- #GPU: GEFORCE 700 SERIES OR AMD RADEON RX 200 SERIES (EXCLUDING INTEGRATED CHIPSETS) WITH OPENGL 4.5 UPGRADE#
- #GPU: GEFORCE 700 SERIES OR AMD RADEON RX 200 SERIES (EXCLUDING INTEGRATED CHIPSETS) WITH OPENGL 4.5 FULL#
AMD is holding fast at 8Gbps GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory bus. Meanwhile the memory clock is not changing for the 8GB cards. As we’re seeing in our RX 580 review, expect the performance gains to closely mirror the boost clock changes. Meanwhile the base clock – which has proven somewhat arbitrary on Polaris since it rarely throttles anywhere near that much – is increasing by 12%, from 1120MHz to 1257MHz. Taking advantage of their manufacturing gains, AMD is bumping up the boost clock by 6%, from 1266MHz to 1340MHz. Like the RX 480 before it, this is a fully enabled Polaris 10 GPU. AMD Radeon RX 580 Specification ComparisonĪt the high end is AMD’s new midrange contender, the RX 580. These cards will extend from $79 up to $229, launching in waves over the next month. Spring 2017 GPU Pricing Comparisonĭiving into the cards themselves, we have the RX 580, RX 570, RX 560, and RX 550. AMD is continuing with their play for volume with the RX 500 series, so they are eager to grab what they estimate to be the 500M gamers who are still on video cards more than 2 years old. Instead the added performance is meant to further entice 28nm owners who didn’t bite on the RX 400 series.
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#GPU: GEFORCE 700 SERIES OR AMD RADEON RX 200 SERIES (EXCLUDING INTEGRATED CHIPSETS) WITH OPENGL 4.5 UPGRADE#
The actual performance gains over the RX 400 cards are only around 5%, so this isn’t meant as an upgrade for owners of those cards. Moving on, as I mentioned earlier, AMD’s target market for the new RX 500 cards is owners of existing 28nm cards such as the Radeon 300/200 series, as well as NVIDIA’s GTX 900/700 series. To get a better look at the numbers, please take a look at our RX 580 review. Consequently, TBPs are actually going up relative to the RX 400 cards, as AMD looks to maximize their performance-per-dollar ratio. One thing to note here is that while AMD’s chip quality has improved here, for the desktop AMD is investing virtually all of those gains into improving clockspeeds.
#GPU: GEFORCE 700 SERIES OR AMD RADEON RX 200 SERIES (EXCLUDING INTEGRATED CHIPSETS) WITH OPENGL 4.5 FULL#
Though to be clear here, the difference isn’t dramatic the gains from a year’s optimization to a manufacturing line are a fraction of a full node improvement. Typically these kinds of yearly gains would simply be rolled into a product line without any fanfare – these improvements are gradual over time anyhow, not a binary event – but for the RX 500 series AMD wants to call attention to them to explain why clockspeeds are improved versus the RX 400 series cards released last year.
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Both foundries have also been making other undisclosed, small tweaks to their lines to further boost chip quality. Yields are up and overall chip quality is better, which improves the average performance (clockspeed & power) characteristics of the chips. This is a bit of a mouthful, but in short it’s AMD calling attention to the improvements partners GlobalFoundries and Samsung have made to their 14nm LPP processes in the last year. Meanwhile on the manufacturing front, all of the revised Polaris chips are being manufactured on what AMD is calling the “Latest Generation FinFET 14” process. In the case of the latter, AMD is adding a new mid-power memory clock state so that applications that require memory clocks faster than idle – primarily mixed-resolution multi-monitor and video decoding – no longer cause the memory to clock up to its most power-demanding speeds, keeping overall power consumption down. These revised chips have received further tweaking to reach higher clockspeeds, while also fixing a couple of minor issues with the GPUs. The RX 500 series is using new revisions of the existing Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs.
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However this refresh also deviates from the course a little bit for AMD, as they haven’t been sitting completely idle on the GPU front. Meanwhile towards the lower end of the stack, we’re finally getting a full-enabled Polaris 11 card in the RX 560, or below that, a new low-end GPU in the form of Polaris 12, which is going into RX 550. For the cards based on upgraded versions of existing RX 400 SKUs – primarily the RX 580 and RX 570 – clockspeeds and TDPs are up. In prior generation refreshes such as the Radeon 300 series, AMD has bumped up clockspeeds while tweaking prices, and the Radeon RX 500 refresh is no exception. Adding an extra wrinkle into all of this, there’s even a new Polaris GPU joining the family, albeit at the low end. This gives AMD and its partners something new to sell for 2017, while at the same time also giving them something even faster to tempt current 300/200 series owners into upgrading to Polaris. Like past video card lineup refreshes, the RX 500 series is based on AMD’s existing GPU architecture, Polaris, but shipping in new configurations and at new prices in order to boost AMD’s GPU performance and their competitiveness. This morning AMD is taking the wraps off of their next line of video cards, the Radeon RX 500 series.