It appears that AMD has quietly downgrade some AMD Radeon RX 560 graphics cards. According to reports, the red team is now selling models that have fewer stream processors than those originally advertised. As such, those interested in these graphics cards should pay extra attention to the specs of the models they are about to buy.
Originally, AMD listed the AMD Radeon RX 560 as having 16 compute units and 1,024 stream processors. Several months later, the red team launched the Radeon RX 560D. This was a cutdown version and came with 14 compute units and 896 stream processors.
However, and as spotted by several sources, some AMD Radeon RX 560 now come with fewer stream processors. AMD has also updated the official product page for RX560 in order to reflect this change. As we can clearly see, AMD now advertises these two models under the Radeon RX 560 category.
The big problem here is that AMD never informed the media about this change. As such, we never really covered this new, less powerful model for the AMD Radeon RX 560 family. Not only that, but most consumers were unaware of this situation. In other words, there is a possibility that some consumers may have already purchased less powerful graphics cards than the ones they thought they were getting.
In conclusion, we strongly suggest paying extra attention to the specs of the RX Radeon 560 you are about to purchase.
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Dirty move AMD .
What a bulls**t move
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Nani?!?!
Nanda kore?!?!
Even the underdog can be a dodgy POS sometimes.
People tend to think that Underdog = fairer or that they’re only have consumer’s interests in mind, needless to tell you that’s completely bs, and this is another confirmation of that, not that AMD needed other confirmations but well.
B-but I thought only Nvidia was capable of underhanded tactics?.
“If they wanted to sell a cut-down card with the same brand as a better
one, they should’ve followed Nvidia’s pattern with the 1060.”
Not sure what you mean by that but imo Nvidia didn’t handle the naming right on the 1060. They knew there would be two 1060s because the 6 GB model was released and about a month later the 3 GB model was released but the 6 GB version also had 11% more cores. They should have named the 6 GB model as 1060 Ti to avoid people looking at both versions and possibly thinking the only difference is that one comes with less VRAM than the other.
There was a while where some people were just referring to the 1060 without making distinction which model they were interested in and if people that are active on tech sites were making this mistake then I have to believe that there were some that bought the 3 GB version without ever knowing that it had fewer cores also.
In this case it was the buyers responsibility to do their homework before spending their money but even so Nvidia could have easily avoided any confusion.
Even if both 1060s had the same amount of VRAM the 1060 that was released for the 6GB version would be the better performer since it had 11% more cores.
Bear in mind that both 1060s had the same core speed, boost speed, memory speed, bus width etc
Nvidia even released a 1060 version later on that had the same specs as the 1060 6GB but with a little faster VRAM (9Gbps). The benches didn’t show the performance increase to be very significant though.
lol
They did this so we grind more or just buy more power with microtransacrions.
When nVidia does this, no one cares…. But when AMD does something similar, everyone loses their minds!
No corporation is a saint.
No one cares? Then how about many complain that we heard about 1060 3GB about it’s naming? Also i still remember when people said nvidia do rebrands is cheating customer but when AMD do it was brilliant strategy 😀
LoL what? Have you forgotten about the 970 3.5GB fiasco? Or the 1060 3GB drama? Or are you just so damn biased..
You probably dont have a good memory then..970 3.5gb remind you something?
People care when Nvidia engages in deception. Hence the class action lawsuit brought against Nvidia over the 970 deception.
The problem when any hardware company does something like what AMD just did is that the uninformed, which is probably the majority of customers, get cheated. They might read a review of the 560 and decide that it meets their needs on their budget and buy based on that. Not all retailers list core counts in the description. For example Amazon often doesn’t list core counts in their video card descriptions.
People did care when Nvidia deceived people, as they care now when AMD is doing the same. Duopolies are as bad as monopolies.
lol this is worse than the Nvidia 3.5 + 0.5 GB VRAM fiasco.
Most definitely not.
What? It obviously is. Think gaming performance, what is worse, a slightly slower chunk of VRAM (0.5 GB), or actually missing compute units AND stream processors?
There isn’t even the need to explain, but whatever…
Well, considering that Nvidia sold a ton of them for months and months, got caught out by card reviewers, and then lied about it to save themselves. I’d say that this issue, is still in its infancy.
It’s all NVidia Gameworks fault. As always
Let’s see the AMD fanboys defend this.
Wow remind of the 970 fiasco…on the paper its worse but amd wont get much flak for this because this gpu is not as popular and did not sell as well as a 970…in other words it will just pass
well it’s a 120$ card, you can easily remedy this by not being a cheapa$$
and buying a better card
AMD wasn’t aware that AIB vendors were doing this. Gamers Nexus just covered this in a video.