The AMD Radeon RX 580 & RX 570 Review: A Second Path to Polaris
by Ryan Smith on April 18, 2017 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- AMD
- Radeon
- Polaris
- Radeon RX 500
Compute
Shifting gears, let’s take a look at compute performance on new Radeon RX 500 cards.
Starting us off for our look at compute is LuxMark3.1, the latest version of the official benchmark of LuxRender. LuxRender’s GPU-accelerated rendering mode is an OpenCL based ray tracer that forms a part of the larger LuxRender suite. Ray tracing has become a stronghold for GPUs in recent years as ray tracing maps well to GPU pipelines, allowing artists to render scenes much more quickly than with CPUs alone.
For our second set of compute benchmarks we have CompuBench 1.5, the successor to CLBenchmark. CompuBench offers a wide array of different practical compute workloads, and we’ve decided to focus on face detection, optical flow modeling, and particle simulations.
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Lord-Bryan - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
That was cold!Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - link
Vega is launching with Vega branding (replacing the Fury branding). AMD obviously knows that the people in the market for such cards are all over review sites, so know the product as Vega already. Why change a good name?Mugur - Thursday, April 20, 2017 - link
Yes, they officially named the product RX Vega at the end of the Capsaicin&Cream event.lordken - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
@hoohoo: exactly, that's what I was thinking right from beginning when they announced this nonsense. This was totally lame move and just irritates ppl like me.I would just have hopped that Ryan nails AMD a little bit more for this stupid move and not using 4x5 names which they had present in RX400 slides as possible revisions names.
@DanNeely: no OEM doesn't need new numbers, that's bullshit story. Or if they does how 485 isn't new number to 480?
OEM wants to sell stuff, and if AMD cant produce good enough product they need to resort to misleading customers and playing stupid "new gen/new number" game.
What I mean by misleading customers? Apart having us for idiots, well I can imagine that some 480 (higher end) will have better perf than some 580 (lower end). Average joe is not gonna compare that his 580 has 20mhz lower clock then 480 OC/whatever edition. Because in honest word it couldn't happen that next gen same tier card have lower perf than previous gen under any circumstances...
tehidiot - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Meet the cards page isn't up :)What are the clocks of the red devil card?
HOOfan 1 - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Well...they did refresh the R9 200 series with the R9 300 series, just before Fury launched....maybe this means Vega will be out soon...Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - link
Vega is coming before 1 June. Good spot -- it's exactly like the 300 series and Fury, isn't it!FireSnake - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Nice review. Keep up the good work!And nice refresh also :)
jcwagers - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Ryan, the clockspeed chart is showing 1680 mhz for Ashes while all the rest are showing around 1380 mhz. Is that a typo? Just letting you know so you can fix it. Thanks for the article. :)jcwagers - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Oops....it was for the 580 card.