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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

Ferrari100 said:
It will be nice if the GPU's afford another 10% or so O/C.
Not that it isn't a smashing deal already.
:)
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It puts it at Fury-Pro /Nano performance.

DX11 performance is what matters right now, the AoTS result doesn't look as good as that 3DMark11 result, the AoTS one actually looks like a Fury DX11 result'ish, so perhaps they haven't got A-Sync working in it when they made that run.

IMO by the time its released they will have finalised the drivers and perhaps got a few more Mhz out of it, and it will look really solid for a $200 card in official reviews, perhaps near a Fury-X.
 
humbug said:
It puts it at Fury-Pro /Nano performance.

DX11 performance is what matters right now, the AoTS result doesn't look as good as that 3DMark11 result, the aoTS one actually looks like a Fury DX11 result'ish, so perhaps they haven't got A-Sync working in it when they made that run.

IMO by the time its released they will have finalised the drivers and perhaps got a few more Mhz out of it and it will look really solid for a $200 card in official reviews, perhaps near a Fury-X.
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I like 3d mark 11 its a much more accurate benchmark for measuring gaming performance than firestrike. Or at least it was. Is it still?
 
Seanspeed said:
Crossfire is going to be the absolute worst thing you can do for VR. Terrible frametimings are going to wreck the smoothness of the experience, which is paramount.

AMD will need to incorporate some sort of split frame rendering if they want to support multi-GPU's in VR. There are still potential latency and sync issues(between views), but it's the ONLY way that multi-GPU should be done with VR. I've heard they've been working on this, but haven't seen any actual demonstrations of it yet. Nvidia have done, but even their solution still hasn't seen any actual use in a consumer application yet. So it might be a while. I'd be very wary buying two in anticipation of this. There were people who bought two GTX970's for this reason only for things to be much farther off than they realized.
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So what's the difference between having two cards in your system, one powering each eye in VR compared to having 2 cards in your system in crossfire????

I generally don't get it. Maybe I should have put it like - will the two 390 cards in my system work with VR?
 
humbug said:
It puts it at Fury-Pro /Nano performance.

DX11 performance is what matters right now, the AoTS result doesn't look as good as that 3DMark11 result, the AoTS one actually looks like a Fury DX11 result'ish, so perhaps they haven't got A-Sync working in it when they made that run.

IMO by the time its released they will have finalised the drivers and perhaps got a few more Mhz out of it, and it will look really solid for a $200 card in official reviews, perhaps near a Fury-X.
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Looks like some third-party versions will be near Nano Size too looking at reference PCB.
I would like to see AMD keep the Nano name.
AMD Radeon RX480 Nano sounds cool.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
So what's the difference between having two cards in your system, one powering each eye in VR compared to having 2 cards in your system in crossfire????

I generally don't get it. Maybe I should have put it like - will the two 390 cards in my system work with VR?
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It should work. You can try it now in the Steam VR performance test with -multigpu switch added to launch options.

The system is called Affinity Multi-GPU (one gpu per eye) and is part of Liquid VR.

 
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TonyTurbo78 said:
So what's the difference between having two cards in your system, one powering each eye in VR compared to having 2 cards in your system in crossfire????

I generally don't get it. Maybe I should have put it like - will the two 390 cards in my system work with VR?
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It will work with VR but you will not get any improvements from it.

If you are considering two GPU's for VR I would recommend that you absolutely do not pursue it.

For regular gaming sure, if you are happy to accept the negatives surrounding Nvidia SLI and AMD Crossfire, which some of us are/will be happy to accept - others not so much.
 
Lokken86 said:
Seems good enough to me. Slightly above 390x speeds so fury nano would be comparable. I'm going to try this benchmark to compare.
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Yeah It's worth noting their 4770K looks to have been at stock and was in an H87M motherboard.

Not sure if CPU plays much part in 3DMark 11, but it is interesting. Looking forward to your results.
 
This is what I got. I also forgot to disable the unlocked shaders so that's with 3840 not 3584. CPU was also only at 4.4

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Lokken86 said:
This is what I got. I also forgot to disable the unlocked shaders so that's with 3840 not 3584. CPU was also only at 4.4
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Me likey!

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I wonder what the RX480 will do on finalised drivers, although AMD are usually poor on those for their past releases like the Fury X. Hopefully it seems another bump in performance.
 
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