Name: AMD RX 500 Series - Card & Price Info - Launch Review
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AMD RX 500 series graphics card launch, April 2017.  This is Polaris Refreshed.

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These are updated versions of the 400 series cards that were launched in summer of 2016.

Higher performance, lower power consumption, lower price!  That is a win/win/win!

Now let me say up front that if you currently own an RX400 series graphics card

it really doesn't make sense to move from 400 to 500.

This is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary jump.

What these cards are meant for are for people who own 300 and 200 series AMD graphics cards

It's also for people who own something from the 900 series or 700 series from NVidia.

Those are also now worth considering replacing.

There are 4 different RX500 series cards launching this week. I will talk about them in turn.

First up, we have the top of the line RX 580.

There is both a 4 gigabyte and an 8 gigabyte version of this card.

Yes, you heard me correctly.  There is only a $30 price difference between the 4 and the 8 gigabyte card.

That is different from the advice I gave last year if you watched my original 480 review

where I talked about the 4 versus the 8 gig, I recommended the 4.

That was in 2016 when fewer games used more VRAM, and the price difference was larger.

With only a $30 price difference between the 4 and 8 gig card

If you're going to buy a card for the next 3 years of use,

go ahead and spend the $30 - get the 8 gigabytes.

You'll use it at some point, even if you don't need it today.

Now, if you already have a 4 gig card, or for whatever reason you find a deal

or a sale, you will still be able to use a 4 gigabyte card at 1080p for years to come.

You just won't be able to play at Ultra detail because you'll run out of texture memory,.

You'll have to turn textures from Ultra down to High,

and then, a couple of years from now, eventually to Medium

in order to fit the textures in 4 gigabytes of VRAM.

If you get the 8 gig card, that stops really being a limitation.

You can then keep the textures up at High, and keep the games becoming more and more beautiful each year.

To take that a step further, if you have any interest in playing at 1440p rather than 1080p,

you definitely want to have 8 gigabytes of VRAM

because the larger resolution will load in larger textures and require more memory.

Now, principally I consider the RX 580 a 1080p graphics card.

I am comfortable saying that the RX 580 will play all games on the market

in 2017 at High or Ultra detail at 60 plus frames per second in many cases,

minimum of 60 frames per second without any issues whatsoever,

but they will also play many games at 1440p resolution.

Now...Battlefield 1, Overwatch, Doom, Sniper Elite 4....

some of the games that tend to favor AMD cards,

those will all play at 1440p at 60 frames per second on an RX 580 8 gigabyte card.

No.  Mass Effect:Andromeda will not play at maximum detail at 1440p at 60 frames per second.

You have to have more graphics card to do so,

but many games will, and if you are willing to be reasonable on the detail settings

if High is acceptable instead of Ultra details for example,

Now the RX 570 is the replacement for the RX 470.

Now it does come in both a 4 gigabyte and an 8 gigabyte version.

Seriously, don't both with an 8 gigabyte RX 470.

If you're gonna get 8 gigs of VRAM, you need to be on the 580.

If you're gonna get the 470, it's because you're trying to save some money,

you found a deal, and you strictly want to play at 1080p resolution.

For a starting price of $169, the 4 gigabyte RX570 will play all current games on the market

at an average of High detail at 60 plus frames per second

average performance, and will do so without any issues whatsoever.

Battlefield 1, Grand Theft Auto V, Fallout 4, Hitman, DOOM, Overwatch,

Call of Duty:Infinite Warfare, Assassin's Creed Syndicate

all will play at High detail  or better at 1080p on a $169 RX 570.

Now the RX 570 is 15 percent slower than an RX 580....

Now, if you're okay to spend another $30 to get another 15 percent performance,

but there are reasons to consider a 570 beyond just price and performance.

The only real difference besides performance between the 580 and the 570 Gaming X cards from MSI

However, when you come over to ASUS, they definitely separate the 580 from the 570.

The 580 has 3 fans, an 8-pin PCI Express power connector, a heavy-duty cooling solution

It's a great card, but this does not fit into all computers.

The RX 570 ASUS Republic of Gamers Strix card

6-pin PCI-Express power, shorter card, two fans.

This will fit into more computers than this will.

And so, if you have a pre-built machine - if you have something that doesn't have room

or if your power supply only has a 6-pin PCI-Express power connector,

It will fit in your machine, it'll use less power, you'll have fewer issues with installation,

and it will still provide excellent performance.

which comes in a 2 gigabyte and a 4 gigabyte card starting at $99.

Please note on the RX 560, there are versions of this card

that come with and without a 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.

Some of these cards will install in your machine without requiring any special power supply at all,

others, such as this factory-overclocked ASUS card will require a 6-pin connector

so do be sure to check which one you're buying before you click that checkout button.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Rocket League, DOTA 2, World of Warcraft, League of Legends,

All of those games will play at 1080p resolution, High detail, or better,

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