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ASrock to enter graphics card market

Terrorfirmer said:
I don't understand how Intel could screw it up that badly with it's massive resources.

Then I also don't understand how AMD keep pace with Nvidia (broadly speaking) when they've such meagre resources in comparison.

I get the CPU side of it, Ryzen caught up because Intel were lazy as they'd no incentive to develop further knock-out CPU's when they had zero competition in the FX line.
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There is significant IP tied up between NV and AMD , but also a dozen other companies.

Due to that and other reason Intel tried a different approach that was more compute focused than dedicated logic in hardware. This was just not competitive
 
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I don't see the point of the 570. The card isn't far off the performance of the 580 and doesn't cost that much cheaper either. As for the 550, it's just a waste of silicon and shouldn't even be on the market.

RTG should have two of these cards on the market: RX580 - £150 and the RX560 - £75.

580/1060/970/390 performance is ancient now and shouldn't cost anything more that £150.

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On a side note: Why does all PC gaming marketing material look like it was designed for chavs/neds...

It just looks extremely tacky.
 
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Intel obviously have no interest in the dedicated graphics market, they could easily scale up Intel HD Graphics. The performance is poorer but Intel usually have a process advantage anyway. Good to see ASRock entering the market.
 
RX500...that explains the single 8-pin PCI-E in the promo render. There's no Vega that can run a single 8-pin, which is what had me questioning the purported AMD focus.
 
Pointless tbh, as the cards are nigh on 2 years old now, and the mining bubble seems to have burst, as everyones saying the cards are flooding the 2nd hand market now.

Be like a new car brand coming in, and starting with these

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Mining, and not Gaming, Compelled ASRock to Enter the Graphics Market

When we first reported news of ASRock entering the graphics market with a focus on AMD Radeon GPUs, the story included a theory that crypto-currency mining was the primary driver behind the company's move. ASRock in its press-deck announcing its new Phantom Gaming series graphics cards late Wednesday, inadvertently confirmed that theory. While the cards are branded Phantom "Gaming," the press-deck slide detailing the lineup is prominently headlined "Mining" besides "Radeon 500 Series VGA." Our VGA Database curator also mentions that the cards' designs bear striking similarities to coolers from Chaintech, the OEM that supplies to Chinese VGA brands such as Colorful. Strangely enough, ASRock still went with "gaming" branding, and gave the cards proper display connectors, so it's hedging its bets on both gamers and miners.
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https://www.techpowerup.com/242801/...-asrock-to-enter-the-graphics-market#comments

It appeared ASRock Radeon graphics cards are mining cards target mining market, Phantom Gaming brand is very confused one and DVI ports is very odd, it not supposed to have display connectors. 32 bit memory bus? :confused:

Phantom Mining brand would be much better and not very confused one.
 
4K8KW10 said:
Isn't there an EU regulation or directive for minimum warranty period of two years for products sold in the EU market?
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I suspect AsRock wont sell these to consumers in the EU, with B2B there is also no such warranty so ASrock can sell direct to miners that are registered in the EU and not worry about warranty.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Mining, and not Gaming, Compelled ASRock to Enter the Graphics Market



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https://www.techpowerup.com/242801/...-asrock-to-enter-the-graphics-market#comments

It appeared ASRock Radeon graphics cards are mining cards target mining market, Phantom Gaming brand is very confused one and DVI ports is very odd, it not supposed to have display connectors. 32 bit memory bus? :confused:

Phantom Mining brand would be much better and not very confused one.
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Those specs don't seem to resemble the gaming cards at all. The core clocks are different, and the memory bus is most certainly 256bit. Warranty is 1 year.

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 8G OC/index.asp#Specification

It might be ASrock are also making mining variants, but the gaming cards seem to be a separate line.
 
I do like Asrock products but this just looks like a blatent attempt at trying to board the Crypto train. Too bad that by the time they've signed the contracts and done the work to bring the cards to market, the train seems to have departed already. :P
 
shankly1985 said:
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I do like Asrock products they have gone from a cheap known brand to building high quality motherboards. I really can not fault the products I have used. I expect no different from there GPUs tbh
Looks like they going to be a supplier for AMD
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Agree with this, had a socket 775 board of theirs and it was absolute dog plop - they've upped their game big time over the last few years, a solid partner for amd, expect to see good things.
 
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