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
It's a common tactic. Polaris may have not been as good as anyone could have wanted, because of the relatively low number of CUs and the memory bandwidth, but it's already proven to work well enough.
I'm running the LG 29UM69G and to be honest. I'm not missing Freesync as it already has some compensation built in. It's not perfect, but it just works.
Better to wait for Turing(*2) at this point. Or die-shrunk VEGA that, maybe, is going to appear for a decent price. Or just snag a 10 series card when the prices drop below MSRP.
Don't expect AMD Navi to come here soon, they're probably saving that for consoles or something... they aren't gonna save us all from the
GreenGreed team, their market share doesn't seem to satisfy them anymore.*They are beating a dead horse with VEGA now, it's just Polaris with more power under it and HBM put on it, when you put it in layman's terms. They said it was a completely different architecture, I beg to differ when VEGA seems to handle voltage and power nearly the same way as Polaris and they both get exponentially harder to maintain good temperatures with, unless you undervolt, both architectures seem to have the same roof when it comes to that.
I think there are even tests clock for clock at same base speed where VEGA 56 for example is not much faster than an RX580. VEGA would have only be good if it was undervolted out the box and had a firm price, but that never happened (2nd mining craze).
VEGA reminds me too much of the R9 Fury(X). Which were OK cards for the time.
*2(Nvidia Turing a.k.a Volta with GDDR6 for gaming with no tensor cores, because why would you invest in an architecture millions of dollars and release only 2 GPUs which are only for professional use and not for gaming, even if they are more than thousands of $ a pop. Plus Nvidia is sneaky and trying to distance themselves away from the "Poor Volta" AMD video. So they're not using that name anymore for the next-gen AFAIK.)
Their marketing never ceases to impress.
So yes, all of that info is fluid and subject to change and a new name does not a new architecture make.
About clock for clock - this may be true but its not a very relevant comparison. Apply that to Pascal and it provides no real information, because the actual clocks are so much higher and another big influence is the shader count that uses this clock, plus the resources around it (ROP, VRAM, etc.).
The distinction here is 'refresh' - which means its not a new iteration of architecture but rather, a refined product based on existing architecture.
I can just imagine the die shot, would look pretty impressive. The problem would be creating another cooling solution for it, especially if it ran HBM, which drag out the release date of such a thing even longer.
Maybe they're not doing it because multi-GPU cards suck at rendering games properly and efficiently, even drivers play a big part of that working well. I mean they have to have tried to make such a beast at some point to test the concept.
A man can dream, right?
Where is that thing anyway. Amd announced it on CES in January 2018. Haven't seen anything after that.
But I don't mean that, Lisa Su herself kept that Radeon Vega Mobile silicon in her hands on CES 2018.
Personally, right now an RX580/GTX 1060 6GB is enough for my ultrawide needs. But I'm having an itch already to upgrade to something 50% as fast, so I can run anti-aliasing or heavy post-processing. The cards on the market right now are still above MSRP but retailers are caving slowly. It's been 2 years since Pascal release, it is time to replace the old and on with the new.
Edited my previous post because I had a non-lethal brainfart. This is why I shouldn't post just before work.
just another ''latest'' hardware that cant support 1?2 of what the older hardware could for the same if not more prices . they see you coming a mile away with there hook line and sinkers ..
enjoy
i would of thought gddr5x would of made sense for the 70 and 80 cards as they're somewhat starved in that area but to do the whole range?
1002 67FF Rev E5 = RX 560D
1002 67FF Rev E0 = RX 560 Mobile
1002 67FF Rev CF = RX 560
1002 67DF Rev EF = RX 570
1002 67DF Rev E7 = RX 580
1002 67FF 1028 1726 Rev E5 = AMD Radeon RX 560DX
1002 67FF 103C 8479 Rev E0 = AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
1002 67FF 1028 1721 Rev CF = AMD Radeon RX 560X
1002 67DF 1028 1722 Rev EF = AMD Radeon RX 570X
1002 67DF 1028 1723 Rev E7 = AMD Radeon RX 580X
that settles it for me, the rebrand is no longer rumor its indeed fact.