AMD Polaris graphics cards to launch by month end says report

[HEXUS]

Invites for a special event in Macau, China have been received by several media outlets.

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[kalniel]

Hopefully it won't be too long until we can get the latest 14nm GPUs and graphics cards from the red and green teams in the HEXUS labs.

You didn't get one from the nVidia editor's day? That surprises me.

[idris]

Hopefully it won't be too long until we can get the latest 14nm GPUs and graphics cards from the red and green teams in the HEXUS labs.

You didn't get one from the nVidia editor's day? That surprises me.

Probably because NV don't have any 14nm GPUs!

[w1ntergr33n]

Hopefully it won't be too long until we can get the latest 14nm GPUs and graphics cards from the red and green teams in the HEXUS labs.

You didn't get one from the nVidia editor's day? That surprises me.

Probably because NV don't have any 14nm GPUs!

Quite! Bad form Hexus.

[lumireleon]

and it will be a blast on Nvidia faces if AMD's 1080 level card comes with HBM2.0 and the rest lower range with GDDR5-X, hope the card at launch will be playing Witcher 3 on an LG 8K LED tv with all settings max!

[kalniel]

and it will be a blast on Nvidia faces if AMD's 1080 level card comes with HBM2.0 and the rest lower range with GDDR5-X

Er.. AMD's 1080 level card DOES come with HBM2, but it's not out till next year.

[Bagpuss]

Er.. AMD's 1080 level card DOES come with HBM2, but it's not out till next year.

I wish more people would get this, Polaris is not AMD's answer to the 1070/1080 but a low cost 390X level card for VR costing ~£200/$300

If people want AMD's new Fury replacement and therefore 1070/1080/1080Ti competitor, then come back in 2017 when Vega launches.

[PuremasterZ]

I am more excited now.

[lumireleon]

AMD has an art of shattering my dreams... by the time the Vega launches 2 million 1080's would have been sold (more profits for NVidia)

[kalniel]

AMD has an art of shattering my dreams... by the time the Vega launches 2 million 1080's would have been sold (more profits for NVidia)

Why does that shatter your dreams? nVidia selling millions of cards (they won't all be 1080) won't affect your ability to get Vega if that's what you're waiting for. AMD are going to do very well with Polaris - possibly matching or even exceeding nVidia, which would be a huge achievement in the discrete card space given how far behind they are already (in terms of discreet market share).

[PuremasterZ]

AMD has an art of shattering my dreams... by the time the Vega launches 2 million 1080's would have been sold (more profits for NVidia)

Why does that shatter your dreams? nVidia selling millions of cards (they won't all be 1080) won't affect your ability to get Vega if that's what you're waiting for. AMD are going to do very well with Polaris - possibly matching or even exceeding nVidia, which would be a huge achievement in the discrete card space given how far behind they are already (in terms of discreet market share).

I think he is talking about AMD going under because Nvidia will have more market-share.

[jigger]

I think he is talking about AMD going under because Nvidia will have more market-share.

Why would AMD go under if Nvidia have more market share?

[PuremasterZ]

I think he is talking about AMD going under because Nvidia will have more market-share.

Why would AMD go under if Nvidia have more market share?

Because last time I checked the entire 80% of the GPU market was under Nvidia's rule.

[kalniel]

I think he is talking about AMD going under because Nvidia will have more market-share.

nVidia already sell millions, so they wouldn't be gaining any market share if they continued to do so. But either way, I don't think the 1080 threatens AMD's market share in the slightest - I don't know how many $600 consumer products AMD currently sells but it can't be that many.

No, from an AMD surviving point of view things are looking really good - they've got the console wins, and it looks like they've got great chips for largest volume sales with no immediate answer from nVidia.

[jigger]

Because last time I checked the entire 80% of the GPU market was under Nvidia's rule.

I still don't see how AMD could go under because of it. I would like to see those numbers, but I think Intel would be massively ahead in market share.

AMD are in a really good situation and have no chance of going bust.

[watercooled]

I wish more people would get this, Polaris is not AMD's answer to the 1070/1080 but a low cost 390X level card for VR costing ~£200/$300

If people want AMD's new Fury replacement and therefore 1070/1080/1080Ti competitor, then come back in 2017 when Vega launches.

Maybe people won't 'get it' because no-one but AMD knows its performance at this point? All we have are rumours.

I don't think many people who understand the realities of GPU manufacturing expected a Fury-like (in terms of die size) GPU any time soon, but we're not getting anything like that from Nvidia either - the 1080 has a smaller die size than the 980, let alone the 980Ti which is a completely different GPU. The 'big Pascal' comes 2017; whether it will end up on the gaming market (probably dependent on cost/yields on 16nm at the time) we'll have to wait and see.

I still don't see how AMD could go under because of it. I would like to see those numbers, but I think Intel would be massively ahead in market share.

AMD are in a really good situation and have no chance of going bust.

Because some people seem to think it's all about the halo products (although that does seem to help in marketing terms for some reason), in reality the hugely expensive top-end cards are extremely low volume compared to the more mainstream GPUs you'll find in laptops too. If AMD want to increase sales and profit it makes perfect sense to concentrate on this market instead of prioritising the most expensive-to-make and lowest-selling part.