AMD: Speculation, Rumors, and Discussion (Archive)

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I always understood it as a compete system, CPU, GPU, what ever else it needs. Yeah it is a research project but I think the entire system is called Eschelon, I might be mistaken.
 
So it has the same number of cores of a 390 and slightly higher clock and it performs a bit better than a 390? The price is great but I was expecting more performance for 2560 cores. I guess most of the architectural improvements went into power savings and better use of memory bandwidth /compression. Didn't AMD state this was a major redesign?
 
Its hard to see where the changes to the front end are with just limited testing, there might be changes that aren't seen until we start comparing how it changes based on older to newer applications (different workloads)
 
gamervivek said:
Eh, it does better than an 980 which is over the min. spec.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3492147

Even when the 980 is overclocked.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6067983

The guy who posted it for some reason showed up the card at 1080Mhz, not sure if it's running at that speed or not in the benchmark.
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Yeah, my bad, I was drunk last night, the 5K result was "4K Gaming PC", not VR min spec, VR min spec is 2.5K

edit: also, it's been apparently confirmed that it is in fact real, and the guy does have a real RX480. To be more specific, 4GB model with default clocks at 1080 MHz. IIRC they also mentioned somewhere that all the RX 480's sent around so far have different clocks, and that newer drivers and/or BIOS will set the final clocks
 
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Then the reference 480(X) should be pretty ideal. Its design seem a remarked improvement compared to previous AMD designs, putting power delivery at the back of the PCB instead of up front made the PCB shorter and gave the blower the ability to suck air from both sides of the card. It's disappointing though that AMD chose to gimp power delivery so much with just a single auxiliary six-pin power connector, with such a smart cooler design and all.

They always have to F up in some way don't they.
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Well, we don't really know how much power the card needs, and adding a second 6-pin connector would take more space and cost more. AIB partners are free to come up with custom designs with beefier power circuitry if they're so inclined.
 
What are those two lines on the temperature graph? GPU and CPU?

Is the physics test the fourth section of the graph? Does that run on the CPU? Implying GPU = blue and CPU = green?
 
Goes with the thread title .... speculation, rumours, discussion. Shame little or no official info has been released and we still have till the 29th!
 
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http://www.3dcenter.org/news/amd-nvidia-grafikkarten-roadmap-201617
 
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