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AMD Matt when can 290(x) + users expect an upgrade?

SiDeards73 said:
Shanks check this link

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/94969-sapphire-radeon-rx-480-nitro-4gb-8gb-oc/?page=12

Have a look through the benchmarks
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Typically since the GTX 1060 launch mainstream reviewers are no longer doing DX12 or Vulkan benchmarks unless it favours Nvidia.

So here is one pre GTX 1060. http://www.guru3d.com/articles_page..._graphics_performance_benchmark_review,6.html

Oh tell a lie http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_1060_review,15.html they did remove Doom Vulkan from their listing tho.
 
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I just grabbed a Fury X. Switched from trifire 290 setup and honestly.. it was a good move! Especially having 1440p freesync I'm very happy. Other than that gotta wait till vegaaaaa
 
Freddie1980 said:
The Fury lineup was your upgrade. You snooze you lose.
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Doesn't seem like much of an upgrade for DX12 which AMD is supposed to be good at. The Fury range seems barely faster than the 390x, especially compared to the Fury Pro and Nano

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,10.html


http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,13.html

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,11.html

AMD have seemingly made DX12 run so well on Hawaii that they have forgotten about Fiji :p
 
Smudge said:
I bought a 290 ref on release, its still performing well and I commend AMD for the extra performance youve managed to squeeze out of it over the years. This card is SO hot and loud though, it throttles even in my massive case, I have to play with headphones on to drown out the noise. My problem is that I have invested in a 1440, 144hz freesync monitor so I feel im tied into AMD. Yes I could buy an Nvidia 1070/80 and it would be an upgrade, maybe even smoother (quieter!!!) than my current setup. The 480 IAB's seem to be a side grade or less. I want to keep my freesync!

I'm pretty sure there are lots of people like me wanting some sort of 490 type of card. We dont want to buy the last gen 4gb fury cards to get some sort of upgrade.

AMD give us something now before we jump ship!
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Use the time to save up some extra cash so when Vega does appear you can go big Vega and enjoy another 3-4 years of good gaming.
 
Smudge said:
shanks, im very impressed on how this cards kept up, the problem is it sounds like a tornado. I could buy a 480 AIB now for 230 quid to get less performance and quieter, buy a 300 quid fury for quieter performance marginally more performance. I want to spend 400 quid on a 490 and get an upgrade :)
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Why not buy a corsair conversion kit to add an all-in-one cooler for now. When you replace the gpu you can either sell it with the cooler or put it back together as reference and keep the all-in-one for use with a future cpu or gpu.
 
Aretak said:
Their new mid-range card draws a lot less power than their previous high end. There's plenty of room between a 480 and the kind of power that a true high end card usually draws. Let's not forget that the 980 Ti didn't exactly sip power, and the Titan X2 won't either with a 250W TDP right off the bat. That's just the price you pay for scaling things up to that degree. There's also the fact that Vega will almost certainly use HBM2, which will knock a decent chunk off the power consumption, as it did for the Fury series versus the 390X, which enabled them to offer more performance for slightly less power draw.

Temperatures are largely irrelevant, as cards with a higher TDP will be built with beefier coolers. If you stuck a Vapor-X cooler from a 290X on the 480 it'd probably run at 50 degrees at full load, but that large and complex a cooler is so costly that you won't see it on a mid-range offering like the 480, because it'd make the card too expensive. All of these mid-range cards are very much built down to a price, which is why the 1060 FE is a cheap imitation of the 1070/1080 FE cooler for example. When you start asking for £400+ for the high end, the extra bill of materials for a beefy cooler is easier to integrate into the price.
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But let's not forget the Ti has better part:watt than a 480 so saying that the Ti hardly sipped power is true still considering its a ultra high end card and a big chip at that thats pushing more performance:watt than a midrange 14nm chip isnt so much good news for amd :')
 
My 290 is the reason I went back to watercooling...so loud and hot, if I hadn't got it for £160 from a miner I would have sent it back. Still maxing most games at 1080p one of the best buys I have made.
 
Swapped my 290X for a Fury Nitro, was it worth it? For me yeah, my FPS doesnt go below 60 now in BF4 at 1440p Ultra Settings and the game feels smoother, my performance has noticeably increased

Plus I wanted to go back to an air cooled card and the Fury looks nice too with its back plate etc plus waranty

290X is a great card though, if you have one in your system it will do well at 1080 and 1440p until Vega shows
 
Yeah sit tight til Vega I think, I play older games mostly and the only stuff I have my eyes on are either coming with Dx12 / Vulcan (Battlefield 1) or are Xbox one ports (sea of Thieves) and WoW, POE, Grim Dawn and D3 all run fine on our setups.

I was tempted by that TitanX to see what the fuss is about but it's getting slated already and will be massively overpriced, so I'm going to wait and probably buy 2 large Vega cards to go with my Zen CPU :)
 
Jono8 said:
Doesn't seem like much of an upgrade for DX12 which AMD is supposed to be good at. The Fury range seems barely faster than the 390x, especially compared to the Fury Pro and Nano

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,10.html


http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,13.html

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,11.html

AMD have seemingly made DX12 run so well on Hawaii that they have forgotten about Fiji :p
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you missed this

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_rx_480_red_devil_review,12.html
 
AMD have a rep here that you can post questions / comments / feedback to and he responds to such to the best of his ability & mandate to disclose information. Some of these have resulted in driver fixes that obviously benefit the consumer.

nVidia have no such formal representation.

AMD Matt is working for the community, understand that he has limitations as to disclosure.

Pretty straightforward when you cut the dross out of the issue.
 
Smudge said:
AMD give us something now before we jump ship!
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Amd gave price cuts on fury X to tide you over.

They do need to give some indication on delivery for vega though and a square box which accidently hovers over 2016 and 2017 is not helping anyone, least so amd.

Only assumption is amd don't know themselves.
 
No thread about reference 290/290x is complete without this:


Seriously though, I'm waiting for Vega myself. If it turns out to be significantly faster than the 1070 I might jump ship.
 
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