Rumor: AMD Radeon RX 500 series is rebranded from RX 400 on improved process

AMD is rumored to present the RX 500 series in April. It would be rebrands of the current RX 400 video cards, but the GPUs would be baked on an improved 14nm process. That would result in slightly higher clock speeds.

According to Benchlife, AMD is coming with the Radeon RX 580, 570, 560 and 550. Only the latter is a completely new model, because an RX 450 does not exist in the current range. The RX 550 card would get a new Polaris 12 GPU. A mention of this card is already on CompuBench. From the information contained therein, it can be concluded that the RX 550 is equipped with a GPU with 10 compute units, which means that the card would have 640 stream processors. The RX 460, currently the cheapest model, has 896.

AMD has its video cards made on Global Foundries’ 14nm finfet process and, according to Benchlife, would use 14LPP, the improved Low-Power Plus node for the new models, while the RX 400 cards are still on the Low, according to the Taiwanese website. -Power Early node will be created. The improved process could provide slightly higher clock speeds or lower consumption. It is not yet clear how big the difference will be.

Benchlife claims that AMD will give the GPUs of the RX 500 cards new names. Polaris 10 and 11 would become Polaris 20 and 21. The distinction between the largest version of the Polaris chip for the RX 580 and the smaller version of the RX 570 would also be called differently: they will be called XTX and XL, instead of XT and Pro.

AMD previously announced that its new high-end video cards with Vega GPU will not end up in the RX 500 series. These models will be called RX Vega. Concrete details about those video cards are not yet known, but AMD has said they will be released in the second quarter of this year.

Update: Current RX 400 cards may already be made on Global Foundries’ 14LPP process. In that case, AMD could use, for example, Samsung’s 14LPU process, notes -The_Mask- in a response. Samsung’s fourth-generation 14nm process should be available around this time.