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
so i have 3x 5700 series gpus all reference built by AMD and i have not ad any issues.. my gtx 1080ti 11gb hybrid evga sc2 gpu had issues, so my radeon is better and faster (in dx12 anyway)should of flashed an xt bios to it and not sold it lol, my refernece 5700 is flashed with xt bios of a 5700 xt and its basicaly getting the 110-115% of a 5700xt gpu not bad but u have to run it hot, mine dont get aout 60-70c on full load in a dx12 title ...but at +40% power limit and set @ 2066mhz oc so its a beast of a card just dont have raytracing but even a rtx 2080ti can be brought to its knees with RTX ON.. seriously.. wasnt worth getting an RTX gpu yet, im waiting for RDNA2 and even then i may not use rt-rt effrects cuz i want max fps 144+ unless i can get at minimum of 75fps.. but i have a 144-200hz ultra wide 30" 2560 x 1080p lcd panel and need @ minimum 100-120hz or fps or my gameplay sucks and not butterly smooth..... freesync sucks, gsync sucks too.. even gsync setups make my games crash.... on a rtx 2070ti a friend let me try out, i said nah not worth it so got a 5700xt and then another for 2nd system then got a 5700 non xt just cuz it was cheap asf and got it just for modding it xt biosd mod and power mods etc...did a caps mod on my 5700 and had it hittng 2.2ghz +50% power but was running about 80c, but was also drawing over 330 watts for a tiny 251mm2 die is insane.... but was pushed to tht limit on a cut down gou a non xt variant die.. was impressed it hit the 2200mhz when both my 5700xt reference gpus wont even hit 2150mhz with +40-50% pwr limit
Literary license only goes so far before it runs into the ass end of common sense.
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97129/intel-core-i7-7700k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-50-ghz.html
Even the i7-970 which has been done for years and years, shows as discontinued. They don't seem to even USE "EOL" in the product status descriptions, regardless of how old it is.
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I hadn't bought a AMD card since a 7870. I had the GTX 970 for SERVERAL years.
Last year, when upgrading my PC to a 2700x I decided to just go all team READ for the first time in over 10+ years.
Sadly, I bought an RX 5700. I've had nothing but display issues with it. From day 1 till now.
They are very intermittent, so I really can't find a root cause. But through several driver versions.
One problem always seems to get better, and then another presents itself.
I'm not seeing a huge improvement with my RX 5700 in performance over my GTX 970.
I've used Windows, Linux, with this card. With nothing but issues.
From the bottom of my heart, I hope AMD has more stable cards this go around.
But I think from a stability standpoint. I may update to something different.
People will shit on AMD complaining about drivers forever, some people don't even own AMD and still complain about AMD drivers, so it's not a driver problem, it's a story that it's told even by reviewers that AMD drivers are so bad you should buy Nvidia.
I have an AMD card and i tell you it's not true, sure there are some stupid things like fan curves that resets but overall it works.
Just because windows has a BSOD, they blame windows and not the RAM overclock, etc etc.