Wednesday, April 12th 2017
AMD's RX 500 Series Launch Confirmed on April 18th
AMD is on a roll with product launches lately, having just pushed out what is probably the most significant update in mainstream CPUs in years: the Ryzen 5 line of desktop processors. You can look over TPU's review of the 1500X and 1600X here and here. AMD is looking towards powering another central part of your desktop processor, though, with the impending launch of the RX 500 line of GPUs.
Confirmed as rebrands of previous-generation Polaris 10, the new RX 500 series will carry the new Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 20 XL chips, which are expected to feature higher clocks (in the range of 1300-1400 MHz) from AIBs, before your own overclocking. PowerColor has officially confirmed the launch date as April 18th through social media with a tease for their new Red Devil graphics card. Now if only we could see Vega on this new horizon...
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Videocardz
Confirmed as rebrands of previous-generation Polaris 10, the new RX 500 series will carry the new Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 20 XL chips, which are expected to feature higher clocks (in the range of 1300-1400 MHz) from AIBs, before your own overclocking. PowerColor has officially confirmed the launch date as April 18th through social media with a tease for their new Red Devil graphics card. Now if only we could see Vega on this new horizon...
16 Comments on AMD's RX 500 Series Launch Confirmed on April 18th
Re-branding is in my eyes fraud, its meant to deceive costumers. AMD could you please stop doing that, the press should stop reporting and testing re-branded products.
Nvidia is just as guilty or rebrands, and may have originated it.
RX = Re-brands eXtended
Once they are operating within healthy profit margins, they will be in a better stance to make riskier decisions.
With that said, AMD is doing their best to provide cards within every tier of performance. They have already introduced a card (Vega) to represent their enthusiast tier. They designed and utilized brand new processes to do this because that was required to hit higher levels of performance. Everything below that they can already achieve with existing technology.
So why in the world do you think they would use their latest technologies to achieve performance levels that they can already attain when they posses mature, efficient, cost-effective technologies to do so? It seems quite obvious to me there isn't enough incentive to do so.
It comes down to cost and risk. Smart business leaders are adept at managing these factors. AMD is just now digging themselves out of a hole so keep that in context when you think about all of this.
In other words, you don't always have to use today's latest and greatest tools to perform yesterday's demands...
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/19.html Do you mean LPE/LPP? Got a source on it?
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I'm worried about bloody Vega. If at freaking 500mm2 and HBM2 it can only compete with non Ti GDDR equipped 314mm2 1080, that's epic.fail.