Circulating rumors indicate that AMD could soon introduce a new variant of the Polaris GPU, Polaris 30. That is a 12-nanometer manufacturing chip that will help the company to gain new market share ahead of next year’s navigation architecture.
Leaked rumors in the Chiphell forum speak of a 12nm FinFET process GPU, that is Polaris 30, which is an update of the current flagship Polaris 20, built at 14nm instead. According to the source, the optimization of the production process will allow Polaris 30 to operate at higher clock frequencies, which means a 10-15% increase in performance over the current Radeon RX 500.
The source says that AMD could present Polaris 30 in the coming weeks of October to ensure the availability of new products for the holidays. If the new AMD GPU is confirmed, we will most likely see the new Radeon RX 600 series on the market, a line that should be placed in the mid to high end of the market far away from the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX.
As for the technical features, no details are known at the moment and it’s hard to imagine what AMD will offer. Currently, the Polaris-based main board, the Radeon RX580, offers 2304 stream processors and 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus. Polaris 30 could introduce the new GDDR6 memory and thanks to the 12nm FinFET process could guarantee a larger number of processing units (RX 580 stops at 36) and thus a further boost through higher frequencies.
At the moment there are no official statements from AMD