[Guru3D] AMD possibly will be using XX5 revisions

[R0H1T]

AMD could be moving towards xx5 donominators say 480 and then later on a 485 for their graphics card series, indicating faster models compared to 0 suffix based models. The company also reaffirms the arrival of the Radeon RX 490 model. These xx5 revisions may actually be released after the initial batches and this are released after the current line of available products, thus these would be updated GPUs with say optimizations on 14nm FinFET chips for higher clock speeds and lower consumption. While AMD hasn't confirmed this is the case it certainly is indicative. So inevitable you might see say a Radeon RX 485 with the 4 for Generation, the 8 is the tier and the 5 being the revision. Striking is the mention of the '9', which AMD again the arrival of the RX 490 card confirms indirectly.

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[IEC]

Wouldn't surprise me. It's pretty clear that the RX 4x0 series is being used as a "pipe cleaner" at GloFo given the fact that they didn't meet their power consumption targets. The performance was pretty much as expected at the expense of increased power consumption.

It's like the 290/X reference vs 390/X all over again. If they have any sense, RX 4x5 cards will be AIB partner custom cards only like 390/X was, with reference only available to OEMs.