ASRock working on Mk2 version of Radeon Phantom Gaming Series
While we recently reviewed the Phantom Gaming RX580 OC from ASRock, over in Asia Xfastest organized a product briefing with several manufacturers. Among the presenters was ASRock, and they showed slides on the current and future plans for graphics cards.
There are some interesting points to note. First off, ASRock will remain AMD Radeon solely, that is for sure, so do not expect anything NVIDIA GeForce from them. In a product roadmap, they are showing to be aggressively working on new SKUs. They've created a time-line running up-to February 2019 in this slide, that also is a bit indicative on the AMD side, from the looks of it there is nothing new (600 series) until that timeframe?
ASRock will be releasing new models of that graphics cards though you can see Mk2 entries, Mark two, as in revision two. It will be interesting to see if they can improve on cooling, as that is a bit of an Achilles heel with the current OC model, they are a notch too loud. ASRock also shared some slides explaining the naming behind the product series, have a peek.
Source: XFastest
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oh great a GTX 1070 rehash for 350 is all they would need to combat the rx series
right now a 1070 founders is still 399 thats bs 1060 300+- and the 580 300+-
I have a feeling we are gunna see a bunch of bs on both sides I hope not but we'll see.
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Wouldn't it be possible AMD has forbidden them from talking about (totally) new GPUs even if they already knew about them? It would be an exceptionally grievous mistake if they leaked anything in a presentation like that.
That being said, I'm not exactly optimistic about anything existing.
Probably, the most interesting part is that they are doing new designs. Hopefully they will have some crazy oc-formula like model that just kills any other on cooling and performance.
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Wouldn't it be possible AMD has forbidden them from talking about (totally) new GPUs even if they already knew about them? It would be an exceptionally grievous mistake if they leaked anything in a presentation like that.
That being said, I'm not exactly optimistic about anything existing.