AMD Radeon 400 Series Video Cards To Use Polaris GPUs

HardwareBattle over in Korea has leaked an image of what is said to be AMD presentation slide that shows AMD’s future graphics products are referred to as Polaris. People around the web now believe that Polaris will be the microarchitecture used on the fourth generation of GCN for the GPUs that will power the AMD Radeon 400 Series including the ‘Greenland’ GPUs!

We also noticed that the folks over at VideoCardz are saying that Polaris is a replacement of GCN that debuted back in 2011. They also included an image of slide that looks like it came from the RTG Summit in December to back these claims up.

Introducing the Polaris Architecture

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The odd Tweets from Chris Hook and Raja Koduri in November are starting to make more sense now! Raja Koduri noted in his tweet that Polaris was “2.5 times brighter” now that it was when it was first discovered. Could we be seeing a 2.5x performance increase in some performance metric when the AMD Radeon 400 series comes out? Maybe the performance/efficiency numbers? Keep in mind that the new Greenland GPUs are being produced on the 14nm FinFET LPP process and that would be too far off from being possible. If that is true it looks like AMD and NVIDIA are going to be competitive again in 2016 and that is good news for all gamers!

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