Amd polaris announced on June 1
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AMD today announced that it will hold a press conference and live webcast during Computex 2016 in Taipei to announce its new AMD Polaris GPUs and its seventh generation APUs.
AMD Polaris and Bristol Ridge to be announced in Taipei
The event will begin on June 1 in Taipei, Taiwan and will be attended by top AMD executives such as CEO Lisa Su, Jim Anderson and the head of the Radeon Technologies Grup division and man in charge of Graphics Core Next architecture, Raja Koduri.
The event will be broadcast in real time and can be followed through the website that AMD has enabled for Computex (www.amd.com/computex). The event can also be followed later after a few hours and will remain accessible for one year.
The seventh generation of AMD APUs is known as Bristol Ridge and will be the culmination of Modular Bulldozer architecture. The new AMD Bristol Ridge APUs are characterized by being based on Excavator cores with high energy efficiency, allowing a slight increase in the final performance of the equipment while considerably lengthening the life of the battery.
AMD Bristol Ridge processors arrive to succeed Carrizo with slight performance enhancements per clock cycle making them the fastest APUs AMD has released to the market. AMD talks about improvements of up to 40% against Kaveri and 15% against Carrizo, figures that are quite remarkable, especially in the case of the improvement against APU Kaveri based on Steamroller cores. This improvement is accompanied by a reduction in energy consumption, so they are much more suitable chips to be used in portable equipment.
On the other hand, Polaris is the new graphic architecture of the company manufactured in 14nm FinFET. AMD Polaris maintains the same 64 stream processor structure for each Compute Unit (CU) as previous generations of GCN. Speaking of the total number of CUs in Polaris we find that the Polaris 11 silicon with the “ Baffin ” moniker will have a total of 1, 024 stream processors spread over 16 CUs while Polaris 10 “ Ellesmere ” will have 2, 304 stream processors spread over 36 CUs. Later the Vega architecture would arrive with a maximum of 4, 096 stream processor in 64 CU, the same configuration as the current AMD Fiji GPU.
Source: nextpowerup
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