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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Rroff said:
TBH that is exactly what AMD need right now as stock a card hitting those 1.5GHz scores at the right price point would completely take the wind out of nVidia's 1000 series sales.
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I think what might be happening here is AMD have a reputation for running hot and using massive amounts of power, true and deserved or not the reaction might be to launch very capable tho not mega fast underclocked reference cards at 100 Watts, and cheap <£200.

Much like the Fury-Nano.

That way they have an answer to that accusation while at the same time AIB's can beef up the power and ram the clocks up.
AIB cards will probably use considerably more power and require their coolers to keep them 80c or less but will be much higher clocked and much faster for up to a third more money. <£300

Be that as it may i think its a good strategy.
 
I'm honestly more interested in what the reference card can do. I dont tend to push heavy overclocks, so if the reference card comes stock with greater-than-390X performance, I'd be quite happy with another 75-100Mhz out of it. I feel that is going to be the true bargain 480, whereas any 'special' 480's that cost £250+ are not going to have quite the same value factor(though still very good, obviously) unless they can reliably and consistently push 1.5Ghz or more and not just on occasion.
 
Seanspeed said:
I'm honestly more interested in what the reference card can do. I dont tend to push heavy overclocks, so if the reference card comes stock with greater-than-390X performance, I'd be quite happy with another 75-100Mhz out of it. I feel that is going to be the true bargain 480, whereas any 'special' 480's that cost £250+ are not going to have quite the same value factor(though still very good, obviously) unless they can reliably and consistently push 1.5Ghz or more and not just on occasion.
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Yea I agree, I saw same with the 1080 with people saying it hit 2.2 easily on reference but after some gaming that ended up dropping back down to near base speeds. Had to ramp up the fan significantly over the reference fan profile to keep those speeds.

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I wonder if AMD will have two modes for this - standard and a "boost" mode which ups clockspeeds but at the expense of power and temperature.

If AMD then says the standard mode is the normal operating mode for the card,they can quietly side step if overclocked cards run somewhat hotter or have worse performance/watt.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I wonder if AMD will have two modes for this - standard and a "boost" mode which ups clockspeeds but at the expense of power and temperature.

If AMD then says the standard mode is the normal operating mode for the card,they can quietly side step if overclocked cards run somewhat hotter or have worse performance/watt.
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this is my thinking, low power to keep the tree huggers happy and another mode for the power freaks
 
Rroff said:
Not seen much evidence of that reduction in variation. If the 480s aren't hitting considerably over 1.5GHz without LN2 something is badly wrong.
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Yeah not sure why people are acting like 1.5 is anything to write home about anymore after seeing Pascal. Base clock on 480 has not moved an inch, rather worrying.
 
Orangey said:
Yeah not sure why people are acting like 1.5 is anything to write home about anymore after seeing Pascal. Base clock on 480 has not moved an inch, rather worrying.
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It's a completely different architecture. It's not like they all have to aim for the same clocks as the 1070 or 80, if what we have seen is true then it seems a little more efficient clock for clock.
 
Orangey said:
Yeah not sure why people are acting like 1.5 is anything to write home about anymore after seeing Pascal. Base clock on 480 has not moved an inch, rather worrying.
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Even you know why this is, you can either go in the direction of high clock speeds or greater IPC at the sacrifice of greater clock speeds. So you cant compare pascal to Polaris or even vega on clock speeds tbh.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I wonder if AMD will have two modes for this - standard and a "boost" mode which ups clockspeeds but at the expense of power and temperature.

If AMD then says the standard mode is the normal operating mode for the card,they can quietly side step if overclocked cards run somewhat hotter or have worse performance/watt.
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I think these cards will be relaunched at a later date with higher clocks once the node and their own voltage regulation tech improves to the point where they can keep the same board power at higher clocks.

Like the 290/X to 390/X, and 7950 to 7950 BE and 7970 to 7970 Ghz.

Right now it seems to me clock for clock the 480 is actually a little faster than the 1070, the difference is Nvidia run much higher clocks out of the box, Nvidia have better voltage regulation in their tech, nvidia even made a big deal out of their voltage regulation improvements with Pascal.

I think these Polaris cards are wolves in sheep's clothing.
 
Lol i dunno why you lot feed that troll, he only comes in here to pee on AMD's cornflakes cos he has nothing better to do.

If the cards land at 1266 and we get some AIB versions higher and they can potentially hit 1400-1500 on air with decent temps, these cards will be brilliant.

I am wondering also if we will see any AIB AIO versions with high OC's, a pair of those could be very interesting
 
remember the 7950 and 7970?

7950 860Mhz overclocked to <1200Mhz
7970 920Mhz overclocked to <1200Mhz

Some even higher than that, i think we are seeing a repeat of this.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
If sapphire come up with one with the same beast of a cooler my 390X has to keep it cool under overclocking I would be all over it.
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Generally i buy Sapphire cards where possible, if they release a Tri-X or a Vapor-X version of this with a hefty OC and decent cooling im all over it :)

However if i decide to Xfire them, i might be looking an AIO version if they become available.
 
r7slayer said:
Even you know why this is, you can either go in the direction of high clock speeds or greater IPC at the sacrifice of greater clock speeds. So you cant compare pascal to Polaris or even vega on clock speeds tbh.
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Hilarious that the next post does just that anyways:

humbug said:
Right now it seems to me clock for clock the 480 is actually a little faster than the 1070, the difference is Nvidia run much higher clocks out of the box, Nvidia have better voltage regulation in their tech, nvidia even made a big deal out of their voltage regulation improvements with Pascal.
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Made me giggle :)
 
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r7slayer said:
Even you know why this is, you can either go in the direction of high clock speeds or greater IPC at the sacrifice of greater clock speeds. So you cant compare pascal to Polaris or even vega on clock speeds tbh.
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On 16/14nm FF though even sacrificing raw clock speed to get your IPS up through IPC shouldn't have that massive a hit in the context of a GPU like this they aren't so removed from nVidia's architecture that the difference would be that big that the GPUs wouldn't hit 1.5GHz comfortably.
 
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