floating-point performance rated at 2.5 TFLOP/s. Its TDP is rated at just 50W, and it is expected to feature a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory.
Assuming that each CU continues to consist of 64 stream processors (SP), you're looking at an SP count of 2,048. What's more, this chip is said to offer a single-precision floating point performance of 5.5 TFLOP/s, as claimed by AMD. To put this into perspective, the company had claimed 5.2 TFLOP/s for the "Hawaii"/"Grenada" based FirePro W9100, which launched earlier this February, and that SKU featured all 2,816 SP present on the chip. So this chip is definitely faster than most "Hawaii" based SKUs.While "Hawaii" based SKUs feature TDP of no less than 250W, the new chip has a TDP rated no higher than 150W. AMD could pull off a "single 8-pin power connector" feat like NVIDIA, with quite some headroom to spare. The chip features a 256-bit wide GDDR5/GDDR5X memory interface, and 8 GB could be its standard memory amount. The first SKUs based on this chip could feature 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory.
AMD will upgrade the feature-set to include HVEC/H.265 hardware encode/decode acceleration, DisplayPort 1.3, and HDMI 2.0a outputs.
The smaller "Polaris" chip scheduled for 2016, which the press has been referring to as "Baffin," could feature 14 compute units, working out to a stream processor count of 896. It will be a mainstream chip, succeeding the "Tobago" silicon, which drives the current R7 360 series SKUs, although it wouldn't surprise us if it outperformed bigger chips, such as the "Trinidad" based R7 370 series. This chip has its peak single-precision floating-point performance rated at 2.5 TFLOP/s. Its TDP is rated at just 50W, and it is expected to feature a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory.
133 Comments on More Polaris10 and Polaris11 Specifications Revealed
Still a class action Troll suit instigator.
Morale is, PR is a little bit 'showy' but tends to have a basis in some truth, albeit sometimes tenuous.
AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on Barcelona
...and Nvidia isn't currently being sued by its investors for deception....unlike AMD, aand we haven't even touched on AMD's Bulldozer claims from 2008 onwards, or Randy "40% better" Allen, or Roy Taylor. Probably? How would anyone know? Intel certainly didn't state what coding or ISA they were using. Nvidia ended up at least providing verifiable benchmark results
It all bad news again. The market is split releasing cards not fighting each other in performance... almost like conspiracy.
Polaris IMHO is a well placed product performance wise... to 1080p consumers, that actually packs the most of users still. The enthusiast segment(also me) are the most loud bunch of whiners actually, thus we can filter out the low expected performance complaints about the product. As I said, almost it looks fishy that nvidia and AMD releases products in their own niche not overlapping with each other actually. At least it looks like that to me now.
16nm maxwell with higher clock rates and
Some new Features like NVlink
The point was made at about 5:50, and its "just wait" before buying anything and he supported that argument with a long list of history of products released by every company and how waiting was often a better choice.
There ya go, now I do hope you learn some patients in the future.
ok then....
"complete fucking moron"
"I passed childhood well over 2.5 decades ago"
You sure about that? because you certainly don't come across that way.
And you certainly cannot claim to have patients when your comment was how you just stopped watching the vid because "he had no point" thus far.
The bit about Nvidia not choosing settings that are gonna make them look slower than the competition was gold.
Muhahahaha!!!
I thought it was harmless to copy&paste an nVidia slide...
I mean, clearly, anyone who'd spot that slide anywhere on the internet, would immediately be clear about the context.
Anyhow, what about "1070 is faster than Titan X"?
Just curious.
Or this one:
You might need to check Fury X benchmarks on reasonable (for cards of such power) resolutions.
And 480 (that's the fastest card that is expected in June) is definitelly NOT supposed to compete against 980Ti. It's a competitor to 1050/1060 (yet to be announced).