Radeon RX 570 with 16GB of graphics memory spotted

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/17/2019 11:05 AM | source: news.mydrivers.com | 35 comment(s)

Yeah, I had to check that twice as well. But as it turns out, Sapphire has released a Radeon RX 570 with 16GB GDDR5 graphics memory. The product seems to be based on the Nitro+ design.

So the 16 GB is certainly not needed for any kind of gaming, you could, of course, argue that in ultra HD some games could pass 8GB, but really this card is not fast enough. So why a 16GB version then? Well, mining is the answer here. As it turns out

ASIC miners using hat is called the Cuckoo Cycle algorithm benefits from such big memory values and can utilize between 5.5 and 11 Gigabytes of memory. A lunch/availability date has not been confirmed yet, neither is the price known.

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Undying
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#5629295 Posted on: 01/18/2019 09:34 PM

Even if the card has no video port it does not mean you cant game on it.

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#5629346 Posted on: 01/19/2019 02:38 AM

Even if the card has no video port it does not mean you cant game on it.

How does that work?

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#5629393 Posted on: 01/19/2019 10:52 AM

How does that work?

Same as laptops. You can use low and high performance gpu for different applications inside the windows.

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#5629881 Posted on: 01/21/2019 03:01 PM

How does that work?

It is easy to test and really is seamless people that just sit to play a game will not even know thr signal passing through another vga, on my old i7 i was using the build in gpu just for the secondary monitor i could move the window of the game around with out any fps loss at all or even leave it hanging between 2 monitor s!

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#5629882 Posted on: 01/21/2019 03:01 PM

I do not see the point in this...

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