AMD RX 500 Series

[Gaurav S Rao]

AMD Launches Their RX 500 Series Card,Re-using or Refreshing The Same Polaris Architechture used in the RX 460, RX 470 ,RX 480 now in their RX 550 *surprising $80 card* which AMD claims that it's not as bad performing as the old , R7 240 and for the green side,the GT 710,730,740 which cost the same as the new RX 550 and both performed terrible *laugh*.The prices are cut down too ,being cheeper but performing better *cool*,"Who could not mow enough for a RX 470, RX 480,it is good new for you" says Linus.The RX 580,being cheeper than the RX 480 which perfoms better,same story for the other cards (I dont know what is better to compare the RX 550 than a R7 260x)

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Please, make the text readable.

[thenastyjbenny]

*Cheaper

 

*Cheaper

 

Please learn how to spell.

[TheRandomness]

From how they perform, I expect the first bunch to be awful bins, then the next to be better, like with the 400 series.

[Spectrez]

i dont really understand the poll...

 

if you have a RX 480 then ofc its not worth it

if you have money to buy a GPU for, its abit more worth it then getting the RX 480... 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, L.Lawliet said:

If u got rx 400 series u shouldn't buy it

If u didnt u might buy it..

Thats bullshit

Its not about u got 400 or not..i am talking about real improvement..

I am just tired of this whole rebranding bs which offer a small improvement.

If u want real improvement dont buy this gpu.

I am beginning to like amd but this..After u did to ryzen this is a disgrace..

This is gonna be another story of 1080-titan xp-1080ti-Titan XP..

 

Simple answer. AMD (or more excactly RTG) has no money to invest in new architectures every year.

While nvidia is sitting on billions of dollars.

[Guest]

Just now, L.Lawliet said:

Then stop rebranding stuff..it hurt certain customers

It does, but it also generates more money for AMD, since they can fool uninformed customers thinking it is better (nvidia is even worse in this department).

[DriesK]

You can say what you want about re branding with minor improvements, But if the competition does it they have to do it to. this is simply because quite a lot of customers do not take the time to research in what to buy and simply think that a higher number is better (also the reason most gaming PC's come with an i7). It is also no secret that soon the new VEGA architecture will be launched so they don't try to fool their well informed buyers. 

[typographie]

1 hour ago, FTL said:

It does, but it also generates more money for AMD, since they can fool uninformed customers thinking it is better (nvidia is even worse in this department).

If the rebrand is slightly cheaper and slightly faster, then who are they fooling, and what's the end goal?

 

At some point if a customer is so uninformed that they think an RX 580 is a big upgrade over an RX 480 in under a year, they are not being fooled, they are a fool. The information is out there, and I don't think AMD is hiding it. It's not AMD's responsibility to hold customers eyelids open and force them to read things.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, typographie said:

If the rebrand is slightly cheaper and slightly faster, then who are they fooling, and what's the end goal?

 

At some point if a customer is so uninformed that they think an RX 580 is a big upgrade over an RX 480 in under a year, they are not being fooled, they are a fool. The information is out there, and I don't think AMD is hiding it. It's not AMD's responsibility to hold customers eyelids open and force them to read things.

I'm not going to explain how the entire marketing works, but here is a  small part of it:

Every product has a "life cycle". 

Here is a wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_life-cycle_management_(marketing)

When a product reaches a certain sales point, the sales will start to decline. If it reaches a point, where it is no longer that profitable, there are 2 options.

1. Take it from the market (What happened to Maxwell)

2. Give it a little more features and relaunch the product (Rebrand)

 

This product is just there to fool uninformed people into thinking it is new and much "better" (and it works). It's not just AMD that does this, nearly every tech company will do this to keep sales high. This is why people always talk about mindshare, uninformed people will go as far as buying an inferior product just because it seems "better", even though it is not. Just look the amount of uninformed people buying apple.

 

TL;DR:

AMD did this since sales numbers dropped.