Originally Posted By: Allen
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AMD’s New Polaris GPU Revisions En Route With A 50%+ Improvement In Perf/Watt

... new revision of Polaris 10 that’s will go into the embedded market will bring down the typical board power from 150W as is found in the RX 480 to less than 95W. .. will also improve clock speeds ..


They note: This improvement may not see the desktop right away -- because desktop is not as "power limited" as embedded battery powered. However, it may show up next year in a hypothesized RX-485, etc.

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Polaris 10 is dead after December, it was a stop gap for Vega, Vega will cover everything but the eSports Tier. Polaris 11 will continue afterwards.

Apparently P10 was just a Beefier Polaris 11,
Polaris 11 was the Initial Technical Operation Target of the Architecture, it was designed for lower Power, small chips, etc.

They Beefed it up and made Polaris 10, which was both a good and bad decision,

As it brought the theoretical power consumption improvements and low cost to Mainstream (ahead of nVidia), but it also had teething issues that cost it some sales at launch, and since P10 was only a Temporary stop gap fab until Vega and HBM2 were ready, AMD cant afford to Over Fab and have stock sitting around.

Once Vega enter mass production, Vega will Cover Performance, Mainstream and Value, While Polaris 11 will continue to cover HTPC/eSports.

Though the last CC'd Email I saw regarding some projects w/ Manufacturers, was that some SKU Based PC & Entertainment (SKU Based meaning pre-built and sold at retailers like walmart, sams club, costco, etc),

There are some plans to have Polaris 10 Embedded GPU's on their Proprietary Mainboards for their pre-built desktops and all in one PCs, and possibly Polaris 10 Powered laptop Graphics.

Polaris 10 / 480 is also still rumored to be in the XBO:Scorpio Console, so if they cleaned up the Architecture to run under 100w then it will benefit the consoles.

But for the Retail AIB / Card market, Polaris 10 is dead in 2 months, any fabs after that will be sent to Embedded / Retail SKU Customers (Dell, Microsoft, Alienware (Dell, lol) etc).

Vega will Give more Performance w/ Lower Power Consumption

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