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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

drunkenmaster said:
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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something is off about these leaks, the RX480 cant be that fast, and where does the RX470 stands ? the specs are practically the same, if they want performance difference to be relevant to justify the buy of RX480, AMD would probably need to overclock it substantialy to break the 25-30% difference, which should make it lesser OC compared to the RX470, and the latter should at least be higher than 970 and potentialy better overclocker than the RX480.
i dont know something ain't right about all this
 
Why can't it be that fast, it's a 232mm^2 core, it never in the slightest made sense it would be slower or just as fast as a 438mm^2 28nm core, ever. It might be a bit slower than it's full potential at launch and gain over time but even then I'd expect it to be ahead. A direct shrink of a 390x would be say 210-220mm^2 which should be the same speed at the same clocks give or take.

Where does the RX470 stand, I've seen it suggested that nearly all shipping RX480 stock is 8GB, maybe the RX470 is only 4GB(at least from AMD) and is slower. But why does it need to be massively different, it's just the salvaged core of the RX480, it doesn't have to be half as fast, it should be in the 20-25% lower region and depending on yields might not even be a particularly high volume part, just filling in a price gap between the 460 and 480 which are based on different cores.
 
If this is wccftech claiming they have actually tested it and it turns out they are lying I will lose the last sliver of credibility I had for them.
 
Lokken86 said:
If this is wccftech claiming they have actually tested it and it turns out they are lying I will lose the last sliver of credibility I had for them.
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They made it fairly clear in the article that the details were given to them by a source who presumably has a pre release card, they did not say that they have tested the card, making it clear that their test rig is better specced than the sources. So they have plausible deniability if it turns out to be fake but they are obviously confident enough in their source to risk losing credibility and sponsorship.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
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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Remember it could be very well optimized for 3dmark and then fail completely in games. We need more benchmarks to draw any sort of conlusions. Hoping to see these go to 1.5Ghz on water . :cool:
 
I'd say AMD are playing a clever game. Everyone is talking about their new midrange cards and no one has cast iron evidence to show how fast it is.

Imo it's much better that people underestimate the performance now and are pleasantly surprised later.
 
Troezar said:
I'd say AMD are playing a clever game. Everyone is talking about their new midrange cards and no one has cast iron evidence to show how fast it is.

Imo it's much better that people underestimate the performance now and are pleasantly surprised later.
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reminds me a bit of the 4000 and 5000 release - the secret games they played before those release near legendary. Specially inside the company almost no one knew about eyefinity or completely about it......

Looks like my speculations might be correct......
 
Toss3 said:
Remember it could be very well optimized for 3dmark and then fail completely in games. We need more benchmarks to draw any sort of conlusions. Hoping to see these go to 1.5Ghz on water . :cool:
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Actually in the WCCFTech article it says this;

Although very excitingly, according to what we’ve learned, AMD’s RX 480 and even the RX 470 put on a better show in actual games vs what we’re seeing in 3DMark. Especially in DirectX 12 games. So if the cards end up showing better gaming performance come June 29th than what’s indicated by the 3DMark scores we’ve seen, do not be surprised.
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If this is the case and we also see "beast mode" custom cards around the £250-£270 range. We could see a card performing close to or on par with Fury X / 980Ti.... Which would be fantastic. Or just stick with the 4GB version, which may be around £180 in the UK. Because by those numbers, thats also incredible.

OC results soon also;

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sprite- said:
Actually in the WCCFTech article it says this;



If this is the case and we also see "beast mode" custom cards around the £250-£270 range. We could see a card performing close to or on par with Fury X / 980Ti.... Which would be fantastic. Or just stick with the 4GB version, which may be around £180 in the UK. Because by those numbers, thats also incredible.

OC results soon also;

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interesting - I do take his stuff with the usual amount of salt; but wccf has gotten a lot better for the last couple years; going from a click bait - to fairly decent source.....
 
One little tid bit, they did say it runs at base clocks in synthetic benchmarks. And that 60c figure is for the reference cooler which is not bad for what it is.
 
Orangey said:
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So just because their clickbait fake says what you like you excuse their hackness?
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nope its matches the other leaks that have come before; only ones that didn't match was Videocardz........which you jumped upon as Fact as soon as it was released.......

This lines up to estimations of doing a die shrink of 390X where its speed would be....you wouldn't loose speed - but possibly gain some.

This lines up with other things - 480 in DX 11 980/390X speeds; possibly more and DX 12 speeds between nano and Fury.....

Again if it overclocks as well as some of the leaks are showing 1400ish; then again the numbers line up.......

we have more evidence that back up wccf; than we do Videocardz - which honestly sounded more like damage control piece than anything else.

I'm not going A + B = C yet........where you used Videocards to go A + B = Q as a fact....;)
 
AlamoX said:
something is off about these leaks, the RX480 cant be that fast, and where does the RX470 stands ? the specs are practically the same, if they want performance difference to be relevant to justify the buy of RX480, AMD would probably need to overclock it substantialy to break the 25-30% difference, which should make it lesser OC compared to the RX470, and the latter should at least be higher than 970 and potentialy better overclocker than the RX480.
i dont know something ain't right about all this
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The RX470 appears to be as fast as a 290 so the 480 results are very likely to be accurate.

Guru3D has the 470 scores here:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/radeon-rx-470-benchmarks.html

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