On the eighth of November, the AMD website appeared presentation for investors, which is formally dated October, but contains information about products that were presented in November of this year. Since the previous version of the presentation for September is available in the profile section of the company's website, they can be easily compared for changes.
If you start with a description of the assortment of Radeon brand graphics solutions, then the ambiguous positioning of Polaris generation products catches your eye. On one slide, AMD lists the Radeon RX 500 family as part of its 2019 product lineup without a shadow of a doubt, replacing the Radeon RX Vega series with the Radeon RX 5500 in its November presentation. official representatives of AMD spoke in the summer of this year.
Another thing is interesting - in the latest version of the presentation for investors, the Radeon VII has not disappeared, which is also formally discontinued, and all commercially available video cards are sold from stock. For the flagship of the brand, this video card had a very short life cycle, since it was introduced in February of this year, and already in the summer all the news feeds were full of messages about the termination of its production. Radeon VII with expensive HBM2 memory has become a real "caliph for an hour", but AMD does not want to put up with this, continuing to mention it to investors as the current flagship of its product line.
In another slide, AMD is replacing the Radeon RX 590 with the Radeon RX 5500, considering both generations of graphics cards to be the best choice for 1080p gaming. While the Navi family has not spread to the lower price segment, Polaris generation graphics cards are needed by AMD to protect their market positions. In this situation, AMD prefers to sacrifice representatives of the Vega generation, which turned out to be expensive to manufacture due to the presence of HBM2 memory.
In an unusual way, AMD is expanding the description of Radeon graphics solutions used in various market segments. Since September, it has added the Radeon RX 5700 to the Radeon RX 5500 series, while leaving the "unsinkable" Radeon VII in service. For Apple computers of the Mac family, it offers not only the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, but also a certain "wide range" of graphics processors. Finally, if in September the next generation RDNA architecture was mentioned for next-generation game consoles, now the description has been replaced with a completely faceless one. Perhaps the company decided that ahead of time it is not worth advertising the timing of the appearance of products with the second generation RDNA architecture - they should debut in Sony and Microsoft game consoles in a year.
Source: 3dnews.ru