AMD Launching Polaris 10 400 Series GPU June 1st At Computex

AMD's Polaris x Radeon 400 series GPU is all but confirmed for a June 1st launch at Computex co-ordinate to a leak that has just hit the web. This is the very same GPU that will purportedly deliver R9 390X/390 functioning at one-half the wattage and for less than $299.

According to Arabhardware they've received an invite for a press event on June 1st that will include the launch of AMD's upcoming Polaris architecture based Radeon 400 serial graphics cards. In addition to the company's new 7th generation Accelerated Processing Units.

AMD Launching Polaris x - R9 480/X - At Computex On June 1st

Rarlier rumors that indicated AMD would skip Computex accept recently been debunked. The company has officially announced that it will be attending the result in total force. They company has even so to disclose what products exactly it plans to launch at the issue but according to the invite that'south been sent to Arabhardware the launch volition definitely include AMD's Polaris 10 GPU.
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AMD's official statement is that Polaris volition be coming out "mid 2022". Although earlier this month tech pubs in Asia reported receiving invites to a printing conference hosted by AMD in which the company plans to announce its upcoming products at the cease of the month. The event was reportedly taking place between May 26-29 in Macau the "Las Vegas of Asia" as it's sometimes referred to. That's right before Computex where it'due south believed Polaris graphics cards volition officially exist introduced to the marketplace. It'southward very likely that AMD volition too exist launching Polaris 11 at the issue.

There'southward certainly evidence to back up this. AMD launched a landing page for Polaris in early May, and so a product announcement is definitely nearing. The folio includes teaser die shots of both the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs. These dice shots were thoroughly examined since then revealing that Polaris ten is indeed around ~230mm² large equally was previously thought. Making it roughly one third smaller than Nvidia'due south GP104 GPU powering the GTX 1080 and 1070 graphics cards which is believed to be effectually 320mm² large. This in turn means that Polaris x products will exist significantly more affordable, lending Fudzilla's "less than $299" claim legitimacy.

AMD Has Three 14nm FinFET GPUs - Vega ten, Polaris 10 & Polaris eleven

Despite 11 existence a larger number than 10, Polaris x is actually a larger, higher end GPU than Polaris 11. Chief Builder & head of AMD's Radeon Technologies Group confirmed at Capsaicin that the naming scheme is time-based & Polaris ten had simply been designed before Polaris 11, hence the smaller numerical designation.

AMD Vega 10, Polaris 10, Polaris 11 Feature

Polaris 10 is AMD's mid-range 14nm FinFET graphics chip, Polaris 11 is the smallest of the family and Vega 10 is the HBM2 powered high-end flagship 14nm GPU launching in 2022 to succeed the Fury lineup. It will feature AMD's adjacent generation Vega architecture and will be the visitor'south first GPU to feature 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory.

Polaris xi Is The Aforementioned GPU That AMD Demoed Against The GTX 950 In December & Again At CES In Jan

Polaris xi was the very commencement FinFET graphics fleck in the globe from either company, Nvidia or AMD, to be demoed publicly. AMD beginning demoed the scrap to the printing, including WCCF, back in December ahead of CES. AMD did it once again in January at CES and that was the very first public demo of the Polaris or in fact any high performance FinFET GPU.

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The demo consisted of two identical systems one configured with Polaris eleven - 470/460 grade GPU - and Nvidia's GTX 950 running Star Wars Battlefront at lx frames per second. The Polaris 11 system in its entirety consumed 54W less than the GTX 950. Considering that the GTX 950 on its own pulls ~95W on boilerplate nether gaming workloads, Polaris eleven is substantially more than twice every bit power efficient. Delivering the same performance at roughly 40 watts. Which is less than half the ability consumed by the GTX 950.

Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Builder, Radeon Technologies Group, speaking with Venturebeat.com :

This is very early silicon, past the way. We have much more functioning optimization to do in the coming months. Only fifty-fifty in this early on silicon, we're seeing numbers versus the best class on the contest running at a heavy workload, similar Star Wars—The competing system consumes 140 watts. This is 86 watts. We believe we're several months ahead of this transition, especially for the notebook and the mainstream market place. The competition is talking about chips for cars and stuff, simply not the mainstream market place.

AMD Polaris GPUs Feature Pregnant Per Core Operation Gains

With all these leaks coming out nosotros're beginning to get a much clearer movie of what AMD is doing with its next generation Polaris based graphics cards. All the leaks that we've seen so far for Vega x, Polaris x & Polaris 11 signal that AMD is configuring its next generation GPUs with similar Stream Processor counts every bit their Fiji, Hawaii & Pitcairn predecessors, the Fury, R9 390 and R7 370 series.

The majority of the IP blocks in the graphics engine are new. Including a memory controller, for upcoming retentiveness technologies, in addition to more capable and more power efficient compute units and geometry engine. The level 2 enshroud and the command processor take also been updated. Across what AMD detailed higher up about the key features and the display/multimedia updates the visitor did not go into much detail about what exactly went into these new IP blocks. We were promised more information will be revealed equally we go closer to the release of Polaris graphics products.

AMD has stated on the few occasions that information technology talked about Polaris that 4th generation GCN cadre are significantly more powerful than their predecessors, hence the tame stream processor counts we're saying.

Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, speaking with Venturebeat.com :
Nosotros've redesigned many blocks in our cores. We've redesigned the main processor, a new geometry processor, a completely new quaternary-generation Graphics Core Next with a very high increase in performance.

Yesterday, leaked specifications for AMD'southward Polaris x & 11 have made their manner to the web. The specifications indicate that we're looking at a comprehensive lineup coming from AMD below the $299 cost bespeak.

AMD Polaris 10 To Evangelize R9 390X/390 Functioning At Half The Wattage & Less Than $299

AMD's Polaris 10 GPU reportedly features a 256bit GDDR5/X retentiveness interface & cards based on the bit will characteristic 8GB of memory. The GPU packs 32 GCN four.0 compute units for a total of 2048 stream processors, the same number found in AMD's current R9 380X. However, Polaris x cards are reportedly significantly faster and will deliver R9 390X/390 course performance. Leaks too pit the MSRP at less than $299 at launch.

5.5 TFLOPS, is only 0.ane TFLOPS shy of the 2816 SP R9 290X. An impressive feat considering the 290X is a ~290W bill of fare with 37.v% more than GCN stream processors and a memory interface that'due south twice every bit broad. The carte is too reportedly rated ataround 110W-135W depending on the GPU configuration and clock speeds according to Benchlife. Interestingly, according to VCZ this 5.5 TFLOP GPU is non even a desktop class chip only a mobility variant. So the desktop variant should be even more powerful

A 5.v TFLOPS rating would put Polaris 10'southward GPU clock speed at effectually 1350Mhz, a 39% increment over its predecessor the R9 380X. This is would be largely cheers to the brand new FinFET manufacturing process which is capable of significantly higher clock speeds without sacrificing leakage. This as we've seen has also allowed Nvidia to heave clock speeds on its Pascal GPUs past twoscore%.

AMD Polaris 11 To Evangelize R9 270X Performance At Less Than A Third Of The Wattage

Polaris 11 on the other hand will feature 14 GCN 4.0 compute units for a total of 896 stream processors. The GPU features a 128bit GDDR5/Ten memory interface and Polaris 11 cards will feature 4GB of memory. The GPU is rated at 2.5 TFLOPS and a TDP that's less than 50 watts.

That'due south 0.5 TFLOPS north of the 110W R7 370 at less than half the wattage & exactly the same performance of the 180W R9 270X. According to the latest leak Polaris 11 volition replace the Bonaire GPUs powering the R7 360 and 260 serial cards just will outperform the larger Pitcairn powered 370 and 270 series cards. Again, according to VCZ this is besides a mobility variant of Polaris 11 that volition power thin gaming notebooks.

WCCF	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon R9 380X	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
GPU	Polaris x XT	Tonga XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris eleven
Procedure Node	14nm FinFET	28nm	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Compute Units	36	32	TBA	TBA
GCN Generation	GCN four.0	GCN three.0	GCN four.0	GCN 4.0
Stream Processors	TBA	2048	TBA	TBA
Clock Speed	TBA	970Mhz	TBA	TBA
Performance	> five TFLOPS	four.0 TFLOPS	TBA	TBA
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	TBA	TBA
Memory	4/8GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	TBA	TBA
TDP	150W	190W	TBA
Toll	$199	$229	TBA	TBA

Interestingly, entries for both Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 take been spotted several months ago on a number of benchmarking databases including SiSoftSandra & Compubench. The specifications reported by these databases are slightly different than what TPU & VCZ have reported. Polaris 10 is shown to have four more CUs and Polaris xi is shown to have two more than CUs than the specifications leaked by VCZ and TPU. Which could be the result of a misreading due to Polaris related driver & BIOS parameters that these databases aren't notwithstanding familiar with.

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