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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Mauller said:
The gpu's are weaker than my 7870, the PS4 has the same number of SP's but is clocked at 840mhz instead of 1ghz. while the xbox one is comparable to an underclocked 7850.

So for project scorpio to be rated at 6tflops instead of 1.5 of the XO is a large jump. But pretty much just mainstream performance now in terms of pc hardware.
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It isn't out until November 2017 though so by that time 6tflops wont be seen as that impressive ( thought still looks good for a console though).

Remember we have a "mid range" card, the 1070 out now which has 6.5Tflops.
 
The_Gump said:
I took this as meaning price wise... Consoles are cheap for what they deliver, with the 480, you can now build a PC for a decent price and still have a good experience when it comes to gaming.
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But you have been able to get a 390 or 970 for near £200 at various points in the last year or more, quite frequently.

I mean over a year a go you could have had this from here for example -

Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9290X-DC2-4GD5) £209.99 - Overclockers

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asu...-pci-express-graphics-card-r9290x-dc2-2224068.

£200 for this level of performance is OK, and about what i would expect for this new generation (well maybe a bit below expectation). It isn't anything mind blowing though in my opinion.

I was hoping AMD might have pulled it out of the bag and pulled a 4000 series again (ie that the RX480 snapped at heels of the 980ti or 1070 for a much lower price, like the 4850 and 4870 series did to the 260 and 280) but it isnt looking that way unfortunately.
 
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AMD need to stop publishing slides, everytime they do the card looks worse.

I think i'll be sticking with the 970 for a bit longer.
 
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Yeah, I agree.

Unless RX 480 turns out to be the real overclockers dream, the way the 980Ti overclocks, then RX 480 will be a bit of a fail. Unless of course you can get it the 4GB version here sub £170 and 8GB sub £200.

I am personally undecided between the 1070 and RX 480 as I will likely get Rage/Ti anyway.

The main game I am looking forward to is Deus Ex Mankind Divided. That is what makes the RX 480 attractive to me. The 1070 seems to be a poor overclocker relative to 980Ti; if the RX 480 overclocks well, then with async it will likely perform very similar in that game.

Best bet wait until end of the month and by then the reviews will come out for us to see what's what.
 
fs123 said:
Unless people can fake firestrike scores, I think they are a better indicator of how the 480 will perform than the steam VR test. So far we have it between a 390X and 980 in firestrike but slower than a 970 in steam VR.
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Well, i got over 10 in the steam VR test with GTX 580 :D Just let you know :D
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Now it's gone from dizzying highs of Fury X-beater back to plumbing the depths of sub-390 performance again. LOL. Silly hypers.

Instead of taking every new fake bench as gospel, just deny them attention, that's what's causing all these fakes compared to years ago.
 
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Orangey said:
Now it's gone from dizzying highs of Fury X-beater back to plumbing the depths of sub-390 performance again. LOL. Silly hypers.

Instead of taking every new fake bench as gospel, just deny them attention, that's what's causing all these fakes compared to years ago.
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Ignoring whether or not they are correct/indicative - these were slides directly from AMD...
 
They could keep the X moniker for 3rd party overclocked cards, which would be nice.

Vega is confusing, given that all silicone has been divided into 2 tiers 480/470 for P10, 460/450? for P11 (possible 450 down the line). But Vega.. only has the 490 bracket to occupy unless it also occupies a "Fury" type bracket making the 490 the cut-down part.
 
TheMorningStar said:
They could keep the X moniker for 3rd party overclocked cards, which would be nice.

Vega is confusing, given that all silicone has been divided into 2 tiers 480/470 for P10, 460/450? for P11 (possible 450 down the line). But Vega.. only has the 490 bracket to occupy unless it also occupies a "Fury" type bracket making the 490 the cut-down part.
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if they launch 1gpu for Titan the gap between 480 and 490 would be too high, and if they launch it to compete with 1080/1070, they will be out performed by Titan, so the logical answer is 2 GPUs one with GDDR5x in Q4(at the latest) and one with HBM2 in 2017.
 
according to this german website tweakers.net
the RX 470 is 60-65% faster than 270X, if the RX480 is 30% faster than cutdown polaris 10, then RX480 should be 90-100% more performance than 270X puting at 390X performance, maybe 5-10% slower
 
AlamoX said:
if they launch 1gpu for Titan the gap between 480 and 490 would be too high, and if they launch it to compete with 1080/1070, they will be out performed by Titan, so the logical answer is 2 GPUs one with GDDR5x in Q4(at the latest) and one with HBM2 in 2017.
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Ohhh, they could save the X moniker for the HBM2 cards, that would clean things up a little. Still wondering what they would call the cut-down Vega parts mind.
 
TheMorningStar said:
Ohhh, they could save the X moniker for the HBM2 cards, that would clean things up a little. Still wondering what they would call the cut-down Vega parts mind.
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the issue isnt the naming, they can come up with something.
but since the naming is an issue for you here is an exemple Pro & XT versions of the chip
RX 450 & RX 460 (polaris 11) vs 1050/1040
RX 470 & RX 480 (polaris 10) vs 1060/1050ti
RX 490 & RX Rage (vega 11) vs 1070/1080
RX 495 & RX Fury (vega 10) vs Titan/ti
this way they dont have big gap in performance or price without competing option, besides i think it sounds a lot better :D
 
RX480 2304 stream processor, RX470 2048 stream processor, difference of 256 stream processors, im guessing 36CU vs 32CU ?
that is practically the same GPU, i fear that the RX480 would already be overclocked to its limit and less efficient than the RX270.
the RX270 might just be better perf/$ than the RX 480, and better overclocker, and performance between the 2 could be lower than 20%, if priced at 149$, they should'v just promoted it instead of the 480 :D
i dont get why they made them so close to each other
 
They have it beating an OC'd 980 while at stock and they say it overclocks.... well.

They say 3rd party versions will come with better power delivery but tbh AMD have always seriously overspecced power delivery on every card I've ever bought from them. Like where the 590 got a driver to reduce power because Nvidia underspecced it the 6990 could deliver something nuts like 100 amps more than it needed.

If it goes beyond 1400Mhz, it's going to be very close to Fury X performance. Sure sound ultra power hungry and running painfully hot... Koduri planning to steal the deeds to RTG and sell it off any second now right Kyle.

Oh, trying to remember who was it on here, someone on here said $239 8GB and $300 will be the very upper limit of say a MSI lightning type overclocked stupid card.
 
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