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Btw, the heads of RTG (Radeon Technologies Group), Raja Koduri and Chris Hook have exchanged a few enigmatic tweets, again.

 

Polaris 11: AMD teasert with capsaicin

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Polaris-Hardware-261587/News/AMD-Teaser-Twitter-1186966/

Disclaimer: as you see, the source is in german and what you see is is what Google Translator (and some tweaks) has come up with. If anyone knows german and can do a better job, please do

The two AMD employees Raja Koduri, head of the Radeon Technologies Group, and Chris Hook, Marketing Director, have again exchanged a few tweets that are likely teasers of an upcoming Polaris GPU. Speculation on the testimony is that Polaris 11 could classify at the level of Fiji.

When Raja Koduri and Chris Hook chat on Twitter about seemingly mundane things, you should pay attention  as hardware interested reader. Among other things, in December they were already speculating about the new code name Polaris. Now some new tweets have been changed again, which provide new discussions. On the rhetorical question which sharpness of the spice it may be, it says, "I told you 16 million times that it may be only with 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-enriched nonensäureamid Carolina Reaper".

The chemical compound of capsaicin will probably have been a hardly accidental fall of AMD marketing director. Speculation is currently with the value 8.6 - in 3DCenter forum (also in german) on the one hand in the form of a chip with 8.6 billion transistors or other, 8.6 TFLOPS single-precision computing power. No matter which of the two values one chooses, one is at the level of current Fiji graphics chips (8.9 billion transistors, 8.6 TFLOPS). It would point Polaris 11 as the first major Polaris GPUs. Since the revised architecture to get their raw performance better on the road, such a chip could turn faster than Fiji. A third GPU would create a new "top dog" at a greater distance.

The 16 million will however be no random number when the AMD employees use it as a joke. Jumping  into the blue, similar to Nvidia's upcoming flagship could for 16 million kibibyte and thus are 16 GiByte graphics memory. With HBM2 such capacities are no longer a feat and against Nvidia, AMD is in this respect be hardly a pelt.

@GFXChipTweeter As I've told you 16 million times, nothing less than the 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide-infused Carolina Reaper will do...

— Chris Hook (@GChip) February 18, 2016

 

And that's it. Can Polaris 11 be that 232 mm² chip and pack inside either 8.6 billion transistors or have 8.6TFlops, making it as powerful if not more than the current 596 mm² Fiji chips inside the Fury cards?

I wouldn't mind a 490X card that performs a bit better than Fury X, but with 16GB, using 160-200 W and retailing for 350-400 €.

_{Edit: Oops! I forgot to add the tweets. Fixed}