AMD Launches Higher Performance Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 Polaris Graphics Cards (hothardware.com)

Reader MojoKid writes: In preparation for the impending launch of AMD's next-generation Vega GPU architecture, which will eventually reside at the top of the company's graphics product stack, the company unveiled a refresh of its mainstream graphics card line-up with more-powerful Polaris-based GPUs. The new AMD Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 are built around AMD's Polaris 20 GPU, which is an updated revision of Polaris 10. The Radeon RX 580 features 36 Compute Units, with a total of 2,304 shader processors and boost / base GPU clocks of 1340MHz and 1257MHz, respectively, along with 8GB of GDDR5 over a 256-bit interface. The Radeon RX 580 offers up a total of 6.17 TFLOPs of compute performance with up to 256GB/s of peak memory bandwidth. Though based on the same chip, the Radeon RX 570 has only 32 active CUs and 2048 shader processors. Boost and base reference clocks are 1244MHz and 1168MHz, respectively with 4GB of GDDR5 memory also connected over a 256-bit interface. At reference clocks, the peak compute performance of the Radeon RX 570 is 5.1TFLOPs with 224GB/s of memory bandwidth. In the benchmarks, the AMD Radeon RX 580 clearly outpaced AMD's previous gen Radeon RX 480, and was faster than an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founder's Edition card more often than not. It was more evenly matched with factory-overclocked OEM GeForce GTX 1060 cards, however. Expected retail price points are around $245 and $175 for 8GB Radeon RX 580 and 4GB RX 570s cards, though more affordable options will also be available.

Comments

I'll end up buying several because fuck Nvidia

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't in good conscience support a major brand-power that spends so much money crippling games and gouging customers as often as possible. Fuck Nvidia.

Re:I'll end up buying several because fuck Nvidia

[spire3661]

Performance > Ethics

Re:I'll end up buying several because fuck Nvidia

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll gladly take a performance hit up front so as not to appease Hitler, sorry. Maybe my ethics are just worth more money?

Re:I'll end up buying several because fuck Nvidia

[hairyfeet]

I know you are being funny but if you don't want to buy a new card every other year? You are better off buying AMD as they age a LOT better than Nvidia cards, and that isn't even counting how more often Nvidia cards seem to cook than AMD from what I've seen at the shop. Gamers have even come up with a name for AMD aging better, they call it AMD Fine Wine Technology and having gone through countless cards at the shop? I can see the difference, the AMD cards seem to be able to play mainstream games for longer than Nvidia cards.

Competition is a beautiful thing

[cloud.pt]

...for the consumer. Pumping 60fps+ @1080p, graphics ticket to the max on a 175$ card, even in a 2013-era CPU is gonna make 'em consoles up their game next gen... Or at least lower their prices.

Re: Competition is a beautiful thing

[Type44Q]

Project Scorpio is pretty much built for VR.

So you're not that informed about Scorpio...

Re:Forget the graphic cards...

[dj245]

How is that ratio modified by the electrical costs of running an 8 core FX chip? They consume like twice the power that zen does for like half the performance.

The Ryzen 1700 is a 65W chip, the FX-8300 is a 95W chip. Assuming you are running the machine at 100% load 24/7, and these ratings are accurate, the FX-8300 will cost you $1.75 extra per month at $0.08/kW-hr. If you want to consider the added AC load, you can round up to $2.50 per month. Given the price difference between the chips (currently ~$310+ vs ~$120), it would take more than 6 years to get to the electricity cost breakeven point.