AMD Demonstrates Revolutionary 14nm FinFET Polaris GPU Architecture

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The World's First Public Showcase of 14nm FinFET PC GPU Technology Promises More Than Double the Performance per Watt Over Previous Generations(1); Now Sampling to OEMs

LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwired) -- 01/04/16 -- CES 2016 -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) provided customers with a glimpse of its upcoming 2016 Polaris GPU architecture, highlighting a wide range of significant architectural improvements including HDR monitor support, and industry-leading performance-per-watt. AMD expects shipments of Polaris architecture-based GPUs to begin in mid-2016.

AMD's Polaris architecture-based 14nm FinFET GPUs deliver a remarkable generational jump in power efficiency. Polaris-based GPUs are designed for fluid frame rates in graphics, gaming, VR and multimedia applications running on compelling small form-factor thin and light computer designs.

"Our new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power efficiency and features," said Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD. "2016 will be a very exciting year for RadeonT fans driven by our Polaris architecture, Radeon Software Crimson Edition and a host of other innovations in the pipeline from our Radeon Technologies Group."

The Polaris architecture 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, and next-generation multimedia features including 4K h.265 encoding and decoding.

AMD has an established track record for dramatically increasing the energy efficiency of its mobile processors, targeting a 25x improvement by the year 20202.

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1 Testing conducted by AMD internal labs as of Dec 15, 2015 with AMD's previous "Hawaii" and "Bonaire" architecture based platforms and preliminary "Polaris" architecture based engineering sample. Systems tested with Intel i7-4770K with 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM, Driver 15.30 beta, Windows 10 64bit. POL-2

2 Learn more at www.amd.com/25x20

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Released January 4, 2016