Monday, May 9th 2016
AMD to Launch First "Polaris" Graphics Cards by Late May
The first AMD Radeon graphics cards based on the company's "Polaris" architecture are slated for a late-May launch, according to Thai tech-site Zolkorn. The company is reportedly planning an elaborate launch event in Macau, China, days ahead of the 2016 Computex trade-show in Taipei. AMD has reportedly already sent invites to media outlets, although to a very limited number (in comparison to, say, NVIDIA's GTX 1080 event in Austin, US). The event could see a paper-launch of the first Radeon R9 400 series graphics cards based on the 14 nm "Ellesmere" and "Baffin" chips, with AIB-branded cards being exhibited at Computex, and market-availability following shortly after.
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Zolkorn
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Going by AMD's history least for hawaii and fiji, they seem to be clocked pretty clock to max AMD can get outta them but maybe that will be different this time.
www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,14.html
www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1080_review,15.html
If Polaris comes in at 40% faster than 390X: 52 and 77 FPS, respectively.
If Vega comes in at 40% faster than Fury X: 53 and 88 FPS, respectively.
Suddenly the GTX 1080 doesn't look so appealing.
Come to AMD's Radeon Polaris Tech day, with an invitation directly from AMD, probably with expenses payed by AMD, have an X99 motherboard as sponsor in every video you will create.
Why is Roy still working for AMD?
RX?
Either they don't know if they should call it R9 or R7, either they decided that the number after the R is too much informative to people about the card's performance. So they might copy Nvidia's GTX here and call all new cards RX.
At least we know that Polaris is an 480 GPU, not a 490. If we assume that AMD will also increase it's prices, like Nvidia did with the 10X0 cards, I would say that $280-$300 is to be expected for the 480. 285 came at $249 and 380X at $229.
Is it 1st of April already?
I hope XSPC have the name RX480 copywrite protected, they could earn a pretty dollar suing AMD.