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This morning we had Pascal rumors, now it's time for AMD and Polaris 11.

 

AMD Polaris 11 SKU spotted, has 16 Compute Units

http://videocardz.com/58955/amd-polaris-11-sku-spotted-has-16-compute-units

It appears I’ve just discovered first Polaris 11 device in CompuBench database.

So far Polaris 11 was quite a mystery. The smaller Polaris chip that was shown competing with GTX 950 back in January, was not in the spotlight two months later at Capsaicin event. This silicon is expected to replace Pitcairn-based products with more power efficient solution.

The word ‘SKU’ in the post title is intentional, as we know that Polaris 11 will launch in many different configurations.

It’s important, because CompuBench shows active Compute Units, so for instance GTX 970 is shown with 13 active units. Therefore, it does not mean that full Polaris 11 silicon has 16 CUs, but this particular SKU does.

If 16 Compute Units are correct, and Polaris GCN 4.0 architecture still has 64 Stream Processors per CU, then Polaris 11 67FF SKU should feature 1024 unified cores.

 

1024 shaders is what the HD 7850 or R7 370 have.