Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Seanspeed · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:42

.Trooper. said:
If it's true that it OCs so well to be comparable to a stock 1070 I'd be baffled as to why they haven't shown that off yet.

That would surely be a HUGE shakeup in the GPU market if a £200something AMD card compete with a £400+ 1070

I cant really think of a good reason why they wouldn't let reviews out now if it's that good, either.

Only thing I can think of is that they want to let Nvidia sell enough 1070's that they would find it hard to immediately price drop in fear of upsetting all those customers, but I dont think that'd stop Nvidia and there's precedent for doing it, too.

Just doesn't seem to outweigh the positivity they'd get right now while also converting plenty of those potential 1070 sales into 480 sales.

So yea, I dont get it.

I suppose it may be possible that AMD have authorized a few controlled leaks, though....

humbug · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:43

What does the 390 (Stock) score in 3DMark?

2560 shaders @ 1000Mhz

RX 480 is 2306 Shaders at 1266Mhz. 10% less shaders, 27% higher clocked. (and a new architecture)

Seanspeed · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:43

Scougar said:
Thing is... who is going to buy this card exactly? I will because it will be an upgrade from the 380 4gb I have, but anyone with a 390 is likely to only get a side grade.

Believe it or not, the vast percentage of PC gamers do not have 390/970-level cards. I think you've become too insulated in a PC hardware enthusiast forum such as this.

humbug · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:47

Seanspeed said:
Believe it or not, the vast percentage of PC gamers do not have 390/970-level cards. I think you've become too insulated in a PC hardware enthusiast forum such as this.

Was the 970 not the best selling card in history?

Phixsator · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:48

humbug said:
Was the 970 not the best selling card in history?

it might be but it still only covered a minor overall % of the entire gaming scene.

karik666 · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:50

I would be happy with 980 perfomance,any more would be a nice bonus.

humbug · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:51

Phixsator said:
it might be but it still only covered a minor overall % of the entire gaming scene.

If you include off the shelf OEM boxes with junk cards in them perhaps.

But i do agree with what someone else said, $100 to $300 GPU's represent about 85% of the custom market.

SiDeards73 · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:52

i'll be happy to trade in my 290 tri-x for new GCN architecture and potential dx improvements in the future, lower wattage etc

Its gotta be a win

tbh · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:54

humbug said:
Was the 970 not the best selling card in history?

It was the most common card on Steam user surveys a few months ago but I very much doubt it's the best selling card in history, that honour probably goes to something cheap and terrible such as the GeForce 2 MX.

Panos · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:55

tavtavtav said:
If the RX480 hits 1.8Ghz on water and beats a stock 1080 I'll run backwards to London (from yorkshire).

No worries, I will bring food and water. lets meet near the Wakefield Paragon business centre on Friday 24th, on the roundabout where the pub is.

Dave777 · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:56

My R9 290 won't drive my Freesync monitor properly at native resolution so looking at this to replace it.

Hopefully looking like a good upgrade and chance of mega upgrade if I crossfire them?

Seanspeed · 17 Jun 2016 at 17:56

humbug said:
Was the 970 not the best selling card in history?

Not sure. Maybe?

But that's just one card out of dozens and dozens that are gaming-capable. So even if it was, it's still only going to make up a small percent as a whole.

harney · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:01

tavtavtav said:
If the RX480 hits 1.8Ghz on water and beats a stock 1080 I'll run backwards to London (from yorkshire).

I will do it with you as i am in Yorkshire too but i will do it on hands and knees

Toss3 · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:02

Seanspeed said:
Not sure. Maybe?

But that's just one card out of dozens and dozens that are gaming-capable. So even if it was, it's still only going to make up a small percent as a whole.

But for a new generation of cards it's pretty much the best you can achieve. Doubt any new card is going to capture 10% of the GPU market just like that. If we take consoles into consideration I bet amd is in the lead.

Sargatanas2511 · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:02

humbug said:
Was the 970 not the best selling card in history?

I obviously don't have the numbers but I would be surprised if they shifted more 970s than they did MX440's back in the day or FX5200's.

humbug · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:03

Toss3 said:
But for a new generation of cards it's pretty much the best you can achieve. Doubt any new card is going to capture 10% of the GPU market just like that. If we take consoles into consideration I bet amd is in the lead.

Interesting you should say that as the new XBox gets a Polaris GPU.

Toss3 · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:04

Dave777 said:
My R9 290 won't drive my Freesync monitor properly at native resolution so looking at this to replace it.

Hopefully looking like a good upgrade and chance of mega upgrade if I crossfire them?

Should be a decent upgrade from the 290 if you buy a factory overclocked versio, and a significant one if you buy two (would recommend getting the gtx 1070/1080 instead though as cf and sli are horrible).

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:10

This gota be one the most talked about GPU launches in Ocuk forum history?

humbug · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:11

shankly1985 said:
This gota be one the most talked about GPU launches in Ocuk forum history?

Yup

Aretak · 17 Jun 2016 at 18:11

humbug said:
Interesting you should say that as the new XBox gets a Polaris GPU.

The Scorpio seems like it's based on Vega, as the specs offered are much more powerful than any Polaris chip we've seen. It's the PS4K that's using Polaris (apparently specced the same as the 480 in fact, but underclocked to ~900MHz). It's still the better part of 18 months away though.