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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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you know that the original MSRP price is already suggested RETAIL price, they do not buy the cards at 199$ in their chain, they get them for much cheaper, yes you get shipping and other cost to add, but you cant just keep adding markups like if they were going and buying 1 card from US retail, then shipping it to the UK to sell, which is this case 250£ you are suggesting might actualy be a nice profit for who ever does it with single card.
I've noticed this happens a lot with the AMD cards. Think it's why I'm drawn to this new one.
I can see AMD releasing some Explicit mGPU code examples on the GPUOpen website on 29th with the launch of the new cards. Will go a long way to games getting support in DX12/Vulkan etc.
Does this Explicit mGPU include using Discrete and say, Intel iGPU's aswell? Or is it only for Discrete cards? Im sure i read somewhere that iGPU's can be used too.
I wasn't comparing
But to those who disagree with me, I look forward to your results.
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So you believe that SFR will have the same problems AFR does ?
You go for it and then show me your results. I would much rather have SLI or Crossfire over AMD and NVidia in the same machine and that is that. There is little love for SLI or Crossfire as it is, so where are devs going to get the time to add mGPU in anyways?
RX480 4gb £166 reference
RX480 8gb £192 reference
RX480 8gb upto £250 custom cooler,2 6pin power sockets.
Thats with out retail gouging.
Im sure there will be 4gb cards on release,seeing as thats the $199 that Amd have been on about.
RX480 8gb £192 reference
RX480 8gb upto £250 custom cooler,2 6pin power sockets.
Thats with out retail gouging.
Im sure there will be 4gb cards on release,seeing as thats the $199 that Amd have been on about.
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I totally agree with you with regards to sli and xfire. I run xfire and its rubbish.
I am not saying i will go for it because i very much doubt Nvidia or AMD will really want it happening.
My point is you are predicting it will have the same problems as sli and xfire even though it is totally different.
anyways back to topic lol
Its ok saying that just before a card launches to try and drive sales, its another matter to keep that support up over numerous launches throughout the year.
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Well got me a nice price on my 980, so now just waiting to see what AMD deliver with this card.... I hate waiting! 
I wouldn't like to be a guinea pig though. There's also a big back catalogue of games that will never have decent crossfire support.
Well got me a nice price on my 980, so now just waiting to see what AMD deliver with this card.... I hate waiting!
Can't see this being much of an upgrade over a 980, if at all.
Although it is new and shiny so I am tempted if there are well priced custom versions that snap at the heels of the 1070. I'm not going to get my hopes up though.
This is part of the problem with AMD recently. Everything is "yes but our cards will be better in the future". Same with bandwith, ram, DX12, and now future crossfire claims.
They have a tendency to overdo things when they are not needed. Kind of like HBM on the Fury. It was pretty much pointless other than to get the power consumption down. Crazy bandwith and 8gb on a 390x? Brilliant for 4k!... but the card isn't powerful to play modern games at 4k with consistent great framerates anyway so it doesn't matter.
Nvidia didn't give one **** about DX12 on Maxwell as they new it would be irrelevant as most of their market would have upgraded to a Pascal card, (or even perhaps Volta) by the time the majority of games use DX12.
Don't get me wrong, from one perspective future proofing is very good, but at the same time pc gamers and pc gaming enthusiasts (ie AMD's market) love to upgrade and get some new tech so by the time anything promised comes to fruition it is irrelevant anyway.
I think Nvidia are a bit more savvy in that regard ( it no doubt saves them money and increases their margins as well).
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980 price should drop quite a bit, you could always get a cheap 2nd 980 to SLI, if 4Go isn't a big issue for you.