Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Jono8 · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:54

David Bisset said:
No indication he saw performance figures, and even if he did again that's pre-release drivers - and again there is room for variation based on cooling solution and I doubt he saw all the possibilities. Again, I don't see any reason this card needs to go anywhere near a 980Ti to be good at $200... it's just amusing that one comment from someone who knows some but not necessarily everything makes everyone go nuts

Ay? They are in stock. He has no doubt had a play or at least spoken to 8pack who will have

Seanspeed · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:54

Mauller said:
'Instruction prefetching' alone is geared towards improving throughput by helping shader utilisation. so even at the same clocks a GCN4 shader should be faster than one on a previous iteration.

By how much, though? 5%? 0.5%? 50%?

Point is - the main priority for the architectural improvements may not have been largely performance-based.

We just dont really know.

Fallen god · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:54

Think its stupid too expect 980Ti performance out off a $200 GPU.

Rroff · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:55

Fallen god said:
Think its stupid too expect 980Ti performance out off a $200 GPU.

New generation on old generation its been about that traditionally.

RavenXXX2 · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:57

Rroff said:
New generation on old generation its been about that traditionally.

Truth. Nvidia 1070 $379 tops $1000 TX.

Seanspeed · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:59

ICDP said:
390X/980 type performance at stock with an overclock to Fury Pro levels would be a great card for the price.

970/390 with an OC to 390X/980 levels would not be.

What if it's better than 390, but not quite 390X-level?

flopper · 20 Jun 2016 at 21:59

Fallen god said:
Think its stupid too expect 980Ti performance out off a $200 GPU.

reference maybe wont be but thirdparty will be with oc.
normally a die shrink offers entusiast end at half the price but Nvidia added a special tax 100$ for the fools edition.
Biggest thing in cards is the 480 and soon Vega.
years from now no one will recall Pascal other than a failed tax experiment.

ICDP · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:01

Fallen god said:
Think its stupid too expect 980Ti performance out off a $200 GPU.

Agreed, quite a few were expecting this based on 1500MHz+ OC and a stock performance of R9 Nano. Of course the problem is we don't really know the stock performance.

Kaapstad · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:01

flopper said:
reference maybe wont be but thirdparty will be with oc.
normally a die shrink offers entusiast end at half the price but Nvidia added a special tax 100$ for the fools edition.
Biggest thing in cards is the 480 and soon Vega.
years from now no one will recall Pascal other than a successful tax experiment.

Fixed.

Gregster · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:03

David Bisset said:
No indication he saw performance figures, and even if he did again that's pre-release drivers - and again there is room for variation based on cooling solution and I doubt he saw all the possibilities. Again, I don't see any reason this card needs to go anywhere near a 980Ti to be good at $200... it's just amusing that one comment from someone who knows some but not necessarily everything makes everyone go nuts

You carry on believing what you will David, whilst I will take Gibbo and common sense instead.

LoadsaMoney · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:04

five8five · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:05

MyBrains said:
Gibbo said he 'held' a Sapphire card, thats it.

Gibbo said:
OcUK will be first with all cards just like 1080 and 1070.

We are Kings of VGA, that won't change when it comes to AMD!

So the moment I get a sniff of custom cards they shall be online. I know board partners have them but whether they want to launch is another thing, I have even held the Sapphire ones when I was in Asia couple weeks ago.

So he met the board partners amd presumably bought stock. I'm certain he knows what he's buying

Please don't start the hype train again

TheRealDeal · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:06

Kaapstad said:
Not my fault if they don't know a CPU bottleneck if it hits them over the head.

Here are a single watercooled 980 v an air cooled 980 Ti.

I just used the out of the box clockspeeds but they can both overclock by about the same amount.

I did not even bother to change the default fan profile on the 980 Ti.

This should only be used as a rough guide but it backs up what I said about performance difference.

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/8881869/fs/8881704#

Proves nothing at all. None of your cards are at stock Nvidia factory settings and i doubt they are cpu bottlenecked with a 6700k at 4.5ghz. Lets leave it there with your 2 at varying boosts show a 40% gap in performance.

Scougar · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:06

LoadsaMoney said:

That is one beautiful train.... (engine)

Gibbo · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:07

Jono8 said:
Ay? They are in stock. He has no doubt had a play or at least spoken to 8pack who will have

Only powered one up to check for noise, being to busy to test.

My comment was basically common sense, the entire internet and review sites are saying 390-390X and circa 980 levels, so I just had to step in when some people were trying to create false rumours by saying 980Ti / Titan X levels as people obviously do not realise how quick a 980Ti is.

Its a good 30-40% quicker than even an overclocked 980!!!! So in general performance I cannot see it, be good to be proven wrong as they'd sell like crazy but at same time I think people's expectations should not be so crazy or deluded. Of course in an AMD DX12 where AMD is typically stronger than NVIDIA then I suspect it could be possible in a game such as Ashes of Singularity DX12 where cards like 390X do very well, its fair to say an RX 480 will do superb.

Troezar · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:09

flopper said:
reference maybe wont be but thirdparty will be with oc.
normally a die shrink offers entusiast end at half the price but Nvidia added a special tax 100$ for the fools edition.
Biggest thing in cards is the 480 and soon Vega.
years from now no one will recall Pascal other than a failed tax experiment.

Flopper reminds me of Chemical Ali

new boy · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:09

Gibbo said:
Its a good 40% quicker than even an overclocked 980!!!!

Not this again

billyturbo · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:10

Earlier in the thread it was stated that AMD were mad at WCCFtech for blabbing too much about the RX480's super duper performance, so AMD have obviously been on the blower to Gibbo to try and put the lid on things until the launch.

Everyone back on the hype train!

.Trooper. · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:14

billyturbo said:
Earlier in the thread it was stated that AMD were mad at WCCFtech for blabbing too much about the RX480's super duper performance, so AMD have obviously been on the blower to Gibbo to try and put the lid on things until the launch.

Everyone back on the hype train!

Because the small community of OCUK is gonna make all the difference

harney · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:15

Gibbo said:
Only powered one up to check for noise, being to busy to test.

My comment was basically common sense, the entire internet and review sites are saying 390-390X and circa 980 levels, so I just had to step in when some people were trying to create false rumours by saying 980Ti / Titan X levels as people obviously do not realise how quick a 980Ti is.

Its a good 30-40% quicker than even an overclocked 980!!!! So in general performance I cannot see it, be good to be proven wrong as they'd sell like crazy but at same time I think people's expectations should not be so crazy or deluded. Of course in an AMD DX12 where AMD is typically stronger than NVIDIA then I suspect it could be possible in a game such as Ashes of Singularity DX12 where cards like 390X do very well, its fair to say an RX 480 will do superb.

Right lads train crash cleared up and repaired... so back on the hype train everyone ...Gibbo only powered one up to check for noise so skys the limit