[PConline News] AMD launched the RX 500 and RX Vega series in the graphics card market this year. The former uses an improved version of the Polaris Polaris last year. The Vega architecture of RX Vega is newly developed, but this graphics card is limited. In the HBM 2 chip supply, heat, power consumption and other issues are not satisfactory, the market performance is not good, and now is still the main force of the RX 500 series. Watching 2017 will be mixed, AMD next year's graphics products how to do? Earlier rumors clarified that there will be a new generation of GPUs for the Navi architecture, but Navi estimates that it is aimed at the high-end market. What about the mainstream market? There is a saying that next year AMD will continue to polish Polaris architecture, but will upgrade to 12nm process and GDDR6 memory.
The current problem in the AMD graphics card market is not only the high-end market, but NVIDIA GTX 1080/1080 Ti and Titan Xp and other graphics cards, in the mainstream market, R 480/580 is actually facing a lot of pressure on the GTX 1060, this year's boost version of the RX 580 The graphics card also has problems such as power consumption, heat, etc. The energy efficiency of the 14nm Polaris is still abused by the GP106 core. AMD fans can only hope that the Navi architecture in 2018 will be more powerful, but the future is uncertain, and Navi GPUs will have to wait until mid-to-late or next half of next year. AMD will still have a way to stay next year. First half of the year.
AMD can also come up with what kind of product? A lot of people have started brainstorming about this issue. One of the more reasonable directions is to continue to polish the Polaris core. The architecture hasn't changed much, but the core scale, technology, and memory will be upgraded—specifically, the CU unit will be upgraded from the current 36 groups. To 40 groups, that is, 2304 stream processor units are upgraded to 2560 units, the frequency is increased from the previous 1200MHz+ to 1400MHz+, the process technology is upgraded from 14nm to TSMC 12nm, and the video memory is upgraded from GDDR5 to GDDR6. Theoretically, the frequency energy From the current 8Gbps to double to 16Gbps, but will not increase so much in the beginning, the frequency of 12Gbps is not bad.
If this idea is finally realized, then the performance of the new generation of RX 680 graphics cards is still very powerful. It is no problem to completely suppress the GTX 1060 series graphics cards. If you are lucky, you can hit the GTX 1070 graphics card and launch an impact on the high-end market of NVIDIA. More importantly, The improved Polaris core energy efficiency ratio of the 12nm process and GDDR6 memory will be further improved, at least not worse than NVIDIA's high-end graphics cards.
However, the above idea is the player's brain hole after all, does not mean that AMD really is going in this direction. In the present situation, whether AMD fans or NVIDIA fans actually hope that AMD will make a leap on the graphics card, and if it doesn't grasp the point, the high-end market is really monopolized by NVIDIA, and NVIDIA is now pushing the momentum of 12nm Volta game graphics cards. No, only Pascal graphics cards can handle AMD family buckets.
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