AMD details power-efficient Polaris 11 architecture and hints at upcoming RX 480M for notebooks.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-announces-Radeon-RX-460-RX-470-and-RX-480M.167754.0.html
Does anyone else get this? How can an RX Y80 consume 35 Watts? What are they going to do with the rest of the products? RX Y85, RX Y90, RX Y95, RX Y99?
I know, the answer is: there will be no other products. Maybe a few months from now they'll release a half-legged Polaris 10 and call it a day. Notebooks won't see anything else, other than Vega in about 10 months time.
If nothing else, this allows for cheaper pre-gen solutions and perhaps better perf/$ due to the sheer volume of RX 480 production.
Isn't it the NVIDIA GTX980M a 100W part? Why not make a slightly less powerful Polaris 470 (desktop) with less than 100W for a notebook? Why maxing out at 35W?