| JEMC said: New rumors about AMD's Polaris 10 & 11 Rumor: Possible Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 specifications emerge http://www.techpowerup.com/222450/more-polaris10-and-polaris11-specifications-revealed This a summary of both articles: Industry sources revealed to TechPowerUp that AMD is preparing a performance-segment GPU and a mainstream one. It turns out, that the performance-segment chip, which the press has been referring to as "Ellesmere" or Polaris 10, could feature 32 compute units (CUs), and not the previously thought 40. IF the number of Stream Processors per Compute Units hasn't changed and remain at 64, that means that Polaris 10 will have 2,048 SPs. Polaris 10 is said to offer 5.5 TFLOPs of single precision computing performance, above the 5.2 TFLOP/s of "Hawaii", so it means that Polaris 10 is clocked at around 1350 MHz. The new chip has a TDP rated no higher than 150W, a 256-bit wide GDDR5/GDDR5X memory interface, and 8 GB could be its standard memory amount. The first SKUs based on this chip could feature 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory. |
But this is horrible. 5.5 TFLOPs is not even much faster than a GTX980 (5.3TFLOPS) and significantly less than GTX 980Ti at 6.5 TFLOPs. So not that much faster than a GTX 980 and yet it's rated at 150W? AMD has talked so much about 2.5x performance per Watt , and considering a GTX 980 draws only 165W, a Polaris 10 shouldn't draw more than 100W.
I really really hope this rumour is false or else AMD is toast.
