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AMD RX 500 series Launch April 4th with three rebrands
We talked about a possible rehash before, but it seems it's now more validated. AMD will be rebranding some of the 400 series graphics cards into the RX 500 series. Starting April 4 you sould see the Radeon RX 570 and RX 580, followed by Radeon RX 550 en RX 560 on April 11th.
The Radeon RX 580 would be a faster version of the RX 480 with a bump in clock frequency towards 1340 MHz. The 570 would be a 38 MHz faster model based on the RX 470. Both models will again be offered in a 4GB and 8 GB version.
The RX 560 is a 460 with 1024 stream processors abd a clock frequency of 1287 MHz. This would make the 560 substantially faster compared to the 460. The RX 550 would be Polaris 12 based, a new low-end SKU. Details on that one are missing.
VEGA will be released later, quite honestly expect that to be released end of May/June in the Computex time frame
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#5401173 Posted on: 03/03/2017 11:48 AM
So a cut-down card that's being sold at half the price is a rebrand. TIL.
Some of you should start using your heads. It's not the first time I've seen this drivel. By this stupid logic, the Radeon 470 is rebranded from a Radeon 480.
Yeah as much as the likes of me hate it, it has advantages both for the company and for the consumers.
For one, lower costs can bring the prices down (or drive the profits up, pick your poison).
The good thing for both is the easier driver support. AMD fanboys can Finewine the Radeon cards as much as they like but the reality is that having rebrands from 3 generations ago made that feasible; not some special effort from AMD. But this was a major win for the customers.
1080Ti is a rebrand refresh of Titan XP. sorry needs to go both ways...
So a cut-down card that's being sold at half the price is a rebrand. TIL.
Some of you should start using your heads. It's not the first time I've seen this drivel. By this stupid logic, the Radeon 470 is rebranded from a Radeon 480.
8800GT-9800GT-GTS 250 yea I remeber thet foolery
Yeah as much as the likes of me hate it, it has advantages both for the company and for the consumers.
For one, lower costs can bring the prices down (or drive the profits up, pick your poison).
The good thing for both is the easier driver support. AMD fanboys can Finewine the Radeon cards as much as they like but the reality is that having rebrands from 3 generations ago made that feasible; not some special effort from AMD. But this was a major win for the customers.
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#5401214 Posted on: 03/03/2017 02:01 PM
AMD is effectively only re-branding 2 GPUs of the 500 series lineup. The 560 has enough differences over the 460 that it hardly counts as a re-brand.
When Nvidia rebrands a handful of GPUs, nobody bats an eye. When AMD does it, everyone loses their minds.
Here's what I don't get - why do you care? For example, if you didn't and had no intention to buy a 480, what's the likelihood you'd have bought a 580 if it were based on Vega or whatever? AMD is still releasing fresh new products, but there's not much of a reason to do an entirely new lineup. There's a pretty good chance Nvidia will do rebrands for the 2000 series too. It should be safe to assume that Vega will not have the same performance-per-watt boost that Pascal had over Maxwell.
Well Nvidia hasnt't rebranded a GPU since the 700 series GTX 680 = GTX 770. While AMD has done it a number of times. That is why some AMD fans lose their minds.
Plus to me with a rebranded card the only benefit I see is improved overclocking if possible. Maybe this rebrand isnt a bad Idea especially with the Rx480 issues that happened at that card's launch. Maybe by rebranding it into a 580 it could fix the power issues that killed some mobos.
8800GT-9800GT-GTS 250 yea I remeber thet foolery
Never knew that. So the old GTS 250 that I owned when I first bought my Core 2 rig was an improved 9800gt. Interesting.
AMD is effectively only re-branding 2 GPUs of the 500 series lineup. The 560 has enough differences over the 460 that it hardly counts as a re-brand.
When Nvidia rebrands a handful of GPUs, nobody bats an eye. When AMD does it, everyone loses their minds.
Here's what I don't get - why do you care? For example, if you didn't and had no intention to buy a 480, what's the likelihood you'd have bought a 580 if it were based on Vega or whatever? AMD is still releasing fresh new products, but there's not much of a reason to do an entirely new lineup. There's a pretty good chance Nvidia will do rebrands for the 2000 series too. It should be safe to assume that Vega will not have the same performance-per-watt boost that Pascal had over Maxwell.
Well Nvidia hasnt't rebranded a GPU since the 700 series GTX 680 = GTX 770. While AMD has done it a number of times. That is why some AMD fans lose their minds.
Plus to me with a rebranded card the only benefit I see is improved overclocking if possible. Maybe this rebrand isnt a bad Idea especially with the Rx480 issues that happened at that card's launch. Maybe by rebranding it into a 580 it could fix the power issues that killed some mobos.
8800GT-9800GT-GTS 250 yea I remeber thet foolery
Never knew that. So the old GTS 250 that I owned when I first bought my Core 2 rig was an improved 9800gt. Interesting.
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#5402148 Posted on: 03/05/2017 07:14 PM
The number 4s also being changed, to a 5.
Wonder if they'll re-do all the packaging, or just whack stickers on the boxes (like they did for the 4GB/8GB), be a whole lot cheaper
Well, if you have an XFX RX480 GTR , then you pretty much have the RX580(if nothing will be changed but gpu clock). Running @1400MHz only eating up 80-110 W . In some bench-s going over 110 W.
The number 4s also being changed, to a 5.
Wonder if they'll re-do all the packaging, or just whack stickers on the boxes (like they did for the 4GB/8GB), be a whole lot cheaper
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#5402154 Posted on: 03/05/2017 07:42 PM
Never knew that. So the old GTS 250 that I owned when I first bought my Core 2 rig was an improved 9800gt. Interesting.
They had a die shrink to 55nm.
8800GT was 65nm, 9800GT late launch some were 55nm and 250 GTS was all 55
Never knew that. So the old GTS 250 that I owned when I first bought my Core 2 rig was an improved 9800gt. Interesting.
They had a die shrink to 55nm.
8800GT was 65nm, 9800GT late launch some were 55nm and 250 GTS was all 55
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Not true, people were all over Nvidia when they rebranded the 88xx series.
No one is really "losing their mind" here, but any Nvidia fans who are are probably doing it because of the above.
8800GT-9800GT-GTS 250 yea I remeber thet foolery