{"id":91835,"date":"2016-05-10T07:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T05:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91835"},"modified":"2016-05-10T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T05:46:57","slug":"amd-to-reveal-high-value-polaris-graphics-cards-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91835-amd-to-reveal-high-value-polaris-graphics-cards-later-this-month","title":{"rendered":"AMD to reveal high-value Polaris graphics cards later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD is set to unveil its Polaris 10 and 11 graphics cards later this month, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/amd-polaris-10-polaris-11-launch-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCFTech reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company will reportedly hold a press conference focused on its new high-value graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>The Polaris 10 and 11 GPUs will not directly compete with Nvidia&#8217;s high-end products &#8211; instead, the graphics cards will be aimed at the mainstream gaming market, offering exceptional efficiency and cost-effective performance.<\/p>\n<p>Polaris 11\u00a0GPUs\u00a0are built for\u00a0laptops and basic gaming desktops, while the Polaris 10 graphics cards are more suitable\u00a0for powerful\u00a0gaming PCs.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s new architecture will feature <strong>double the performance-per-watt<\/strong> of previous GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>The company has stated that the Polaris graphics cards are aimed at allowing mainstream users to experience VR without paying the heavy cost of a current-generation VR Ready GPU.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s Polaris launch event will take place sometime between <strong>26 &#8211; 29 May 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/91689-hidden-playstation-4-features-only-power-users-know-about.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91771-games-you-can-play-this-week-danger-and-demons.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia GTX 1080 ultimate guide \u2013 performance and specifications\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91737-nvidia-gtx-1080-ultimate-guide-performance-and-specifications.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia GTX 1080 ultimate guide \u2013 performance and specifications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD is striking back at Nvidia with its upcoming Polaris 10 and 11 graphics cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":84985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,1051,2664,6292,903,18575,18577,143,189,6477],"class_list":["post-91835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-gaming","tag-graphics-card","tag-launch","tag-polaris-10","tag-polaris-11","tag-release","tag-reveal","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91843,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91835\/revisions\/91843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}