Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

[AlamoX]

How many SKU's do you know of that only have one chip made out of them?

i suppose your of the mind that the 8Gb version will cost £90 more than the 4GB, to explain the RX 480 @ $200 and the missing $300 GPU.

the cutdown could go to laptops, doesnt have to be desktop.

 

[Kaapstad]

AMD already said to reporters after the previous event that the 8GB version fo the RX480 was only well, I forget exactly which $229 or 239, which absolutely does leave room for a different card at $300 but it may mean recommended max AIB price though again adding 30% or so to the cost for a custom cooling solution is.... excessive.

If there is going to be a 490 the obvious thing AMD could do is put a pair of chips on the same PCB as these are not power hungry GPUs and so could be done quite easy.

RX 490 for a dual card would also work quite well with the way AMD name their cards.

 

[humbug]

You have already explained the $300 price bracket - 8gb RX480

I think CF will get a lot more attention from AMD with the Polaris cards as people are more likely to buy more than one 480 compared to NVidia users who will use just a single 10XX card.

Crossfire has not worked since day one, its worse now, what makes you think it will suddenly be all good?

I think another 8GB card a step up from the 390X for the same £300 is a damp squib.

I think it would also anger a lot of people if they are expected to fork out an Extra £100 or so just to get the 8GB one, given 4GB is not enough these days, they would feel ripped off, at that price they would be.

If thats true i can see AMD's market share hit the single figures by the end of the year.

I wouldn't buy a step up 390X for £300, ask anyone, most will tell you the same thing.
A 1070 looks far more appealing than another £300 390X>

Its certainly not "VR at a more affordable price"

So, one of two things.

#1 RX 480 8GB is expensive and much the same drab.
#2 RX 490 is a game changer.

Which will it be.

 

[Lokken86]

I'd also be a bit more surprised to see a bigger card based off the same core called a 490x. AMD can obviously change naming scheme, but if they did what fits would be RX480 and RX490, if there is no X on the end of the 480 I wouldn't expect to see it on the 490. What would fit in AMD's general naming scheme for the past decade + would be a RX 480 and a RX 480 X or XT, XTX or something along those lines.

RX480X I kinda like that reminds me of the X800XT.

 

[GAC]

RX480X I kinda like that reminds me of the X800XT.

ahhh the old 800xt, mind was great till it finally died a death and released the magical blue smoke.

 

[D.P.]

Im still sticking with the rx490 for the $300 card.

AMD have only ever talked about Polaris of 10 and 11, no 3rd bigger chip for a 490

 

[karik666]

I know there isnt a 3rd bigger chip,the 490 is just a name,Amd might call it something else.

But surely the $300 card wont just be the Rx480 with 8gb of memory.

 

[humbug]

Im still sticking with the rx490 for the $300 card.

So am i, for one £200 vs £300 for the same card just because it has more V-Ram would be a disaster for PR. Good Grief £100 for some more V=Ram, its madness.

The fact that it would be yet another similar performance card stepped up at the same price would compound the PR issue.

Apart from ##### everone off its also expensive and yet more of the same, no ones going to buy a card like that against the 1070 as most people already have spent £300 two or three times in a row over the past 4 years and ended up with much the same performance, a £300 480 is just a continuation of that.

At least there is one thing, the 4GB one will be discontinued as the 8GB one will come down to the price where people who don't already have such a card would buy it, IE about <£250.

As for 970/980/390/390X/Nano/Fury-P and Fury-X owners, they will buy the only option they have, the 1070.

AMD need to do something that will put them back in the game, more of the same will result in: more of the same.

 

[Lokken86]

I don't feel the need to upgrade until something better than the 1080 comes along anyway or I can't play at 1080p.

 

[Toss3]

If you are happy to turn things down I am sure it will be fine. rolleyes

Have you tried it with those settings off? It's insane how much better the game looks without the added blurriness. Wouldn't be turning them off if they actually made the game look better. I cannot fathom why anyone would want to add blurriness especially at the cost of fps.

 

[PieEater]

Agreed there is nothing to stop AMD launching a cut down version of the RX 480 but I think it is wishful thinking by some people to think there is a bigger version out there.

There was a video posted not so long back where the guy speculated that from past releases AMD would have another version of the card with 2 x 6pin connectors allowing for a higher clocks. His opinion that this would have performance as it's main selling point rather than efficiency and that this would be the $300 card. The fact that AMDMatt reposted this video gave this some credence in my eyes.

 

[Nutella33]

We are not missing the 'X' with the RX480 though.

As to Ti's they are salvaged lower performance Titan parts not the other way round.

X being ten in Roman numerals, following the other R designations Radeon uses for products then? Not saying it's a cert but I wouldn't be as confident as you seem.

 

[GAC]

honestly the rx could be to do with the vr, "reality xpress/xperience" or some other marketing bs. until amd finally release some more info we wont know anything.

 

[Kaapstad]

X being ten in Roman numerals, following the other R designations Radeon uses for products then? Not saying it's a cert but I wouldn't be as confident as you seem.

I am not confident of anything but I also refuse to make up stuff like a lot of the posts in this thread.

 

[Armageus]

RX480X I kinda like that reminds me of the X800XT.

Or the X1900XTX.

 

[Dicehunter]

I'm actually quite looking forward to this launch, Currently on a GTX 770 so the 480 should be a nice step up seeing as I'm only at 1080P

 

[.Trooper.]

Do people expect this $300 whatever card to be launched soon? I hope the first thing we hear about it isn't on the 29th or maybe even later

 

[Relentless81]

Isnt it possible the $300 card if it exists could get announced today?

If so what UK times would it be?

 

[h4rm0ny]

I don't think there will be a "490" in this release. I think their giving $300 as an upper bound is simply to allow room for uncertainty in pricing and for the different manufacturers to make more expensive custom versions. If, for example, the 480 overclocks well, then there could be quite a lot of room for makers to put on good coolers and sell pre-overclocked versions. I think AMD probably want to engage the card manufacturers quite closely right now as those same card makers are probably not too happy with Nvidia right now and it gives AMD an opportunity to become the favourite partner. Allowing plenty of pricing headroom would be vital for that.

 

[Sacrifice]

On a more positive note, I'll again say, if that leak is accurate in terms of performance and temps, it's perfectly possible that performance was thermally limited. A 20C delta from idle to load that it potentially shows is actually a very low delta, an indication that fan noise wouldn't likely be very high to maintain 90C and that significantly better cooling is more than possible. If it's cooler and quite, then it's quite possible that with lower temps it could perform much higher, ie at 90C and that performance level it's throttled throughout.

No. Obviously the cooler on it wasn't the one it came with/was designed for and thus wasn't working properly. But the temperature did reach 91C at the end, so i doubt there was a throttling at 90.