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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

henson0115 said:
this, we had an update which improved 390 performance as there were some issues early on.
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That's the point im trying to make though I kind find the new ones. I think digital foundry did with both cards the same now.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1080_review,16.html

That one is a 1080 review so after the fix. 390 is actually ahead there.

Trouble with AMD is they are often behind on release and it gets fixed in peoples mind from that point which is best.
 
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h4rm0ny said:
I can't believe some people here are blaming OCUK for not playing the currency market in order to avoid price rises following Brexit. Or calling it "gouging" when the pound plummets. When the pound falls, this is what happens - Britain becomes poorer when it comes to buying things from other countries. That's a fundamental. Hedge funds whose sole purpose is to predict the market got it wrong last night (I think they just thought Britain couldn't really vote to leave) and people are attacking Gibbo over not gambling with the company's money! You people realize that's what playing the currency market is, right? Gambling. It is not on to attack OCUK for not dabbling in currencies because your graphics card is going to cost extra following Brexit. Foreign goods now cost more - one retailer, no matter how lovely they are, is not going to find this One Weird Trick To Beat The Market.

Unbelievable. :(
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Well said - the majority voted for this and now are moaning since prices are higher.

There is no pleasing people in this country.
 
Holy crap at price changes....

I bought a 960 MSI Gaming 2GB 3 weeks ago for £132 with the intention to return it (which I did yesterday) and buying a 480 or a 2nd hand 970 when new stuff comes out.

Now this same 960 is £156 in same place.

£24 increase overnight on a £130 GPU.

It looks like the 480 might be £229 and £249 respectively for 8GB after all...
 
PhoenixUK said:
Holy crap at price changes....

I bought a 960 MSI Gaming 2GB 3 weeks ago for £132 with the intention to return it (which I did yesterday) and buying a 480 or a 2nd hand 970 when new stuff comes out.

Now this same 960 is £156 in same place.

£24 increase overnight on a £130 GPU.

It looks like the 480 might be £229 and £249 respectively for 8GB after all...
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doubtful - the pound is recovering after its very low dip lastnight of 1.3218 its about 137.15 right now; it won't drop any lower; but will come back over 1.40 over the next few days - markets are also recovering.....

even with drop - retail price is still 199 dollars for 4g; so with vat that's 173.74..shipping most likely put it at 175; that's landed with profit built it. OC could then add another 15 on top of that making it 190.....for the 4g - it looks more likely the stock they bought was around 1.41 exchange as some have stated channel price for 8g landed was 169 + vat.....

That put 8g at 202.8 - we'd be looking around 215 price any higher and starting to gouge......we shouldn't see 4 g over 200 - unless it gouging......as I said we should see the pound recovery over 1.4 in next few days......
 
Lokken86 said:
Gimme a break. One game. And most other reviews even show the 970 behind in that game.

Also there's a video review on YouTube somewhere of the 1070 in like 22 games or so. The 390 wins in all but 1 against the 970.
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They are on par for the most part and the 970 overclocks a lot beating out the 390, a far cry from the 390 being classed in a different performance league lol. Take them AMD fanboy shades off.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Well said - the majority voted for this and now are moaning since prices are higher.

There is no pleasing people in this country.
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Some of us moaning did NOT vote for this.

RavenXXX2 said:
the 970 overclocks a lot
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That's something a lot of people forget when claiming the 390 is objectively better based on stock benches.

390 has been cheaper for longer though, so I think after Crimson driver updates, the 390 has been the slightly better buy.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
So they are on par then, glad that's settled.
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That video is a year old. Amd seem to have been doing better with newer games. Any how it does not matter as i still expect with 5.8 tflops the 480 should be on par with the 390x which is faster.

Here is the 390 launch last year.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/R9_390_PCS_Plus/30.html

Pretty much equal with the gtx970 at 1440p and slower at 1080p

Now here is 6 months on.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R9_390_Nitro/

The 390 has overtaken the gtx970 and pulled a gap due to drivers and newer games where the 390 does better.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
Just to clear some things up, the noise of this would almost certainly have been extremely low even at 60%. Look at the settings in that panel, min was 1040rpm max was 2200rpm. So even at 100%, that would be 2200rpm, at 60% I would guess it was somewhere around the 1700-1800rpm range, that would be next to silent.

For comparison my 290 does 1150rpm at 25%(lowest afterburner allows), 2700rpm at 50% and 5150rpm at 100%. This card is incredibly quiet at 40% which is 2000rpm, it starts to get louder and irritating at 50% and 2700rpm and is horrible above 60%. Blower and fan speed % mean nothing, it depends entirely on what the range of the fan is set to. 1000-2000rpm then 2 or 100% will be pretty damn quiet, if the range is 3000-6000rpm, then at 2% it will be bad and at 100% you'll want to kill yourself.

I would guess that reducing max/target temps the fan would have closed or stayed at 100%, but given that max was set to 2200rpm that would still have been quiet.
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I was referring to the Afterburner rpm of 1900 at 49% which means the max is just under 4000. I didn't think the fan would be that fast. I realise it's a small fan. We'll just have to wait for reviews regarding the noise.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
So they are on par then, glad that's settled.
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Yeah they are on par although the 1422mhz 970 being a bit low. Pretty common for 1500+ for the vast majority, one in my sisters PC does 1560mhz.

1200mhz on a 390 is more of the top overclock though. Still they are very close cards performance wise.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
They are on par for the most part and the 970 overclocks a lot beating out the 390, a far cry from the 390 being classed in a different performance league lol. Take them AMD fanboy shades off.
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Why must it always boil down to fanboy stuff. Look for yourself, I'm not wrong. In the majority of 'new' games, the 390 with a substantial lead. And yes oc vs oc, 390 still wins.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Why are you picking a review that only shows Pre OC models. Will we be waiting for Pre OC 480's before we judge. The fairest way is stock v stock and the 390 is clearly faster.
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They are also using old doom scores. Take off that oc and the 390 would be ahead by 10%+ in almost everything. Wish I could find that user review of the 1070.
 
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