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Slimebeast said:

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
http://videocardz.com/59903/possible-polaris-10-and-polaris-11-specifications-emerge

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.

That's why the FLOPS figure is never an accurate measure of performance. And I don't know if some of those numbers are right either...

A few days ago, Pemalite wrote this on the "GTX 1080 unveiled; 9 teraflops" thread:

Case in point: Radeon 5870.
Even though the Radeon 5870 has 2.72 Teraflops of performance, majority of games it will lose against the Radeon 6950 at 2.253 Teraflops and the Radeon 6970 at 2.703 Teraflops (Usually by a healthy margin). And will even lose against the Radeon 7850 at 1.761 Teraflops, Radeon R7 265 at 1,843 Teraflops and so on.
The Radeon 270X will more than double the Radeon 5870's performance despite having 2.688 Teraflops verses the Radeon 5870's 2.72 Teraflops.

Graphics is more than just single precision floating point.

And if that's not enough, there's this: R9 290X = 5.6TFLOPS vs GTX 980Ti = 5.6TFLOPS. Or the GTX 970 = 3.4TFLOPS vs GTX 780Ti = 5.3TFLOPS. TechPowerUp has a database where you can see the specs of any chip, including its GFLOPS figures. You may find some surprises.

In summary: FLOPS doesn't translate into real world performance, just like synthetic benchmarks. It's worth keeping that in mind.

To be honest, I'm more concerned about the 256-bit memory controller. AMD will have to improve a lot its texture compression techs to make it work, given that the 7970 used a 384-bit bus and the 290 a 512-bit bus.

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Volterra_90 said:
So, I recently was given a new computer for free with this specs:

Intel core i5-4440
8 Gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX-950

Will I be capable of running this gen games? I'm not looking for an outstanding performance, just decent enough!

The CPU and RAM will be mostly fine until the end of this gen. Only the graphics card can give you troubles given that it's barely more powerful than a GTX 660, and that's becoming the min req. for a lot of games this gen.

If I were you, and if I was serious about gaming on PC, I'd try to upgrade to something a bit more powerful. Maybe the GTX 1060 that will launch later this year (but only after checking reviews and its real world performance).