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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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I'm actually going to be disappointed if it's not really close to the Nano.
You mean when overclocked right? I mean, everything we've seen so far has always suggested 390X performance. There's never been anything to suggest something above 980/390X without OC.
there have been a few leaks showing FS ultra at 31-3400, but not a great deal of info on how it got it. And some of those were presumed on 16.6.1 drivers while FS ultra scores at 2900 were made on 16.5.1 drivers
Those leaks came from AMD - Guru3D said so - showing 470 matching 290/970 in benches.....
6.3 was with a driver from January and low power which is supposed to be 900 mhz....seriously AMD is low balling the 480 to surprise their competition; I seriously can't believe no one remember the exact same stuff happened with 4870 release and 5870 release. There was so much disinformation - and bomb that dropped on release was eyefinity.
We know the baseline at boost for 480 will be 980/390X speeds - the core wouldn't be any less in DX11 - DX 12 shows it should be between nano and Fury. Sapphire has already confirmed 1500 mhz......and how far after it will OC is something we'll just have to wait and see.....
will it match 1070; we honestly don't know but for a 200-220 card...it just needs to get 80% of it to really do damage at that price.....and from the leaks it will more than do that
What does AMD have to gain by faking underwhelming benchmarks? It doesn't just make Nvidia feel safe to do that, it turns off a lot of customers.
becasue a lot of the stuff we have seen is leaked and not actual benchmarks, or they are benchmarks in specific circumstances. it means they can release the card at full performance on the day and it keeps their hand hidden from the competition.
Just to explore that a bit, AMD will have shipped a driver CD with every boxed 480 card.
We can't honestly believe that the driver that is shipping with the card is deliberately gimped. There will be a number of users who actually install the driver from the CD, after all.
This just smacks a bit of desperation, and deliberate self-delusion. "Every benchmark was using gimped drivers; AMD are holding back the real drivers for the day of release - it'll come close to a 1070 with those!!"
And then it doesn't.
I don't think they're faking as much as not focusing on specific performance numbers. This could mean the card is really bad (in which case they're not going to do well obviously) or the card is actually pretty good and they don't want Nvidia to have a chance to steal their thunder like they did with the 980ti when hyping the Fury X.
Besides, no one pays attention to benchmarks from AMD/Nvidia. They always look at third party reviews.
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You sure GPUs still come with Driver CDs? My two 290s and the 290x didn't, it did how ever come with a sheet paper telling me to go to AMD site to download latest drivers.
I think he's talking about the stuff AMD has released, like the 6.3 VR performance score, not the leaked benchmarks.
the early batch of reference might not have driver on CD and direct you to Dl latest drivers, custom usualy do because they come few weeks later
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So much hate in this thread, it's a budget GPU with good performance. Move on guys. Either buy it or don't. All the shilling for one camp or another needs to stop it's so weird 0.0
Right now - AMD has a few cards to deal with EOL 900 series and 1070 series - if they show from the beginning its more than 80% of 1070; Nvidia drops the price of the 1070s taking the wind out.......
Now by showing its lower - disinformation (remember they did the exact same thing with the 4870; people; didn't even have the correct core for it) it came in like a hammer....
we know at 1266 it has 5.8 TFLOPS - if it doesn't at least match 980/390X then its a major fail - AMD never degraded their graphic performance specially in a shrink. We've been slowly seeing scores go up with each new driver - that in itself is telling.......we're being lowballed......
C'mon man, not his again. We know that a 1070 beats a reference 980Ti and it's been stated categorically that the 480 won't get close to a 980Ti.
exactly, ppl who want higher performance have 1070/1080 or 2nd hand 980Ti/Titan, ppl with small wallets and still want 60-80fps in 1080/1440p they have the RX 480.
it's not like if AMD released a good enthusiast card around 1080 performance ppl would buy it, most will still pick nvidia over AMD, so why should they bother, yo like Nvidia deal with their price, Vega11 will come when the production cost will bring the starting point closer to main stream target for a 300-400$ price point a gpu.