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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

fs123 said:
I heard the Frostbite engine may support it with Battlefiled 1 and if other engines follow then it would greatly increase the suppport. It could potentially replace crossfire/SLI and it allows Nvidia and AMD gpu's to be mixed in a system.
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Nobody with sense would ever run a system with an AMD and NVidia GPU in it. There would be no point whatsoever of doing it, even if it got wide support.
 
Gregster said:
Nobody with sense would ever run a system with an AMD and NVidia GPU in it. There would be no point whatsoever of doing it, even if it got wide support.
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Why not? I can think of a lot of uses.
1. You add a AMD or Nvidia GPU along side to boost performance just like Xfire or SLI.
2. You could use each GPU alone for some games that like one GPU better. Example I want to use Physx on Batman I use the Nvidia GPU. I then want to play Hitman that performs better on AMD I switch to the AMD GPU. :)

Even outside gaming Sony Vegas only AMD GPUs supported for acceleration rendering you could switch to that GPU just for rendering etc

They is a massive problem with all this though. I wouldn't ever want it to go fully down all this route of fragmenting the industry. We shouldn't need a GPU to do one thing Better than the other.
 
I read elsewhere RX480 will have 1266 or smth standard clock and 1500 or more on OC versions. Those will also easily reach 1600Mhz and run say battlefield for an hour effortlessly (sic).

My thoughts - at that clock it will be no slower than PIG1070

I read further it actually says that it surpasses 1070. But that is the $300 version with 8+6 pin, not the $200
 
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sand_dune said:
I read elsewhere RX480 will have 1266 or smth standard clock and 1500 or more on OC versions. Those will also easily reach 1600Mhz and run say battlefield for an hour effortlessly (sic).

My thoughts - at that clock it will be no slower than PIG1070

I read further it actually says that it surpasses 1070. But that is the $300 version with 8+6 pin, not the $200
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You are really going to quote some sources here. (run battlefield for an hour... really? links/sources....)


The card is unreleased, and we don't know what is real info, and what isn't. I wouldn't take any of that info without a copious supply of salt.
 
shankly1985 said:
You could use each GPU alone for some games that like one GPU better. Example I want to use Physx on Batman I use the Nvidia GPU. I then want to play Hitman that performs better on AMD I switch to the AMD GPU. :)
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Tried that, in an ideal world you'd imagine it would, Mantle worked no probs but in Nv's world, PhysX throws a hissy fit and disables gpu hardware PhysX when an AMD card is present in the syste-even with no driver installed, and zero pci-e power feeding the card.
 
sand_dune said:
I read elsewhere RX480 will have 1266 or smth standard clock and 1500 or more on OC versions. Those will also easily reach 1600Mhz and run say battlefield for an hour effortlessly (sic).

My thoughts - at that clock it will be no slower than PIG1070

I read further it actually says that it surpasses 1070. But that is the $300 version with 8+6 pin, not the $200
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From 1266Mhz to 1500Mhz is an 18% overclock, certainly achievable unless its not a good clocker.

If the rumours are true, in that its as fast as a Fury-Nano at 1266Mhz then at 1500Mhz it should be as fast as a Titan-X https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1070/24.html if not slightly more.

At 1600Mhz it could very well match the 1070. at <£300

The Interwebs could very well explode on the 30'th :eek:
 
tommybhoy said:
Tried that, in an ideal world you'd imagine it would, Mantle worked no probs but in Nv's world, PhysX throws a hissy fit and disables gpu hardware PhysX when an AMD card is present in the syste-even with no driver installed, and zero pci-e power feeding the card.
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Yeah :) That why I wrote that in my post about PhysX. They is ZERO reason why this should happen.

Anyways best we just leave this here mate going OT now.
 
All these price/perf rumours are dropping the Maxwell market. Just picked up a second 980 Ti (MSI GAMING) for £300 brand new unopened.
 
some more juicy from chiphell forum. Source

Guy also stated that it came with a manual showing gaming power consumption to be around 110W and to not go aggressive on the voltage when overclocking, and he estimates that it reaches 1.4ghz near peak board power usage. (150w) He is still waiting on drivers for it.

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Mauller said:
some more juicy from chiphell forum. Source

Guy also stated that it came with a manual showing gaming power consumption to be around 110W and to not go aggressive on the voltage when overclocking, and he estimates that it reaches 1.4ghz near peak board power usage. (150w) He is still waiting on drivers for it.

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If true this is really impressive for reference. I can imagine a lot of board partner cards being able to hit around 1.5 on air and upto 1.6 on some cards with possibly needing to put them under water to keep it stable 24/7 gaming for 1.6+


These speeds would put it right up to 980Ti - Titan x or just being slightly faster i would assume. Time will tell :D Could just be a clickbait article
 
The actual heatsink looks pretty small as well, not like the aircooled fury cards that had a long overlapping heatsink.
 
shankly1985 said:
Why not? I can think of a lot of uses.
1. You add a AMD or Nvidia GPU along side to boost performance just like Xfire or SLI.
2. You could use each GPU alone for some games that like one GPU better. Example I want to use Physx on Batman I use the Nvidia GPU. I then want to play Hitman that performs better on AMD I switch to the AMD GPU. :)

Even outside gaming Sony Vegas only AMD GPUs supported for acceleration rendering you could switch to that GPU just for rendering etc

They is a massive problem with all this though. I wouldn't ever want it to go fully down all this route of fragmenting the industry. We shouldn't need a GPU to do one thing Better than the other.
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Well for starters, SLI and Crossfire are not getting much love in many of the newer games of late and everything else you mention can be done already if you own both vendors. But if you feel it is good, go for it and I look forward to your results :)
 
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