Tuesday, December 3rd 2019
AMD to Unveil Radeon RX 5500 XT and RX 5600 Series in December
AMD is expected to bolster its mid-thru-performance segments of graphics cards with a few new product announcements in December. To begin with, the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which maxes out the 24 RDNA compute units on the "Navi 14" silicon, could see an early-December announcement, possibly ahead of the mid-December release of the RX 5500 to the AIB (add-in board) retail channel. Next up, is the new RX 5600 series, which enables AMD to capture $200-$300 price-points, competing with the likes of the GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1660 Ti.
There's no word on how what silicon the RX 5600 series is based on, but VideoCardz reports that the series topping RX 5600 XT has 6 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface. We expect that the RX 5600-series will carved out of the "Navi 10" silicon by disabling many RDNA compute units and narrowing its memory bus. Given that the RX 5500 XT has 1,536 stream processors and the RX 5700 has 2,304, AMD's wiggle room is somewhere between the two, with stream processor counts of 2,048 or 1,920 being plausible for the RX 5600 XT, and 1,792 for the RX 5600, if it exists. Availability of the RX 5600 series is slated for January 2020.
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There's no word on how what silicon the RX 5600 series is based on, but VideoCardz reports that the series topping RX 5600 XT has 6 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface. We expect that the RX 5600-series will carved out of the "Navi 10" silicon by disabling many RDNA compute units and narrowing its memory bus. Given that the RX 5500 XT has 1,536 stream processors and the RX 5700 has 2,304, AMD's wiggle room is somewhere between the two, with stream processor counts of 2,048 or 1,920 being plausible for the RX 5600 XT, and 1,792 for the RX 5600, if it exists. Availability of the RX 5600 series is slated for January 2020.
37 Comments on AMD to Unveil Radeon RX 5500 XT and RX 5600 Series in December
When was the last time there was not an excited release from AMD? This really has me keen on the "big" Navi card(s). If the 5700XT (possibly the best price/performance current gen card) can beat the Vega 64 in just about every game out there the "big Navi" should be the undisputed king of AMD's stack.
If overclocked it will most likely beat a Vega56 with about 150W total boardpower.
Guess Navi yields dictated it, but still disappointing.
These cards should not exist, neither should those stupid GTX1600 series crap.
Drop the damn price on the RTX2060 and 5700 etc back to what they should be, 250 - 300 dollar and lets move on ffs.
It wouldn't be too unexpected; the original Navi series being the first gen with kinks that need to be hammered out, and then diving all-in with refinements on Navi 2/RDNA2. There's also the fact that some of Navi resources were also tied up in console R&D for MS and Sony, so lessons learned from that plus the features that are coming out on console but not Navi 1 (at least, not yet, like raytracing) could apply to Navi 2.
Personally, I'd be happy if AMD could figure out how to Zen-fy their GPUs so that they can have one I/O die but 2 GPU cores allowing for MCM GPUs. Sure, power won't be great, but it would allow a new scaling segment while AMD figures out how to improve the GPU cores themselves to be more efficient. For example; 5500XT x2, 5600XT x2, and 5700XT x2 cards that harken back to the R9 295x2 and ASUS ARES series 2-in-1 GPUs with waterblocks, or the more conventional air-cooled 3 slot monstrosities similar to the custom card for Apple's new desktop or the R9 290X2.
In the past years there were rumors about "big Polaris" and "big Vega" too, but none of those were true either, despite getting a lot of traction.
I doubt there is a "big Navi" coming for 1st gen Navi, since there is no evidence of it (that I know of) it probably means it either was cancelled long before the final stages, or it never existed in the first place. We'll see if there is something if a Navi refresh happens.
The problem with "big Navi", as I have mentioned before, is that it would probably consume ~300-350W, unless it runs at very low clock speeds. And Nvidia's new generation is coming "soon"…
It usually takes ~12-15 months from tapeout to launch, more if there are problems.
Also, 6GB memory... I assume all of the AMD fanbois who cried about NVIDIA using 6GB on RTX 2060 will be their usual hypocritical selves about AMD doing the same.Seriously? Why not? The actual model numbers maybe, but it was always guaranteed that there was going to be a smaller Navi(s) to serve the low and middle segments.
A good 5700 is 400€+
ASUS 1660ti's go for 350€ ffs