AMD has officially revealed the refreshed models for its RX 500 series of graphics cards. AMD will re-brand its GPUs by adding the “X” at the end, and will be offering five models. These models are: RX 580X, RX 570X, RX 560X, RX 550X and RX 540X.
The specifications for these re-branded GPUs are exactly the same with the non-X versions. For example, the RX 580X still has 36 compute units, 2304 Stream processors, 144 Texture Units, 32 ROPs and 5.7 billion transistors. Hell, the company even suggests the same frequencies for base and boost modes.
In short, don’t expect any meaningful performance differences between the more powerful RX500 and the RX500X models. It’s worth noting, though, that we did notice some differences between the RX500 and the RX500X models.
Those interested can find the new RX500X graphics cards here.
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These are NOT the usual desktop gaming cards what we gamers would be actually looking for though.
These new X cards are actually OEM rebrands, meant only for pre-built custom PCs/notebooks and the like, and I doubt they are going to be available elsewhere.
The OEM is going to be the deciding factor here, if someone needs to purchase one of these.
Just a “rebrand” lineup from AMD. I’m kind of disappointed though.
Sounds about right. AMD did this with the 8970 (7970) OEM model for system integrators.
Indeed.
According to Videocardz,
Radeon HD 7970
Tahiti XT
Base Clock – 925 MHz
Memory Clock (Effective) – 1375 (5500) MHz
GFLOPS – 3789
Memory Bandwidth – 264 GB/s
TDP – 230 W
Radeon HD 8970
Tahiti XT2
Base Clock – 1000 MHz
Memory Clock (Effective) – 1500 (6000) MHz
GFLOPS – 4096
Memory Bandwidth – 288 GB/s
TDP – 250 W
Did you forget about the 7970 GHz Editions that were released before the 8970’s???
“Bub&Bob hyp36rmax • a minute ago
According to Videocardz,
Radeon HD 7970
Tahiti XT
Base Clock – 925 MHz
Memory Clock (Effective) – 1375 (5500) MHz
GFLOPS – 3789
Memory Bandwidth – 264 GB/s
TDP – 230 W
Radeon HD 8970
Tahiti XT2
Base Clock – 1000 MHz
Memory Clock (Effective) – 1500 (6000) MHz
GFLOPS – 4096
Memory Bandwidth – 288 GB/s
TDP – 250 W”
Then you should have specified that you were referring to said edition of the card in your original comment rather than having given the impression you were referring to the normal 7970.
It doesn’t matter. It was still a 7970… In fact AIB partner cards were offered with ghz clock speeds (Factory Overclocked) before AMD officially released GHz edition cards… XFX 7970 Double Dissipation Black Edition is a prime example that I actually owned btw.
Well, accuracy obviously does matter but, based on the evidence of your two responses, your ego has to prevail so… good day to you.
But I like my EGO, Tends to get me farther in life 🙂
AMD Radeon Emperor’s New Clothes Edition.
Well, i would’ve liked to see something tackle with the 1080TI. Guess Nvidia still has upper hand in terms of brute gaming performance.
I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon.
NV still dominates the gaming GPU market, and not even VEGA 64 was able to compete in a proper scale, with Nvidia’s GTX 1080 Ti in some of the new AAA titles, if not all.
Last year, AMD launched Vega architecture based on the 14nm process node, and as per rumors this year we might see a 7nm VEGA refresh, but sadly this won’t be gaming oriented, as they are going to focus mostly on machine learning, AI and stuff like that.
Maybe next year/2019, the 7nm NAVI GPU Arch might have something in store for gamers ?
But I can only speculate based on the roadmap.
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I think AMD just gave up trying to compete at the high-end market. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing though.
Well it’s not “bad” but if it’s like that it means NV will be able to charge whatever the hell they wanna charge for their high end products which pisses me off 🙁
I want good competition 🙁
Yeah I get that but AMD also has to make decisions that’s in the best interests of the company. Nvidia has almost always beat AMD in the high end market whereas AMD always made good sales in the mid-range market. That coupled with the fact that the company has lost so much of the market share just shows imo that the company doesn’t wanna take so many risks anymore. They also have the intel problem as well. I would like some new AMD cards but I think we should be charitable towards AMD’s stance too. Just my 2c though.
stapphhh being rational i don’t like that :(.
Kills my hopes ;(
Nvidia has the upper hand in performance per watt as well. AMD has an entry level GPU line and midrange GPU line that competes well with Nvidia in terms of performance. The only exception being the 1080 Ti but very few buy at that level anyway.
AMD can’t really compete with Intel and Nvidia at the same time. For years their CPU line stagnated and their GPU line did fairly well. AMD made a decision years ago to change that and spent more of their R&D on the CPU side and less on the GPU side. Hence we have Ryzen that competes nicely with Intel CPUs but their GPU line is lacking somewhat. I think it was smart of AMD to do this from a business standpoint.
Now that the R&D for Ryzen has mostly been covered I expect AMD has been concentrating their resources on a GPU line to compete with Nvidia’s next generation. I expect Nvidia to start releasing theirs first this year but even so I believe AMD will be making a comeback on the GPU side in not too long. Maybe early next year. Seems like forever to anyone waiting on it though.
the only reason I look forward to AMD news is that Nvidia will follow up with some better news
You should wish AMD will release another great stuff like Ryzen. Because this is the reason we got 6-core Intels at those prices.
I am a secret AMD fanboy, so I can buy Intel/NV stuff cheaper. More power to AMD I say!
Actually wondering what legal/political reason brought them to do this.
Just for OEMs? But why?
Good just at doing nothing but rebranding AMD this is becoming a trend I see >_>
so… a refresh of a refresh? werent the 500`s just 400`s with new names? and less overclock potential or something?
So the 500 series are a refresh of the 400 and the 500x are a refresh of the 500.
Refreshception.