Friday, March 31st 2017
AMD "Polaris" Based Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 Pictured
AMD is preparing new SKUs based on its "Polaris 10" silicon, which are built on a more refined 14 nm FinFET process, to facilitate higher GPU clock speeds, and improved energy efficiency. These include the Radeon RX 580 and the Radeon RX 570. The reference-design boards of the two were pictured, and aren't strictly "rebadged" RX 480 and RX 470. The two feature higher clocks, and are supported by a redesigned VRM. The RX 570 draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, while the RX 580 draws it from a single 8-pin connector.
The core-configurations of the RX 580 and RX 570 aren't different from their predecessors - the RX 580 still features 2,304 stream processors, and the RX 570 features 2,048, but clock speeds are increased across the board. The RX 580 ticks at about 1340 MHz (vs. 1266 MHz of the RX 480), with its memory speed unchanged at 8.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective), while the RX 570 is clocked at 1244 MHz (vs. 1206 MHz of the RX 470), with its memory clock slightly increased to 7.00 GHz. The two cards also seem to do away with the DVI port. According to VideoCardz, the two cards could launch on the 18th of April, 2017.
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VideoCardz
The core-configurations of the RX 580 and RX 570 aren't different from their predecessors - the RX 580 still features 2,304 stream processors, and the RX 570 features 2,048, but clock speeds are increased across the board. The RX 580 ticks at about 1340 MHz (vs. 1266 MHz of the RX 480), with its memory speed unchanged at 8.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective), while the RX 570 is clocked at 1244 MHz (vs. 1206 MHz of the RX 470), with its memory clock slightly increased to 7.00 GHz. The two cards also seem to do away with the DVI port. According to VideoCardz, the two cards could launch on the 18th of April, 2017.
41 Comments on AMD "Polaris" Based Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 Pictured
To be absolutely honest I'm not quite fond on rebrands. Looking the specs, price is the only thing what can make these attractive.
I mean, itll be another year of AMD's x8x chip competing against nvidia's xx6x chip. AMD's x9x chip will most likely be a 1070 competitor, with the 1080 and ti being completely unopposed for another year, assuming they actually get vega out on time.
Considering that the stated performance on the memory of RX 580 is unchanged from RX 480, it's still using ye olde GDDR5 instead of GDDR5X too.
This is not Vega....
On topic, as long as the price is right (meaning lower then the rx480) I might just have to get this card.
I have not bought an RX480 yet, if it were to drop in price I might.
Price drops are always a motivator for buyers, its competing with the GTX1060 so drop the price and sell some units.
Seems pretty logical to me.
Which is a GOOD line and a preference over the NV-line in their segment.;)
GDDR5X could probably add some speed, but:
a) it probably costs a lot of money to implement it, which AMD doesn't have
b) the cards won't reach 1070 levels no matter how fast the RAM speed is, they are already competitive with 1060 which matters most
c) it will probably increase card costs to a level where they will have a questionable perf/price
d) the competition doesn't seem to plan any refreshes with major performance boosts
If the RX 500 series solves the majority of the RX 400 series problems (too high voltage which causes stability problems), they already done a good enough job.
They should however have released the cards as RX 485, RX 475, and RX 465 and most of the complaints would go away.