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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Sorry if already posted, google translate done its best...

AMD warned in the presentation of its Radeon RX 480 , and now the 3DMark Fire Strike confirms a CrossFire configuration of two AMD Radeon RX 480 outperform the graphic top-end Nvidia, the GeForce GTX 1080 , and all with unripe and without models overclocked ahead drivers, as even the Radeon RX 480 tested were to 1230 MHz , lower than the 1266 MHz to reach the reference model and away from the up to 1500 MHz that can achieve custom models (refrigerated by air).

Thus a CrossFire configuration of two Radeon RX 480 achieved a score of 22,721 points on the benchmark compared with 21,828 points GTX 1080, winning by the minimum, but the most interesting is the price , because a GeForce GTX 1080 round almost 800 euros , while two Radeon RX 480 will move around 500-570 euros .
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I'm hoping this will be a decent upgrade from my 280X which is really not hacking it since I upgraded to a 1440p monitor.

Have we got any indication about stock levels on launch day? i.e. will it be a case of order and then sit tight for a month+ until we get our cards?

I really hope this card is all it's cracked up to be or I might just go for a used 980.
 
HarryBizzle said:
I'm hoping this will be a decent upgrade from my 280X which is really not hacking it since I upgraded to a 1440p monitor.

Have we got any indication about stock levels on launch day? i.e. will it be a case of order and then sit tight for a month+ until we get our cards?

I really hope this card is all it's cracked up to be or I might just go for a used 980.
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cards are shipping to retailers all over the globe 3 weeks prior to launch, even ocUK got their stock in the warehouse already, thats a good indication that AMD is well prepared with a massive stock behind, to metigate in shortage and price gouging.
now all we need is performance matching the leaks, even slightly lower would do, because some leaks just seem too good to be true, and especialy new features am curious about what AMD did on GCN4.0
 
HarryBizzle said:
I'm hoping this will be a decent upgrade from my 280X which is really not hacking it since I upgraded to a 1440p monitor.

Have we got any indication about stock levels on launch day? i.e. will it be a case of order and then sit tight for a month+ until we get our cards?

I really hope this card is all it's cracked up to be or I might just go for a used 980.
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It will almost certainly be better than a GTX 980 in the long run. Buying a 4GB card from now on is probably a bad idea (at this performance level), and the 980 has poor DX12 performance, so even if the RX480 is behind in DX11 games, it should beat it in new games going forward.
 
That's good to hear. I'm a bit worried about the price though given the level of interest and what's happened with the 1070 (so much for the £330 RRP).

Presumably the 29th will be the day the embargo is lifted and reviews come out? Hopefully the card won't be OOS by the time I've finished pouring over them.

AllBodies said:
It will almost certainly be better than a GTX 980 in the long run. Buying a 4GB card from now on is probably a bad idea (at this performance level), and the 980 has poor DX12 performance, so even if the RX480 is behind in DX11 games, it should beat it in new games going forward.
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Thanks for this. A fair few of the games I'm interested in are the Microsoft Play Anywhere ones (Forza Horizon 3 especially) and I think they're all DX12, right?
 
HarryBizzle said:
Thanks for this. A fair few of the games I'm interested in are the Microsoft Play Anywhere ones (Forza Horizon 3 especially) and I think they're all DX12, right?
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I believe they are yes. It hasn't been 100% confirmed they're all DX12, but since they're exclusive to Windows 10, and they're ported from the Xbox One it's very likely they're all DX12.
 
That looks fake as hell. Gaining that many points with a likely 150mhz overclock is just not going to happen. Please remove that crap.
 
Scougar said:
That looks fake as hell. Gaining that many points with a likely 150mhz overclock is just not going to happen. Please remove that crap.
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:confused:

You mean 320MHz overclock? That makes it a 29.63% increase in core clock speed, yielding a 28.18% in performance.

Sounds reasonable enough to me.
 
.Trooper. said:
Wasn't it proven before that they've just replaced the Titan X with the 480 in that graph?
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I don't know about that. I was just replying to the guy who made it sound like the numbers don't add up when they clearly do. Whether or not the information is accurate and the gpu will overclock that much is another story.

But from all the news out there, it does seem like Polaris will overclock nicely. But I won't hold my breath. Better not to have high expectations and be surprised.

If a overclocked RX 480 can reach 1070 stock performance, that would make it a huge success due to being £100-150 cheaper :)
 
AllBodies said:
It will almost certainly be better than a GTX 980 in the long run. Buying a 4GB card from now on is probably a bad idea (at this performance level), and the 980 has poor DX12 performance, so even if the RX480 is behind in DX11 games, it should beat it in new games going forward.
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The majority of new games will still be DX11.
 
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