Polaris GPU series is AMD’s beginning of “journey into space”
 

Over the past few years, Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) has treaded many uncharted waters near and far to gather enough "island" codenames for over four generations of graphics processing units. According to Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group, all of that is about to change.

Starting in 2016, the company will travel a new, much brighter and expansive exploratory naming landscape, and future AMD GPU architectures will now be given astronomical code names after stars and constellations (and, hopefully, astronomical performance as a byproduct).

The company has been using “island” codenames ever since its TeraScale family series of microarchitectures. This was AMD’s second GPU architecture series using a unified shader model and competed with Nvidia’s Tesla and first-generation Fermi lineups. The first AMD GPU lineup in the TeraScale 3 family was “Northern Islands,” or the 40nm Radeon HD 6000 Series, which launched in October 2010.

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