AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

Lokken86 · 31 May 2016 at 22:21

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Wait if you add VAT to that it is £165. That means R9 390X or GTX980 level performance for £165??

RIP off Britain remember.

KompuKare · 31 May 2016 at 22:26

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Wait if you add VAT to that it is £165. That means R9 390X or GTX980 level performance for £165??

Or if you look up R9 390X in the US (circa $400) and in the UK (circa £330), and take that $199 is half of that, you get around £165 too.

Mind you, currency + VAT is being a bit optimistic for European pricing.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 May 2016 at 22:29

Lokken86 said:
RIP off Britain remember.

OK,£190 then! But still if that is the case and it is R9 390X or Fury performance,that will be more like what we should be getting from a new node!!

Lets hope it is all true!!

Lokken86 · 31 May 2016 at 22:34

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
OK,£190 then! But still if that is the case and it is R9 390X or Fury performance,that will be more like what we should be getting from a new node!!

Lets hope it is all true!!

Surely even AMD know that's the only way back. Forget Vega for now and get some reasonably high performance cheap cards on the go.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 May 2016 at 22:42

Lokken86 said:
Surely even AMD know that's the only way back. Forget Vega for now and get some reasonably high performance cheap cards on the go.

Lets at least hope AMD delivers on all this hype!!

SiDeards73 · 31 May 2016 at 22:46

Waiting patiently for Nvidia fans to say Wall Street Journal is full of rubbish

Seriously though, $199 for a 390X or potentially higher lvl performance card is mental, i might just buy 2 to tide me over til Vega

Jono8 · 31 May 2016 at 22:54

Be good if true though im mindful of the fact that vr performance is the context...

Remember, the 1080 is twice the performance of the titan x.....in vr.

fs123 · 31 May 2016 at 22:55

SiDeards73 said:
Waiting patiently for Nvidia fans to say Wall Street Journal is full of rubbish

Seriously though, $199 for a 390X or potentially higher lvl performance card is mental, i might just buy 2 to tide me over til Vega

Also don't forget overclocking could push it to 980ti level. I'm ready for it.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 May 2016 at 23:06

Jono8 said:
Be good if true though im mindful of the fact that vr performance is the context...

Remember, the 1080 is twice the performance of the titan x.....in vr.

You say that but we already are kind of getting a hint that the card will have 2304 shaders clocked at 1.2GHZ to 1.3GHZ or thereabouts.

Even if GCN1.4 had no improvements,that would place the card at R9 390 level alone. If you add improvements to tesellation,the new command processor,etc to get to R9 390X level is not such a big stretch.

It is the pricing which is key here - The WSJ and the Videocardz editor both said the low level of the pricing range for the RX480 is around $200.

mahius · 31 May 2016 at 23:07

A £160-200 Polaris for 390/970 performance is what I expected if I'm honest. Now if they could surpass those expectations...

White_hell · 31 May 2016 at 23:11

I'm looking forward to it, though I'll have to read about everything tomorrow morning at work.

Rannoch · 31 May 2016 at 23:12

Looks good at that price point.

AlamoX · 31 May 2016 at 23:17

at this price AMD will sweep that segment, hopefully performance is more like 980 than 970.

Jono8 · 31 May 2016 at 23:17

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
You say that but we already are kind of getting a hint that the card will have 2304 shaders clocked at 1.2GHZ to 1.3GHZ or thereabouts.

Even if GCN1.4 had no improvements,that would place the card at R9 390 level alone. If you add improvements to tesellation,the new command processor,etc to get to R9 390X level is not such a big stretch.

It is the pricing which is key here - The WSJ and the Videocardz editor both said the low level of the pricing range for the RX480 is around $200.

I know but does the low level 200 dollar card match the 390x in relative gaming performance or just in vr . That is the $200 question.

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We will find out in a few hours anyway so im going to bed to stop speculating.

Dave2150 · 31 May 2016 at 23:41

AlamoX said:
was talking about this one, newegg is selling them if you google it.

You won't find them in this country. Only custom cards.

Boomstick777 · 31 May 2016 at 23:45

Wow if that price is legit and performance is circa GTX 980 with much less power consumption that's an absolute bargain.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-prices-3-d-cards-to-spur-virtual-reality-market-1464725394

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 May 2016 at 23:48

Jono8 said:
I know but does the low level 200 dollar card match the 390x in relative gaming performance or just in vr . That is the $200 question. .

We will find out in a few hours anyway so im going to bed to stop speculating.

The pricing range that the Videocardz editor mentioned was $199 to $249 which is around £165 to £210.

drunkenmaster · 31 May 2016 at 23:54

Beren said:
I find it interesting that the card leaked only has 1 * 6 pin power connector and is reportedly doing 5.5 Flops. I can hope that it is a great clocking chip and that once we get third party cards with MOAR POWA ® We could see something very cool.

However for my next build which is going to be a living room gaming rig outputting to a 1080p screen quiet and cool with 970 level performance would be perfect - especially if it comes in at a decent price.

pci-e pin power is basically a marketing tool because people think it has anything at all to do with power... it doesn't. PCi-e can draw really as much as the psu can give over those cables. The power that can be drawn is entirely limited by the mosfet/vrm capacity. AMD has a history of overprovisioning on VRM/mosfet capacity. IE where a 6990 had the mosfet delivery for like 600W, the 590 which was rated at 375W iirc, had mosfets that were realistically rated at 375W only for room temp which is why drivers reduced power limit below that level after several popped. Nvidia tends to give very little headroom with ability to deliver much above spec while AMD have tended to provide much higher capacity.

It's what makes that $100 more for Founders Edition 1080 because it has more expensive components so laughable, when they purposefully left off say $10 worth of extra mosfets/vrms to let the card overclock better, they cheaped out and stripped back from the original design to what they could get away with then charged more for it calling it premium.

drunkenmaster · 31 May 2016 at 23:58

Jono8 said:
I know but does the low level 200 dollar card match the 390x in relative gaming performance or just in vr . That is the $200 question. .

We will find out in a few hours anyway so im going to bed to stop speculating.

It's not really, AMD didn't have any problems with VR performance and VR performance in terms of certified by and such is really based on one factor, how much raw power the card has.

AMD bringing similar performance to half the price of the previous gen is what usually happens with a new process with double the transistor density. Only Nvidia have started trying to rip people off by changing that and replacing parts of the previous gen with ball park similar performance within the same price bracket.

GFX-Kid · 1 Jun 2016 at 00:01

£160-£200 for custom one's.

But if you want it asap, AMD purportedly doing a Weyoun Edition for £250