Most users would probably think the additional fps numbers from the discard accelerator is a bonus, but I think the main aim for AMD is on mobile applications. Having reduced power usage on the polaris equipped laptops would mean better battery life on the same image quality, coupled with the frame rate limiter, users can decide themselves to set whatever fps they need, whether they want 60fps gaming or 30fps battery saving gaming.You're doing pretty good investigative tech journalism, i'm subscribed also on your tube channel...the Discard Accelerator is one of the most interesting things about Polaris, its AMDs final solution implemented in hardware to over tesselation "tricks" and other well known fancy mechanics that some closed black box devs are using....besides that it helps tremendously in performance per watt metrics since it lessens the load on the gpu on those complex scenes, very interesting stuff which demands further analysis on its workings, i guess this is the feature "Zlatan" mentioned in one of his posts that Polaris will be very very fast in certain situations.
Each of the new cards are going to come in two choices for memory size, for the RX 470 and RX 480 this is a choice between 4GB and 8GB GDDR5, for the smaller RX 460 well get to choose between 4GB and 2GB versions. Memory speed changes a little also with only the RX 480 coming in at 8000MHz while the others look to be clocked at 7000MHz.
What APIs will the discard accelerator work in? All the way back to DX9?
Are there DX9 games you play that aren't CPU bound and you don't already get 200FPS in?
What APIs will the discard accelerator work in? All the way back to DX9?
+1 :thumbsup:oblivion
You're doing pretty good investigative tech journalism, i'm subscribed also on your tube channel...the Discard Accelerator is one of the most interesting things about Polaris, its AMDs final solution implemented in hardware to over tesselation "tricks" and other well known fancy mechanics that some closed black box devs are using....besides that it helps tremendously in performance per watt metrics since it lessens the load on the gpu on those complex scenes, very interesting stuff which demands further analysis on its workings, i guess this is the feature "Zlatan" mentioned in one of his posts that Polaris will be very very fast in certain situations.
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-1500mhz-overclocking-tool-voltage-control/
480 capable of 1.5+ GHz
AMD is building voltage control and fan profiles into Crimson Overdrive
I hope the new tool works with pre Polaris cards as well
Link to that youtube video?
I'm more excited about the voltage control in Crimson Overdrive. It's about time!
1.5+ GHZ on air sounds impressive, but take these with salt of course. And kind of meaningless without performance comparisons.
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
Please go back to hibernateHow does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
http://item.jd.com/3152734.html
1288MHz Core clock listed
Driver disk in the package has 16.20 RC6 written over it.
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-faster-than-nano-980/How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
To me AMD would be smarter if they had just DIE shrink the 390/X GPU, they could had clocked probably much higher, lets say 1266 (just like 480) and have 20% more performance based on the clock increase alone.
Probably they would have 180W card in their hands with a die size not much bigger than 480 and they could easily compete with 980 ti at 299$ price point, or even 249$.
They would have saved alot of RD money, time to market and wouldnt had dissapointed sending out a card that cannot even have the same performance as its older architecture.
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.