Rumors were partially justified: AMD continues to release the Radeon RX 5000, and Polaris is out of production
Late last week, a Chinese site announced AMD’s intention to stop shipping Radeon RX 5000 GPUs soon. It was assumed that this measure would free up the TSMC pipeline for Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. The alarm turned out to be false, and this year the delivery of Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards will continue.
The MyDrivers website announced the day before that the Radeon RX 590, Radeon RX 580, and other representatives of the Polaris family have long been discontinued, and soon the same fate will befall the entire Radeon RX 5000 family. Only the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be granted the ability to stay on the shelves a little longer – obviously until the successor to the Radeon RX 6000 family arrives.
Chinese sources argued that the supply of the Radeon RX 5000 would be phased out before the Radeon RX 6000 had time to saturate the market, so the consequences of such changes could be quite painful. Fortunately, we managed to refute this information through our own channels. If deliveries of graphics processors of the Radeon RX 5000 family begin to be phased out, it will be only next year, not this one.
As for the representatives of the Polaris generation, their deliveries have indeed been discontinued, and this can already be felt by the reduction in offers in stores. While the new family of gaming graphics cards with the RDNA 2 architecture is limited to the lower end of the price range, the Radeon RX 6800 ($ 579), and therefore the entire Radeon RX 5000 family still has a chance to form AMD’s product line for a long time.
