Monday, December 5th 2016
Mysterious GPU Benchmarked in AOtS - Possible Upcoming AMD Graphics Card
Benchmarks of an as-of-yet-unknown GPU have surfaced in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database - one that could point towards performance levels on an upcoming AMD GPU (the RX 490?). With new cards based on Vega expected to arrive in early 2017 sporting a brand new architecture, hope is they will fill in AMD's utterly lacking (as in, equal to zero) enthusiast-class performance graphics solutions. The new GPU appears to be within spitting distance of the already established GTX 1080, with only a few percentage points separating the two (with the unknown graphics card having an 85.1 average frame-rate in all batches at 1080p standard settings, against 93.4 on a GTX 1080 - with both values potentially varying with particular overclocking characteristics and so on, so please don't take them at face value.
The data was attributed to a user Ceaj, and the GPU in question carries the Device ID 687F:C18. This is in-line with AMD's already-released Polaris generation of graphics cards, which also use the 0x6*** code - while still potentially denoting a different architecture, not being related to Polaris 10 or 11 - whereas rival NVIDIA makes use of 0x1***-type codes. The graphics chip appears to be much faster than Radeon RX 480, while offering comparable performance to GTX 1080. Judging from how AOTS benchmark recognizes dual-GPU graphics cards, the new card is most likely equipped with one processor. This device ID was not shown anywhere yet, so it's definitely something unreleased.
The Radeon RX 490 "Vega10" is rumored to sport the new GCN uARCH (GFX9). The chip is expected to deliver as much as 24 TFLOPs half-precision and 12 TFLOPs single-precision compute performance. It is also expected to feature up to 16 GB of HBM2 (now that it's a cheaper, more refined process than it was at Gen 1) that is clocked to operate at 512 GB/s. The cards based on this chip are expected to carry up to 225W rated TDPs.
The Radeon RX 490 "Vega10" is rumored to sport the new GCN uARCH (GFX9). The chip is expected to deliver as much as 24 TFLOPs half-precision and 12 TFLOPs single-precision compute performance. It is also expected to feature up to 16 GB of HBM2 (now that it's a cheaper, more refined process than it was at Gen 1) that is clocked to operate at 512 GB/s. The cards based on this chip are expected to carry up to 225W rated TDPs.
32 Comments on Mysterious GPU Benchmarked in AOtS - Possible Upcoming AMD Graphics Card
Also, water is wet, the wind blows, and snow is cold. Nothing against OP, but the AMD Hype train is either going to smash through some barriers and put a huge hole in their competition or derail in such horrifying brutal beautiful way no one will ever be able to take them seriously again. I hope for the first, but the second seems more of the cold reality at this point.
My money is on carefully binned chips, two of them on a board, called the 490, as has been their naming scheme for years (7970 +1 = 7990 etc...) and AMD will tout how great multi-GPU setups work in DX12 with Windows 10 and how with some spin improvements they have cut power consumption by 25% (10% in reality) by turning off the other die when not in use, which they will have a few bugs for restarting and enabling it, but will gladly ignore the issues and tell you about how great a game steamcharts.com/app/228880 AOTS is despite half of the "active" users are probably just AMD reps running benchmarks at any given time and giving each other the old dutch rudder, a quarter are actual players, and the other quarter is Nvidia trying to figure out how to get Gameworks into it to fuck it up for AMD.
Now, I like AMD and hope I am dead wrong, but we have a horse here with two broke legs and a rubber crutch. If AMD were half as smart as we need them to be, they would have forced Sony and MS to brand the shit out of "Powered by AMD" or the like on their consoles and created a whole marketing strategy off it instead of getting a participation prize.
"Judging from how AOTS benchmark recognizes dual-GPU graphics cards, the new card is most likely equipped with one processor."
idk about that, the Fury(X), R9 295 and to an extend I guess the Produo still do a pretty good job high up there.
Hell if AMD was smart they would drop the price a bit and bam, solid competition.
Also, the pro duo cost more then a titan pascal, which will walk all over it most of the time at 4k, and has three times the VRAM. the few times you can find a 295x2, it cost $100 more then a 1070 that will be far more consistent in performance then a 295x2. without crossfire, the 295x2 cant touch the 1070, nevertheless a 1080.
DualGPU should NEVER be a stand in for a proper high end solution. AMD has nothing to directly compete against the 1070 and 1080, and nvidia's revenue shows that. AMD needs to get a full proper 1070 competitor, and a 1080 competitor, out soon.
Regardless, the 1080 levelling result is, as stated i AotS with DX12, so it says little about DX11 performance. If this was Vega and it only matches 1080 in AotS at DX12, AMD have some problems unless the price it lower than 1080 but some sites have suggested comparable pricing to 1080....
Right now I'm more excited about Zen as Kabylake is showing it's true colours as being Skylake in a new box. So god damned dissapointing.
A dual GPU card is not a suitable replacement for a single powerful product, ESPECIALLY when you currently have no high end products. If anything, a dual GPU AMD card would be in titan territory. they need a single GPU solution to fight the 1070 and 1080.
Or potentially stack two cores on a single interposer and have all the other processor units outside of that. It should be less problematic than two separate GPU's on two separate interposers linked by "long" links throughout the PCB. Because frankly, I think that will be the way to go in the future. Stacking more smaller cores and somehow presenting them as single GPU tot he system than creating super expensive massive GPU's that are hard to make because you have to throw out so many defective ones.
Well, I tested newest DLC AOtS with 980ti factory oc 1420mhz and got 52fps at crazy preset 1080p dx12.
noaa, same 52fps?
4xmsaa 52fps..
cpu 42fps