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.
Source: VideoCardz
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41 Comments on AMD "Polaris" Based Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 Pictured

#26
ZoneDymo
NdMk2o1o480's don't have an issue selling regardless if you don't want to pay for one...
Not saying they have, but im not the odd individual, drop it by a nice 50 bucks and I would have no problem picking one up right away, would not think twice about it.
And with me a lot of others would not either.
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#27
Prima.Vera
Waste of Silicon and money from AMD. One of the most pointless releases from AMD's history. Even more pointless than the HD 68xx series.
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#28
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
hojnikbPretty missed opportunity to use the new 9Gbit gddr5 memory. Also i see they are still using this shit cooler.
If it hits the 95W power target it should have when released as the 480, the cooler will be more than enough.
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#30
Ungari
TheinsanegamerNI am amazed that AMD is going with rebrands, after a mediocre year of non competing. cmon AMD, you finally have a CPU worth buying, and your GPU department fell asleep at the wheel again? Not even a bigger polaris chip?

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.
Actually, many of us have been anticipating not a re-branding, but a refresh as this new process gets refined producing a higher ratio of what have been commercial binned top silicon capable lower TDP for much higher clock speeds.
Hopefully, this is the case here.
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#31
XiGMAKiD
I hope it can be overclocked higher than RX400 or priced a bit lower, or otherwise it's a waste of time
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#32
80-watt Hamster
Branding these as the 500 series doesn't make a ton of sense conceptually, and 465/75/85 would have been a bit more honest. But I don't see how the release is a waste of time. Why wouldn't they put the manufacturing refinements to good use? What are they supposed to do, have a bunch of faster chips coming off the line and sell them at the old clock rates or under the old names? The former is ridiculous from a technical perspective, the latter from a marketing one. Nobody's expecting 470/480 owners to bite on these, but the bump over the 400 cards might entice people who haven't upgraded yet this cycle to take the leap.

Man, leave it to the PC community to complain about a performance increase.
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#33
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
80-watt HamsterBranding these as the 500 series doesn't make a ton of sense conceptually, and 465/75/85 would have been a bit more honest. But I don't see how the release is a waste of time. Why wouldn't they put the manufacturing refinements to good use? What are they supposed to do, have a bunch of faster chips coming off the line and sell them at the old clock rates or under the old names? The former is ridiculous from a technical perspective, the latter from a marketing one. Nobody's expecting 470/480 owners to bite on these, but the bump over the 400 cards might entice people who haven't upgraded yet this cycle to take the leap.

Man, leave it to the PC community to complain about a performance increase.
It is a different process. It isn't very often either company has released a new process under the same line up.
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#34
Jism
IcePickHAHA look at that coke nail and the horrible TIM job. this is too funny.
"Engineering sample"

Are you dumb?
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#35
ratirt
Slight change of events. I remember people saying that Vega will be 5xx and it is not. Well as expected. AMD is releasing improved Polaris as 5xx as expected (I speak for myself here). Question is will it be noticeably better than the RX 4xx lineup? I hope so. Wonder how the OC department will suit the new RX 5xx series :) It will probably not reach 1070 GTX like somebody stated here but GOD please. it was never meant to reach 1070. Where do you people get this stuff, ideas? Wonder what would happen if it come closer :)
I'm really glad that AMD releases 500 series as Polaris. I just want to see the improvement and performance/price. Knowing the price points for rx 480 and 470 I believe AMD will do just fine and it will be best buy performance/price. I just want to know what would be the performance and where this new lineup will end up.
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#36
dj-electric
ratirtSlight change of events. I remember people saying that Vega will be 5xx and it is not. Well as expected. AMD is releasing improved Polaris as 5xx as expected (I speak for myself here). Question is will it be noticeably better than the RX 4xx lineup? I hope so. Wonder how the OC department will suit the new RX 5xx series :) It will probably not reach 1070 GTX like somebody stated here but GOD please. it was never meant to reach 1070. Where do you people get this stuff, ideas? Wonder what would happen if it come closer :)
I'm really glad that AMD releases 500 series as Polaris. I just want to see the improvement and performance/price. Knowing the price points for rx 480 and 470 I believe AMD will do just fine and it will be best buy performance/price. I just want to know what would be the performance and where this new lineup will end up.
They are using the exact same core architecture and memory chips.

Seriously, what can one expect more than +3-5% performance compered to 3rd party RX 480s that already exist.
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#37
Ungari
If you begin with a stock clock of 1340Mhz, you could possibly get 1525Mhz if the same amount of OC currently achievable on Air holds true.
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#38
ratirt
Dj-ElectriCThey are using the exact same core architecture and memory chips.

Seriously, what can one expect more than +3-5% performance compered to 3rd party RX 480s that already exist.
Well, just one suggestion to your comment. IT's not intel :)
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#39
dj-electric
ratirtWell, just one suggestion to your comment. IT's not intel :)
HD 7850 to R7 265
HD 7870 to R9 270X
HD 7970 to R9 280X
R9 290X to R9 390X

etc etc etc...

I'm gonna ask again, why would anyone at this point expect more than +3-5% performance compered to 3rd party RX 480s that already exist?
And no, "they are not shintel or Novideo" is not a smart answer.
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#40
Upgrayedd
Jism"Engineering sample"

Are you dumb?
"Engineering" means the TIM goes to shit and gets spread all over crap? Guess since I'm no engineer that I must be dumb and they MUST be right about the shitty ass TIM job..
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#41
Jism
IcePick"Engineering" means the TIM goes to shit and gets spread all over crap? Guess since I'm no engineer that I must be dumb and they MUST be right about the shitty ass TIM job..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_sample

It's far from being the retail product. It can even come across without paste, they are not entitled to actually.
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