In chronological order, there will be a 'Polaris 30' in the fourth quarter of this year. This is the first time I heard about this name, which will be an upgraded version of Polaris 10 (RX 470/480) and Polaris 20 (RX 570/580). The production process has been upgraded from 14nm to 12nm, and performance can be increased by 15%. It is a deep-drilled version of the 'North Star' architecture, which may be named RX 670/680.
AMD has already demonstrated the world's first 7nm GPU graphics card at the Taipei Computer Show, but previously said that the 7nm Vega 20 core will only be used in the professional card market. The first product is Radeon Pro Vega 20, but according to the latest statement, AMD is still preparing Bring 7nm Vega to gamers in the first quarter of this year.
The specifications are similar to the previous rumors. The core size maintains 64 computing units, 4096 stream processors, and video memory with 4096-bit HBM2, but the capacity is only 16GB, half cut compared to professional cards.
But even so, because HBM2 memory costs are too high, such cards are lost in the consumer market, I want to come to AMD to rely on it to boost the high-end image, to avoid the long-lost.
More worthy of expectation is the next generation of new architecture Navi, 7nm process, but to be patient, etc., from the fourth quarter of next year to the first quarter of the following year, and the first is the mid-range card, there is a high-end version of HBM2 memory.
It can be said that AMD graphics card to achieve a qualitative leap, 7nm Navi is the real ultimate weapon, of course, the premise is that the old yellow side does not run too fast.
