Ditto. Back back through the pages, it's not the only 'leaked' bench pointing at them scores.
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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Ditto. Back back through the pages, it's not the only 'leaked' bench pointing at them scores.
There was a quite legit post at reddit, about all the leaks were run on older drivers not ones released for Polaris. So all its new features (primitive discard accelerator, etc) are supposedly not showing in the leaks.
Heres an opinion from yesterday: http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=266518&postcount=2022
I've played around with this little beast and I have to say this is the biggest improvement in years. Polaris is extremely powerful in micropoligons. I didn't even imagine that this kind of performance is possible on a quad raster design. In an extreme test case with 8xMSAA and 64 polys/pixel, the Polaris 10 is the fastest GPU in the market by far.
The second interesting thing is the pipeline stall handling. I wrote a program to test it, and remarkable how it works. I hate dealing with pipeline stalls, because it is hard, but on Polaris the stalls are just reduced by far. Even if I run a badly optimized program, the hardware just "try to solve the problem", and it works great. This behavior reminds me the Larrabee... and now we have it, not from Intel, but a hardware is here to solve a lot of problems!
Heres an opinion from yesterday: http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=266518&postcount=2022
I've played around with this little beast and I have to say this is the biggest improvement in years. Polaris is extremely powerful in micropoligons. I didn't even imagine that this kind of performance is possible on a quad raster design. In an extreme test case with 8xMSAA and 64 polys/pixel, the Polaris 10 is the fastest GPU in the market by far.
The second interesting thing is the pipeline stall handling. I wrote a program to test it, and remarkable how it works. I hate dealing with pipeline stalls, because it is hard, but on Polaris the stalls are just reduced by far. Even if I run a badly optimized program, the hardware just "try to solve the problem", and it works great. This behavior reminds me the Larrabee... and now we have it, not from Intel, but a hardware is here to solve a lot of problems!
Zorg - a dev that known on a few boards - this makes things very interesting.
Pretty sure it's going to smash the performance/watt.price out of the park.
Hype train! Stoke the boilers and get the pressure back up! This thing ain't stopping for six more days!
But it was understandable that early driver leaks would not show some of the architectural enhancing features. Sounds like we can do 8x msaa with little detriment!
But it was understandable that early driver leaks would not show some of the architectural enhancing features. Sounds like we can do 8x msaa with little detriment!
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Pretty sure that this card will be the new performance per W king and that it will service 99% of the population that isn't into 4k gaming.
We just need sensible pricing on its release from the retailers...
We just need sensible pricing on its release from the retailers...
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No, I dont think it will be.
And I think anybody who gets it for that is going to end up disappointed unless they dont like to play modern, demanding games. Right now, the 'base' level for comfortable 1440p/60fps is a 980Ti/1070(and I'm not talking full whack max settings, either). Anything less than that and you're going to run into problems with a good many existing modern games, and that number will rise considerably going forward.
Semiaccurate, eh?
Might have to forgive me for taking their opinions with buckets of salt.
Did you read the link at all? It's a user posting on their forum...
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Very interesting... but as always a lazy dev is a lazy dev, regardless of this cards ability to help a lazy dev, if stuffs not optomised for it, it will never achieve its true potential.
However it does look increasingly more interesting by the day..
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Now that WOULD be interesting if any of the leaks are credible as itd suggest the card is already performing in 390 vicinity with new features disabled. That could mean a decent boost when they get switched on.
I dont want to get my hopes up but that and the rumours of vr downclocking do suggest the potential for AMD to be playing the lowball game.
It would be nice for AMD to have another 4870 on its hands...
Also if Zorg is a trusted dev then that makes things more interesting!
A user that posts on Semiaccurate....
And I dont know why I'm supposed to take some forum user to be a legit source? :/
Again, seems like some people are super eager to believe anything positive they hear and dismiss/ignore anything that doesn't fit their sky-high expectations.
You can immediately identify somebody who doesn't know a thing about game development by their use of the term 'lazy dev'.
The outdated drivers would actually be a damn clever thing to do - ship the cards with nerfed drivers, just enough to get it running and then have to DL an update when NDA expires. Stops all the leaks giving the game away and the competition thinks they know what hand you are playing.
What's a DVD worth? 5 cents each in bulk?
I've been saying for a little while AMD is lowballing - but I've just been called mad and or names......we'll know soon enough - I've seen Zorg post other things that were spot on....and lines up with other leaks...
There is nothing to accomplish by doing this.
Nvidia have already released the 1070 and 1080 and GP106 doesn't look it's releasing within the next few weeks, so..........?
Sandbagging by only sending out proper Polaris drivers to reviewers at the last minute? Well played AMD, well played.
Let's hope it doesn't backfire with all these lower performance leaks about.
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they did the same with 4870 - now hopefully we won't have some reviewers refusing to use the new drivers to show 480 in a bad light *there will be a couple but their reviews will end up coming back to bite them by doing it*