WYP
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AMD's RX 500 series of GPUs are rumoured to launch on April 18th, initially launching with RX 580 and 570 GPUs that are based on Polaris.
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AMD's RX 500 series GPUs are rumoured to launch on April 18th
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I suppose Vega will indeed be a Fury replacement
WYP
News Guru
This really goes into what the difference between a rebadge and refresh, a rebadge has no design changes and a refresh had process changes and increase performance/efficiency.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
I'm really interested to see how power they've managed to squeeze out of Polaris. Have the core clocks been announced yet? I wonder whether it could be near 1400Mhz. That would be a nice boost over the RX 480.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yup, mongtastic naming scheme.
WYP
News Guru
Typo fixed
No idea, it is hard to know how much AMD has been able to squeeze out of Polaris and 14nm. Hopefully, they will be able to get these GPUs into mobile friendly TDP ranges for the notebook market, as I would love to see AMD in gaming notebooks again.
It is what happens when you take an internal project name into the consumer space. The GPUs are made in the order they are produced, not in order of power. IE if AMD made a new Polaris GPU it would be called Polaris 12.
AMD are in the habit of taking project names into the actual product naming scheme, like changing Zen to Ryzen and making Vega GPUs into the RX Vega series.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
TBH AMD's marketing strategy if you can call it that is stupid! They are taking so long that market share is still flowing very heavily in Nvidia's favor, they should be rushing to get their products out earlier not carrying on like a bunch of old moles and dragging their feet just because
jimma47
New member
I'd have to agree. Zen feels like it's old news before it was even out, despite how good it actually is. I wonder if AMD had to release details to the market early to raise investor confidence?
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Well the problem is in tech terms a couple of months is like years as tech changes so rapidly nowadays and people have been taught the I want it now mentality, and if you can't supply something when someone else can then you can kiss your market share goodbye, it's only the true diehards who will wait for stuff or people with a lot of money who don't care and can swap and change at a whim and to keep plodding along as always when you are struggling financially is just plain mindbogglingly stupid IMHO
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