Rumors point to the arrival of polaris 30 at 12 nm tsmc

Clues have emerged regarding a possible new revision of AMD's Polaris 30 architecture, which would already be the second since its arrival with the Radeon RX 400. Navi's arrival is not expected until 2019, so AMD can only fight with Nvidia using Polaris and Vega.

An AMD Polaris 30 at 12nm silicon would be on the way

Speculation first arose regarding a Polaris 30 silicon, purportedly manufactured using TSMC's 12nm process, a significant difference from GlobalFoundries' 12nm used in Ryzen 2000s. AMD has gotten into an adventure. to test and adapt new casting processes to launch their products as soon as possible.

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Some posts point to a 15% performance improvement after changing this process for Polaris, which, if achieved only through a new implementation of the process, would require an increase in clock speed. AMD has already released its revised Polaris 20 series on the Radeon RX 500, which is based on its RX 400 and Polaris 10 series, increasing clock frequencies as well. A smaller node would be associated with higher throughputs and lower costs per finished chip, allowing AMD to further reduce prices until Navi is finally ready.

This advance would be good for users who want to purchase a new graphics card, as they would have a new option a little better than the current ones. But if AMD is going to overhaul its Polaris architecture for the 12nm node, some architectural changes wouldn't hurt to offer some additional improvement beyond the move to a slightly more advanced manufacturing process. What do you expect from a possible Polaris 30 silicon at 12nm?

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