AMD has let the curtain fall on their new 14nm Polaris GPU architecture, and it sounds mighty interesting. I am especially interested in the lower power draw they claim.
This should push Nvidia to get ready to release fresh details of their new line-up too.
Hopefully with the new AMD driver it won't take long for the new cards to be supported. I hope at the very least Catalyst has reasonable support for them at release. It would be good for everyone to have a strong AMD card, coupled with working drivers on Linux.
It will ship mid-2016, so it's going to be an exciting year.
From the PR:
The Polaris architecture features:
> AMD's 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture
> Support for HDMI® 2.0a and DisplayPort 1.3
> 4K h.265 encoding and decoding.
See their official news here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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This should push Nvidia to get ready to release fresh details of their new line-up too.
Hopefully with the new AMD driver it won't take long for the new cards to be supported. I hope at the very least Catalyst has reasonable support for them at release. It would be good for everyone to have a strong AMD card, coupled with working drivers on Linux.
It will ship mid-2016, so it's going to be an exciting year.
From the PR:
Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMDOur new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power efficiency and features, 2016 will be a very exciting year for RadeonT fans driven by our Polaris architecture, Radeon Software Crimson Edition and a host of other innovations in the pipeline from our Radeon Technologies Group.
The Polaris architecture features:
> AMD's 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture
> Support for HDMI® 2.0a and DisplayPort 1.3
> 4K h.265 encoding and decoding.
See their official news here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I sure hope this results in something worth buying. I would LOVE to switch to AMD and open-source drivers. But performance* is a thing that matters to me. Closed drivers with NVIDIA GPUs has been my path since switching to Linux exclusively (on August 18th, 2002) for that reason. It is high time for a change. I will try and hold off on my upgrading until it's possible to make that change.
* - to clarify, I mean, performance per dollar, and to a smaller degree, per Watt. Performance on Linux versus Windows is already behind with NVIDIA, but AMD is outrageously behind any of that. Not to mention the finicky software stack reminiscent of a late-stage Jenga tower that AMD requires to get their drivers to actually work.
Last edited by adolson on 5 January 2016 at 4:57 am UTC
* - to clarify, I mean, performance per dollar, and to a smaller degree, per Watt. Performance on Linux versus Windows is already behind with NVIDIA, but AMD is outrageously behind any of that. Not to mention the finicky software stack reminiscent of a late-stage Jenga tower that AMD requires to get their drivers to actually work.
Last edited by adolson on 5 January 2016 at 4:57 am UTC
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