AMD to Launch First "Polaris" Graphics Cards by Late May

Caring1 · May 28, 2016

Polaris appears to perform below the GTX1070, but has much lower clocks.
Depending on how far those clocks can be pushed and the memory type used it could certainly beat the 1070.

arbiter · May 28, 2016

Caring1 said:
Polaris appears to perform below the GTX1070, but has much lower clocks.
Depending on how far those clocks can be pushed and the memory type used it could certainly beat the 1070.

Thing that is pretty safe to assume for 1070, since its just a locked 1080 cause some shaders were bad. It likely can hit 2ghz as well.

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.

FordGT90Concept · May 28, 2016

I'm thinking Polaris might just match GTX 1080 at DX12, especially with async shaders in use. Two games are known for being both of those things: Ashes of Singularity and Hitman. In both cases, GTX 1080 is only ~25% ahead of the Fury X.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,14.html

http://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.

RejZoR · May 28, 2016

And it's probably ahead simply because of faster clock and newer better tech in other areas (like ROP).

john_ · May 29, 2016

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?

FordGT90Concept · May 29, 2016

Well that was a waste of three minutes.

john_ · May 29, 2016

AMD Employee Accidentally Leaks RX 480 GPU - eTeknix

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.

Caring1 · May 29, 2016

Anybody could have printed that out at home.
Is it 1st of April already?
I hope XSPC have the name RX480 copywrite protected, they could earn a pretty dollar suing AMD.

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AMD to Launch First "Polaris" Graphics Cards by Late May

Caring1

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FordGT90Concept

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RejZoR

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