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Some news about AMD, 3 in total

AMD Will Showcase Latest Technology During Computex 2016

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-will-showcase-latest-technology-during-computex-2016.html

AMD announced a press conference and live webcast during Computex 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. The event will begin on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 10:00 AM CST / 10:00 PM EDT. The event will feature launch of 7th Generation AMD A-Series Processors, Polaris updates and more.

The event is slated to feature presentations from AMD executives including AMD President and CEO Lisa Su; Senior Vice President and General Manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group, Jim Anderson; and Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, Raja Koduri.

A real-time video webcast of the event will be accessible on AMD's Computex page (www.amd.com/computex) and on AMD's Investor Relations home page (ir.amd.com). A replay of the webcast can be accessed a few hours after the conclusion of the live event on both pages and will be available there for one year after the event.

 

>>With the bosses of both AMD and RTG being there, we can take for granted that they'll finally unveil Polaris during that event.

 

AMD Gains Market Share in Q1'16 Discrete GPUs

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Gains-Market-Share-Q116-Discrete-GPUs

AMD sent out a note yesterday (**that yesterday was Tuesday**) with some interesting news about how the graphics card market fared in Q1 of 2016. First, let's get to the bad news: sales of new discrete graphics solutions, in both mobile and desktop, dropped by 10.2% quarter to quarter, a decrease that was slightly higher than expected. Though details weren't given in the announcement or data I have from Mercury Research, it seems likely that expectations of upcoming new GPUs from both NVIDIA and AMD contributed to the slowdown of sales on some level.

Despite the shrinking pie, AMD grabbed more of it in Q1 2016 than it had in Q4 of 2015, gaining on total market share by 3.2% for a total of 29.4%. That's a nice gain in a short few months but its still much lower than Radeon has been as recently as 2013. That 3.2% gain includes both notebook and desktop discrete GPUs, but let's break it down further.

	Q1'16 Desktop	Q1'16 Desktop Change	Q1'16 Mobile	Q1'16 Mobile Change
AMD	22.7%	+1.8%	38.7%	+7.3%
NVIDIA (assumed)	~77%	-1.8%	~61%	-7.3%

 

AMD Polaris 10 Sample Spotted at 1.27 GHz clock frequency

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-polaris-10-samples-work-at-1-27-ghz.html

One of the major benefits for Nvidia's Pascal architecture is that they can achieve really high clock frequencies. The 16nm Pascal based GeForce GTX 1080 boosts over 1800 MHz. AMD will bake Polaris at 14nm and as some information found in the SiSoft Sandra database, they reach 1.27 GHz with Polaris 10.

The SiSoftware Sandra 2015 OpenGL benchmark entry (look it up here) was entered 3 days ago and allegedly shows an entry of a Polaris 10 sample at 1266 MHz. The chip is identified by its Hardware ID, 67DF: C7 and 67DF: C4. These are both Polaris 10 ASICs, one Pro and one XT model. 

The entry denotes once again 36 compute cores (Nvidia call theirs SMs), 36 x 64 shader processors per cluster would mean 2304 active shader processors. The entry also reveals 8 GB memory being clocked at 7.6 GHz running over a 256-bit, so that would be 243 GB/s It however is unclear if AMD opted for GDDR5 or GDDR5X.

 

>>If the memory runs at 7.6GHz, I would say that it's GDDR5, without the X, but that's not the focus of the article. At 1.27GHz, it would be a 200MHz increase over Hawaii/Grenada which, while nice, would still be much less than what Nvidia has achieved.

In any case, let's take it with a graint of salt because there are still reports saying that the big Polaris 10 chip will have 32 and not 36 CUs, so nobody knows for sure how the end products will be.