http://www.techpowerup.com/222450/more-polaris10-and-polaris11-specifications-revealedIndustry 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.
Join us 5/18 at 9AM CT for the next MTE as David Nalasco shares an inside look at Polaris. http://bit.ly/1s6FPm2
Not sure it would be truly an unveil because no mention of Raja or Lisa on the agenda.Looks like next Thursday could be the formal unveil:
https://twitter.com/AMD/status/731158531664171008
2 weeks before Computex.
It may just be a presentation about the architecture so they still may not show end products, but it'll be something nonetheless.
EDIT:
Looks like the GTX 1080's NDA lift is May 17, and this is the day after that.
If this is indeed a product reveal they seem to be showing some confidence with what they're showing.
Looks like next Thursday could be the formal unveil:
https://twitter.com/AMD/status/731158531664171008
2 weeks before Computex.
It may just be a presentation about the architecture so they still may not show end products, but it'll be something nonetheless.
EDIT:
Looks like the GTX 1080's NDA lift is May 17, and this is the day after that.
If this is indeed a product reveal they seem to be showing some confidence with what they're showing.
Polaris 11 targeting the notebook segment, Polaris 10 targeting mainstream desktop and high-end gaming notebook segments.I thought the narrative from AMD in the past was Polaris 10 was desktop with Polaris 11 being mobile?
Polaris 11 targeting the notebook segment, Polaris 11 targeting mainstream desktop and high-end gaming notebook segments.
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_146317669812012&key=7777bc3c17029328d03146e0ed767841&libId=io69i1f601000kb5000DAl6b4rtsw&loc=http://www.overclock.net/t/1598134/vc-amd-officially-confirms-polaris-10-and-polaris-11-market-positioning&v=1&out=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?t=1&item=VHlwZT0yfFBhcmVudElEPTUyMjMwODZ8Q2hpbGRJRD02MzAyNTE=
Yeah. It is not hard to make such a screenshot... Every browser has an in-built inspector nowadays.Those specs are from Tonga and Bonaire, right?
Are there compute efficiency issues with GCN?My main prediction for the architecture reveal: On Polaris, they have concentrated on compute efficiency and reduction of stalls over raising the theoretical peak performance. Concrete steps taken include doubling the VGPR files and reducing latencies. Polaris will perform significantly better at the same clock and same amount of CUs as previous GCN, but CU counts can't rise as much as the shrink would hint simply because the new CUs take substantially more transistors.
No, not at all.Aren't perf/watt problems compute effieciency issues?
R9 M485X with 32 CUs,1,25 Ghz and 256 bits bus.