GEC NEWS WIREAMD makes the world’s first public showcase of 14nm FinFET PC GPU technology; promises more than double the performance per watt over previous generations
AMD provided customers with a glimpse of its upcoming 2016 Polaris GPU architecture, highlighting a wide range of significant architectural improvements including HDR monitor support, and industry-leading performance-per-watt. AMD expects shipments of Polaris architecture-based GPUs to begin in mid-2016.
“It takes a world-class GPU design team to deliver these impressive performance and power efficiency gains along with the latest features,” said Lisa Su, President and CEO, AMD. “2016 looks very promising for Radeon fans driven by Polaris architecture, Radeon Software Crimson Edition and a host of other innovations in the pipeline from our Radeon Technologies Group.”
AMD’s Polaris architecture-based 14nm FinFET GPUs deliver a remarkable generational jump in power efficiency. Polaris-based GPUs are designed for fluid frame rates in graphics, gaming, VR and multimedia applications running on compelling small form-factor thin and light computer designs. The Polaris architecture features AMD’s 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.
