AMD announces new "Polaris" architecture and 14nm FINFet GPUs

[OWGKID]

On January 4th, AMD announced their new GPU line-up. Scheduled for a mid-2016 release and three GPU families have been rumored, "Ellismere", "Baffin" and "Greenland".

Features:

• New version of the GCN architecture
• 14 nm FinFET manufacturing technology
• Twice the performance per watt
• HBM2 (Second generation of High Bandwidth Memory)
• HDMI 2.0 supprt (4K@60fps)
• DisplayPort 1.3

Sources:

AMD Reveals Polaris GPU architecture: 4th Gen GCN to arrive mid-2016
Guru3D's article about the Polaris architecture
AMD's Polaris overview video

[PZ]

hmmm... I like that 4k support

[OWGKID]

The Rx 300 series didn't supported HDMI 2.0 which dissapointed AMD fans. Nvidia's GTX 900 series has HDMI 2.0 though ;) I am thinking about having two Rx 400 in CrossFire  >:D Let's hope I don't light my house/rig on fire  8-X

[PZ]

 

[Art Blade]

don't forget to have a bucket filled with gasoline placed on top of your PC.  >:D

[OWGKID]

  Nah, I think a GTX 480 will do the trick  >:D

[Art Blade]

alright, then ^-^