According to one recent report from Cowcotland, AMD was about to cease the production of the Navi 10-powered RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 gaming GPUs. This included both the reference and custom AIB design SKUs. However, AMD has debunked this rumor in an official statement to Tom’s Hardware.
“We are continuing to produce the Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, which deliver exceptional 1440p gaming experiences,” AMD told Tom’s Hardware in an email. “We will continue to respond to market demand.”
According to Cowcotland’s story, ceasing production on these cards made sense, considering the upcoming announcement of the RX 6000 Big Navi 2X series which is scheduled for October 28th. But AMD denies this allegation. The RX 5700-series isn’t dead yet.
The story first got picked up by TechPowerUp, TechRadar, and also Videocardz, but Tom’s Hardware team decided to reach out to AMD for confirmation, and in response, the company claims these rumors are false.
Apart from this, the RX 5600 XT GPU is still being manufactured as well, which is also based on the same Navi 10-GPU silicon. After all, the AMD RX 5600XT debuted this year on January 21st, so it is not even a year old. AMD has also not cancelled the production of the Polaris-based Radeon RX 500 series and the Radeon RX 5500 XT (Navi 14-based) GPUs yet. The Polaris-based models debuted back in 2017.
So we can expect these RX 5000-series cards to remain in the market for some more time. There is still a niche market for these cards.
Also, since the RX 5700 is about roughly 10% faster than the RTX 2060 Super GPU, there’s a strong demand for this card amongst Gamers who don’t plan to upgrade to 4K/2K anytime soon, and who also don’t want to wait for the next-gen cards to hit retail shelves. For them this is going to be a decent upgrade nonetheless, assuming they are rocking an older gen or a weaker GPU.
We have also seen some retailers hike the price of these Navi 10-based cards in response to the low supply as well, but production is slowly ramping up. Be assured that AMD is not halting the production of these RX 5000 series cards, which is good news for gamers in the end.
We can see the price hike trend for the RX 5700 GPU as shown below, courtesy of PCPartPicker.
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so AMD is going to do the usual.
What usual?
Release new top end GPU based on the newest iteration of their architecture. The mid range and lower will be rebrand of previous gen part.
It makes sense. These cards are still in demand, and are perfect for 1080p, and even 1440p Gaming.
Good GPUs, offering more value for money as well.
I’m not sure about good value for money right now, since the launch of RDNA 2 GPUs is just around the corner. And RDNA 2 will definitely bring big performance gains.
AMD probably will not going to replace 5700 that soon. They can release big navi while drop 5700 price to serve as a mid range offering until they release RDNA2 based mid range gpu mid next year. AMD just recently launch RX5300 so they probably have no intention to truly replace Navi 10/14 chip with equivalent RDNA2 chip anytime soon.
If AMD really waits with the launch of RDNA 2 GPUs (aside from Big Navi) until mid next year, they won’t have anything to challenge 3070 and 3060 Ti.
And they will need to drop the price of 5700 series considerably.
let’s just say that AMD have their own time table that usually not affected when nvidia launch new stuff. AMD does not have anything to counter 3060Ti until next year? so what? that simply how AMD attitude is. a few weeks ago they just release 5300 to the market. a card that should be released together with 5500 some 9 months ago.
“AMD does not have anything to counter 3060 Ti until next year? so what?”
They will lose sales, bad for any business.
Way more people wait for GPUs like 3060 Ti than 3080 or Big Navi (assuming that Big Navi will roughly match 3080 in price and performance).
one way or another they will still going to lose sales. the fight with nvidia is more complicated. last year AMD jebait nvidia with 5700 XT. we know those 5700s is better value than 2060S and 2070S. and yet a year later AMD still the one losing market share from 30% down to 20%. hence if you look at it sometimes it is AMD that try to avoid aggressive price war against nvidia.
take this as an example: nvidia release their 2060 and 16 series in early 2019. when actually AMD have new product to counter those two? towards the end of 2019 with 5600XT and 5500.
Toms hardware nailed it…Thanks for the update MM.
Why are you thanking yourself?
Gamers who keep looking to AMD for more competition with Nvidia just don’t understand. Back when AMD poured money into GPU R&D and even had all 3 contracts with the console makers they were going into debt hundreds of millions of dollars ever year. They were damn near bankrupt for trying to please everybody.
They put most of their limited R&D money into Ryzen and now they are raking in the cash and paying down their huge debts.
AMD will release competitive GPUs for entry level through upper midrange GPUs but they won’t bother with a 3080 or 3090 competitor because it is irrelevant and they want waste their limited R&D money on something so frivolous. Maybe Intel will. We’ll see.