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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

hobohouseparty said:
I can actually shed a little light on that one as it was me who bought it for £250 - I figured that price was worth a try, especially with the whole ebay money back guarantee if it was dodgy. But the seller cancelled about an hour later and I got a refund. Thought the price was a little too good to be true.

But a few days later I did buy a 2 month old MSI 980 ti for £310 - again it was from a newly registered guy with little feedback, but took the plunge anyway. Thankfully this time the seller was really helpful, sent me over the receipt too so I could register the card in my name, plus could confirm it was indeed only 2 months old. Have the card installed now and its running great!

So you can find some good deals about now, even if you do have to gamble a little. Though I'm happy with a fairly new MSi 980 ti for £310 :)
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well done on that!
 
Scramz said:
I see, so as the chiphell video had a 6+8pin, it possibly was a 'beast mode' non ref card which got 32xx FS Ultra score. Which I would expect to be more expensive than the ref card cost bounded about.

Then we are looking at a lesser score for the ref design, if leaks are to be true.
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Not really since those scores were supposed to be for the card running up to its default boost. 1080-1266mhz.
 
Gibbo give us a clue.... Gibbo Gibbo give us a clue! ;)

i bet hes got a mountain of Polaris GPU's waiting to be sold, hopefully those incldue some nice AIB offerings with decent coolers and OC'd out the box.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Gibbo give us a clue.... Gibbo Gibbo give us a clue! ;)

i bet hes got a mountain of Polaris GPU's waiting to be sold, hopefully those incldue some nice AIB offerings with decent coolers and OC'd out the box.
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They're all stacked up into a throne on which he sits, reading our speculations and laughing.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Geez.. Im lookin at ebay for 980ti and there going for about 200-250 notes. Id seriously go for one of them than the 480 at that price. Why are they so cheap there? Doubt they would be faulty either and probably has some warranty too if asked and got a receipt. The 480s to compete with second hand 980ti need to be well under 200 notes i reckon.
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Depend on if you would perceived as driver performance and support has passed its prime and would be going downhill for new games as a fault :p

It's no secret that old gen cards of Nvidia don't get the less optimisation and support comparing to when the cards were at "current gen". The performance gap between the 980Ti and 1070 for existing games will probably remain unchanged, but for new games the 1070 will only pull further and further ahead, and this won't be due to 980Ti's hardware limitation but down to not getting the same level of support as 1070.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
and this won't be due to 980Ti's hardware limitation but down to not getting the same level of support as 1070.
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It'll be down to GP104 being brand new and having a ton more room for improvement with drivers than GM200, which will have very mature drivers already.

AMD see gains over a longer period because they are playing catch-up on the driver side of things. They've done a good job lately, but they've also created a warped picture of how 'normal' that is.
 
Seanspeed said:
It'll be down to GP104 being brand new and having a ton more room for improvement with drivers than GM200, which will have very mature drivers already.

AMD see gains over a longer period because they are playing catch-up on the driver side of things. They've done a good job lately, but they've also created a warped picture of how 'normal' that is.
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I always got the impression that the reason Nvidia cards "degrade" is because Nvidia puts lots of optimizations in for new games as they come out and that shows up in the benchmarks - i.e. some of the performance you see in comparisons is Nvidia's close relationship with the game studios. But they only do that for current cards. So the accurate way to look at it is that Nvidia cards get a boost when they're the latest ones out, but that boost doesn't apply to older cards. Thus creating the illusion that they degrade in performance as time goes on. Whereas AMD are what they are without benefiting from some boost due to optimizations. So in practical terms, AMD cards improve in relative performance vs. Nvidia cards with age.

Think of it as Nvidia's software team running behind their latest cards giving them a little push. But when the new cards come out, they run behind that one and forget about the old.
 
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