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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Lokken86 said:
Maybe they have different views on what vr ready is.
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Just using logic. AMD have stated they will bring VR ready GPUs to the $200 GPU market. That fact right there excludes the $150 470 as being VR ready. Therefore it cannot be giving similar performance to 970 or it would be classed as VR ready.
 
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ICDP said:
Just using logic. AMD have stated they will bring VR ready GPUs to the $200 GPU market. That fact right there excludes the $150 470 as being VR ready. Therefore it cannot be giving similar performance to 970 or it would be classed as VR ready.
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Oh well. Saying that I think I only just squeezed out a 10 in the vr stream test. That was overclocked too.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
470 is only $50 cheaper than the $199 480, I think it will be at stock or just below 970 performance. 960/380 is way to low.
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Yeah it might be a bit more given the 380 / 960 are only about <60% the performance of a 970 and it doesn't look there is such a big gap between the 470 - 480.

Having said that the performance of the 480 from sources who should know suggests its not that good, much lower than all those apparent 3DMark leaks.
 
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This is VERY simple to read and clearly to point out again that the competing card used is a GTX980 and not performing worse than it but potentially better. Also remember the $500 card performance reference given.

STAY HAPPY
 
Mr Latte said:
This is VERY simple to read and clearly to point out again that the competing card used is a GTX980 and not performing worse than it but potentially better. Also remember the $500 card performance reference given.

STAY HAPPY
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Another focus of AMD is the virtual reality market. Since their new card surpasses the required GTX 980 to run the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive VR headset, it would be cheaper and more affordable for even the average consumers to experience VR.
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Where is that AMD slide with 6.3 written on it? 6.3 is lower than a 970.
 
humbug said:
As with the 480 those leaks are probably fake, Gibbo said more like <980 for the 480, AMD's only performance indication suggests its actually slower than a 970, Steam VR bench 6.3 which is way lower than a 970.

The 470 is probably more like a 380 / 960.
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I think that's extremely pessimistic, it'd have to be really heavily cut down to be that slow. It's still using Polaris 10, to go from 5.8 TFLOPs to 3.5 would be a stretch considering most of AMD's previous Pro cards were only cut down by 256 shaders from the XT version.
 
Mr Latte said:
This is VERY simple to read and clearly to point out again that the competing card used is a GTX980 and not performing worse than it but potentially better. Also remember the $500 card performance reference given.

STAY HAPPY
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Can you trust an article when the headline is beating a "1060" which hasn't been released yet and we don't have any specifications for it.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
470 is only $50 cheaper than the $199 480, I think it will be at stock or just below 970 performance. 960/380 is way to low.
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Expect the 470 to match exiting 370 price but give current 380X level performance. So about 30% better prformance in most games.

That's not a bad increase in price/perf.

If RX 480 gives somewhere between 390X - Nano type performance I would say it's a good price/perf increase also. Any less than that it is giving identical perf at a similar price to what 390 has been available for over a year now.

We will know soon enough. Assuming ~ £230 price for RX 480 8GB.
 
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If you want to try and convince everyone its only going to offer GTX970 performance go right ahead. I doubt you will have many agreeing with you (yet again).

When was a GTX970 a $500 card, is RX480 at $199 not supposed to offer performance of recent/current $500 cards.
 
Jono8 said:
Indeed. Look at the 1070 gaming X. 10+ in stock since yesterday and still the same today. Very surprising and perhaps the first sign that people aren't willing to pay the silly prices.

I would love a 1070 gaming X but wont pay a penny over £400 at the very most ( ideally Ill probably wait trill they are nearer £350-£375 or so though)

Once stock becomes plentiful prices will come down decently, especially if we vote to stay in the eu and our currency sky rockets.
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We had nearly 1000 land now and they go on special promo today, they are flying out! :)
 
Just to clear this up, the steam VR test doesn't worth anything about measuring how good is a card in VR. You can take any card, even an old one which is powerful enough, and you'll get a good score.
 
five8five said:
Can you trust an article when the headline is beating a "1060" which hasn't been released yet and we don't have any specifications for it.
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I am not just referring to the article headlines but specifics made during the presentation. Although any reason to assume why a budget component of the 1060 will beat the RX480?
 
humbug said:
Where is that AMD slide with 6.3 written on it? 6.3 is lower than a 970.
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That slide also had 'Low Power' written in big letters above that benchmark, it could be that they were talking about the RX480 running at stock clocks or some specific situation. We don't know since we don't have the presentation that went with the slides.

Plus with the part having 5.8Tflops of compute @1266mhz along with the architectural enhancements, do you think that performance will have regressed since GCN2? since the 390 is 5.1tflops at stock and it gets 7 in that benchmark.
 
Mtom said:
Just to clear this up, the steam VR test doesn't worth anything about measuring how good is a card in VR. You can take any card, even an old one which is powerful enough, and you'll get a good score.
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This just isn't true.

It did have some bugged results here and there, though.
 
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