Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

SiDeards73 · 18 Jun 2016 at 16:48

Yes I state wholesale in my post....

It's foolish to think £175 ex Vat = £210 as the retail price, merchants will lob their markup on that. If they land at £250 that's a roughly 20% markup

finalcloud · 18 Jun 2016 at 16:55

If it does retail at £250 would it even be anything special at that price? Seems like it'd just be another card, not what it is being hyped up to be.

XeNoNF50 · 18 Jun 2016 at 16:56

faceman123 said:
Won't be paying a penny more than £170.

Then you won't be paying more than a penny

faceman123 · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:00

finalcloud said:
If it does retail at £250 would it even be anything special at that price? Seems like it'd just be another card, not what it is being hyped up to be.

Agree

AlamoX · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:01

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.

lol at the size of the cooler for the size of the PCB, yes blower and all but still, thats just too much wasted space.

Greebo · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:06

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.

Why not? Let's just say that most games at some point in future all support mgpu and don't care what card you have.

You let's say have a 1080gtx and then a monster vega card arrives. Swapping might mean the vega is 20% faster but if you keep your 1080 and add the vega you get 80% faster than a vega and 100% fast than a 1080, would you not consider doing that?

No different to people now going the route of adding a second card as sli rather than buying a new card but with the added bonus no need to match cards.

Perhaps you have a 1080 and get chance of a cheap used 980ti which you can add for a 60% performance boost which might mean constant 60fps at 4K, who wouldn't do it?

To mean in sounds like perfection

XeNoNF50 · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:06

finalcloud said:
If it does retail at £250 would it even be anything special at that price? Seems like it'd just be another card, not what it is being hyped up to be.

Think it'll come in around 240ish. If performance is 980 level at that price it is justifiable.

Gregster · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:08

Greebo said:
Why not? Let's just say that most games at some point in future all support mgpu and don't care what card you have.

You let's say have a 1080gtx and then a monster vega card arrives. Swapping might mean the vega is 20% faster but if you keep your 1080 and add the vega you get 80% faster than a vega and 100% fast than a 1080, would you not consider doing that?

No different to people now going the route of adding a second card as sli rather than buying a new card but with the added bonus no need to match cards.

Perhaps you have a 1080 and get chance of a cheap used 980ti which you can add for a 60% performance boost which might mean constant 60fps at 4K, who wouldn't do it?

To mean in sounds like perfection

Like I said, there is little love for SLI or Crossfire and when it does work, there is flickering or something else going on, so to have AMD and NVidia running in the same machine will just create more problems.

tommybhoy · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:09

Nv never wanted you to mix n match gpus from the same family so doubt it'll catch on myself.

AlamoX said:
lol at the size of the cooler for the size of the PCB, yes blower and all but still, thats just too much wasted space.

670, 970 FE reference editions are the same.

They're learning from Nv, simply put, it's designed to give you the impression you've bought something substantial.

AlamoX · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:10

faceman123 said:
$199 - £138.00, + 27.60 (VAT) + uk tax £20 - £180ish...

you add to that 5-10% or let's say 10-20%, price could be between 199£ to 219£ in like, i really dont see reference or basic coolers getting any higher than that.

kalniel · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:10

XeNoNF50 said:
Think it'll come in around 240ish. If performance is 980 level at that price it is justifiable.

I think the same - everything about this card screams new generation 7870 to me - and the 7870 was £275+ at launch, despite that being several years ago.

sprite- · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:12

XeNoNF50 said:
Think it'll come in around 240ish. If performance is 980 level at that price it is justifiable.

Based on wholesale prices shown i'd agree, £230-£240.

Greebo · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:13

Mauller said:
The best arrangement will always be matched GPU's, so pretty much what greg said.

Except that under mgpu the best scaling comes from mismatched GPu especially if you mix and with nvidia. Better than either sli or xfire scaling anyway.

Seanspeed · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:13

kalniel said:
Forum posters are such a small proportion of the market I can't think that any retailer would set their prices solely on posts.

That's what I was thinking.

CREATIVE!11 · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:18

AlamoX said:
lol at the size of the cooler for the size of the PCB, yes blower and all but still, thats just too much wasted space.

Big coolers are like big weiners.... bigger the better.

Mauller · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:19

AlamoX said:
lol at the size of the cooler for the size of the PCB, yes blower and all but still, thats just too much wasted space.

Could not make the card a blower style cooler unless it was that size, where else do you put the impeller?

old gamer · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:23

Greebo said:
Except that under mgpu the best scaling comes from mismatched GPu especially if you mix and with nvidia. Better than either sli or xfire scaling anyway.

There's probably more to it but all I can think of is how's it all going to work with gsync freesync, eyefinity, gameworks, sounds like a disaster in the Making but hay what do I know

XeNoNF50 · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:25

old gamer said:
There's probably more to it but all I can think of is how's it all going to work with gsync freesync, eyefinity, gameworks, sounds like a disaster in the Making but hay what do I know

Imagine it working with all! Very unlikely

raven-uk-1 · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:27

Gregster said:
Like I said, there is little love for SLI or Crossfire and when it does work, there is flickering or something else going on, so to have AMD and NVidia running in the same machine will just create more problems.

sli and crossfire have nothing to do with dx12 mgpu. They cannot be compared.

There are already benchmarks showing a furyx and a 980ti working in mgpu and scailing pretty well.

sprite- · 18 Jun 2016 at 17:28

Crikey, i've received wife approval to buy whatever GPU i like. Regardless of the cost, which is shocking since we have a 2nd baby on the way...

Did make me look back to when i bought my last GPU.

- May 2014: Bought 780Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC for £474
- June 2014: Traded my 780Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC for somebodies 290x Gigabyte Windforce OC (He also gave me £150 on top).

Pretty pleased about that trade, since the 290x got better over time and exceeds the 780Ti mostly.

2 years, definitely time for a new card. Hurry AMD and show me what you've got!