Friday, October 2nd 2020
AMD RX 5700 Series Reportedly Enter EOL - No Longer Manufactured
Update, October 7th 2020: AMD has confirmed it has ceased production for the RX 5700, but that RX 5700 XT manufacturing will be ongoing at least until 1Q2021. It's unclear what this means for the company's RDNA2 launch plans; it could be speculated the company will be releasing halo products first, with lower tiers being launched at a later time, in line with NVIDIA's usual launch cadence. This would justify the RX 5700 being kept in fabrication, since with a substantial price cut, it could become a mainstream AMD product).
A report originated from Cowcotland paints AMD as having ceased production on the Navi 10-powered RX 5700 XT and RX 5700. No reference or custom designs are currently being manufactured for either of these GPUs. AMD having ceased production on these cards makes sense, considering the upcoming announcement for the RX 6000 series scheduled for October 28th. This serves as a way for the supply channel to keep draining its supply of RX 5700 cards ahead of the upcoming RDNA 2 solutions. Them being discontinued means that AMD is looking to replace them - at least price-wise - on their product stack.
Interestingly, it appears that the RX 5600 XT is still being manufactured - it's likely AMD reduced manufacturing of Navi 10 so as to feed only this GPU, which should, as such, remain in the market for a little while until AMD launches an RDNA 2 equivalent - if those are the company's plans. TSMC capacity is freed for additional wafers for other AMD product requirements - which, with both Zen 3, next-gen consoles, and RDNA 2 all launching between the same time frame - should tend towards infinity.
Sources:
Cowcotland, via Videocardz
A report originated from Cowcotland paints AMD as having ceased production on the Navi 10-powered RX 5700 XT and RX 5700. No reference or custom designs are currently being manufactured for either of these GPUs. AMD having ceased production on these cards makes sense, considering the upcoming announcement for the RX 6000 series scheduled for October 28th. This serves as a way for the supply channel to keep draining its supply of RX 5700 cards ahead of the upcoming RDNA 2 solutions. Them being discontinued means that AMD is looking to replace them - at least price-wise - on their product stack.
Interestingly, it appears that the RX 5600 XT is still being manufactured - it's likely AMD reduced manufacturing of Navi 10 so as to feed only this GPU, which should, as such, remain in the market for a little while until AMD launches an RDNA 2 equivalent - if those are the company's plans. TSMC capacity is freed for additional wafers for other AMD product requirements - which, with both Zen 3, next-gen consoles, and RDNA 2 all launching between the same time frame - should tend towards infinity.
71 Comments on AMD RX 5700 Series Reportedly Enter EOL - No Longer Manufactured
The 5600XT will be the remainder navi chipsets being cut down in order to remove stock on hand.
RDNA 2 with 20/22(?) CU from Xbox Series S
RDNA 2 with 36/40 CU from PS5
RDNA 2 with 52/56 CU from Xbox Series X
RDNA 2 beyond 56 CU as "Big NAVI".
HW raytracing enabled for the entire RDNA 2 product stack.
They are simply reallocating production capacity to meet the demand for a more profitable product: Renoir.
if only AMD could look at my history of gpu purchases all the way back to AGP days... they would be like oh yes we will sell to you first. long time gamers will continue to suffer i fully expect everything to be sold out for 6+ months. at least reference editions of the gpu, which is what i want.
I'm all about price/perf.
On paper the 5700 was a good buy, but all the problems I've had with it prove otherwise.
$649.. so
Anyway, it seems Videocardz got told that the 5700 XT will not be discontinued until at least Q1 2021. The non XT variant is on special order, though.