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Today finished the NDA embargo of AMD's Polaris architecture and several sites have articles about it.

http://techreport.com/review/29514/amd-sets-a-new-course-for-radeons-with-its-polaris-architecture

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-polaris-14nm-finfet,30823.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9886/amd-reveals-polaris-gpu-architecture

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/71178-amd-polaris-gpu-architecture-preview.html

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Polaris-Hardware-261587/Specials/AMD-Polaris-Daten-Release-1182286/

I won't post everything about it. Instead, I'll post a couple of slides and part of the Tom's article

Here's the Tom's article

Polaris Is Already Up And Running

Even though we’re half a year away from expected availability, AMD had one surprise for the attendees of its RTG summit in Sonoma, CA that might suggest a timing advantage over its competition: the first Polaris-based GPU running Star Wars Battlefront after less than two months back from the fab. This isn’t going to be a desktop bruiser. Rather, AMD is looking to arm compact notebooks with a GPU capable of 1920x1080 at 60 FPS—a previously-unattainable milestone in the form factors it’s talking about.

So, in the demo we saw, AMD standardized on that 60 FPS performance mark and compared the power consumption of two Core i7-4790K-based platforms—one with Polaris and another with Nvidia’s desktop GeForce GTX 950—using the Medium quality preset. The system with AMD’s board averaged 86 W, whereas the other machine was closer to 140 W. Nvidia’s GTX 950 is a 90 W board, and we’ve seen it close to that figure. So, if you take 90 away from 140, you get about 50 W of system power use.

Although it didn’t do any additional math in its slides, AMD might have us believe that this implementation of Polaris is in the 36 W range. If true, that would put it in the ballpark of a GeForce 940M, based on GM108 with 384 shaders, at GeForce GTX 950’s performance. And AMD’s Koduri said his team is just getting started on optimizations for the GPU—about a dozen SoC-level power features haven’t been enabled yet.

We were left to wonder about shader count, clock rates and on-board memory, but we did discover that AMD is still using GDDR5 for this particular chip’s target market, and that the GPU itself was manufactured on GlobalFoundries’ 14nm process.

 

Finally, you can see the two PCs up and running at the end of this video, that also details the hardware used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3eQejGJ_A

Specs:

• i7 4970K @80% Power limit
• Asus H97I-PLUS
• 16GB DDR3
• 120GB SSD

The GTX 950 card uses the 358.87 drivers