AMD’s New RX 670 & RX 680 GPUs in 12nm to be out in a week or two | New Rumor says

12nm Polaris refresh expected earlier in the year, accompanying the 12nm Ryzen refresh from April. AMD’s pre-CES show in January revealed only the 7nm Vega GPUs. Now The Radeon RX 570/580 in 12 nm Polaris 30 cores with increased frequencies, but same 8 GB GDDR5 VRAM. Performance-wise, they may not go beyond the Vega 56/64 cards and will go head to head with Nvidia’s GTX 1060/1070 chips. The latest rumours come from Fudzilla, and it claims that its sources are set to bring us these 12nm Polaris 30 cards next month and that they will be offering between 10 and 15% higher gaming performance, thanks mostly to increased clock speeds.

AMD Radeon RX Vega, 500, 400 in 2018

AMD Radeon RX 680 coming as soon as next weeks Credit: AMD Radeon

Chinese sources close to PCOnline and ChipHell claim that the Polaris 30 refreshes for the current RX 580 GPU will integrate 2304 stream processors, whereas the RX 570 successor would still get 2048 stream processors, but the new GPUs would get higher clocks thanks to the improved 12 nm process. Both cards will feature 8 GB of GGDR5 VRAM with 256-bit bus interface. Since these will replace the existing RX570/580 models, performance would most likely be on par with Nvidia’s GTX 1060/1070 models, and pricing is expected to land in the US$200 sector.

While AMD is all in the news for jumping to 7 nm Vega and Navi GPUs in 2019, but seems like 12 nm node is still going to be on the stage till end of 2018. Previously rumored to be launched in late 2018, a refresh for the Radeon RX 570 mid-range GPUs is now rumored to be dropping in mid-October, while the RX 580 successor should be launched in November.

These new mid-range cards serious competition from Nvidia’s side are probably the lower end of the RTX gpu series and high end of past platform called pascal, since the launch of the new Turing GPUs triggered substantial price cuts for the GTX 1000-series. AMD’s best bet is still with the 7 nm Navi GPUs, but we’ll have to wait until mid-2019 for those, by the looks of it.

 

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