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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0
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Thats great! 
I lolled.
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Oh god i just watcehd that like 9 times, its utterly hilarious, the dubbing of Eye of the Tiger and the Street Fighter sounds just made that, the dude with the flying kicks had me in hysterics, and the old bird with the Divsion Extraction package hahah
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Lets get this back on track.
Gigabyte WF OC GTX 970
Stock = 1178/1750
Overclock @ 1500/1950 = 27% Overclock
RX 480
Stock = 1266/2000
RX 480
GTX 970: stock
GTX 970: 1500/1950
Yeah it's looking good.
Also of course there's the question of the 480's overclocking headroom, and room to improve on the early drivers it'll be using.
Shaping up to be a cracking card.
If that is true performance then they need another GPU that is like ~40% faster (and releasing at the same time) if they want to take back market share :S (There is more to that strategy than just pushing out something around 970 performance but reasonably priced).
Yeah, thats the $200 GPU.
They said GPU's $100 to $300 would be launched on the 29'th.
My thinking is there is a 2816 Shader 480X @ that $300 that they haven't told us about yet.
They don't need to match 1080 performance at all to get back market share, it's too high a price range.
Ideally they'll have something 20-25% faster (a 480X) for around £280. That would match a 1070 but be cheaper.
The vast vast majority of cards are sold under £300.
Lets get this back on track.
Gigabyte WF OC GTX 970
Stock = 1178/1750
Overclock @ 1500/1950 = 27% Overclock
RX 480
Stock = 1266/2000
RX 480
GTX 970: stock
GTX 970: 1500/1950
thats not good if true, remember this is dx12 async game, it should be 10-20% slower in DX11 games(if like previous arch), that would make it slower than 390, and trading blows with 970.
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Lets get this back on track.
Gigabyte WF OC GTX 970
Stock = 1178/1750
Overclock @ 1500/1950 = 27% Overclock
RX 480
Stock = 1266/2000
RX 480
GTX 970: stock
GTX 970: 1500/1950
You need the newer version to compare. Your version is massively out of date and performance has changed massively.
That is targeting 1070 like performance at a reasonable price point - I can't remember the exact average but it is something like 40% faster than a 970 - the nVidia numbers IIRC were like 1.6x perf but that was from a limited number of games.
Ah, well if you're assuming the 480 is 970 performance yeah.
If it is, that will be disappointing. Going off Humbug's testing though, it appears to be a touch quicker than the 980.
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Humbug is using the old (pirated) version. The latest version of ashes runs a lot quicker on a 970/980.
Sigh...
Who knows then! Seems like we're just not going to have an accurate idea till proper reviews come.
I do think just bringing 970 performance down by ~£60 would be disappointing for a process change and a major arch change.
Who knows then! Seems like we're just not going to have an accurate idea till proper reviews come.
I do think just bringing 970 performance down by ~£60 would be disappointing for a process change and a major arch change.
What little reliable actual information from AMD suggests it is atleast 970 performance (capped 1440p game performance) - beyond that hard to nail down so just going based off the minimum at this point. Without at the very least a complimentary pair of cards at mainstream and lower high end points AMD is screwed in terms of product strategy to be frank.