AMD Adjusts Launch Price of Radeon RX 5700 Series: XT Down To $399, Standard Down To $349
by Andrei Frumusanu on July 5, 2019 5:30 PM EST- Posted in
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- Radeon RX 5700
The new Radeon RX 5700 hasn’t even yet officially launched as we’re still awaiting Sunday the 7th of July, yet AMD in a rare event has now officially announced that is it adjusting the launch prices of the new Navi cards to lower price points.
Originally, the Radeon 5700 XT Anniversary edition, the XT, and the standard variant were priced at $499, $449, and $379. AMD has now lowered the price points to $449, $399 and $349.
| AMD Radeon RX Series Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT | AMD Radeon RX 5700 | AMD Radeon RX 590 | AMD Radeon RX 570 | |||
| Stream Processors | 2560 (40 CUs) |
2304 (36 CUs) |
2304 (36 CUs) |
2048 (32 CUs) |
||
| Texture Units | 160 | 144 | 144 | 128 | ||
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 32 | 32 | ||
| Base Clock | 1605MHz | 1465MHz | 1469MHz | 1168MHz | ||
| Game Clock | 1755MHz | 1625MHz | N/A | N/A | ||
| Boost Clock | 1905MHz | 1725MHz | 1545MHz | 1244MHz | ||
| Throughput (FP32) | 9.75 TFLOPs | 7.9 TFLOPs | 7.1 TFLOPs | 5.1 TFLOPs | ||
| Memory Clock | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | 8 Gbps GDDR5 | 7 Gbps GDDR5 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB | 4GB | ||
| Transistor Count | 10.3B | 10.3B | 5.7B | 5.7B | ||
| Typical Board Power | 225W | 180W | 225W | 150W | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | GloFo/Samsung 12nm | GloFo 14nm | ||
| Architecture | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | GCN 4 | GCN 4 | ||
| GPU | Navi 10 | Navi 10 | Polaris 30 | Polaris 10 | ||
| Launch Date | 07/07/2019 | 07/07/2019 | 11/15/2018 | 08/04/2016 | ||
| Launch Price | $399 |
$349 |
$279 |
$179 |
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The move isn’t unprecedented, but is something extremely rare. What is interesting is that AMD’s Scott Herkelman (CVP & GM AMD Radeon) yesterday posted an interesting but short tweet:
Jebaited
— Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) July 4, 2019
Scott's snarky tweet is suggesting AMD had planned the move all along- playing a bait & switch in terms of the pricing of the RX 5700, most likely in preparation and in response to Nvidia’s newest Super card line-up.
We’re looking forward to covering the RX 5700 series cards when the time comes – hopefully soon!
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Korguz - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
Samusand where are you getting navi 12, 14, 21 etc from ?? all amd has announced is navi 10, correct ? or are you just speculating ?
Samus - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
it leaked by an OEMhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/c1xkd0/navi_...
But reportedly yields are 70%, which isn't bad for a new process
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/beqxk4/amd_r...
And I understand these are reddits but there are sources...
Dragonstongue - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
umm....NO, historically AMD has had better yield parts, mainly cause theygo the extra mile
when comes to their base design, Nv tends to do the most "base of base" for things like VRM etc (up until the pricey 1000 series and now RTX..kind of for RTX which absolutely was "rushed out the droo at a massive price for a "oops my bad"
anyways...AMD 7nm is "better than average" yield as they have had 3 generations+ of "getting ready for it"
Nv
started with" the 16nm then 12nm etc, AMD went GF to TSMC AND they really really "fine tooth comb" to get what they could "initially" so far it seems they hit another Radeon 4870 moment, now they just need to keep pulling, Nv will do another "rush" and fubar...wait and see.
eek2121 - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
If you are referring to my post, the news I mentioned earlier came straight from TSMC. NAVI is a great architecture with a bright future ahead of it. We've seen a few leaks of what big NAVI can do (you have to dig to find them) and those leaks happened to make it the fastest card around for the limited set of benchmarks that were leaked (not AMD specific titles).cheshirster - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
Equal perf/watt and perf/transistor ... on different nodes.That's like 1/4 of "4870 moment".
V900 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
Wut?!?What sort of nonsense is this?
Would you have some sort of inside information about AMDs and Nvidia’s yields the last five years?
No?
Ah, so you’re just pulling “historically they had better yield parts” out of your rear then, I got ya!
V900 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
And no. AMD isn’t having a “better than average yield at 7nm” and they certainly didn’t have “3 generations getting ready for it.”You’re either just making this up on the spot, or you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Both Polaris and Vega were made on Global Foundries 14nm process.
(Aside from a small run of the much bigger Vega 7nm chip)
GF 14nm process is completely different from TSMC 7nm process.
Very little of their GF experience would have been useful at TSMC, and parts of the chips would have to be redesigned.
(Even if GF HAD a 7nm process, you’d still need to redesign parts of the chip to make it on TSMCs 7nm node.)
TSMCs 7nm process is still new and very expensive. Even with a relatively small chip like the Navi, yields won’t be ideal.
Compare that with Nvidia, who are using TSMC 12nm process, which is more mature and naturally has higher yields.
When the latest 20XX Super GPUs hit the street, Nvidia has been using that process for TWO YEARS, which means they had plenty of time to refine it.
(And Nvidia’s previous Pascal cards were manufactured on a very similar 16nm TSMC node.)
Nvidia is absolutely getting much better yields than AMD right now, and at a lower price.
Korguz - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
v900" You’re either just making this up on the spot, or you have no idea what you’re talking about.
" sounds like you might be doing the same, would you mind sharing where you are getting all this info from ?
V900 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
All this info? What info? What process the different cards were made with? You can read that on Wikipedia or in most cases here on anandtech.As for Nvidia getting better yields than anandtech, you can ask any industry insider on Twitter or look it up at Beyond3D forums. It’s simple logic that you get much better yields with a mature process that you have been using for years, than you’d get with a brand new node that you haven’t worked with extensively.
Korguz - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
the info in your post i replied to..." any industry insider on Twitter or look it up at Beyond3D forums " yea.. and i am going to believe some random person on twitter or worse some forum.. yea ok...