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I think its time to wrap up this sub-forum as well...

Okay, time for a slight revision: AMD's next Mid-Range GPU is a 225 Watt Mini-Housefire with a blower fan. Going by AMD's SOP it's also overvolted as hell to keep the yield up. In terms of process normalized performance per-watt it's still behind Turing by ~50%. With the HBM joker AMD can get to...

AMD's next "Mid-Range" GPU is a 300 Watt Housefire with a blower fan, the memes write themselves at this point.

2 out of 3, not bad at all.

Who said there is going to be a reveal? I expect "This puppy here is Vega (woodscrews optional)", "Look at this vague gaming benchmark" and "Its coming any moment now, believe it" with an announcement of the Frontiers Edition (all six of them) launching on the 30th June. I'm happy to be proven...

The first Pascal Series die shot fresh from the Hot Chips conference: A few quick eyeballed estimates: 1 SM (assuming the dark green squares are a whole SM) takes ~7,3 mm² (Polaris CU ~3mm²), 1 HBM2 PHY ~4,4 mm² (1 Fiji PHY ~10 mm²).

A german madman polished down the die of a RX 470 (more here http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=11124532&postcount=10484) 36 CUs confirmed. The GDDR5 PHYs are pretty big (~30mm²), the 256-bit interface on Tonga "only" takes ~24mm². The 8Gbs definitely take their toll here...

I personally hope for HBM on Desktop Vega, that would significantly improve browser, multi-monitor and video decode power consumption. Since AMD hasn't yet managed to built to a GDDR5 memory controller in the past eight years with adequate clocking support (one that doesn't switch to full-speed...

Looks like the age of actual Die shots has ended for good.

I'm saying that AMD's continuing abstinence from competitiveness has already been priced in to a large extent by Nvidia and Intel. AMD could stop existing tomorrow and prices wouldn't change that much.

As of now Nvidia can set prices to whatever they want, like Intel, and their products still get bought. What's is the point of AMD existing at all if the only benchmark where they are even slightly competitive is price? The circumstances of the last 10 years have put AMD in a hole which they...

Both have the same serial number on the PCB. There is probably no separate board for the 470.

D0 is for Polaris 10 based boards. See here for example: http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/391/001/8/S3910018/slug/l/rx480-hands-on-gallery-5-1-1.jpg (D00947)

Semantics. My Employer prefers the term redesign, since it is quite rare nowadays that a design is ported to a smaller process without any design changes at all.

Polaris is certainly more than just a shrink if only by virtue of the fact that there is no such thing anymore (since 55 nm at least). The term "completely new architecture" can be stretched very far if necessary. It looks like Polaris is based on the cancelled 20nm lineup with a couple things...