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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Guys slow down please. It's taken me 12 hours of occasional browsing to catch up on this thread.

I'm still mildly optimistic that the 480 will be a worthy card. Not sure why some people are taking "potential" performance figures personally though.

We'll all have to just wait and see when the NDA finally lifts.
 
Mauller said:
i think people have mentioned that the mounting holes are still in the same places as on previous parts. But with the positioning of the VRM,s you might not be able to fit current water blocks if that is what you are thinking.
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AMD sizes change slightly, the r270x has 53x53mm. the r9 290 for example has 54x54mm so look the same but will need to be right to fit.

I have an ek thermosphere and its not the VRM positions that concern me its the capacitor by the power connector that might be in the way.

but I need to buy a bracket for AMD cards got an nvidia one atm and would like to buy before stock gets sucked up if I can.,
 
Any idea yet when the 480 and 490 will be released? I thought they said June but June is almost over?

Also is there full specs for both cards yet?

Thanks in advance.
 
GizF1 said:
I'm more interested that they have begun testing a week early , either they are very thorough or there may be something in these rumors about the 24th.

Tweak town posted they were testing as well
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A week sounds pretty reasonable to get all testing done and the review written up. I'm sure it can be done quicker, but apparently reviewers don't even have the driver AMD wants them to use for final benchmarking yet, so anything substantial on the 24th seems unlikely.
 
GizF1 said:
I'm more interested that they have begun testing a week early , either they are very thorough or there may be something in these rumors about the 24th.

Tweak town posted they were testing as well
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There was the conference call yesterday, so they likely got permission to do these little previews today in preparation for next week's release.
 
RedGoose said:
Between 390x and 980 stock is the expected performance right now. Higher than nano is going to come from overclocking (if the card overclocks well).
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Those leaks show it being run on older drivers and a core i3, it more than likely has far better performance in the bag, that shows it being slower compared to the videocardz leaks.
 
AllBodies said:
Yeah I don't think either company was truly claiming it. It's really just 20nm enhanced with FinFets and some minor other improvements.

So at very very best you're looking at a 1.5 node jump from 28nm, but really it's just a 1 node jump.

The technical definition of a full node is when you can fit double the transistors in the same space. And so far we've seen less than 2x from Nvidia. Certainly not 4x (2 nodes).
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Tbh they're not far off I think, since the 1080 is actually smaller than a 980.

5200/398 = 13.06 million transistors per mm^2

7800/314 = 24.8 million transistors per mm^2.

Which I guess isn't horrible and I'm sure AMDs chosen process will be able to get hopefully similar numbers atleast.
It's quick maths and I just woke up so I probably messed up something here though.
 
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