With the introduction of AMD’s AIB companions’ customized designs for the Navi-based RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT graphics playing cards, rumors (ie, experiences) began to drift round of AMD’s discontinuation of their reference designs. However, AMD’s personal Scott Herkelman confirmed by way of Twitter that the corporate is not transitioning its reference designs to an EOL (End of Life) standing, and that they may proceed to be supplied within the conventional venues.
However, Scott did say that AMD is within the stage of transitioning their AIB companions absolutely to their very own customized designs. This signifies that AMD will seemingly maintain the market cornered on blower-style designs, that may be purchased by customers planning to stay their very own aftermarket cooling answer and simply need the most cost effective potential card. This means, AIB companions will all the time promote Radeon playing cards below their very own model names, as an alternative of one thing like “ASUS Radeon RX 5700”.
