Tuesday, March 14th 2017
AMD's RX 500 Series Reportedly Delayed
We've previously covered how AMD's RX 500 series is to be a rebrand of the company's successful RX 400 series. Previous reports pegged the RX 500 series' launch on April 11th; now, it would seem that there has been a slight, one-week delay on the launch date, with it having been pushed back to April 18th. Apparently, this delay is looking to allow more time to "fine-tune the drivers".
The RX 500 series are purportedly straight rebrands from equivalent RX 400 series GPUs (RX 580 will be a rebrand of the RX 480, and so on down the ladder). The need for driver fine-tuning seems a little baffling considering these straight rebrands, but may have more to do with the reported Polaris 12 chips that are expected for launch than any other metric. Remember, RX 500 chips are expected to carry somewhat higher clock-speeds than their RX 400 originals, with some improved power/performance ratio being derived from improvements in foundry processes. But if the rebranding scheme holds up, don't expect these to bring in any meaningful changes towards these cards' performance. AMD is hoping Polaris tides them over through the mainstream market until it can introduce its Vega-based, high-performance GPUs, which are heralded to mark AMD's return to the high-performance consumer graphics segment in a while. Fingers crossed.
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The RX 500 series are purportedly straight rebrands from equivalent RX 400 series GPUs (RX 580 will be a rebrand of the RX 480, and so on down the ladder). The need for driver fine-tuning seems a little baffling considering these straight rebrands, but may have more to do with the reported Polaris 12 chips that are expected for launch than any other metric. Remember, RX 500 chips are expected to carry somewhat higher clock-speeds than their RX 400 originals, with some improved power/performance ratio being derived from improvements in foundry processes. But if the rebranding scheme holds up, don't expect these to bring in any meaningful changes towards these cards' performance. AMD is hoping Polaris tides them over through the mainstream market until it can introduce its Vega-based, high-performance GPUs, which are heralded to mark AMD's return to the high-performance consumer graphics segment in a while. Fingers crossed.
50 Comments on AMD's RX 500 Series Reportedly Delayed
RX Vega: first half of 2017 (before July).
and its not like nvidia is so innovativ-its just better advertising(+who´s got the longest)
Linus on the bullshit of advertising innovation. It's their job to innovate stop acting like they are giving a gift to humanity they have to do it or they become irrelevant.
The fact of the matter is that extra 4% of games that can now hit 60 FPS on a 580 will appeal to those with specific interest in the titles bumped up to viewable playability. The real reason the RX 580 is even being put out is that AMD is no longer able to produce RX 480s that are similar to the ones originally released due to better performance of the GLOFO process after nine months of perfecting it.
At this point the yields are close to perfection so AMD's cost per die is less and they will probably bump the price $5 or $10 and make better margins. Good for them.
The 1080 TI vs. the Titan X is the same scenario, except Nvidia is able to go at it from the other direction due to fan boy idiocy. They release a low yielding chip (Titan X) with an astronomical markup and then six months later when yields mature they release the same chip at a lower price for their less stupid fan base.
Im waiting for Vega, and I dont care about the price or even how close it comes to GFX1080TI, I just want the new tech.
If they wanted to revise the specs and bump the clock speeds up a little, they should have just named them the RX 485 and RX 475 etc.Car refreshes tend to offer changes and improvements, new features. So they keep the same name, but get better stuff. That is the opposite of a GPU rebrand.
Plus, cars wear out as you use them, so buying a new one becomes necessary.
Also, I'm expecting at most a 10% increase in speed at approximately same or slightly lower power consumption, with the unlocked RX 560 being the exception.
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Btw, there is next to no chance of RX480 being positioned above GTX 1070. C'mon people, be realistic. It's currently trading blows with GTX 980 and GTX 1060. Which are a lot slower than GTX 1070...
Cars don't turn obsolete, in some cases quite the opposite (oldtimers).
GPUs do.
100 MHZ clock speed bump increases performance by 8% if the performance gain was linear per 100 Mhz it would need to be around 1666 Mhz to equal a stock 1070
Case in point an LN2 cooled RX480 at 1675 mhz can get a Firestrike GPU score of 18028,
18028 Graphics score for a 1675 Mhz RX480 Strix vs a reference 1070 at 18255 or 16k vs 16200 roughly but i went via Graphics score to remove possible CPU bias for physics etc.
as such yeah 1666 Mhz makes the RX480 roughly equivalent so yeah "drop mic"
RX480 www.3dmark.com/fs/11143367
1070 www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-review,28.html
I was a little too optimistic about what Polaris can do. :laugh:
TL;DR If it shows their card more favorably than what the 480 is, then it's a win.