Monday, March 20th 2017
AMD's Upcoming RX 500 Rebrands to use LPP Process - Higher Clocks, 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.
As to the higher clocks, these apparently are only responsible for bridging the gap between the RX 480's reference and custom boards. The RX 580 will reportedly carry a 1340 MHz clock (74 MHz more than the reference RX 480), with the RX 570 carrying a much less significant 38 MHz increase over its RX 470 counterpart. The Radeon RX 560 will apparently make do with a clock speed of 1287 MHz.
These clock improvements only go so far as to allow AMD to claim a measure of increased performance comparing to their previous-generation, same architecture, one-year-old graphics cards. Vega is the only product from the company which will have some semblance of originality. A shame AMD didn't adopt some of Vega's refinements to its mainstream graphics cards.
Source:
BenchLife
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.
These clock improvements only go so far as to allow AMD to claim a measure of increased performance comparing to their previous-generation, same architecture, one-year-old graphics cards. Vega is the only product from the company which will have some semblance of originality. A shame AMD didn't adopt some of Vega's refinements to its mainstream graphics cards.
62 Comments on AMD's Upcoming RX 500 Rebrands to use LPP Process - Higher Clocks, Lower Power
TPU has many threads where some boards show anomalies because of that. And that's still an issue if it causes such complaints.
Hype lost.
And since when are we not allowed to make comments about a brand without being labeled a fanboy? Some people can actually see things objectively, you know!
But truly they don't get it. Okay a software fault... like we casuals here don't know it.
But does not undo the fact that some boards still suffer.
And if I'm reading correctly 1340 MHz will be reference, so custom cards should be even faster. There is no mention of ram speeds (hopefully that gets a boost as well)
Unless this card can reach OC of 1500MHz @ 150W it'll really be a crappy product (compared to a 480)
As an owner I can tell you they draw too much power to run a healthy crossfire setup on most boards.
I'd end with a /s, but by now it would be weird for AMD not to have 3 generations of GPU within a single lineup.
One can only dream. :p