AMD Are rumored to launch Polaris at the end of the month

[WYP]

Right now AMD Are rumored to be launching their Polaris GPUs at the end of the month in Macau China, just before Computex.

Read more on AMD's rumored Polaris launch date.

 

[Janskilad]

Looking forward to Polaris, very interested in how it'll be priced. Might even give me a reason to replace my Asus r9 380.

 

[RobM]

I have a feeling this is gonna be AMDs time

 

[g0ggles1994]

If AMD don't screw up launching this and Zen, they will have a fighting chance of claiming market share back from Nvidia and Intel which by god I hope they do.

 

[Permafrost]

Good luck AMD, don't f**k this up please?!!

 

[NeverBackDown]

If AMD don't screw up launching this and Zen, they will have a fighting chance of claiming market share back from Nvidia and Intel which by god I hope they do.

Well tbf Polaris is meant to replace the mainstream cards, like 390x/390. So don't expect anything uber awesome. Unless they were only dealing a smoke screen and it is infact faster than a fury x. But then that wouldn't be screwing it up^_^

I'm pretty interested in there power consumption improvements. 14nm is a huge upgrade, then add on FinFET? Should see some amazing results. Hopefully they overclock like crazy too, Pascal does with FinFET, hopefully that carries over

 

[Doomslayer]

Good luck AMD, don't f**k this up please?!!

Sorry but knowing what AMD is like they probably will

 

[Agati]

Sorry but knowing what AMD is like they probably will

As long as they dont f'ing brick my card like nVidia did, I will be happy.

 

[ImprovizoR]

If AMD don't screw up launching this and Zen, they will have a fighting chance of claiming market share back from Nvidia and Intel which by god I hope they do.

I'm more interested in what they can do to compete with Intel. Their GPU's are fine. I never understood why so many people prefer Nvidia. It seems to always comes down to "AMD drivers suck" which hasn't been true for the last 4 years or so.
But the CPU segment is potentially a game changer. That's the truly exciting bit.

I'm pretty interested in there power consumption improvements. 14nm is a huge upgrade, then add on FinFET? Should see some amazing results. Hopefully they overclock like crazy too, Pascal does with FinFET, hopefully that carries over

Theoretically they should be able to sacrifice more power consumption benefits for increased performance than Nvidia because they're on 14nm. But we don't really know anything at this point.

 

[Daiyus]

I'm really excited to see what Polaris brings to the table. Of course for the top tier stuff that competes with the GTX 1080 we'll have to wait for Vega, but I still find the technological advancement exciting.

Affordable VR power could get a lot more people into the PC space; I can see myself starting to build more capable budget gaming rigs to replace consoles for colleagues, family and friends if Polaris lives up to expectations (you know, the actual expectations, not the unfounded ones that think it'll destroy Pascal).

 

[Kushiro]

YES YES YES

My notebook has been waiting for this

 

[Permafrost]

Sorry but knowing what AMD is like they probably will

damn it man, let me believe that AMD will make a comeback lol

 

[Doomslayer]

damn it man, let me believe that AMD will make a comeback lol

Oh they will make a comeback but not enough to take over IMO they will fall short of Nvidia, If that makes me a fanboy so be it

 

[Permafrost]

Oh they will make a comeback but not enough to take over IMO they will fall short of Nvidia, If that makes me a fanboy so be it

if they do fall short then they will be cheaper, i don't think anyone one here is a fanboy they just want to see healthy competition