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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

I'm sure only the best cards will be able to overclock to 1500Mhz+ with added voltage. 1350-1400Mhz will probably be a good overclock which most cards will manage without any additional voltage. But jeez if 1500Mhz+ is doable, then Fury X-980Ti performance can be expected which would be an insane bargain at under £300.
 
http://www.overclock.net/t/1603257/jd-xfx-rx480-8gb-pictured-with-official-specifications

Incase you miss the source link. http://item.jd.com/3152734.html

Also http://videocardz.com/61147/xfx-radeon-rx-480-pictured-features-1288-mhz-clock

New info?

XFX branded 480 with specs etc and pics. Clocked at 1288 stock speed apparently, 1999 yuans which is about 212 in pounds.

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kylew_is_back said:
1266 is boosts and 1400 is boosts as well, i am missing something?
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No but my point is the base clock is 1080Mhz so if it boosts to 1400 or even 1500 on air then thats a 40% overclock and people shouldnt be expecting more.

look at the 980ti. Base clock depending on model was 1000 to 1200 and set boosts were between 1100 and 1300.

Of course people could then manually overclock them and get boosts over 1400Mhz and some lucky people managed the magic 1500Mhz.

What makes you think the 480 will be any different? Its standard base and boost clock is very similar to the 980ti. Nobody said with the pre oc 980ti, "omg thats a poor boost overclock as it came set at over 1300 and I only made 1450."

if it does 1500 on air then thats a 39% overclock from the base and I would be more than happy with that.
 
Seanspeed said:
I told you this card would eventually end up faster than a 1080 eventually. lol

Anyways, really wish that we could get some solid gaming benchmarks. I could go a couple weeks without my 970 if I could be sure the 480 will be the card I want it to be.
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I suspect thats on LN2 at 1800Mhz. He should compare it to a 2.8Ghz 1080 to be fair then. :)
 
Greebo said:
No but my point is the base clock is 1080Mhz so if it boosts to 1400 or even 1500 on air then thats a 40% overclock and people shouldnt be expecting more.

look at the 980ti. Base clock depending on model was 1000 to 1200 and set boosts were between 1100 and 1300.

Of course people could then manually overclock them and get boosts over 1400Mhz and some lucky people managed the magic 1500Mhz.

What makes you think the 480 will be any different? Its standard base and boost clock is very similar to the 980ti. Nobody said with the pre oc 980ti, "omg thats a poor boost overclock as it came set at over 1300 and I only made 1450."

if it does 1500 on air then thats a 39% overclock from the base and I would be more than happy with that.
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With Nvidia we never go on base clocks for the overclock. The boost clock is usually used for a more accurate assessment of the overclock. A gtx980ti boosting from stock 1200 to 1500oc is getting around a 25% overclock and will receive the boost in performance with that. If the base clock was 1000 and you overclocked to 1500 and called that a 50% overclock you will receive nothing like 50% of the performance as at stock you were getting around 1200mhz constant.

With the node drop hopefully the 480 overclock's better than the gtx980ti or at least on par as it should be pretty fast either way.

A real 50% overclock was the 7950 stock at 800mhz and overclocked to 1200 mhz. The gains were massive.
 
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Greebo said:
No but my point is the base clock is 1080Mhz so if it boosts to 1400 or even 1500 on air then thats a 40% overclock and people shouldnt be expecting more.

look at the 980ti. Base clock depending on model was 1000 to 1200 and set boosts were between 1100 and 1300.

Of course people could then manually overclock them and get boosts over 1400Mhz and some lucky people managed the magic 1500Mhz.

What makes you think the 480 will be any different? Its standard base and boost clock is very similar to the 980ti. Nobody said with the pre oc 980ti, "omg thats a poor boost overclock as it came set at over 1300 and I only made 1450."

if it does 1500 on air then thats a 39% overclock from the base and I would be more than happy with that.
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Yup.

Just an example of reference against a custom overclocked card;

980Ti Reference:
Core Clock: 1000MHz
Boost Clock: 1075MHz

980Ti Zotac Amp! Extreme
Core Clock: 1253MHz
Boost Clock: 1355MHz

All depends on 480 being able to OC aswell as the 980Ti did - but 1400mhz is definitely achievable. I think it'll be likely we'll see 1350mhz custom clocked cards.
 
Greebo said:
No but my point is the base clock is 1080Mhz so if it boosts to 1400 or even 1500 on air then thats a 40% overclock and people shouldnt be expecting more.

look at the 980ti. Base clock depending on model was 1000 to 1200 and set boosts were between 1100 and 1300.
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I checked a few reviews of the stock card and those that mentioned it said the stock 980ti was running around 1200, so i always used to use 1200 as my baseline, so a 25% OC was aroubd 1500 in my book

I would do the same for the 480, so if in tests it usually runs at 1266 i would use that as the baseline. Otherwise you are calling something a 40% overclock but only getting a 10% gain from stock, which just sounds wrong.
 
TheRealDeal said:
With Nvidia we never go on base clocks for the overclock. The boost clock is usually used for a more accurate assessment of the overclock. A gtx980ti boosting from stock 1200 to 1500oc is getting around a 25% overclock and will receive the boost in performance with that. If the base clock was 1000 and you overclocked to 1500 and called that a 50% overclock you will receive nothing like 50% of the performance as at stock you were getting around 1200mhz constant.

With the node drop hopefully the 480 overclock's better than the gtx980ti or at least on par as it should be pretty fast either way.

A real 50% overclock was the 7950 stock at 800mhz and overclocked to 1200 mhz. The gains were massive.
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I see your point but 980ti were made with boost clocks ranging from a lowly 1075 to 1344. if both managed 39% overclock and the more epensive second card only did 12%. AFAIK stock boost for the 980ti was only 1075Mhz?
 
andybird123 said:
I checked a few reviews of the stock card and those that mentioned it said the stock 980ti was running around 1200, so i always used to use 1200 as my baseline, so a 25% OC was aroubd 1500 in my book

I would do the same for the 480, so if in tests it usually runs at 1266 i would use that as the baseline. Otherwise you are calling something a 40% overclock but only getting a 10% gain from stock, which just sounds wrong.
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no it cant have been 1200, even the EVGA SC+ only had a boost of 1190.

ANyway, i do agree if the 480 standard boost is 1266 then that should be a our baseline.
 
The clocks that the part can possibly run at should not surprise anyone. AMD were saying from the start that the reference polaris parts were being designed with a certain price/perf/efficiency in mind.

So there is a very large possibility for parts to run at 1500+ mhz. with 1400mhz being easily achieved on reference parts. it would be nice if they had a boost adjustment setting so you can just set a new boost clock in this new overclocking software.
 
Greebo said:
I see your point but 980ti were made with boost clocks ranging from a lowly 1075 to 1344. if both managed 39% overclock and the more epensive second card only did 12%. AFAIK stock boost for the 980ti was only 1075Mhz?
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Stock boost was rated at 1075 but out of the box as Andy said they would do much higher. With Nv you really have to do it on a card for card basis. Say run a benchmark with monitoring software and see what your average boost was and take that as your base. All Nvidia cards will boost differently but i would hazard a guess that out of the box every stock gtx980ti was way above the stated 1075. Andy reckons 1200 mhz was close to the norm.

From the little we know it looks like 1266 is a max boost so cards won't go over that unless overclocked. So should be easier on AMD to get an accurate picture of the real overclock without having to run to much monitoring.
 
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XeNoNF50 said:
Getting excited here. That's a very nice looking card indeed.
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Specswise its nice looking, physically looking it looks junk, i hate that reference design with a passion and i wish to burn it in the face until its dead! DEAD!

Give me a nice Vapor-X with a mental OC and i'll be happy..

1266 base clock? Niiiiiiice, can only imagine what the AIB OC'd ones will be like :)
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
It will look like 1306Mhz :p

Like the overlocker's dream Fury X OC editions hahaha.

I really hope Polaris delivers; the Hype rollercoaster is constantly going up and down.
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Yep i am holding on for dear life
this coaster is getting faster for sure
now lets go round again for the 100th time :p
 
Some of these leaks should be treated as fakes. I doubt AMD would be keeping quite if the 480 could get to 1600MHz+ easily. Why even have a base clock of 1080 at all if the card can almost get to 1070 level?

Realistically we should expect around 390X performance and anything extra is a bonus.

The 1080 base clock is interesting though. Are AMD trolling the GTX 1080 with that setting? :p
 
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