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crossfire will never get its act together as long as AMD can't get theirs together.
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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Soldato
Videocardz updated with RX 480 Firestrike Extreme GPU score 5379.
http://videocardz.com/61225/amd-radeon-rx-480-rumors-part-2
So it looked about on par with GTX 970 and R9 390.
I noticed many used GTX 970 sold for £150 second hand now then I guess RX 480 is a train wreck if it will sell for £250 for reference boards and maybe £300 for custom boards to get same performance as GTX 970 been for 2 years.
If that will be the case then many people cant be bother to buy RX 480 for same performance at same price, it sound like Radeon R9 285 all over again.
http://videocardz.com/61225/amd-radeon-rx-480-rumors-part-2
So it looked about on par with GTX 970 and R9 390.
I noticed many used GTX 970 sold for £150 second hand now then I guess RX 480 is a train wreck if it will sell for £250 for reference boards and maybe £300 for custom boards to get same performance as GTX 970 been for 2 years.
If that will be the case then many people cant be bother to buy RX 480 for same performance at same price, it sound like Radeon R9 285 all over again.
Caporegime
Problem is Greg, that $200 is going to equate to £220 for UK customers, its barely cheaper than a 390 at that price and seemingly hardly an upgrade on that as well
I still have hope that the AIB cooled and tweaked options could bring up the performance somewhat for a smallish increase in price!
Yeah and whose going to buy them?
No one with a 380 or 960, Far too expensive
No one with a 390/X or 970/80, the same performance for the same money.
Who are these aimed at?
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It was a dream to have a £200 card competing with a £400+ 1070 though.
I reckon the cards will still compete well, especially when Vega is out to compete with 1070/1080/1080Ti. They just won't destroy NVIDIA as everyone hoped
SO the rumours of 1800 overlocks and matching a 1070 and ehnce a 980ti are untrue then?
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Soldato
SLI fares no better, it is an issue with how mGPU works on top of DX11 and how a lot of graphics are becoming compute based and less friendly with 'bolt on the top' mGPU.
How is it looking versus 7970 GHz crossfire, still an upgrade?
Soldato
Wouldn't be surprised if the 980 is faster. This is an easy counter for Nvidia, a faster 1060 at $250-300 will kill off any AMD sales.
Nobody expected it to destroy nvidia cards. Best we hoped for was overclocked it would match a stock 1070/980ti. Obviously those overclock and would be 20% faster but 80% more money
But if AMD had pulled off a card which was 80% of a 980ti/1070 perfromance for half the money, you would be mad not to buy one.
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Caporegime
If AMD launch these cards, at these prices I can see whatever respect and hope AMD have left in the world vanish over night, and for good.
It would be the straw that broke the camels back, frankly.
No.
It would be the straw that broke the camels back, frankly.
No.
Soldato
I have one of those. Paid £146 around when it was released. A 480 could roughly double the performance of it. Even a 470 would be a notable boost.
Soldato
Nope but I think anyone expecting it to rival 1070 / 980Ti / Titan X is smoking the crack pipe as we put it, of course a pair of them then its a different story.
I don't believe anyone was expecting the Reference model to if that is what your experience is from. Or do you have info about AIB model performance?
Were people genuinely expecting the 480 to match 980ti?? I thought it was just a bit of forum banter, I didn't think anyone really believed this would happen. Apparently I was wrong! Some people were expecting it to have that level of performance.
The best info we have is from the AMD demo against the 1080. That places the performance somewhere around 980 levels. It would take a massive overclock to reach 980ti/1070 levels of performance.
If the 480 cards do offer 980 performance levels and are decent overclockers at a sub £250 price, then, they will be very good cards. Certainly they will be tempting to people on older cards like the R9 290's. Well, I will definitely be considering the switch.
On the other hand if they only come in at 970 performance levels, that will be a little disappointing.
The best info we have is from the AMD demo against the 1080. That places the performance somewhere around 980 levels. It would take a massive overclock to reach 980ti/1070 levels of performance.
If the 480 cards do offer 980 performance levels and are decent overclockers at a sub £250 price, then, they will be very good cards. Certainly they will be tempting to people on older cards like the R9 290's. Well, I will definitely be considering the switch.
On the other hand if they only come in at 970 performance levels, that will be a little disappointing.
Soldato
I do also believe that this cannot be aimed at VR, as who would buy a rx480 for £200 to go with their £500 Vr headset
People who don't want to spend over £700 to play with VR?
He said he's seen custom models in Taiwan. I expect he'll have seen or been told about expected performance.
Oh well sold them now. Will just have to my time and save up for a decent single card replacement.
For reference, this is the temperatures a IR thermometer gun would give on a 1-070:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1070_review,10.html
39-51*C. Very crude measurements these so i wouldn't worry that the 480 is 10*C hotter, just want to point out that no one should mistake the IR temperature gun as an actual die temperature.