A new year marks new beginnings. Such is the case for AMD as the company plans to debut its latest GPU architecture at CES.
This new GPU architecture, dubbed Polaris, features a wide range of significant architectural improvements including HDR monitor support, and industry-leading performance-per-watt. AMD’s Polaris architecture-based 14nm FinFET GPUs is said to deliver a remarkable generational jump in power efficiency. The Polaris-based GPUs are designed for fluid frame rates in graphics, gaming, VR and multimedia applications running on compelling small form-factor computer designs.
Polaris features AMD’s 4th generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, a next-generation display engine with support for HDMI 2.0a and DisplayPort 1.3. Next-generation multimedia features such as 4k h.265 encoding and decoding will also be supported.
“Our new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power efficiency and features. 2016 will be a very exciting year for Radeon fans driven by our Polaris architecture, Radeon Software Crimson Edition and a host of other innovations in the pipeline from our Radeon Technologies Group,” says Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD.