RX 580 & 570 Review - AMD Strikes Back... at AMD???
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,294 words · ~6 min read
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a long time ago in a fabrication plant
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far far away well actually it wasn't
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that far away and it was in June of 2016
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that AMD Dro drop dropped the rx480 code
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named Polaris in a wild marketing
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campaign evoking Revolution and for good
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reason the 400 series performed really well for the price although the flagship
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480 was quickly overshadowed by NVIDIA's
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1060 ha the dangers of shooting first
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but after 10 months of reloading AMD is
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finally ready to fire again with the only question being what's in the
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chamber fire power or fire poor
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the Phoenix oour is a full-sized minimalistically designed keyboard
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complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out
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at the link below come on it's okay maybe it's not
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funny but it's silly so let's get this out of the way this is still
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Polaris the same architecture AMD used for their RX 400 series if you you were
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waiting for AMD's highly anticipated Vega
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gpus then you'll be disappointed but if
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you were waiting for Polaris enhanced
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with a more mature 14 NM finfet process
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and Tighter voltage and frequency regulation translating into better power
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efficiency and higher clock speeds then
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you and all the other holdouts with R9
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285s or R9 380s should be as hell right
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about now well hold on a second here
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lonus is this just a shinier 480 why is
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this even worth a video and where is
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Vega great
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question RX 570 and 580 then presumably
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due to slumping rx480 4 gig sales AMD's
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Partners will be putting more emphasis on the top tier 8 gig version this time
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time around though that won't have much of an impact on you the consumer and
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pricing looks to be well basically the
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same with rx570 coming in $10 cheaper on
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average than the 480 that it replaces in
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other news AMD's slide deck also had
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prominent mentions of both the rx550 and RX 560 the former of which is
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brand new silicon but we don't have have those yet so all we can say for now is
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that apparently the rx550 is better than an integrated GPU at $80 and I would
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sure as hell hope so and the 560 is a
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460 but with a $10 price drop and since
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enthusiasts were running around unlocking extra compute units with BIOS
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tricks AMD went ahead and enabled those right out of the
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factory and I guess there's some software news as well as of the rx5 100
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series launch AMD's Radeon driver for every card from 7,000 series onward
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includes what they're calling Radeon chill a configurable frame limiter that
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improves thermals and power draw when enabled you can specify a minimum in
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maximum frame rate and Radeon chill will keep your game running within that
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window Esports titles for instance are designed to be easy to run and for that
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reason they're notorious for ultra high frame rates that go Way Beyond what it
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typical or even very high-end monitor would be able to display so what this
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translates to for users is lower noise
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and more consistent performance without
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adding any input leg and in some cases they claim even improving it pretty cool
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right yeah call me when it's in a notebook you guys also a bigger
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supported games list would be swell though to AMD's credit the big orts
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titles are mostly covered here all right
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then lonus enough stalling tell us how
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the RX 580 and 570 perform you guys are
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so demanding sometimes you know okay so
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we tested our shiny new cards on both our Intel test bench and our ryen AMD
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test bench along with equivalent last gen cards from both AMD and NVIDIA now
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since AMD doesn't have reference boards for the 500 series they actually sent us
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Factory overclocked cards to test so
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shout out to asusan NVIDIA Who provided us with some Factory overclocked cards
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for the green side to level the playing field somewhat before you ask by the way
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we did try overclocking these cards further but neither of them achieved a
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core overclock of more than 50 MHz over
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what they already shipped with so then as we can see in our performance testing
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obvious things are indeed obvious in
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fact we've got a measurable if not earth
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chattering performance bump over the RX 400 series direct X12 and Vulcan both
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show us a wider Improvement than directx11 thanks to those apis more
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efficient rendering pipelines that favor AMD's gcn architecture although again
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the difference isn't that massive and also of note here is the utter ly
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uninteresting differences in performance between the Cards across Intel and AMD
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CPU platforms so sorry conspiracy
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theorists but the rumors of NVIDIA's
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drivers crippling Ryzen performance
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seem to have been greatly exaggerated so the tldr then is that in
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a big surprise to no one we're looking at a
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higher clocked RX 480 and 470 for this
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release AMD chose to iterate on their
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existing Polaris architecture cards in order to address some of their short
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comings against NVIDIA's mid-range and budget lineup have they achieved that
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well as far as performance is concerned yes yes they have when it comes to power
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consumption the story does fall apart a little bit particularly with the Factory
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overclocked cards though it should be noted that we didn't use Radeon chill
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for our testing because it makes apples to Apple's comparisons go
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sour so then if you're an AMD fan
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desperately waiting to upgrade your high-end Hawaii or Fiji based GPU then
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you get to keep waiting but if you're more of a mid-range buyer who didn't mow
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enough Lawns last summer for a 47 or a
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480 then great news because you get a
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little bit more for your money this year so rock on you sexy gardening Beast
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