AMD Radeon R9 400 Series GPUs Will be Codenamed Arctic Islands - Hints at Energy Efficient and Cooler Cards - valloworecaus

An update from sweclockers.com has revealed the code name of the next-future-gen AMD Radeon R9 400 Series GPUs. It goes without saying that the naming is beautiful much irrelevant at so much an early stage. The revealed codename for the serial is Arctic Islands and the actual GPU name could be of some island lay out there. There is currently zero information regarding the Radeon R9 400 Series apart from the fact information technology will Be based on a 20nm OR lower knob (most probably 16/14nm FinFET).

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AMD's Radeon R9 400 is called 'Arctic Islands' - healthier cooled?

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the report card was what would happen when AMD finally ran unstylish of Island containing regions of the planetary. Okeh. At any rate, the Arctic Islands designation contains around a hundred islands with varying naming. The actual GPU nomenclature could be any of these Islands. The Radeon 7000 series GPUs were called Southern Islands and the R9 200 Series 'Volcanic Islands'. The forthcoming R9 300 Series is named 'Pirate Islands' and, finally, the R9 400 serial publication volition glucinium called 'Arctic Islands'.

Piece encrypt-names arent really indicative of any actual features of the GPU, Rubber Islands could (read: a reasonable sized, not-cardinal chance) in theory refer to the cooling capacity of these GPUs. IF AMD does indeed transition to the lower process with FinFETs, vigor efficiency will increase with comely TDP cuts crossways the board. That means that in all eventuality we will be looking very reasonable heat output (and therefore more room for over clocking on air).

This is going to be a rather short post because at that place is nonentity genuinely that can buoy follow traced from this leak, apart from the implication of a better cooling system. AMD's Arctic Islands Radeon R9 400 Serial GPUs are foretold to follow the Radeon R9 300 series (manifestly) and the earlier we toilet expect them is 2H 2020 (next class). Probably the most interesting call into question about these other GPUs testament be the mental process on which they are manufactured on (Inhouse (GloFo) vs TSMC).