AMD’s RX 500X sequence GPUs usually are not the graphics playing cards you are on the lookout for

It was just a few days in the past {that a} Reddit user spotted some placeholder titles for AMD RX 500X sequence graphics playing cards, so I’ll admit we’ve not had all that lengthy to get too  excited for what was probably on the way in which. The pages had been clean, so there was little to go on past mysterious X suffix. Could it’s a graphics card refresh? The legendary RX 590? An finish to the AMD GPU drought? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Unfortunately, the X doesn’t stand for eXtreme – except as an adverb, i.e. extraordinarily boring. The Polaris RX 500X sequence will merely characterize the identical outdated Polaris GPUs, unchanged, that we’ve had for almost a 12 months now, merely in a brand new OEM flavour for pre-builds and laptops.

It appears doubtless that AMD’s OEM companions have made a request to rebrand the present ageing lineup, and newest AMD driver software program, with some new thrilling branding, and the AMD RX 500X sequence is the results of that request. No further CUs, no 12nm course of, no clockspeed bumps. Nada.

It’s doubtless we’ll see these rebranded GPUs marketed alongside the newest AMD Ryzen 2 chips after they launch later this month.

For the time being, AMD are supposedly solely launching their 7nm Vega card this 12 months, which supposedly will never make its way to gamers in any form, and shopper graphics will stay on the backburner till the deliberate Navi structure launches subsequent 12 months.