Polaris-based RX 500 series launching on April 18

A slight delay

According to new reports, the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 500 series, which should be based on Polaris GPUs, could be slightly delayed, with the new launch date set for April 18th.

While earlier information suggested that the Polaris 10-based Radeon RX 570/580 should be coming on April 4th, with Polaris 11-based RX 550/560 refresh coming week later, on April 11th, a new report from China site Mydrivers.com, spotted by eTeknix.com, suggests that the launch date has been pushed back to April 18th.

As detailed earlier, the new Radeon RX 500 series will be based on an existing AMD Polaris GPU architecture but should have somewhat higher clocks and improved performance-per-watt while the flagship Vega GPU based Radeon RX Vega, should be coming at a later date, most likely at Computex 2017 show, starting on May 30th.

Unfortunately, the precise details regarding the upcoming Radeon RX 500 series are still unknown but hopefully, these performance and clock improvements will allow AMD to compete with Nvidia’s mainstream lineup.