Title: Tech News - AMD GCN 4.0 is coming and it is called Polaris.
Author: Uberutang
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Published Date: 2016-01-05
Original URL: https://geeknode.co.za/2016/01/tech-news-amd-gcn-4-0-is-coming-and-it-is-called-polaris
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Categories: Tech News
Tags: AMD, GCN, HBM2, Polaris

- Uberutang

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AMD has announced their new 14nm FinFET Graphics Core Next 4.0 Chips called Polaris.

This is a big deal for AMD since they have been ‘stuck’ on 28nm since 2011.

To refresh your memory the GCN series cards have been:

2011 — 28nm GCN 1.0 — Tahiti / Cape Verde

2013 — 28nm GCN 2.0 — Hawaii / Bonaire

2015 — 28nm GCN 3.0 — Fiji / Tonga

2016 — 14nm FinFET Polaris (GCN 4.0)

14nm FinFET will give AMD a massive increase in performance per Watt.

To highlight the improvement they showed off an as yet to be named Radeon card (drawing just 86W) and a Nvidia GTX950 (drawing 140W), both running Star Wars Battlefront at Medium, 1080p and solid 60fps, with the AMD card using 61% less power than the Nvidia card.

One of the AMD design goals is to provide ‘console’ level graphics in ultra thin notebooks.

Polaris will use High-Bandwidth-Memory 2 (HBM2) and GDDR5X, with HBM2 being used in the higher end ‘enthusiast’ cards.

2016 is set to be an amazing year for PC gamers it seems!

Now we wait to see what NVIDIA will bring to the table.

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