Filtered the characteristics and the first benchmarks of the AMD RX 500 Series and highlights that they are compared with the R9 300 Series and the NVIDIA GTX 900 Series and do not talk about the RX 400 Series and the NVIDIA GTX 1000 Series.

We know for sure that the new AMD RX 18 Series will arrive on April 500 and that they will arrive with the prices that the RX 400 Series had a few days ago, the latter being lowered. The design and size of these graphics cards based on the Polaris 20 GPU has been confirmed. What strikes us is that they speak of improved performance over old or obsolete graphics cards and are not compared to the RX 400 Series and with the NVIDIA GTX 1000 Series.

We start with the RX 580, which as we can see compares with the RX 380 and the GTX 970, but we do not see a trace in the graphics of the RX 480 and the GTX 1060/1070, which does not make us wonder what they are wanting to hide in this case. This RX 580 has a base frequency of 1257MHz and a Boost frequency of 1340MHz. The graphics card has 36 Compute Unites for a total of 2304 Stream Processors and has 8GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface.

We move on to the RX 570, which will have a base frequency of 1168 and a Boost frequency of 1244MHz with a total of 32 Compute Units which leaves a total of 2048 Stream Processors. This graphics card will have 4GB of GDDR5 memory by default, although there is a version of this graphics card with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Highlights from the slide that the maximum resolution for gaming is indicated to be 1080p.

We are going to the RX 560, which is based on Polaris 11 and which at the moment will not reach the market, it seems that this graphics card is delayed a bit, we do not know the reason. This RX 560 will have 1024 Stream Processors, a few more than the RX 460, which had 896 Stream Processors. It will arrive exclusively in a version with 4GB of GDDR5 and will have a base frequency of 1175MHz and a Boost frequency of 1275MHz, which can offer a significant performance improvement over the RX 460.

Finally we have the RX 550, which will be the most discreet and of which we are only told that it will be able to reach 1183MHz in Boost mode, but there is no reference to the base frequency. It will have 2GB of GDDR5 memory and it is a simple solution whose mission is to compete with the integrated graphics of Intel processors, specifically the Intel HD 530, the one used by Skylake processors, a comparison that is also curious considering that the most recent Intel It's the Kaby Lake with Intel HD 630 graphics.

We must emphasize at this point that it seems quite strange that these RX 500 Series graphics cards are compared with the R9 300 Series, with the NVIDIA GTX 900 Series and with Intel HD 500 Series graphics and not be compared with the RX 400 Series, which They are the ones that come to replace, with the NVIDIA GTX 1000 Series, which are the most powerful graphics cards (and somewhat more expensive than due despite the price reduction), on the market and talk about the Intel HD 500 graphics and it is not directly compared to the Intel HD 600 Series graphics in the Kaby Lake. What is AMD trying to hide?