[News] AMD's Upcoming RX 500 Rebrands to use LPP Process - Higher Clocks, Lower Power

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/231692/a...ks-lower-power

AMD's upcoming RX 500 series of graphics cards is not going to set the world on fire with its feature-set. Essentially rebrands of AMD's mainstream Polaris GPUs used in current-generation RX 400 series, these have recently seen a slight delay on its time to market - now set at April 18th.

While architecture-level adjustments to this new series of cards so as to improve performance seem to be off the table, AMD is apparently looking to take advantage of manufacturing maturing and process improvements. The original Polaris 11 and Polaris 10 chips were manufactured using the Low Power Early (LPE) process, which looks to balance availability, yields, and time-to-market with performance and power. New reports peg the new dies to carry the Polaris 21 and Polaris 20 monikers, and will feature higher clocks on account of the new Low Power Performance (LPP) process.

[vario]

Well , if they are actually using another process type, that means a somewhat revised die, its pretty OK to call them 5xx series, its not a typical rebrand when you get exactly same stuff with another name.Hope they clock to ~1500.If they would use GDDR5X it could actually mean a healthy boost.

[StAndrew]

Well , if they are actually using another process type, that means a somewhat revised die, its pretty OK to call them 5xx series, its not a typical rebrand when you get exactly same stuff with another name.Hope they clock to ~1500.If they would use GDDR5X it could actually mean a healthy boost.

It's not even a die shrink or recised steppig. It's still the same chip. I'd be surprised if we see any gain over 10%.

[vario]

It's not even a die shrink or recised steppig. It's still the same chip. I'd be surprised if we see any gain over 10%.

Its not a die shrink, but it is a different process, and thats why it cant be exactly the same , so it has to be revised.but im also betting at around 10%.
If it would be THE SAME tho, it would be 0%

[StAndrew]

Its not a die shrink, but it is a different process, and thats why it cant be exactly the same , so it has to be revised.but im also betting at around 10%.
If it would be THE SAME tho, it would be 0%

There is a difference between revising the manufacturing process and changing the arcitecture design. That would be like Intel launching a new processor every stepping.

It's stills a rebranding.

[zanzabar]

There is a difference between revising the manufacturing process and changing the arcitecture design. That would be like Intel launching a new processor every stepping.

It's stills a rebranding.

you mean like devils canyon? i can see doing that but ya this making it a 500 is BS unless it has the change like a 4870 to 4890.

[Darakian]

It's probably being named 500 to launch along with vega so that the line looks more complete.

[StAndrew]

It's probably being named 500 to launch along with vega so that the line looks more complete.

Basically. Similar to what NVIDIA did with the 9800 GTX when theu launches the GTX 280. IIRC, it was branded as a GTS 250.

[zanzabar]

Basically. Similar to what NVIDIA did with the 9800 GTX when theu launches the GTX 280. IIRC, it was branded as a GTS 250.

wast that also the same as the 8800gt and the 180gtx oem.