AMD reportedly refreshing Radeon RX 570/580 in mid-October, November respectively
AMD is rumoured to be refreshing the refresh of their Radeon RX 500 series with PCOnline reporting that AMD is preparing Polaris 30 to launch in mid-October which is strange, considering that's only days away. If true, 12nm and 10-15% improvement. Yawn haha
Polaris 30 will first power the Radeon RX 570 successor which I'm guessing will be the Radeon RX 670, with 2048 stream processors on the new 12nm node. which I can't understand why they are not using the 2560 chip as we see in the Xbox One X. All though we should expect higher GPU clocks thanks to the shrunken node, with Polaris 10 and 20 being made on the 14nm process. This card would feature 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory bus and should be somewhere in the $200-$250 price range and will reportedly launch between October 12-15th in 2018. The higher-end Radeon RX 580 will see its replacement also packing the Polaris 30 GPU, with 2304 stream processors and the same GPU clock speed increases thanks to the 12nm node. It'll also have 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit memory bus. It should be a little more expensive than the RX 570 successor, with somewhere in the $280-$350 area. But I think they should maybe offer the 2560 chip, with 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory bus on a 10nm node model clocked to around 1.5-1.6ghz for $300-$350, cheaper than the 1070 but performs just as well or probably better! Then maybe a 10GB version clocked to maybe 1.7-1.8ghz to compete with the RTX 2080.
This will be interesting as NVIDIA isn't too dominant at under $300, a market where AMD has been sitting very strong for a while. AMD could really rub salt into the wounds and drop all their existing cards down by $100-$150. A refreshed (of a refresh) will at least be a new Radeon release for 2018, as we won't be getting any real new GPUs from Team Red until the tail end of Q2 2019 which kind of sucks.
Thanks for reading
Jezy
