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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

h4rm0ny said:
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.
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As someone else already said AMD wouldn't take their partners' pricing into consideration when setting the msrp. We've already had quite a few people that have been shown to be trustworthy come forth and say that amd are planning on releasing a gpu with more shaders, but that they don't know when that is going to happen. Guess we'll know more tonight (doubt amd will announce anything new, but I'm hoping they will).
 
FFS we know the prices of the 4 and 8gig cards.....199 and 230 for them US dollars.

That's the 480.......you trying to tell me AP partners will be dropping 8 gig version of 480 at 300?!? Not going to happen as Humbug pointed out. 300 slot is set for higher performing card.

we also know that 480's performance in DX11 is 980ish and DX 12 more towards Fury. I do believe this will improve as the drivers for 480 improves. What sits at 300 slot; because of what's been said - the reports is a more powerful card. doesn't have to be a new chip but possibly a fully enabled chip.....which could up its performance 15% maybe even 20%......

That would put it within striking distance of 1070 and being cheaper. We'll have more information soon with E3 now here *hoping* and or in 10 days; if 480 also OC well.....we could be seeing card that matches 1070 for a lot; I mean a lot less.......
 
GAC said:
has the $230 price been confirmed by amd now ?
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Yes they have announced both prices. ;)


Also at ppl saying the other end of the bracket is for AIB cmon... Since when did they set board partners a fixed price? They dont control how much board partners can charge as it would annoy them. They just set thier reference prices then custom can be as much as board partners feel they want to charge obviously with consideration.
 
didnt realise they had officially said it, i know most people where guessing after the under $500 sli price. $230 for a 8 gig card isnt to shabby as long as it has that performance.
 
meldarthx said:
FFS we know the prices of the 4 and 8gig cards.....199 and 230 for them US dollars.

That's the 480.......you trying to tell me AP partners will be dropping 8 gig version of 480 at 300?!? Not going to happen as Humbug pointed out. 300 slot is set for higher performing card.

we also know that 480's performance in DX11 is 980ish and DX 12 more towards Fury. I do believe this will improve as the drivers for 480 improves. What sits at 300 slot; because of what's been said - the reports is a more powerful card. doesn't have to be a new chip but possibly a fully enabled chip.....which could up its performance 15% maybe even 20%......

That would put it within striking distance of 1070 and being cheaper. We'll have more information soon with E3 now here *hoping* and or in 10 days; if 480 also OC well.....we could be seeing card that matches 1070 for a lot; I mean a lot less.......
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And it wouldn't cost them much (binning the cards that is). I just think that most of the higher-binned cards are going to apple right now, but in a month or two we'll see them hit retail as well (if not earlier). Really hoping we'll see a 300 usd Polaris part announced tonight! Could be the real GTX 1070 - as in a card that performs just as well as the high-end cards from the last generation, but costs a lot less. :p
 
Toss3 said:
And it wouldn't cost them much (binning the cards that is). I just think that most of the higher-binned cards are going to apple right now, but in a month or two we'll see them hit retail as well (if not earlier). Really hoping we'll see a 300 usd Polaris part announced tonight! Could be the real GTX 1070 - as in a card that performs just as well as the high-end cards from the last generation, but costs a lot less. :p
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exactly what I'm thinking - AMD gotten extremely good at keeping leaks to min.

As I said we kinda have a baseline for 480 performance DX11 is 980; DX12 is actually nearly to Fury.

I think as drivers improve it will go DX 11 near Nano; and DX 12 - closer to FuryX.......and whatever is sitting at 300 slot - will come in 10-15% slower than 1070 at the beginning and then come closer if not match it later on.....and for cheaper.....could possibly even been closer than that

We know Vega is moved up to Oct - small vega should be at least a match for 1080 if not possibly faster and big Vega will be going after P100....interesting times.
 
meldarthx said:
exactly what I'm thinking - AMD gotten extremely good at keeping leaks to min.

As I said we kinda have a baseline for 480 performance DX11 is 980; DX12 is actually nearly to Fury.

I think as drivers improve it will go DX 11 near Nano; and DX 12 - closer to FuryX.......and whatever is sitting at 300 slot - will come in 10-15% slower than 1070 at the beginning and then come closer if not match it later on.....and for cheaper.....could possibly even been closer than that

We know Vega is moved up to Oct - small vega should be at least a match for 1080 if not possibly faster and big Vega will be going after P100....interesting times.
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Do we know it's gains like than in dx12 (on their own cards)? AMD'S cards were no slouch's in dx12 anyway...
 
tavtavtav said:
Do we know it's gains like than in dx12 (on their own cards)? AMD'S cards were no slouch's in dx12 anyway...
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From what little benches we have - we can see baseline where 480 falls in.....

DX11 980 speed DX12 - its between nano and fury...a little nearer to fury.......we'll know more soon though..
 
there was a benchie that showed two in crossfire was same as a 1080 so thats the same as sli 970 gtx = 1080 gtx.

so its a 970gtx/980gtx performance.
 
something that would be funny is if the 'primitive discard accelerator' was functinally disabled in all of these pre release drivers and that it gives quite a noticeable boost in performance.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
there was a benchie that showed two in crossfire was same as a 1080 so thats the same as sli 970 gtx = 1080 gtx.

so its a 970gtx/980gtx performance.
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If you mean the AoTS benchmark then it's misleading since that demo uses DX12 multi-adapter technology, not crossfire. The 3dmark leaked scores are more representative of where it fits in and so far it looks like 980/390X level and probably a bit faster.

The theoretical teraflops is 5.83 which is almost the same as a 390X (5.9 teraflops) and I think it will be more closer to it's theoretical performance than the 390X due to architectural improvements. I doubt if the 480 is as low as 970 performance but if it is then it needs to be cheaper than $199.
 
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Has this been posted?

I'm treating with a MOOOOSIVE amount of speculation on the OC figure - but geez....

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52553...eon-rx-480-beating-geforce-gtx-980/index.html

vlvcbxM.jpg
 
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sprite- said:
Has this been posted?

I'm treating with a MOOOOSIVE amount of speculation on the OC figure - but geez....

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52553...eon-rx-480-beating-geforce-gtx-980/index.html

vlvcbxM.jpg
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That image is not on the tweaktown site so where did you link it from?

If it is real then OMG :eek::eek::eek:
At 1400MHz the theoretical performance would be on par with a 1070 at around 6.4 teraflops so points it to being real.
My next card for sure unless they announce a faster 480X/490.
 
fs123 said:
That image is not on the tweaktown site so where did you link it from?

If it is real then OMG.:eek::eek::eek:
My next card for sure unless they announce a faster 480X/490.
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It's in the tweaktown article, just scroll down.. Actual link to image is just from an image site, it was posted on the reddit thread.

I'm highly suspicious of it - but you never know. If you can OC it stable to 1400 and it performs like that - and it's the $200 card as it says.. AMD are on to a complete and utter winner.
 
sprite- said:
It's in the tweaktown article, just scroll down.. Actual link to image is just from an image site, it was posted on the reddit thread.

I'm highly suspicious of it - but you never know. If you can OC it stable to 1400 and it performs like that - and it's the $200 card as it says.. AMD are on to a complete and utter winner.
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I meant the tweaktown site only has the stock 480 score, not the OC score like in your image.
 
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