RX 580 & 570, rebrands, coming in April

[Cheeky Leo]

Accodring to information obtained by german security and technology news site heise.de the new AMD GPUs are coming in April.

 

The scheduled release of the RX 570 and 580 are allegedly April 4th and the lower end RX 550 & 560 are set to be released a week later on April 11th.

 

But, the RX500 series is rumored to be only rebrands and no new chips, as some may have hoped. 

AMD promised to release Vega in the first half of 2017, so they still have until June 30th. The news site sees Computex as a possible release date for Vega. (30th May to 3rd June)

 

 

 

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Rebrands: Radeon RX 500 ab Anfang April

AMD will Anfang April die – vermeintlich neue – Grafikkartenserie Radeon RX 500 einläuten, wie heise online aus Unternehmenskreisen erfuhr. Demnach wolle man ab dem 4. April die Radeon RX 570 und Radeon RX 580 verkaufen. Genau eine Woche später, am 11. April, sollen die Radeon RX 550 und RX 560 erscheinen. Wer allerdings hierbei auf Vega-Karten hofft, wird enttäuscht – die Karten sollen lediglich Rebrands mit bereits bekannten GPUs sein, wie man heise online hinter vorgehaltener Hand erklärte. Die heiß erwarteten Vega-Grafikkarten sollen etwas später erscheinen, aber selbst mehrere kontaktierte Hersteller haben über diese Karten zum derzeitigen Zeitpunkt keine Informationen. AMD hat Vega für das erste Halbjahr 2017 angekündigt, hat also noch bis zum 30. Juni Zeit. Naheliegend ist eine offizielle Vorstellung im Rahmen der Computex, die vom 30. Mai bis 3. Juni in Taipei stattfindet. (mfi) 

 

 

I am a bit disappointed by the rebrands coming if we can believe the source. I personally do, since they have released some reliable information on other topics so far.

 

Source: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DirectX-12-Grafikkarten-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-im-Maerz-AMD-Radeon-RX-580-Anfang-April-3637882.html

[iRileyx]

Link to the actual topic rather than just the website its on?

[Sauron]

for a moment I thought I read "gtx 580"

[Cheeky Leo]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

Link to the actual topic rather than just the website its on?

You can find it at the end.

 

Edit: Made it more visible

[Bouzoo]

Didn't I saw benchmarks of 580 on pair with 1070? I saw it was in Ashes of the SIngularity, but it was much faster than 480 iirc. 

[Princess Luna]

RX 580... sounds interesting, I wonder if it will kill the GTX 1060 for good.

[Cheeky Leo]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

RX 580... sounds interesting, I wonder if it will kill the GTX 1060 for good.

The 1060 is a great card for the money. I think it will stick around a bit

[Urishima]

Hasn't AMD repeatedly said that there will be no new Polaris cards? Or is that a thing of the past?

[pagani123]

8 minutes ago, Sauron said:

for a moment I thought I read "gtx 580"

Yeah I did the same thing. 

[SammoFS]

8 minutes ago, Cheeky Leo said:

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It's funny how you say until june 30th for vega, the capsaican & Cream stream is on in a few hours. (about 4 hours and 48 minutes or so)

[TidaLWaveZ]

Cards releasing next Saturday and no advertising or anything yet? Seems strange to announce cards a week before release.

 

Also, where's the RX 490?

[zMeul]

if AMD only "launches" rebrands, the GTX1080Ti will drop like a bomb on their heads

[captain cactus]

"Rebrands" or rather, node improvements for higher clocks/lower TDP and the RX560 is an RX460 with all 16 compute units enabled (and the RX550 is an RX460 with just the higher clocks maybe?)

1 minute ago, Rika Shiguma said:

It's funny how you say until june 30th for vega, the capsaican & Cream stream is on in a few hours. (about 4 hours and 48 minutes or so)

Don't think AMD will release things like models and prices today. They'll most likely save that for Computex. We're most likely getting some more info on the architecture/in-game performance.

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Don't think AMD will release things like models and prices today. They'll most likely save that for Computex. We're most likely getting some more info on the architecture/in-game performance.

I doubt they're going to have an event like this and not give any actual information on Vega cards.

[VagabondWraith]

Yay, another card that'll overclock by 10MHz. While NV is unleashing the beast known as 1080 Ti, AMD is releasing more rebrands. That'll show 'em!

[intender]

The 480 has a lot of room for improvement if they can manage to get higher clocks out of it without pulling 250watts just from the card.  So I could see a 580 that is just a higher clocked version.  1500mhz would put it somewhere around the 1070 in terms of performance based on what I remember seeing online a while back. 

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, VagabondWraith said:

Yay, another card that'll overclock by 10MHz. While NV is unleashing the beast known as 1080 Ti, AMD is releasing more rebrands. That'll show 'em!

I wouldn't trust this website though - it also seems out of character for AMD to hit high with Ryzen and then turn around and rebrand some video cards when we know Vega exists.

[ivan134]

14 minutes ago, VagabondWraith said:

Yay, another card that'll overclock by 10MHz. While NV is unleashing the beast known as 1080 Ti, AMD is releasing more rebrands. That'll show 'em!

What card overclocks by 10 MHz?

[WereCat]

So better binned Polaris with higher clocks + Vega to fight with NVIDIA 1070 and up?

The thing is that R9 290(x)/R9 390(x)/RX 470/RX 480 ... and now RX 570/RX 580 will be still very similar in performance.

That is like upgrading from Haswell to Skylake, pointless.

[Urishima]

3 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Or are people going to suddenly have their budget quadruple to buy a 1080Ti just because of $200 rebrands?

No, people expect there to be a RX5xx equivalent to the 1080/TI that will be priced accordingly. If that is not the case, they may just use the money set aside for that speculative AMD GPU to get the Nvidia offerings.

[Notional]

1 hour ago, zMeul said:

if AMD only "launches" rebrands, the GTX1080Ti will drop like a bomb on their heads

At the low low price of 300% more. Yeah it will destroy AMD just as much as a 12 core Intel at 1700$+. I doubt it.

 

Vega is not a rebrand, and it will be out soon enough. Ryzen shocked Intel to their core. Who knows, Vega might do the same to NVidia.

[TheRandomness]

So they're releasing the refined version of Polaris that should've launched... well, at launch? Yay.

[captain cactus]

5 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

So they're releasing the refined version of Polaris that should've launched... well, at launch? Yay.

Polaris is AMD's first try at the 14nm process, of course it can't be refined at launch.

 

Afaik Polaris already got a nice upgrade last October which has allowed it to hit some higher clocks than GPUs manufactured before that month while sticking to the same TDP, this will only improve upon that.

[TheRandomness]

Just now, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Polaris is AMD's first try at the 14nm process, of course it can't be refined at launch.

 

Afaik Polaris already got a nice upgrade last October which has allowed it to hit some higher clocks than GPUs manufactured before that month while sticking to the same TDP, this will only improve upon that.

Yet Apple got the 460 with all the SPs enabled long ago in one of their Macbooks?

[Misanthrope]

17 minutes ago, Notional said:

At the low low price of 300% more. Yeah it will destroy AMD just as much as a 12 core Intel at 1700$+. I doubt it.

 

Vega is not a rebrand, and it will be out soon enough. Ryzen shocked Intel to their core. Who knows, Vega might do the same to NVidia.

1) Ryzen is not even out and said "shocking" it's baseless speculation, even if Ryzen delivers (I believe it will) 

 

2) AMD has managed to keep a lot more pressure on Nvidia and they have been able to respond they won't be able to jump ahead as easily.