Sunday, April 8th 2018
AMD Readies Radeon RX 500X Series Graphics Cards
AMD is giving final touches to the new Radeon RX 500X-series graphics cards. Product page placeholders for RX 580X, RX 570X, RX 560X, and RX 550X surfaced on AMD website. The specifications tabs on these pages are blank, so there's no official information on what the "X" denotes. It's curious to see AMD give the extension to even lower-end SKUs such as the RX 560 and RX 550.
The company has, in the past, come up with extensions such as "D" to denote OEM-specific SKUs with different specifications than the retail-channel (AIB) products. Going by the convention of "X" denoting higher performance on certain AMD Ryzen processor SKUs, the RX 500X series could have one of several improvements - a new silicon fabrication process facilitating a clock-speed bump, or faster memory, or even some speed boosting feature similar to Ryzen XFR (extended frequency range). We'll know soon enough.
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The company has, in the past, come up with extensions such as "D" to denote OEM-specific SKUs with different specifications than the retail-channel (AIB) products. Going by the convention of "X" denoting higher performance on certain AMD Ryzen processor SKUs, the RX 500X series could have one of several improvements - a new silicon fabrication process facilitating a clock-speed bump, or faster memory, or even some speed boosting feature similar to Ryzen XFR (extended frequency range). We'll know soon enough.
87 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon RX 500X Series Graphics Cards
I certainly hope that, at least, they give those new cards more memory bandwidth and a higher number of CUs... and I also hope for miners to not get those cards, nor raise their prices sky-high.It does, I know a lot of people who won't buy a new screen to replace their current 1080p or 768p displays, as it is enough for them or don't feel comfortable with larger screens (and/or don't want to deal with scaling and HiDPI). They'd rather get a new card.That may work, but I'd still prefer that AMD gave the new cards a higher bandwidth than their predecessors. The RX 580 tops out at 256 GB/s, but the R9 390X reached 384 GB/s, using GDDR5. So, it shouldn't be impossible.
i also think the 550X will have 640 shaders
A 580 does 1440ish... Here's to hoping the 580x does 1440 woooo.
also dont forget it took nvidia 3 months to release 680 after HD 7970... so.. yeah..
Man this brings back memories.
Example proof:
Replace:
products.amd.com/en-us/search/desktop-graphics/radeon -rx-series/radeon -rx-500x-series/Radeon -RX-560x/82
with (I removed the Xs):
products.amd.com/en-us/search/desktop-graphics/radeon -rx-series/radeon -rx-500-series/Radeon -RX-560/82
You get the exact same page. The 82 (the ID) is the important number.
You can even do this:
products.amd.com/en-us/search/desktop-graphics/nvidia-1100-series/nvidia-1180-ti/82
;)
Additionally, all of these published numbers have IDs lower than 94, which belongs to the 14 CU RX 560:
products.amd.com/en-us/search/Desktop-Graphics/Radeon™-RX-Series/Radeon™-RX-500-Series/Radeon™-RX-560/94
And we know that this card page appeared in December 2017 when that RX 560 controversy surfaced: www.techpowerup.com/239421/amd-officially-but-silently-downgrades-radeon-rx-560-with-an-896-sp-variant.
The vast majority of gamers are on 1080p.
According to steam hardware survey 1440p is at about 3.5%, FHD at 72%.
12nm refresh, increased ceiling goes to clocks and some higher clocked (doubt we'll see GDDR5X though) memory to go with.
We *may* also see rationalisation in the lower product stacks, AMD doesn't have a direct competitor against the 1050 Ti for example, and even the 1050 is a little touch and go with this big jump between the 560 and 570. IMO, we may see the 550 increase to 560 spec, and the 560 gain a few CU's.
but then again.. i doubt it because that would certainly merit another generation name, like 680..