nanarchy said:
AsGryffynn said:
Rx400? That's what we'll see... If Wikipedia is to be believed, our GPU has to be stronger than the most powerful of all GPU's in AMD's scheduled repertoire short of dedicated ones... And technically, both are Polaris (yes, Vega is a flavor of Polaris chipsets)...
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neither Polaris10 or Polaris11 seem quite powerful enough to meet what was announced. personally I would not trust wikipedia as a source for anything. regardless VEGA10 rumours have it "supposedly" coming in at around 7-8tflops at launch, which if even close to true would mean this could be in the ballpark, but can't see how that could be made affordable.
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Wikipedia is more accurate than your use of Tflop.
Check the citations.
AMD's Vega whilst based on Craphics Core Next gen 4.0, has a completely different memory subsystem, likely more (And maybe better) geometry engines with a superior ROP/TMU count, caching etc'. It will have a different efficiency curve than Polaris.
Thus even if Vega had the same amount of Tflop as Polaris, it would still be faster.
nanarchy said:
AsGryffynn said:
Zen based, since it seems to fit perfectly with projections for it and AMD reports...
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Zen is AMD's upcoming CPU line not GPU. Polaris is the new GPU line but given the timeline this also could be a cut down VEGA based GPU, don't think I have seen anything beyond rumor and speculation on exactly which chips. Will be interesting to see.
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Very much doubt that it would be Zen based even for the CPU.
Zen wouldn't have been taped out when these refresher consoles hit the design stage... And it takes over a year for a chip to go from being taped out, to production. - Add on top a semi-custom SoC design and that time frame blows out, you would start looking at early 2018 before it would be ready.
Jaguar, Puma and Puma+ is likely the CPU cores beings used.
Vega is essentially a "Big" Polaris, it will likely have more of everything, more Geometry Engines, Render Output Pipelines, Texture Mapping Units, GCN Pipelines backed with bigger, faster caches and memory subsystem, I would assume the memory controller removed the support for GDDR5/GDDR5X memory.
But like Zen, it's not ready for prime time just yet, Microsoft and Sony will be using Polaris.
AsGryffynn said:
nanarchy said:
Zen is AMD's upcoming CPU line not GPU. Polaris is the new GPU line but given the timeline this also could be a cut down VEGA based GPU, don't think I have seen anything beyond rumor and speculation on exactly which chips. Will be interesting to see.
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Rx400? That's what we'll see... If Wikipedia is to be believed, our GPU has to be stronger than the most powerful of all GPU's in AMD's scheduled repertoire short of dedicated ones... And technically, both are Polaris (yes, Vega is a flavor of Polaris chipsets)...
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Well. To be fair, AMD was conservative with the clocks, OEM's will likely have overclocked and higher voltage versions of these cards which will give them a run for their money.
AMD's FuryX is still faster than Polaris, but Polaris overclocked will beat FuryX.