[REVEALED] AMD announces event for Polaris GPUs and 7th Gen ZEN APUs!

AMD Announced today that it will hold a press conference and live webcast on the 1st of June at Computex regarding the Polaris GPUs and the 7th Gen APUs. The event will be held in Computex Taipei in Taiwan. Speakers include AMD’s President and CEO Lisa Su as well as AMD’s head of the Radeon Technologies Group Raja Koduri in addition to the company’s head of the CPU & APU side of the business, Jim Anderson.

This is the first time AMD has published any news about the highly anticipated Polaris GPUs, the anticipation for which is at an all time high now that Nvidia has officially launched the GTX 1080 and 1070 and the cards will hit the markets later this month.



A real-time video webcast of the event will be accessible on AMD’s Computex page (www.amd.com/computex) and on AMD’s Investor Relations home page (ir.amd.com). A replay of the webcast can be accessed a few hours after the conclusion of the live event on both pages and will be available there for one year after the event.

AMD GPUs have seen an uplift in sales and an increased market share continuously through the later part of 2015 and the start of 2016. It is expected that AMD will follow a release strategy contrary to Nvidia's and release information about their mid to low end cards initially, later followed by their high-end powerhouses. As of now, no information about the AMD cards is available. As far as performance gains are concerned, the same levels as Pascal cards are expected, although we all are hoping for something amazing.

The APUs will skip the aging FM2+ and AM3 sockets for an all new AM4 socket for it's chips. A socket that these chips will share with AMD’s hotly anticipated high-performance Summit Ridge family of CPUs. Summit Ridge is AMD’s upcoming FX family of enthusiast/high-end desktop CPUs featuring AMD’s brand new high performance x86 CPU core “Zen”, the development of which was spearheaded by the legendary CPU architect Jim Keller.

The summit ridge and Zen platforms are very eagerly being awaited all over the world as right now the pretty old FX chips and their brothers are the only alternative to the costlier Intel CPUs, with Intel eating a huge chunk of the market share.

Author: Ishaan Singh

Source : click here