Posted on Monday, October 15 2018 @ 14:50 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
independently confirmed that AMD is working on a 12nm refresh of its Polaris GPU lineup. The site says the new series will feature higher clockspeeds and will offer a performance boost of roughly 10-15 percent versus the exiting lineup. You can reportedly expect these new cards sometime in November.
The GPU should be the Polaris 30, spotted earlier this year and although some sources are already talking about the RX 670/680 name, this is still not carved in stone, so anything is possible.
The new 12nm LP manufacturing process will bring both lower power consumption and allow AMD to raise the GPU clocks. According to our sources, you can expect an improvement of around 10 to 15 percent.
Yet another respin of Polaris isn't too exciting, but there isn't a whole lot on AMD's near-term GPU roadmap. The 7nm Vega for the gaming market hasn't been confirmed yet, and the 7nm Navi isn't expected until well into 2019.
