AMD Polaris 30, a solution for the mid-range in 12nm that will arrive in mid-October

Possibly in the middle of this month of October the AMD RX 600 Series based on the 30nm Polaris 12 GPUs will be presented.

The arrival on the market of the Polaris 20 or RX 500 Series already caused quite a stir at the time for being a simple rehash of the Polaris 10. Now the company intends to launch the Polaris 30 which are another rehash of Polaris 20. These new graphics cards are AMD's answer to the Turing and will compete in the mid-range or what is the same, for users with a tight budget who want to play at 1080p resolutions and with medium or high quality (they will really compete with Pascal from NVIDIA )

AMD will launch a new rehash to compete with NVIDIA: the Polaris 30

These GPUs that will replace the Polaris 20 are based on the 12nm lithography, so the Polaris 30 will be somewhat more efficient and powerful than the current RX 500 Series, but we should not expect a spectacular jump either. Apparently these charts will be released in the middle of this month of October, although we do not have official data. The good thing about these graphics is that it will possibly force NVIDIA to adjust the price of the Pascal generation (GTX 10 Series) which will be positive for the market.

Initially, the successor to the RX 570 is presented but based on Polaris 30 and which could be called RX 670, although it is not confirmed. Regarding the specifications, not much is known, but it is suggested that it could have 2048 Stream Processors like the RX 570 but with higher frequencies thanks to the 12nm lithography. The performance jump would be roughly the same as it was between the RX 470 and RX 570.

It is expected that this new RX 670 (we will call it that for now) will use GDDR5 memories with a total of 8GB of these and a 256-bit memory interface. The estimated price is expected to be around $ 250 or so.

It would not arrive alone and it will arrive together with the RX 680 (not official name) that would arrive with a Polaris 30 GPU that would have 2304 Stream Processors. An increase in frequency and an improvement in performance is expected, but not in large quantities and it will also have 8GB of GDDR5 memory.

AMD does not launch anything to compete with Turing, it is for the mid-range, offering economic solutions to users that provide above all an obligation for NVIDIA to adjust Pascal prices. It is a desperate measure by AMD in the face of the total Vega fiasco and the total bet on Ryzen that has left the Radeon division sitting on the ground.

Source: Wccftech