Hmm,looks like AMD will releasing two familes of GPUs in the next 12 months!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That is a screenshot I made from the GDC talk

Hmm,so that indicates two families - Polaris will use GDDR5 and Vega,HBM2?? Polaris also appears to be more targetted towards value for money.

Vega appears to be either late 2016 or early 2017.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Polaris 10 was running Hitman at 60FPS at 1440P.



Unless the demo was run at lower quality settings - that indicates close to Fury level performance??

[kalniel]

Yes the mass manufacturing schedules had me thinking HBM2 for GPUs wasn't quite there yet. Unless this is FUD on AMDs part to throw nVidia off

Still, I'm waiting for a great pitcairn-like card so hopefully we'll get one of them.

Of course, nothing stopping AMD from using HBM1, which nVidia probably can't.

[scaryjim]

I'll be very intrigued if they've managed to get the perf/watt increases of Polaris whilst using GDDR5. I'd be tempted to place a small wager on a couple of HBM1 cards released mid-year, then a new flagship card in November/December time.

[kalniel]

I'll be very intrigued if they've managed to get the perf/watt increases of Polaris whilst using GDDR5.

They said the vs 950 demo was using GDDR5.

http://wccftech.com/amd-confirms-pol...bm2-and-gddr5/

"At this time we have only publicly demonstrated a GDDR5 configuration of the Polaris architecture"

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'll be very intrigued if they've managed to get the perf/watt increases of Polaris whilst using GDDR5. I'd be tempted to place a small wager on a couple of HBM1 cards released mid-year, then a new flagship card in November/December time.

Anandtech says GDDR5:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10145/...ris-comes-vega

There are two Vega GPUs - Vega10 and Vega11.

[SlickR]

As long as its cheap and significantly better than the cards we've been getting for the past 3-4 years being stuck on 28nm.

If I see another card that has 2GB ram I'm seriously not buying any product ever from that company, whether amd or nvidia or both. The minimum ram should be 4GB GDDR5x operating at 9gbps.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Not bad!!

[RapsterUK]

Now that does sound cool, @CAT-THE-FIFTH!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Saw this one on another forum:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgfmhxZUEAQZfpZ.jpg:large



So Vega definitely now 2017.

Interestingly it is from the same month as the AMD Capsaicin event.

[stevie lee]

they've also spelled 'NextGen..' correct for Navi.

so there goes my theories about nexgen memory sharing.

[kalniel]

So having had a great few days of leaks, announcements and what-not, when is our next morsel of enthusiast manna[1] coming? Computex (31st May)?

1 - I guess I mean on the AMD side. nVidia's 1080 NDA supposedly lifts on May 17th.

[DanceswithUnix]

Should be soon, and AMD have an AM4 platform to release as well this year. Getting bored of waiting...

[kalniel]

Should be soon

Is that 'soon' as in Valve Time soon? (ie 9 years according to the 1998 definition, or over two months by the 2010 definition)

[DanceswithUnix]

Is that 'soon' as in Valve Time soon? (ie 9 years according to the 1998 definition, or over two months by the 2010 definition)

lol, well hopefully sooner than that (isn't it time for a new HL3 rumour?)

There is talk of Polaris cards in June, and hopefully now some Nvidia numbers have been announced we will see some spoiler numbers from the other side.

Performance numbers may not be all that interesting though until we know the price. I was expecting Polaris to be a lot slower than GTX 1080, but then I was expecting 1080 to be about 40% bigger than it is.

[DanceswithUnix]

In case anyone missed this Ars interview, it looks like AMD are going to be focussed on price for VR capable cards: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/201...range-polaris/