AMD: Polaris 10 targets mainstream desktop & high-end notebook

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R0H1T

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Right, omission is not confirmation, however glaring that omission may be.

Total speculation: all the Polaris 11 desktop parts are going to the PS Neo and Xbone2.
I'll go out on a limb & say that the NX will beat both of them :awe:
 

coercitiv

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But not performance/enthusiast. Not looking like the Fury X killer some people were talking about, but hey, I love surprises.
So it's your opinion that best Polaris 10 has to offer is just 390-390X performance with lower power draw?
 

AtenRa

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But not performance/enthusiast. Not looking like the Fury X killer some people were talking about, but hey, I love surprises.

I dont remember anyone saying Polaris 10 will be a Fury X killer. Some of us have said Polaris could come close to Fury at 1080/1440p but nobody have talk about Fury X killer as far as i can remember.
 

R0H1T

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So it's your opinion that best Polaris 10 has to offer is just 390-390X performance with lower power draw?
If it's an overclocker's dream then it may well get the better of Fury X, albeit with GDDR5x, or perhaps just nipping on the heels of Fury Nano, if we're lucky.
 

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I dont remember anyone saying Polaris 10 will be a Fury X killer. Some of us have said Polaris could come close to Fury at 1080/1440p but nobody have talk about Fury X killer as far as i can remember.

So you don't think Fury X performance at half the TDP and lower prices makes it a Fiji killer? Such a product would certainly deserve to be mentioned as part of the performance and enthusiast segments till Vega hits the market, not just mainstream.
 

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AMD may be stupid but they are not so stupid to not even release a GTX950 crusher for desktop.
 

ShintaiDK

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I dont remember anyone saying Polaris 10 will be a Fury X killer. Some of us have said Polaris could come close to Fury at 1080/1440p but nobody have talk about Fury X killer as far as i can remember.

You did/do have extremely high expectations.

Polaris 11 and 10 could replace all current graphics cards from $100 to $650 including Fury-X and especially Nano.
 

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railven

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http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=38177119#post38177119

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=38168187#post38168187

People are hoping (hyping) that Polaris 10 will beat Fury X, even some more people saying it will tie with Fury X.

The AMD hype train always gets going. Don't get me started on the Fury X being up to 40% faster than Titan X.

Or the Mantle driven 290X beating SLI 780s.

Or the 6970 being faster than the GTX 580.

It was so easy to get lost in the AMD hype train, especially when you wanted your team to win. At this point, Polaris 10 is looking more like a 390X replacement and if GP104 (or 106, whatever) does outperform 980 Ti, my upgrade purchase has pretty much been decided for me.
 

Head1985

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It looks like i was right:
polaris 10-GTX980 performance or even slighly faster in 1080P.TDP 120w max 250-300USD.Cut version between GTX970OC and 980.
Will compete vs GP106.

Polaris 11-GTX960 performance or slighly faster.50-60W TDP

Vega11-300-350mm2 compete vs GP104
Vega10-400+ compete vs big pascal.
 

maddie

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So you don't think Fury X performance at half the TDP and lower prices makes it a Fiji killer? Such a product would certainly deserve to be mentioned as part of the performance and enthusiast segments till Vega hits the market, not just mainstream.
The transition to 14nm pretty much allows for "Fury X performance at half the TDP". I don't see why you're hyping this as some miraculous thing.

AMD mentions Polaris 10 as a mainstream desktop part. For 14 nm generation, I think this means equivalent to present performance parts. Fury is very close to 390X in performance, so why the insinuation that these are impossible targets.

Do you have any information you can share to help us?
 

Sweepr

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The transition to 14nm pretty much allows for "Fury X performance at half the TDP". I don't see why you're hyping this as some miraculous thing.

AMD mentions Polaris 10 as a mainstream desktop part. For 14 nm generation, I think this means equivalent to present performance parts. Fury is very close to 390X in performance, so why the insinuation that these are impossible targets.

Do you have any information you can share to help us?

I must have missed the part where AMD suddenly disconsiders all previous/current VGAs in their roadmap and creates an empty space in the performance/enthusiast segments till Vega hits next year. Sure, makes perfect sense. Alternatively, maybe it sits below Fury X performance-wise, but that would be a hype killer.
 

maddie

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I must have missed the part where AMD suddenly disconsiders all previous/current VGAs in their roadmap and creates an empty space in the performance/enthusiast segments till Vega hits next year. Sure, makes perfect sense. Alternatively, maybe it sits below Fury X performance-wise, but that would be a hype killer.
I confess to being confused by your statement.

IF Polaris 10 is equivalent to FuryX in performance and replaces it, where is the hole in the roadmap? They would have occupied the same performance level.

Sure the 14nm roadmap would be missing the higher performing performance/enthusiast members, but FuryX could never fill that space anyhow.

One important thing here is that FuryX never had the performance delta to a 390X as the 980Ti had to the 980.
 

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I confess to being confused by your statement.

IF Polaris 10 is equivalent to FuryX in performance and replaces it, where is the hole in the roadmap? They would have occupied the same performance level.

Sure the 14nm roadmap would be missing the higher performing performance/enthusiast members, but FuryX could never fill that space anyhow.

One important thing here is that FuryX never had the performance delta to a 390X as the 980Ti had to the 980.
he dont want to believe that polaris 10 will be at fury level and vega (which will be the fury replacement) will surpass it...

i mean we literally called this like months ago its inevitable to happen since technology advances unless ofc some people thinks this will happen to every company but amd
 

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Wont be long before the cheapest GPU you can buy is 300$+.
Propably won't be that much longer before anything outside of high-end stuff won't be cusomizable in terms of CPU,GPU and RAM as all of those three will be soldered and sold together. SoC(CPU&GPU)+Soldered RAM or CPU+GPU connected with high-speed interposer + soldered RAM.
 

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Why do you guys set yourself up for such disappointment? It's pretty obvious from everything shown Vega will be Fury X's replacement, not Polaris 10.

Polaris 10 will target 390/X performance and at best it'll nip a the heels of the regular Fury or Nano at 1080/1440P.

HBM is still much better for higher resolutions. So unless these cards are being released with GDDR5X there's no real chance of replacing the Fury X. They need the Fury X to carry them through to Vega. I'm pretty sure price drops will happen across the board though which is good for everyone.
 

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Why do you guys set yourself up for such disappointment? It's pretty obvious from everything shown Vega will be Fury X's replacement, not Polaris 10.

Polaris 10 will target 390/X performance and at best it'll nip a the heels of the regular Fury or Nano at 1080/1440P.

HBM is still much better for higher resolutions. So unless these cards are being released with GDDR5X there's no real chance of replacing the Fury X. They need the Fury X to carry them through to Vega. I'm pretty sure price drops will happen across the board though which is good for everyone.

vega will surpass fury x and what is gonna fill that gap between 390x and fury? a magical gpu? ofc it will be polaris 10 even the resurfaced roadmap(for some reason it became news again) shows us that...polaris 10 will be at fury line perf and vega it will be the next fury its natural
 

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So you don't think Fury X performance at half the TDP and lower prices makes it a Fiji killer? Such a product would certainly deserve to be mentioned as part of the performance and enthusiast segments till Vega hits the market, not just mainstream.
There are some situation where Polaris is incredibly fast. Faster than anything in the market. The secret is probably that special culling mechanism in the hardware, which helps the GPU to effectively cull those false positive primitives that aren't visible in the screen. Today's hardwares can't do this.
Single wavefront perfomance is also incredibly good. 10-100 times faster than anything in the market. This is good for VR.
 
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RussianSensation

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vega will surpass fury x and what is gonna fill that gap between 390x and fury? a magical gpu? ofc it will be polaris 10 even the resurfaced roadmap(for some reason it became news again) shows us that...polaris 10 will be at fury line perf and vega it will be the next fury its natural

Lots of options.

Vega 10 SKUs (7950-7970-7970Ghz)
Or Vega 11.

A lot of people are trying to position Pitcairn 7850-7870 successor as a competitor to GP104. Even if Polaris 10 matches Fury X, it's not fast enough for 1080. That's why they aren't really direct competitors and I expect the pricing to reflect this.
 

maddie

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Why do you guys set yourself up for such disappointment? It's pretty obvious from everything shown Vega will be Fury X's replacement, not Polaris 10.

Polaris 10 will target 390/X performance and at best it'll nip a the heels of the regular Fury or Nano at 1080/1440P.

HBM is still much better for higher resolutions. So unless these cards are being released with GDDR5X there's no real chance of replacing the Fury X. They need the Fury X to carry them through to Vega. I'm pretty sure price drops will happen across the board though which is good for everyone.
Of course Vega is FuryX replacement. The important thing for all to realize is that this does not mean Vega = FuryX performance + some small %. It might be that some of you only remember the last few yrs of GPUs and can't imagine a generational leap that includes a node shrink.

The most recent AMD version was the 6970 to 7970 situation. This should not be taken as a good example as GCN was very different from VLIW. The driver situation hampered GCN a lot as we can see today with the 280X performance vs the then competition, Nvidia 680.

This time, GCN is a known quantity and drivers should be in a much better condition for the new iteration.
 

airfathaaaaa

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The full Polaris 11 is more or less coming to this segment. Based on the application, it might be faster than Fury.

this is what im saying it would be stupid not to have a card that can perform up till fury lines (a bit lower just not to kill the fury cards D: () )
also why the 11? i thought the 10 is the big one and the 11(the first live demo) was the low/mid one
 
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