Do we know anything about GP100 at this point? We have information on P100, but that's not worth much considering it had all the ROPs stripped out which means it's not meant for gaming at all.
P100 is the actual Tesla card; GP100 is the die on it.
Do we know anything about GP100 at this point? We have information on P100, but that's not worth much considering it had all the ROPs stripped out which means it's not meant for gaming at all.
AMD reportedly hosted an event designed to showcase its upcoming Polaris GPUs and the Radeon Pro Duo to journalists behind closed doors in Taiwan recently, ahead of an expected official unveiling in May. The big noise coming out of the event is that the switch to the 14nm FinFET fabrication process means the Polaris 10 GPU performs extremely close to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, but for a drastically cheaper price point.
As we’ve detailed before, the process shrink means improvements to efficiency and transistor density, resulting in a bump in performance. That bump looks to be a hefty one as well, if the Polaris 10 is to match the GTX 980 Ti.
The Polaris 10 GPU is the successor to the 300-series, which AMD views as its mainstream range. This means Polaris 10 is not the next Fury and Fury X, but rather a 300 series successor, which is up to and including the R9 390X. That equates to the eventual Polaris 10 powered Radeon R9 490X being capable of GTX 980 Ti performance for a price tag in the region of $300-400.
The Polaris 10 GPU itself has a maximum TDP of 175W, but AMD claims it will generally consume far less than that. Early benchmarks have the Polaris 10 scoring in the region of 4000 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, which puts it firmly in the ballpark of the Fury X and the 980 Ti. If AMD can hit the rumoured $300 price point with such a graphics card then it could have an absolute monster on its hands.
P100 is the actual Tesla card; GP100 is the die on it.
^ The above smells like an AIB partner brief.
Looks like Polaris 10 = Fury X if it comes close to the 980Ti.
$299/300 is a great price, it will sell out, with NV taking the top segment with 1070, 1080 and 1080Ti GP104.
http://www.game-debate.com/news/?ne...ly Offers Near 980 Ti Performance For 300 USD
^ The above smells like an AIB partner brief.
Looks like Polaris 10 = Fury X if it comes close to the 980Ti.
$299/300 is a great price, it will sell out, with NV taking the top segment with 1070, 1080 and 1080Ti GP104.
If it's close to Fury X, it won't be $299. It'll be close to whatever the 1070 ends up being.
Unless NV releases first and pulls another 970 out of their hat.
Why?
Tiny chip, cheap GDDR5, low TDP, small bus, overall cheap PCB and cooling requirements.
Promises made in public about offering great perf per dollar to the mainstream segment, at below the 970/290 minimum VR price.
Raja said folks will be very pleasantly surprised by the price!
Ugh, so frustrating with the drip-feed of information and leaks coming through. A while back we didn't know enough to meaningfully speculate, now it's only a matter of a month or less (I'd hope!) before we know for sure where Polaris and Pascal will stand.
I don't want to get too caught up on the hype train for either. I'm torn between thinking Polaris 10 is going to be 'only' as good as a 390, and wondering if between the node shrink and the architecture improvements it might readily exceed that. Also dead keen to find out how good it is at eth mining, greatly improved performance per watt and greatly reduced power requirements will make for an interesting situation. Hoping those new GCN cores will work their magic.
A bit curious.
If Polaris 10 is as good as some think (FuryX - 980Ti), what would happen to the used card market. Why would someone buy a 390 or Fury X if they can get an equivalent Polaris 10 version for low $200's or Fury X performance for $300?
I would imagine a huge drop in used card prices.
I see people saying they will sell their card and get Polaris.
Totally agree.Why?
Tiny chip, cheap GDDR5, low TDP, small bus, overall cheap PCB and cooling requirements.
Promises made in public about offering great perf per dollar to the mainstream segment, at below the 970/290 minimum VR price.
Raja said folks will be very pleasantly surprised by the price!
A bit curious.
If Polaris 10 is as good as some think (FuryX - 980Ti), what would happen to the used card market. Why would someone buy a 390 or Fury X if they can get an equivalent Polaris 10 version for low $200's or Fury X performance for $300?
I would imagine a huge drop in used card prices.
I see people saying they will sell their card and get Polaris.
Even if Polaris 10 performed identically to my current 390 I'd still get one.
To me, the likely price difference between those two after a 390 resale is worth half the power usage (plus any potential performance increase).
or you could have gotten a 970 and not had to worry about power draw.
Or you could have gotten a 970 and not had to worry about power draw.
Why?
Promises made in public about offering great perf per dollar to the mainstream segment, at below the 970/290 minimum VR price.
Raja said folks will be very pleasantly surprised by the price!
390>970.