Monday, March 20th 2017
AMD's Elusive Polaris 12 Makes an Appearance on CompuBench
Reports are going around that AMD's smallest-ever Polaris chip has been seen on the OpenCL pages of CompuBench. Based on a new Polaris 12 GPU (or should it be Polaris 22?), this is a chip which is likely to power an even lower-end of the spectrum than what AMD's RX 460 (and upcoming RX 560 rebrands) already does.
Polaris 12 apparently features 10 Compute Units, which amounts to 640 Stream Processors. Remember that AMD's Polaris 11 chip which powers the RX 460 actually has 1024 stream processors, though only 896 are available for access on retail versions of the card (though some magickery can unlock those latent stream processors.) This means that Polaris 12 essentially packs half as many shaders as Polaris 11 does. The 640 Stream Processors are expected to be clocked at 1302 MHz, and the cards will reportedly ship with up to 4 GB of GDDR5 memory. Expect cards based on this GPU to sell below the RX 460's $99.
Source:
Videocardz
Polaris 12 apparently features 10 Compute Units, which amounts to 640 Stream Processors. Remember that AMD's Polaris 11 chip which powers the RX 460 actually has 1024 stream processors, though only 896 are available for access on retail versions of the card (though some magickery can unlock those latent stream processors.) This means that Polaris 12 essentially packs half as many shaders as Polaris 11 does. The 640 Stream Processors are expected to be clocked at 1302 MHz, and the cards will reportedly ship with up to 4 GB of GDDR5 memory. Expect cards based on this GPU to sell below the RX 460's $99.
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There is no list off good games for this card.
I welcome this news because most cards in the sub $100 range are rebrands of very old architectures. Finally we're getting something new that has all of the latest tech without the power draw and cost of a 3D gaming card. I might buy one of these for my server.
- Their power usage and thus heat output is extremely low and they are tiny, fitting in almost any case. It's superb for giving an old PC some gaming power
- They are reasonably cheap
- The fastest consumer APUs are now on HD 7750 level and this chip will be twice as fast, which makes it faster than 80% of the GPUs people on Steam use
- They are able to play any well optimized AAA game (2010 and older) at 1080p max settings
- The above doesn't mean you can't run modern AAA games on decent visual detail
etc.
RX460 is close to HD6950 that is able to play many games in medium settings and at 1080P. Just look into my signature's PC specs...