AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

whyscotty · 17 Jul 2016 at 10:09

Out of those listed I'd say all of them have/owned a AMD card

FoxEye · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:32

Yeah I've had both, as have most people (current card: on-board - yuck). flopper should realise we're most loyal to our wallets, not nVidia or AMD

Whichever company gives us the best value per gen gets our monies.

My most likely next card? RX 470 4GB. The others are simply out of my preferred price range. nVidia be crazy thinking a xx60 card is a £250+ to £300 card. AMD be crazy thinking they can keep 390 perf at £250 for the last 30 months or so...

My thoughts on this gen? Screw em both.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:43

whyscotty said:
Out of those listed I'd say all of them have/owned a AMD card

I've never owned an AMD GPU - I had an ATI Rage IIc 3D in my first proper PC and Mobility Radeon in my laptop around about 2004/5 or so. I've got the odd one lying about for testing stuff.

james.miller · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:45

Rroff said:
I've never owned an AMD GPU - I had an ATI Rage IIc 3D in my first proper PC and Mobility Radeon in my laptop around about 2004/5 or so. I've got the odd one lying about for testing stuff.

You're not in the top 10. Which is lucky, really, because

// Educated guess mode on //

flopper said:
so are those 10 people representative for the forum gpu or are they trolls, entusiasts or plain ignorant along the way?

// Educated guess mode off //

Seanspeed · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:51

I haven't owned an AMD card yet, either. But I've also only owned two GPU's at all!

And I was planning on getting a 480 originally, but it didn't perform quite as well as I was expecting and then Brexit pushed prices up past where I wanted to spend.

I'm going to the US in a few months, so might see about one then(I have a US bank account), depending on how performance is looking like and how good the 3rd party cards are.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2016 at 12:04

james.miller said:
// Educated guess mode on //

// Educated guess mode off //

Guess someone is going to have to go back to that nVidia focus group and tell em to stop slacking.

humbug · 17 Jul 2016 at 13:02

james.miller said:
Interesting....

That was educated, then?

Oh wait, no it wasn't.

Terrible insult and dribble aside, i've not said anything about futuremark so let's not throw strawmen around and stick to the facts, agreed?

Fact, you said:

Fact: Current top posters:

User Name Posts
humbug 428
CAT-THE-FIFTH 423
Mauller 332
D.P. 322
Seanspeed 193
Mtom 184
Gregster 184
LoadsaMoney 167
drunkenmaster 163
bru 156
FoxEye 156
flopper 153
Orangey 141
TheRealDeal 141
AlamoX 139
andybird123 130
Jono8 124
AllBodies 114
Rroff 110
Lokken86 109

Go on, give me an actual 'educated guess'. How many of those top posted have previously or do currently own an AMD card? go on, give us a laugh.

Me #1 yay

r7slayer · 17 Jul 2016 at 13:30

Seanspeed said:
I haven't owned an AMD card yet, either. But I've also only owned two GPU's at all!

And I was planning on getting a 480 originally, but it didn't perform quite as well as I was expecting and then Brexit pushed prices up past where I wanted to spend.

I'm going to the US in a few months, so might see about one then(I have a US bank account), depending on how performance is looking like and how good the 3rd party cards are.

I was thinking of doing something similar! i know couple of friends off to the US next year. Might give them the money to buy me a 1080Ti or something and pop it in their suitcase and bring it back

sqwerty · 17 Jul 2016 at 14:24

XFX blunder:

Scorched VRM?

Forgot to remove film from pad :eek:

humbug · 17 Jul 2016 at 14:25

lol ^^^^^

Scougar · 17 Jul 2016 at 14:43

And of course, the warranty will be voided because the cooler was removed, not because the film wasn't ...

Jono8 · 17 Jul 2016 at 16:09

flopper said:
worthy of the flopper stamp of approval, Legendary Awesome.

Well there is a contradiction in terms if i ever saw one.

LoadsaMoney · 17 Jul 2016 at 16:13

sqwerty said:
XFX blunder:

Scorched VRM?

Forgot to remove film from pad

Pmsl!

SiDeards73 · 17 Jul 2016 at 16:17

LoadsaMoney said:
Pmsl!

Someones getting fired lol

old gamer · 17 Jul 2016 at 16:20

humbug said:
Me #1 yay

Attention seeker

humbug · 17 Jul 2016 at 16:51

old gamer said:
Attention seeker

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Jul 2016 at 17:28

Oh snap! This site claims the Powercolor Devil will have a base clock of 1336Mhz, and boost of 1.4Ghz!

https://benchlife.info/powercolor-rx480-devil-will-launch-in-taiwan-07172016/

PowerColor RX480 Devil adopt dual-slot design , the basic clock at 1,336MHz, can go after Turbo 1.4GHz

sqwerty · 17 Jul 2016 at 17:38

N19h7m4r3 said:
Oh snap! This site claims the Powercolor Devil will have a base clock of 1336Mhz, and boost of 1.4Ghz!

https://benchlife.info/powercolor-rx480-devil-will-launch-in-taiwan-07172016/

10MHz over Nitro:

Scougar · 17 Jul 2016 at 17:57

Honestly... I don't believe a word of it about base and boost clocks until the reviews are out or listed for sale officially.

If they have cards listed as doing 1400mhz boost, that is pretty damn good news. I think my 'SUPER OC' AMD card has a extra 20mhz on the clock, so it's good to see MUCH better OC potential right out the gate.

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Jul 2016 at 18:01

Scougar said:
Honestly... I don't believe a word of it about base and boost clocks until the reviews are out or listed for sale officially.

If they have cards listed as doing 1400mhz boost, that is pretty damn good news. I think my 'SUPER OC' AMD card has a extra 20mhz on the clock, so it's good to see MUCH better OC potential right out the gate.

I do hope all this news is true, and the base - boost from Powercolor looks more 'natural'; than that of the Nitro with a 20Mhz difference.

If both clocks of Nitro and Devil are true, they're going to be damn good value at £249 compared to any reference card.