BIOSTAR Announces Radeon RX 580 White Graphics Card

[Dirt Chip]

Next up, 1060TI in white.

Awesome press release

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

So, 8 GB VRAM was already a standard back then in 2016-2017 mainstream GPUs (even RX 480 from half of 2016 had 8 GB memory). Yet, today we have mainstream GPUs (RX 7700, RTX 4070) with 10 or 12 GB memory. Pathetic. 16 GB should have been a minimum for such cards nowadays, especially when we see that any new game can easily eat up to 16-20 GB of memory.

Anyway, this Biostar's RX 580 release is hilarious, if it's true. Better late than never, hahah. MSRP? $120? I'd understand 16 GB special version, which might be useful for some low cost high video memory usage scenarios, but much better choice would be RX 7600 XT 16 GB.

Whose fault is that? It's obvious Nvidia gives less VRAM at any given market segment compared to AMD generwlly speaking (for example, the 7800xt has 16GB and is anywhere from $50 to $100+ cheaper vs the 4070 which has 12GB)...personally, I think it's insane that the 4070 didn't have 16GB of VRAM, but so long as they're flying off the shelves with 12GB, Nvidia literally has no incentive to ever give more VRAM.

 

[LazyGamer]

Hi, guys. Listen...we got a shitload of unsold RX580's that we gotta move either to recycling center or in your hands. So please buy them, m'kay?

 

[WatchThe80s]

Was there a typo in the year when they wanted to publish this?

 

[_roman_]

This is kind of Biostar's thing for those not tracking, buy a mountain of no doubt heavily discounted ICs and then crank out 'new' product releases way after the rest of the market has moved on. Kind of like Aliexpress resellers, only more official.

That sounds plausible. Biostar is niche product, as it's gigabyte. Some hardware in the past years for central europe. Well NZXT also annouced outdated mainboards with double or three times the usual price. OEM could / maybe be Asrock for NZXT.

BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, IPC solutions, and storage devices, ...

I'd expected to read MSI, a leading ....
Maybe ASUS, ...
or maybe ASROCK, ...

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The buyer should be aware, that he soon or he already needs AMD legacy GPU drivers for any operating systems.

 

[LittleBro]

Every one of the manufacturers calls themselves a leading smth. It's funny to hove so many leaders ... ehm, pardon, I meant leading companies.
Maybe it's meant like: Biostar, a leading manufacturer of Biostar hardware, releases brand new RX 580 in epic white.

Whose fault is that? It's obvious Nvidia gives less VRAM at any given market segment compared to AMD generwlly speaking (for example, the 7800xt has 16GB and is anywhere from $50 to $100+ cheaper vs the 4070 which has 12GB)...personally, I think it's insane that the 4070 didn't have 16GB of VRAM, but so long as they're flying off the shelves with 12GB, Nvidia literally has no incentive to ever give more VRAM.

Also, don't forget that RTX 4070 was meant to be RTX 4080 - that means they dared to push 12 GB of VRAM even into upper mainstream, while AMD has 12 GB only at lower mainstream.

 

[AusWolf]

Every one of the manufacturers calls themselves a leading smth. It's funny to hove so many leaders ... ehm, pardon, I meant leading companies.
Maybe it's meant like: Biostar, a leading manufacturer of Biostar hardware, releases brand new RX 580 in epic white.

Also, what exactly do these companies "lead"? Their employees maybe?

Edit: It kind of reminds me of the scene from Fight Club when the main character talks about how recalls in the car industry work, and and old lady sitting next to him on the airplane asks him: "which car company do you work for?" And he responds with a deadly serious face: "a major one".

 

[bonehead123]

In the business world, this is known as a "chump dump", hahahaha......

But otoh, the one thing that hasn't changed is the false advertising of so-called "white" cards, which this one is NOT...it's a black/silver card with a white SHROUD & FANS...

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

What's next, a new laptop with a 1366x768 TFT panel?

 

[Adrian Andrzejewski]

April 18th, 2017

 

[Ruru]

So they release a 7 year old EOL card with discontinued driver support, I want the same stuff they're smoking.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

If this is an Asia only release then it would make a lot of sense as the 580 is super popular there due to the amount of internet gaming cafes they have in that part of the world where People can go in and book a computer for a few hours to play some games like Warcraft, DOTA, LoL, fortenite or rocketleague etc etc. You dont need a lot of horse power to run those games.

It wouldnt make sense to ship these cards to the west as by the time you add up all the overhead costs, people here wouldnt touch them. Most people already wouldnt touch them. Either they sell it super cheap to the average joe or they'll get picked up by crypto miners or businesses like Internet gaming cafes or any place that will allow you and your friends to have a LAN session on their machines for a few hours.

 

[masterdeejay]

2048 so it is a RX570 OC
Here in Hungary, there is a lot of real RX580 cards for ~50-60 USD, the RX570 is cheaper.

 

[Dragokar]

Well now can a “reputable” brand reuse the mining chips and PCBs

 

[Darc Requiem]

So they release a 7 year old EOL card with discontinued driver support, I want the same stuff they're smoking.

They need to package whatever they are smoking and sell it. They'd make more money.

 

[Tomorrow]

I believe RX 580 will not be supported by AMD soon!

What is this belief based on? Has AMD announced that they will discontinue Polaris support?

So they release a 7 year old EOL card with discontinued driver support, I want the same stuff they're smoking.

Except it's not discontinued if you had spent 60 seconds to see for yourself:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/down...0-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-580.html

Revision Number: Adrenalin 24.3.1 (WHQL Recommended)
Release Date: 2024-03-20

And this is on Windows 11. Linux drivers are even newer: 2024-06-19
For reference the current newest AMD drivers are 24.8.1 dated 2024-08-29

 

[kapqa]

if it dualslot,
it great news for macowners

 

[Ruru]

What is this belief based on? Has AMD announced that they will discontinue Polaris support?

Except it's not discontinued if you had spent 60 seconds to see for yourself:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/down...0-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-580.html

And this is on Windows 11. Linux drivers are even newer: 2024-06-19
For reference the current newest AMD drivers are 24.8.1 dated 2024-08-29

In a week, that's six months. I would say that it's more or less discontinued.

 

[JoniISkandar]

rx 580 2048 is selling for 60-70$ now in my country with random rand name

 

[Tomorrow]

In a week, that's six months. I would say that it's more or less discontinued.

That's an odd assumption. So if a card has not received a driver update in the last 7 days it's discontinued?
What is the deadline before we can consider a card discontinued? (in terms of driver support).
I say it should be at least 12 months with no updates. 3 months is barely worth discussing.

And it's not six months. Like i said that's on Windows. On Linux it's less than 3 months.
3-6 months is ok for such an old card. AMD simply moved Polaris to slower release cadence. They did not discontinue the driver support.
It's not discontinued like R9 series etc that have drivers from 2022 - in that case several years without updates can be considered discontinued.
But since people these days have the attention span of goldfish and wont bother doing a 60 second search, that's how false information spreads...

I've argued this with people before. AMD seems to support their cards for around 8 years. Nvidia does it for 10 years.
Yet people say that AMD abandons their cards quickly and it has bad driver support. By that metric i may as well say that 10 years from Nvidia is also not "good" as people claim.

 

[Readlight]

I use RX 460 in htpc build. Movies. 2D games, with not much 3D, fancy shadows, light. Works.

 

[A&P211]

damn i just gave my RX580 and the old system to the GF

Is she now your ex gf?

 

[dirtyferret]

Finally! A card that can play Crysis

 

[de.das.dude]

Is she now your ex gf?

why would that be

 

[mechtech]

8GB!!

I'll give you $50 CAD............if it comes with a 3-yr warranty.