[Micron]GDDR5X has Arrived

[3DVagabond]

I think Polaris series is all about performance/$/mm², is something aimed to bring to mainstream price points today's enthusiast/halo performance. Is something like HD4870(P10) and HD5770(P11) again.

Vega will wipe our pockets later, bring all the performance enthusiasts are waiting for.

Yeah, I think Polaris is perf/W/$.

 

[Silverforce11]

Apple will buy it if it enables equivalent or better cost/perf than Intel CPU + low-midrange AMD/Nvidia dGPU in a smaller form factor and thermal envelope.

And as we've seen with Tonga, Apple generates enough volume to warrant designs unique for their markets.

All of this actually rests on Zen living up to it's hype, but if it's anywhere close to Skylake on CPU performance, the APU with Polaris and HBM2 sharing an interposer, is going to mop the floor with other CPU + dGPU solutions for power constrained and size constrained markets.