AMD Working on Two "Polaris" GPUs: Raja Koduri

[xfia]

APU with 8GB HBM could be a thing of wonder, you could make solder version with a mb with no memory slots at all. El cheapo system eh?

I think thats exactly what the next XB and PS will have.. they need HBM to drive 4k the way they want to. I also think that the XB1 and PS4 will be thought of as the 1080p system for the same games for awhile until devs start taking advantage of the new features they will be packed with.

 

[john_]

Two new Gpu's will be enough.

1. R9 490X
R9 490 (disable some cores)

2. R9 480X
R9 480 (disable some cores)

Rebrand the rest if you need to, not interested in those anyway...

The second GPU is a small one. AMD put it against GTX 950 in their efficiency demo, so it is not an R9 480/R9 480X GPU. Is more like an R7 460 or R7 470.

 

[deemon]

APU with 8GB HBM could be a thing of wonder, you could make solder version with a mb with no memory slots at all. El cheapo system eh?

if only 8GB were enough.

 

[RejZoR]

For low to mid end device which would end up having 4GB for system and 4GB for VRAM. But I think 12GB would be desired. 8GB system memory and 4GB VRAM.

 

[Kanan]

The first GPUs can have many more variations, they can do many configurations with deactivated shaders based on 1 chip, like HD 5870/5850/5830, it's not definitely limited to 2 graphics cards.

 

[HumanSmoke]

The first GPUs can have many more variations, they can do many configurations with deactivated shaders based on 1 chip, like HD 5870/5850/5830, it's not definitely limited to 2 graphics cards.

Typically the second salvage part usually has too many features fused off in relation to its power consumption to be very effective. The HD 5830, 6930, 7870XT weren't particularly stellar performers (neither have been their Nvidia counterparts like the GTX 465, GTX 560 SE, GTX 660 Ti, or the GTX 780 if you take into account what the later full chip is capable of).
Definitely handy is chip yields aren't great - certainly beats tossing them away - but very few second salvage parts are planned as anything other than short-life special editions.

 

[Enterprise24]

Will Pitcairn come back ?

 

[cdawall]

I don't give two shits what the rebrand in the midrange as long as the top end cards are new, good performing and priced well.

 

[happita]

Will it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?

 

[xfia]

Will it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?

The way I see it is NV is in a much better position for making the most out of some more rebranding being there is performance segments they fill well with good power draw.. if AMD went another round of rebranding they might get into some real trouble.

 

[Deeveo]

I'd hope that we won't see any rebrands this round, just getting the low/mid end parts first and the high end a bit later. Maybe someone has more info, but we'll propably know more in a few weeks/months when the actual release gets closer.

 

[Kanan]

There's always rebrands or let's say it's very likely they will rebrand some cards again.

Will it be safe to assume that ALL cards in this next generation will be made using 14nm? Low, mid, high-end?

Unlikely.

 

[jabbadap]

Yeah eagerly waiting 40nm gf119 reincarnation as geforce gt 1010...