[Ars] AMD confirms high-end Polaris GPU will be released in 2016

[MrTeal]

Those are rebrands.

By the way, Banks and Weston are 28nm GPUs used in embeded market and are based on GCN Gen 2 (Banks) and GCN Gen 3 (Weston).

Interesting. Link?

 

[Glo.]

Lenovo Yoga 510-15ISK with r7 m460 2gb is launching in April. Not much info yet as to if it's a rebrand or possibly baby Polaris.

http://videocardz.com/58323/amd-radeon-m400-series-to-be-released-in-april

Using the Polaris demo results baby Polaris would most likely smack down the 960m I'd imagine. At least looking at some quick results of the GTX 950 vs 960m makes me believe so.

https://twitter.com/Thracks/status/701786083969794049

 

[Kenmitch]

https://twitter.com/Thracks/status/701786083969794049

Hmmm....Kind of seems like a double edged sword question and reply.

The optimist would consider it as being Polaris.

The pessimist would consider it as being a rebrand.

Based on alleged release date of the Lenovo in question one would have to lean towards a rebrand without more facts.

 

[swilli89]

The fact that Apple A9X which is a 147 sq mm SoC is manufactured at TSMC 16FF+ instead of 14 LPP. The other reason is TSMC seems to have won 100% of next gen A10/A10X production. TSMC also confidently stated they will have almost 70% FINFET foundry market share in 2016. This points to strong customer adoption/demand for what is the best foundry FINFET process in terms of yields and electrical characteristics.

This is true and valid points, but you are ignoring the fact that all things being equal, Apple does NOT want to finance or provide economies of scale to their largest competitor to their largest margin and largest volume product, the iPhone. Compared to 2014, 2015 saw the Galaxy S6 make headway due to a much more competitive product in the eyes of consumers.

I believe Apple only resorted to Samsung for the A9 because TSMC was not ready with their next gen process.

 

[Silverforce11]

Hmm, interesting.

http://techfrag.com/2016/02/24/amd-polaris-11-may-have-8-6-billion-transistors-launching-mid-year/

Maybe Polaris 11 is indeed Fiji+ at 232mm2.

8.6B transistors in that small size!

 

[DooKey]

Hmm, interesting.

http://techfrag.com/2016/02/24/amd-polaris-11-may-have-8-6-billion-transistors-launching-mid-year/

Maybe Polaris 11 is indeed Fiji+ at 232mm2.

8.6B transistors in that small size!

Is that unexpected by any company going to finfet? I don't get the excitement.

 

[Silverforce11]

Is that unexpected by any company going to finfet? I don't get the excitement.

It is unexpected, when you consider the die sizes.

That's a lot more denser than we were told and more than the usual 2x.

 

[jpiniero]

It is unexpected, when you consider the die sizes.

That's a lot more denser than we were told and more than the usual 2x.

He could be talking about a product that's not Polaris 11 though. If they had Fiji+ performance from Polaris 11 (and Polaris 11 is going to be released relatively soon), why would they bother releasing Fury X2?

 

[as9hW]

I don't get it, everyone is referencing Hook's tweet and only focusing on the 8-6 part.

> @GFXChipTweeter As I've told you 16 million times, nothing less than the 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide-infused Carolina Reaper will do...

What about the "16 million" part?https://twitter.com/GChip

 

[Kenmitch]

I don't get it, everyone is referencing Hook's tweet and only focusing on the 8-6 part.

> @GFXChipTweeter As I've told you 16 million times, nothing less than the 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide-infused Carolina Reaper will do...

What about the "16 million" part?

16GB of memory?

 

[as9hW]

16GB of memory?

Why not say 16 billion then?

 

[littleg]

Maybe it's only got 16MB

edit: 16MB cache maybe? Seems ridiculously big for a GPU though

 

[beginner99]

Hmmm....Kind of seems like a double edged sword question and reply.

The optimist would consider it as being Polaris.

The pessimist would consider it as being a rebrand.

Based on alleged release date of the Lenovo in question one would have to lean towards a rebrand without more facts.

In one of the recent articles I think about new Asus laptops in the comments Ryan said it's a rebrand. So very certain it is a rebrand.

 

[MrTeal]

I don't get it, everyone is referencing Hook's tweet and only focusing on the 8-6 part.

> @GFXChipTweeter As I've told you 16 million times, nothing less than the 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide-infused Carolina Reaper will do...

What about the "16 million" part?https://twitter.com/GChip

8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide is capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot sauce. Pure cap is 16M scoville units, which is the defacto "Heat Rating" for peppers. Raja and Chris Hook have been tweeting back and forth about hot sauces and curry for over a month.
https://twitter.com/GChip/with_replies

 

[Glo.]

http://wccftech.com/amd-14nm-finfet-polaris-gpu-c91101/

This is quite interesting news if we ignore the rest of "analysis", and focus only on certification number and information that is connected to it.

 

[Headfoot]

8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide is capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot sauce. Pure cap is 16M scoville units, which is the defacto "Heat Rating" for peppers. Raja and Chris Hook have been tweeting back and forth about hot sauces and curry for over a month.
https://twitter.com/GChip/with_replies

forumites so desperate for info that they're taking comments about hot sauce and applying it to video cards. Cringeworthy.

 

[as9hW]

8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide is capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot sauce. Pure cap is 16M scoville units, which is the defacto "Heat Rating" for peppers. Raja and Chris Hook have been tweeting back and forth about hot sauces and curry for over a month.
https://twitter.com/GChip/with_replies

Thanks for the context.

forumites so desperate for info that they're taking comments about hot sauce and applying it to video cards. Cringeworthy.

It's all part of the fun. Please don't threadcrap.

 

[Glo.]

I love to TT in which Hook says that Curries that they(Hook and Raja) eat could fuel the car

 

[Despoiler]

forumites so desperate for info that they're taking comments about hot sauce and applying it to video cards. Cringeworthy.

AMD has been dropping coded info for awhile now. See all the tweets based on their star naming and how it relates to their hardware. Why would you think they are just really passionate about hot sauce when they intermingle it with video game specific references?

https://twitter.com/GChip/status/700076659546796035

Chris Hook ‏@GChip Feb 17
@GFXChipTweeter Someone told me GDC is looking kind of bland this year. I think we need some Capsaicin to spice things up a bit.....

 

[Glo.]

Look at what Roy Taylor from AMD posted on TT on 18th Feb.
https://twitter.com/Roy_techhwood/status/700453559922352128

 

[MrTeal]

AMD has been dropping coded info for awhile now. See all the tweets based on their star naming and how it relates to their hardware. Why would you think they are just really passionate about hot sauce when they intermingle it with video game specific references?

https://twitter.com/GChip/status/700076659546796035

Yeah, I could see them having some pepper based branding or code names for the next gen. The stretch would be trying to assign performance (16M transistors? 8.6Tflops?) based on the physical properties of capsaicin.

 

[Headfoot]

Yeah, I could see them having some pepper based branding or code names for the next gen. The stretch would be trying to assign performance (16M transistors? 8.6Tflops?) based on the physical properties of capsaicin.

Exactly.

 

[railven]

Welps, the hype is going full throttle. This concept of using peppers to make reference to hardware numbers is interesting.

Sign me up! I got an aging Kepler card that needs replacing!

 

[GodisanAtheist]

You need to be fully qualified and licensed to drive the hype train. Unfortunately, AMD has taken it off the rails one too many times and had its license revoked!

Cautious optimism would be in order from its fanbase.

 

[xthetenth]

You need to be fully qualified and licensed to drive the hype train. Unfortunately, AMD has taken it off the rails one too many times and had its license revoked!

Cautious optimism would be in order from its fanbase.

It always is. It's a shame too, a full 4 GB of overclocker's dream async compute would be awesome.