AMD Polaris 10 engineering sample pictured

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AMD Polaris 10 engineering sample pictured

AMD's Polaris 10 engineering sample has been pictured and shown running Hitman at Ultra Settings at a constant 60+ FPS at 1440p, which is an impressive feat given that in our testing the the R9 Fury X was not even able to average 60FPS at these settings.

Sadly AMD was keeping details about the Polaris 10 PCB and design secret, meaning that pictures could only be taken from the outside of the PC, but it still shows us that AMD has upgraded the display outputs their new Polaris 10 GPUs and including a DVI output.

It has also been reported that AMD's Polaris 11 GPU, a lower end Polaris GPU design, has been shown running passively while playing 4K VR content, which is a very impressive feat.

The PCB of AMD's Polaris 10 GPU is said to be very similar in size to AMD's Fury Nano, meaning that AMD is likely pushing for a compact design for their future reference high end GPU designs. Right now it remains unclear if Polaris 10 is intended to replace AMD's Fiji GPUs, or take a lower position in AMD's upcoming product stack.

In terms of display outputs AMD's Polaris GPUs are a significant upgrade from Fiji, supporting 3x DisplayPort 1.3, HDMI 2.0 and even a DVI cable (something that was missing from reference Fiji GPU designs).

 

[jedi5diah]

microsoft buying over soon...

 

[Rogue]

Crossfire Polaris with older gen cards?