Glo. said: WX7100 is not Ellesmere XT2. It is just Ellesmere XT.



Polaris 12 in theory could be smaller part than Polaris 11. However for that part of the segment AMD can use 28 nm GPUs.



Polaris 12 can be GPU used in Project Scorpio. 6 TFLOPs - 3072 GCN cores at under 1000 MHz core clock. Click to expand...

a) You're completely misreading my post. Read it again.b) Sure, they could. But if power efficiency was a point, they wouldn't. Power efficiency is the main reason for modern process nodes and architectures to trickle down to the low-end.c)would the Project Scorpio GPU be referenced in OSX system files? This makessense. Even if a similar GPU/APU setup were to be used in an upcoming Mac, this would make no sense. Scorpio is based on a semi-custom part, shared with no other products. As such, even if an iGPU with the same number of SMs and whatnot was integrated into a Mac APU, it would have a different codename. The only semi-rational explanation for this would be that some engineers at AMD wanted to see if they could Hackintosh a pre-production Scorpio for fun. I very, very, very much doubt this is the case. They certainly wouldn't be paid to do this, and they wouldn't have access to hardware to do this in their spare time. Heck, it would probably get them fired.