Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

MyBrainz · 14 Jun 2016 at 19:51

If these leaks turn out true then im probly gona wait a bit longer for Vega.. had my 7950 for 4 years already, just hope it'll last me that little bit longer.. its doing me good at 1080p still.. my Sandybridge (2700K) to Skylake (6700K) upgrade in less than 2 weeks will give me a little better perf in the games i play anyway, like DayZ and Arma 3 Battle Royale.

I dont mind waiting as long as my 7950 doesnt decide to die on me.

AllBodies · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:18

MyBrains said:
If these leaks turn out true then im probly gona wait a bit longer for Vega.. had my 7950 for 4 years already, just hope it'll last me that little bit longer.. its doing me good at 1080p still.. my Sandybridge (2700K) to Skylake (6700K) upgrade in less than 2 weeks will give me a little better perf in the games i play anyway, like DayZ and Arma 3 Battle Royale.

I dont mind waiting as long as my 7950 doesnt decide to die on me.

It'll still be a good chunk faster, and do freesync and all that fine stuff.

Toss3 · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:31

MyBrains said:
If these leaks turn out true then im probly gona wait a bit longer for Vega.. had my 7950 for 4 years already, just hope it'll last me that little bit longer.. its doing me good at 1080p still.. my Sandybridge (2700K) to Skylake (6700K) upgrade in less than 2 weeks will give me a little better perf in the games i play anyway, like DayZ and Arma 3 Battle Royale.

I dont mind waiting as long as my 7950 doesnt decide to die on me.

Would definitely be upgrading from a 7950 as the RX 480 won't lose much of its value in 6 months when the "real" cards of this generation are released.

And remember these benchmarks aren't official as drivers could improve until the official release.

Troezar · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:38

Scougar said:
Lol, you won't like me then, being a Brit in the US having to write an my stuff in US English. Hard to flip flop between them as so similar.

10 days left to release?

Don't get me wrong I like the septic tanks. In fact given different circumstances I'd happily move there. I do expect them to accept I do things differently like spelling as I respect their ways. To be fair the younger generation seem to be pretty clued up about the rest of the world now they don't have to rely on the US media and have the Internet.

MyBrainz · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:43

Toss3 said:
Would definitely be upgrading from a 7950 as the RX 480 won't lose much of its value in 6 months when the "real" cards of this generation are released.

And remember these benchmarks aren't official as drivers could improve until the official release.

I did think about this, but it seems easier to just wait

greatash · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:46

MyBrains said:
If these leaks turn out true then im probly gona wait a bit longer for Vega.. had my 7950 for 4 years already, just hope it'll last me that little bit longer.. its doing me good at 1080p still.. my Sandybridge (2700K) to Skylake (6700K) upgrade in less than 2 weeks will give me a little better perf in the games i play anyway, like DayZ and Arma 3 Battle Royale.

I dont mind waiting as long as my 7950 doesnt decide to die on me.

7950 is alright, I upgraded from mine to a 980 when they released and had roughly double the performance all round, so 480 should be double the 7950 perf.

I'm still on 2500k sandybridge myself but I'm not buying another 4 core in 2016, Zen next for me

FoxEye · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:16

If wccf don't hurry up and release the "big leak" they promised today, they are officially full of it and links to wccf should be auto-corrected to penisland.com or something

PieEater · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:23

FoxEye said:
If wccf don't hurry up and release the "big leak" they promised today, they are officially full of it and links to wccf should be auto-corrected to penisland.com or something

If I was ever lucky enough to own my own island I would definitely call it Pen island

sprite- · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:24

FoxEye said:
If wccf don't hurry up and release the "big leak" they promised today, they are officially full of it and links to wccf should be auto-corrected to penisland.com or something

Cant see it happening, probably just bait to generate traffic. Hopped on the 480 hype.

Seanspeed · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:24

Possible 36 CU's is all that we'll get with P10?

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/sl...eon-rx-460-470-and-480-in-new-slide-deck.html

Troezar said:
Lol, it's all in the spelling. I used to be in QA in the pharmaceutical industry. US spelling is like a stab in the eye with a sharp stick

Ah right yea. I completely forget it about except when autocorrect comes up and tries to turn me British.

Well, I actually am British too, technically, just grew up in the US.

Nutella33 · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:28

Maybe unless an X comes out later. Since the new architecture gives better performance per CU though is it really possible to compare CU's with older generations?

Seanspeed · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:54

For reference:

380 performance is consistent...

RavenXXX2 · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:56

Slower than the 970.

kalniel · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:00

Seanspeed said:
For reference:

380 performance is consistent...

This is the test where you really want a ye olde GTX 580 no?

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https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/559157-gtx-580-is-vr-ready-according-to-steam/

LoadsaMoney · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:03

GFX-Kid said:
Leave Loads alone Alamo!

He clearly feels like he got burnt on his Fury crossfire purchase and this is his defence mechanism kicking in the poor fella.

That said, there was plenty of info available showing going crossfire at the time was a bad idea, so in the end it was self inflicted pain

RavenXXX2 said:
Slower than the 970.

lol

LoadsaMoney · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:06

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TheRealDeal · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:06

Perhaps some low power mode or something. None of this is adding up to the excitement shown by those who have seen the cards in action. One of the reviewers said shot's fired. Was he suggesting the AMD board topped themselves? If it's this slow then AMD are in some serious trouble. Other leaks suggest otherwise so we shall see.

I can't wait for the 29th to see what's what.

Seanspeed · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:07

kalniel said:
This is the test where you really want a ye olde GTX 580 no?

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/559157-gtx-580-is-vr-ready-according-to-steam/

Bench can be buggy, but I'm pretty sure AMD wouldn't use a bugged result, and it seems like Tom's graph results have ruled out buggy results.

But yes, it's not necessarily a completely accurate picture of gaming performance, just like any artificial bench.

fs123 · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:09

RavenXXX2 said:
Slower than the 970.

The other leaks such as the 3dmark scores all point to it being at least 390x performance not to mention it's theoretical performance of around 5.83Tflops is 390X level.

If it's slower in VR then it's only a problem if you have an occulus, etc in which you wouldn't really be buying a low end card.

TheRealDeal · 14 Jun 2016 at 22:09

Seanspeed said:
Bench can be buggy, but I'm pretty sure AMD wouldn't use a bugged result, and it seems like Tom's graph results have ruled out buggy results.

But yes, it's not necessarily a completely accurate picture of gaming performance, just like any artificial bench.

Problem being this card is aimed at VR so should really be doing better than what AMD are suggesting in this slide.