To some degree but things like latency and the nature of operation batching, etc. can have some impact also.
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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To some degree but things like latency and the nature of operation batching, etc. can have some impact also.
Yeah nVidia certainly has no problems dumping on their customers :| (consumer or business to business).
Out of all this ridiculous paper launch talk, this is the only post that made any headway ROFL well done Jono that was funny.
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HBM has less latency due to the far greater number of simultaneous read/writes you can perform. And due to single bank refresh meaning read/writes and refreshes are staggered between all banks. With ddr the refresh occurs at timed intervals across all banks.
Shoddy camera work though - can't tell if it's a 1080 or a 480.
Surprised at that world record - as a student when I was working in a warehouse and the systems went down we'd sometimes make paper planes to amuse ourselves and can't have been far short of that record - it was about 200foot from the backwall to the loading bay doors and a fair few times people got them out the doors.
Nice. Backplate on the reference cards by the looks of things?
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uuhhh.... ^^^ 
Latency on HBM is better than GDDR5 and GDDR5X, its on an interposer, thats the next best thing to having it on the die.
I do agree Batching has always been a problem for AMD, should be sorted with Polairs
Latency on HBM is better than GDDR5 and GDDR5X, its on an interposer, thats the next best thing to having it on the die.
I do agree Batching has always been a problem for AMD, should be sorted with Polairs
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I like backplates, the best one i had was the one of my PCS+, 1.5mm thick laser cut brushed alloy. proper quality.
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Call me a pessimist but wasn't the 1070 rumoured to be closer to £300 at launch? We might find the 480 to be closer to £300 at launch than £200
Early listings on various sites had a reference sapphire model at around £240 for the 8gb which i think is probably fairly close to where they will end up.
Custom "beast mode" cards will probably be close to £300 i suspect but if they genuinely give the 1070 a run for it's money that will be pretty good.
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That would mean its more than $300 though. So it can't be
I think people are being a bit optimistic with translating those to UK prices mind.
Well the 1070 custom cards have a $379 RRP and should have started at £315 and look how that has worked out
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Well the 1070 custom cards have a $379 RRP and should have started at £315 and look how that has worked out
I hope this doesn't turn out like that for this GPU.
Here's a GPU-Z shot of an RX 480. If it's legit then looking good for some nice overclocks. Theoretical performance is 6.1Teraflops at the clockspeed. So AMD appears to be deliberately playing down the potential of this card by only quoting >5Tflops.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4ot97w/xfx_rx_480_8gb_specifications/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4ot97w/xfx_rx_480_8gb_specifications/
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Its gone from being around the 390s performance, to slower than the 970, to now faster than the Ti/TX, and around the 1070, i can't bloody wait to see where it is next week, probably be ******* all ower the 1080! 
Im gona say £300+ for these rumoured so called 'beast' customs, and the big thread full of the usual ******* and moaning, as per
Im gona say £300+ for these rumoured so called 'beast' customs, and the big thread full of the usual ******* and moaning, as per
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