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PowerColor confirms RX 580 Red Devil launch date of 18th April

by Mark Tyson on 13 April 2017, 10:01

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), PowerColor (6150.TWO), Sapphire

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It looks like we have a solid date for the launch of AMD's latest range of Radeon graphics cards. Two companies have basically admitted that 18th April - Tuesday next week - is the launch day for at least some of the new AMD Radeon RX 500 series of graphics cards. If the launch is in any way staggered, the charge will be lead by the top-end RX 580, followed by the RX 570 and so on.

Yesterday VideoCardz spotted that PowerColor Philippines had published a rather blatant tease for an upcoming Red Devil graphics card. We've previously seen RX 500 series PowerColor cards in leaks. Adding those to PowerColor's official tease which asks "We have something new… Are you ready?", shows a side on view of a Red Devil card (see below), and includes the date 18th April 2017, - we don't need Sherlock Holmes on the case.

In the wake of the above, Sapphire has decided to get in on the teasing action. If you head on over to Sapphire Nation, you can reach a dedicated countdown page for "The New NITRO+".

Sapphire is coyer and all we get is a countdown page with some 'cat woman' style silhouettes, no product shots however obscure are on show (but again VideoCardz has product shots). However, its countdown timer offers a more accurate launch time than simply '18th April' - it's got hours, minutes and seconds too. According to my calculations the reveal will be at 4pm (UK BST time) on Tuesday 18th April.

Making the AMD Radeon RX 500 series more interesting is talk that the higher end cards, such as those teased above, won't just be clock speed bumped rebrands but will use new GPUs. Last week there was talk about the RX 580 and RX 570 using new GPUs codenamed 'Polaris 20 XTX' and 'Polaris 20 XL' respectively. This suggests that perhaps AMD has had the Polaris 10 XT/Pro chips previously installed in the RX 480/RX 470 materially enhanced in some way for its new graphics card range.

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Posted by Biscuit - Thu 13 Apr 2017 10:44
Wait… so its not just a rebrand anymore?
Posted by anselhelm - Thu 13 Apr 2017 10:58
Biscuit
Wait… so its not just a rebrand anymore?

Based on everything I've read, it's a very minor refresh of the Polaris 10 chips in the 480 and 470 going into the 580 and 570. It seems akin to the refresh we saw moving from the 200 series to the 300 series, so expect better thermals and slightly higher clock speeds.

We've also seen information about the new, smaller Polaris 12 chip which is meant to power the 550. Sadly we've seen no information yet about the 560, which will hopefully use a fully-unlocked Polaris 11 chip and be good for gamers on a tight budget.

In other words, don't be confused by the new chip codenames: it's just a small refresh, based on an iterative improvement of the existing Polaris chips, but should probably extract about as much out of them as we can now expect.

These cards are still for mainstream gamers. For those needing gaming beyond 1080P or who need higher refresh rates at 1440P, Vega should be here by 2017-06-30 at the very latest, assuming AMD stays true to its H1 2017 launch.
Posted by Biscuit - Thu 13 Apr 2017 11:33
Read the article….

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Making the AMD Radeon RX 500 series more interesting is talk that the higher end cards, such as those teased above, won't just be clock speed bumped rebrands but will use new GPUs. Last week there was talk about the RX 580 and RX 570 using new GPUs codenamed ‘Polaris 20 XTX’ and ‘Polaris 20 XL’ respectively. This suggests that perhaps AMD has had the Polaris 10 XT/Pro chips previously installed in the RX 480/RX 470 materially enhanced in some way for its new graphics card range.
Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Thu 13 Apr 2017 11:41
Technically the GPUs in the R9 390 and R9 390X were new too. Unless there is some CU increase(the XBox Scorpio GPU has 44 CUs),it looks more like a refined Polaris 10.
Posted by Biscuit - Thu 13 Apr 2017 13:24
CAT-THE-FIFTH
Technically the GPUs in the R9 390 and R9 390X were new too. Unless there is some CU increase(the XBox Scorpio GPU has 44 CUs),it looks more like a refined Polaris 10.
The statement I quoted certainly makes it seem like a bit more than that, but I guess you're probably right. So we should expect is a new GPU thats almost exactly the same as the old GPU. yayyyy….

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