By Zak Storey
So then, let’s cut straight to the point. This isn’t Vega. Nope, this isn’t the heady heights of that next gen 14nm GPU architecture. This isn’t a brand new flagship finally joining us after AMD’s long absence of almost two years from the high end GPU competition. Nope, this is, in short, a rebadge. Or at least, that’s what the critics will tell you.
So what do we mean exactly by ‘rebadge’? Well in short, you take a well-established architecture like Polaris, and the RX 480. You go back to the foundries where the GPUs are carefully crafted onto the silicon. You perfect the procedure. And then you take the best of the best of the same architectural design, on the same manufacturing process, bump up the clock speeds, and resell them, usually as a lower tier model than before.
Traditionally we’d see this when a new architecture made its first heady foray into the headlights of mainstream consumers. And typically those re-badges would be only seen on the lower end of the spectrum. You’d have two top tier cards based off the new architecture, with last generations high end, dropping down a designation, and so on. This makes the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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