AMD Radeon R9 480 "Polaris 10" and R9 470 "Polaris 11" Series Might Launch in July - RX 480 With Better Performance Than R9 390 At 150W TDP

AMD volition shortly be announcing their beginning Polaris graphics cards followed past a launch in mid-2016. We know little about Polaris GPUs merely information from Videocardz suggests that AMD'due south upcoming product series volition be office of the Radeon R9 480 and Radeon R9 470 series family. Both production series volition be congenital on the FinFET process node that offers a big increase in transistor density with meliorate performance per watt.

AMD is preparing a range of FinFET products which will be extremely efficient.

AMD's Radeon R9 480 Series Launches In July - Performance Improve Than 390 Series With 150 Watt TDP

Videocardz has manged to confirm that the Polaris 10 GPU will be housed in the Radeon R9 480 series graphics carte du jour. We currently don't know how many SKUs volition be featured in this lineup but from the looks of it, two accept already been leaked. The Polaris x GPU will evangelize vastly improved functioning per watt past delivering gaming performance better than both Radeon R9 390 series cards at half the TDP (sub-200W). This means that the 390 series will presently be obsolete after these cards which will deliver better functioning at lower price and with low power demand.

While Polaris 10 sounds interesting for the mainstream market, it doesn't seem like AMD plans to launch their cards any time soon. We are expecting a declaration of these cards at Computex which was confirmed by AMD recently merely the cards themselves volition appear on store shelves after in July. Well-nigh of AMD's partners have withal to receive a full supply of Polaris 10 chips so it is possible that nosotros may see the reference boards launch in June followed past non-reference parts in July but this is only speculation then we should wait and run into whether it volition be true or not.

Moving on, the second GPU known as Polaris 11 will be featured on the Radeon R9 470 series cards and will exist the well-nigh efficient product of the two Polaris chips. AMD has able to obtain meliorate yields and efficiency figures from smaller chips compared to big ones and this is why Polaris 11 will be powering a range of mobility devices also along with desktop parts.

A return of what the upcoming Radeon R9 400 series cards might wait similar. (This is not existent, Courtesy of Reddit)

It should exist noted that even though these names are currently being pointed out past very apparent sources, AMD has the habit to make last minute changes to naming conventions equally they moved away from Islands codenames to star codenames this generation. AMD might surprise usa with a dissimilar set of names but the products will even so exist based on either Polaris ten or Polaris 11 GPUs.

AMD Polaris Radeon 400 Serial "Preliminary" Specs:

WCCF	Radeon R9 480 Series	Radeon R9 480 Serial	Radeon R9 380 Series	Radeon R9 470 Series	Radeon R9 470 Series	Radeon R7 370 Series
GPU	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Tonga	Polaris xi	Polaris 11	Pitcairn
Fabrication Process	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	28nm	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	28nm
Compute Units	40	36	32	twenty	xvi	16
GCN Generation	GCN 4.0	GCN iv.0	GCN iii.0	GCN 4.0	GCN four.0	GCN 1.0
Stream Processors	2560 SPs	2304 SPs	2048 SPs	1280 SPs	1024 SPs	1024 SPs
TMUs	TBA	TBA	128	TBA	TBA	64
ROPs	TBA	TBA	32	TBA	TBA	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory	8GB GDDR5	8GB GDDR5	iv GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
TDP			190W			110W

AMD Radeon R9 480 Serial Performance Leaked - Full and Cut Down SKU Compared in 3DMark xi

In the post-obit nautical chart from Videocardz, you can note that Videocardz has summed up the functioning of AMD Polaris 10 GPUs. The Polaris 67DF:C7 is the full variant whereas the Polaris 67DF:C4 is the cutting down variant. The cut downwards variant has performance close to a Radeon R9 390 (Non-10) in 3DMark eleven while the full variant is slight faster than a GeForce GTX 980 and close to a R9 Fury (Non-X). The site also managed to obtain a CrossFire score of the full variant which managed to trounce a unmarried GeForce GTX Titan X but was slower than a single GTX 1080.

It should be told that these are preliminary benchmarks and with improve optimizations and driver releases, the operation of Polaris cards will gradually increase by the time we go to see the operation reviews. In the tests, the Polaris ten GPUs were clocked at 1266 MHz on cadre and 2000 MHz (eight GB/s) for the viii GB GDDR5 VRAM that volition be featured on the Radeon R9 480 series cards. The performance increase over 390 series comes with improved wattage. In the case of Polaris x, we are looking at almost sub 150W TDPs compared to 250W on the Hawaii based cards.

AMD Radeon R9 480X and Radeon R9 480 Serial (Polaris ten) Performance Results (Image Credits: Videocardz)

With Polaris aimed at the mainstream market, AMD definitely has a chance to capture a huge chunk of market place share back from NVIDIA. The company will have to price their products ideally for the mainstream market place and with the operation we are getting, they should wait a lot of sales from Polaris based products. NVIDIA on the other hand is solely focused on delivering the all-time loftier-performance cards based on their Pascal graphics compages which volition hit shop shelves on 27th May.

[UPDATE] - Videocardz has also confirmed the Macau event which will exist specially organized for the press by AMD. AMD is planning to reveal lots of key information on their Polaris GPUs and cards at the event. AMD will non be making this a public event simply the Polaris annunciation should come a few days later at Computex.

Source: https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-480-polaris-10-july/

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