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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

Yeah seems odd. It's exactly what they said it would be and for the price segment, a great step up.

Not my market but it's exciting for the big chip and great to hear some good CPU news as well.
 
Interesting that the AoTS crossfire was only 50% scaling and was running at 62fps meaning a single 480 can run it at about 40 fps. Isn't that about Fury level performance? Not bad at all for the price.

edit: Normally with crossfire I found that 50% utilisation meant the framerate was roughly the same as for a single card.:eek:
 
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Look at it this way, if AMD have moved the performance of 390x/Fury down to around £160-190, just think what were likely to get at the higher end? Looks good for Vega If this is an indication of price / performance
 
Klo said:
It's interesting how the rest of the internet is excited about this, but this forum isn't.
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Probably because most folks on here already have a card that performs at least as good, if not significantly, better. Still, this is a great "chip" for two reasons: a) Great mainstream graphics cards at keen price points for the PC crowd; b) Great chip to form the basis of next years PS4 and XBOX upgrades. All-in-all, a real winner for AMD, if they can deliver.

I'd expect Nvidia prices to start adjusting - downwards - in the next 3 months or less. :)
 
A Fury peformance card, that can overclock better and with 8gb vram, yep it will replace my nano untl vega is out.
My brother going to be happy also recevng a free r9 nano :)
 
This card isn't aimed at enthusiasts!

If it's what we think it will it will be a massive success.

Two of my friends have for a few years now said that they want a cool gaming PC but the cost of a decent GPU and the rest of the system has always put them off. I told them about this card and they are getting very excited. If AMD can create PC gamers it's fantastic news for us. Rather than Nvidias new pricing actually pushing people away.
 
DazQ87 said:
I know quite a few people on older cards (mostly people with gtx760s) who would love performance close to the 980 but don't want to spend more than £200-£250. This is who these cards are aimed at, and if they do get the price right, I think AMD can gain a fair amount of market share if they price carefully.
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Yup, totally agree. Most of the people I game with are on 760 or lesser cards. They want nicer cards but only have £200 budget. They will snap this card up.
 
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AMD market share about to get a bit more healthy, unless Nvidia spoil the party with an $199-250 part that matches or beats it.
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And in the end if Nvidia do the consumer still wins. It will also means the cards above them will need to be cheaper to not look so overpriced.

This is why I am happy with the pricing of the RX 480. This is why the negativity from some is weird - even if you want a faster card a RX480 and GTX1060/GTX1060TI price war would be a good thing for us.
 
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This card isn't aimed at enthusiasts!

If it's what we think it will it will be a massive success.

Two of my friends have for a few years now said that they want a cool gaming PC but the cost of a decent GPU and the rest of the system has always put them off. I told them about this card and they are getting very excited. If AMD can create PC gamers it's fantastic news for us. Rather than Nvidias new pricing actually pushing people away.
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Price/performance King.
Its an amazing card at the price point,
replaces and add more performance than whatever card/950/960/380/970/390
at a lower price point!

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Will a single 480 equal a nano?
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a 175 480 vs a 175w Nano?
Might be equal/Better to early to say.
Have to wait for a third party to add more power connectors to compare.
 
as a step up from my gfs 2Gb 760, she'll be very happy.

i'm tempted to go sideways from my 970 to take advantage of my UW freesync monitor
 
I find the rx480 very tempting. heck if that demo of ashes was actually a single PCB i might actually get that unless AMD releases a higher tier single gpu. 200 pounds for that kind of performance is not to shappy and it will give me more money for other stuff. Overall win win
 
Just a little tid-bit from the net about the AoTS Comparison looking different, it is because there is some procedural generation of the weather going on.

Ashes of the singularity uses some form of procedual generation for its
texture generation ( aswell as unit composition/behavior to prevent
driver cheats) which means that every game session and bench run will
have various differences in some details.

You can see this quite well in the second image. Looking at the chasm
like drop off in front of the mountain (top portion) you can see that
on the 480 side it's actually half filled with snow, while the 1080 run
is pretty much... "dry" down there. Same can be observed with various
mountain ledges where any remotely flat surface is covered in thick
white snow on the 480 and hardly any on the 1080. Lastly the plateau on
top of the same mountain is basically all snow on the 480 with almost no
rock texture retained while on the 1080 the would-be snow layer is thin
enough to show some of the rock's detail beneath.

Obviously, thick layers of snow will reduce apparent detail but that does not mean the scene becomes any easier to render. It's just that one seed looks more complex than the other.

tl;dr: Procedual terrain texture generation gave the 480 a much more
snowy "seed". Differences in perceived detail are due to snow being
inherently "boring" and probably purely aesthetic.
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