Thursday, December 7th 2017
AMD Issues Official Statement Regarding RX 560 Silent Downgrade
AMD has come forward with a statement regarding the state of things as it purports to the recent RX 560 downgrade issue, which has been covered extensively by media outlets just this week. The issue stems from the fact that there was no clear differentiator between two different versions of AMD's RX 560 graphics card, which could ship with two different levels of performance: one with 14 CUs (Compute Units) enabled (896 stream processors) or 16 (1024 stream processors, the original specification for the card).
"It's correct that 14 Compute Unit (896 stream processors) and 16 Compute Unit (1024 stream processor) versions of the Radeon RX 560 are available," stated a company representative. "We introduced the 14 CU version this summer to provide AIBs and the market with more RX 500 series options. It's come to our attention that on certain AIB and e-tail websites there's no clear delineation between the two variants. We're taking immediate steps to remedy this: we're working with all AIB and channel partners to make sure the product descriptions and names clarify the CU count, so that gamers and consumers know exactly what they're buying. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused."
While it's true that AMD is now dealing with the situation openly, the company itself isn't completely blameless on the issue. AMD's own RX 560 product page lists the two possible configurations (14 and 16 CU) absent of any further differentiation in product name. At the same time, AMD could have better enforced differentiation opportunities with its AIB partners upon supplying them with both versions of the GPU. As it stands, some users have been unwittingly buying a lower performing part than what was initially advertised by AMD. While this new transparent stance from AMD is refreshing, it doesn't do much regarding already affected customers. Of course, if users suspect or want to check whether or not they have purchased the higher performance version of the card (16 CUs), they can perform a GPU verification with TechPowerUp's GPU-Z tool.
Source:
Tom's hardware
"It's correct that 14 Compute Unit (896 stream processors) and 16 Compute Unit (1024 stream processor) versions of the Radeon RX 560 are available," stated a company representative. "We introduced the 14 CU version this summer to provide AIBs and the market with more RX 500 series options. It's come to our attention that on certain AIB and e-tail websites there's no clear delineation between the two variants. We're taking immediate steps to remedy this: we're working with all AIB and channel partners to make sure the product descriptions and names clarify the CU count, so that gamers and consumers know exactly what they're buying. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused."
95 Comments on AMD Issues Official Statement Regarding RX 560 Silent Downgrade
What I mean is that you can't simply take all GT730s with all variations and put them in a spec page: you'll need a book on "Evolution and Classification of GT730 videocards" (probably in 2 volumes).
There are also dozens of variants of this card with PCIe x1 x4 x8 and x16 etc. etc. That's what their "Product Family" page is for.
P.S. And I fixed them all... :banghead:
EDIT; good grief my grammar today..
What else should we say ? That AMD is pure evil and it's out there to scam people ? That already has been said a million times.
TPU cracks me up.
Although, AMD is historically less guilty of "sins" than most other companies. I find it most intriuging and interesting when people feel personally threated by rising success of a company that they are personally not vested in.
TPU users dissapoint me on a near daily basis with... 1. What goes on here. 2. What is ALLOWED to go on here.
Surely, the answer is to log out and stay within the healthy confines of a more knowledgeable and mature forum... I need to start thinking about that more often. The only thing not questionable here are the reviews.
Yes, the moderation staff, at times, does not do enough to thwart the efforts of those adding nothing to the thread but flamebait and trolling. I reported posts in both threads, a mod posted to bring it on topic, people continued to post off topic and nothing. They cannot see everything, I know, I am a moderator as well at a smaller site. But when someone reports something, I tend to keep an eye on it after that, not post machismo and bail. This place needs far, FAR more moderation than my smaller site. TPU also has shed loads more staff than us. The silly part is they cannot act 'outside of their section'. So if I report something here and the mod isn't on, nothing can get done except an idle threat from another mod without power to act.
Anyway, I digress... my post(s) aren't doing a damn thing to help the thread out either. Just tired of the same bullshit from the same people week in and week out. But, I am in control of seeing that material and need to do something about it. I highly doubt I will stick around the forums much longer unless the environment changes.