After NVIDIA has introduced a new graphics architecture Pascal, many are waiting, what's AMD answer, . Associate have shared some data about the characteristics of the two AMD video cards, which will be presented in the near future. One will refer to the average level video cards (Polaris 11), the other - high (Polaris 10).
The older generation video card Polaris will be based on 14-nm GPU, codenamed Ellesmere. According to new data, the chip will receive only 32 computing unit, instead of the previously estimated 40. Each of the units will have 64 stream processors, that is, the total number reaches 2048. But it will not be the flagship graphics card, but rather, Radeon R9 480.
AMD said that the graphics processor can provide performance of 5.5 teraflops in single precision operations. For comparison, the stated performance graphics card Radeon R9 390 is 5.1 TFLOPS. At the same time, power consumption Radeon R9 390 is equal to 275 watts, while the new graphics card will consume only 150 watts, that is, performance per watt will increase by about half. Most probably, Polaris 10, will get only one 8-pin power connector as GeForce GTX 1080.
By Ellesmere GPU through 256-bit bus will be connected to 8 GB of memory GDDR5, or GDDR5X. If, however, it will be GDDR5 memory, then it will work with the effective frequency of 7 GHz. It is also reported that AMD implements in hardware support for encoding and decoding HEVC (H.265), as well as interfaces DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI 2.0a.
As for the second, the younger Polaris, the latest data on its 14-nm GPU computing Baffin get 14 blocks with 64 stream processors in each (a total of 896 stream processors). This card will replace the Radeon R7 360 and R7 370, and its performance in operations with single precision will be 2.5 teraflops. When this power consumption does not exceed 50 watts. GDDR5 video memory is 4 GB, and it will be connected by a 128-bit bus.