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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Greebo said:
I just needed the overclocked 480 to be close to a 980ti. Again you have just said and assumed its going to be faster than a 980. Clearly it might not be.
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I am basing my performance figures off the only solid info we have, and that's the AMD demo against the 1080 in Ashes. If it was only 970 performance, it wouldn't be faster than the 1080 even in crossfire. So I am putting the performance levels closer to the 980 than the 970!!
 
Well I wonder now if in DX12 if a RX480 can beat R9 290X or 980Ti in this game.

For 199USD RX480 4GB AMD has a winner on it's hands ,simple as that.

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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
What bubble - people making OTT predictions and having false expectations.

I pretty much said it would hover around R9 390X levels for months now.

Plenty of people like me have £150 to £200 cards like a GTX960 - at 2560X1440 an R9 390X is nearly double the speed of a GTX960.

I suspect the RX470 might end up being a very nice improvement closer to £150 to £175 too.

I expect will be easily 50% faster than the current cards in its price bracket.

Plus even try having an R9 390X in a smaller SFF rig like mine - the cards are huge and the TDP is way too high.

I would have probably gone with a GTX970 but in the end,but getting a good deal on a GTX960 and me not wanting another card with a weird memory controller(I had the GTX660 which did the same) meant I didn't.

The last set of TPU figures would mean the RX480 is probably at least 20% to 25% faster than a GTX970 for around the same price,so with a shorter card consuming even less power and we know how the GTX970 does in DX12 when compared to an R9 390X,so I expect in newer DX12 titles it would be more.

We also don't know if the final review drivers will add anything to performance yet.

So,personally not dissapointed as it is where I thought it will be.
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Problem again is a 390x is only 10% behind a 980ti stock in a lot of games.

These 480 are pretty much confirmed to overclock by 20%.

So therefore it cant match a 390x at stock. Maybe a 380.
 
spikerules said:
He did say that Xfire "is another matter" or something along those lines so I am guessing they are good cards to run in Xfire and have some major driver and performance advantages with Xfire?
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SLI/CF depends a lot on the developers (mostly) and if the engine has poor support, so will the GPU regardless of what GPU it is.

Anyways, hopefully England can get the spirits lifted again :D
 
Greebo said:
I said stock 980ti not overclocked ones. Nobody, including me expected an overclocked 480 to match an overclocked 980ti or 1080
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There is a stock MSI Gaming 980 Ti on that table at No.59, it is a long way ahead of a massively overclocked 980 below it.

My Fury X is the only AMD card in the top 100 and DM thinks I am biased lol.:D
 
Gregster said:
You fooled me as well. I would use the term 290Xs instead of 290X :D
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Yeah i was thinking, a 290x that matches a ti :eek: my 2 cant even manage that. THen i clocked what he meant.

The 480 is a mid range card aint it? I dunno why people are expecting 1070 performance, it should be 1060 performance really.

Hopefully the 490 will match/beat 1070 performance.
 
Greebo said:
No its not though. It should easility be able to do a 20% overclock eg the 1.5Ghz confirmed by Sapphire yet Gibbo says we are dreaming if we think thats comes close to a 980ti.

If the stock 480 is at 390x/980 performance a 20% overclock should put it exactly at 980ti/1070 performance. That is the worry/concern.
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This is where you are going wrong:, a 1070 is much faster than what you are stating:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1070/24.html
At 1440p A 1070 is 100*(100/71)= 41% faster than a 980, and 37% faster than a 390X.

At 1080P the 1070 is 43% faster than the 390X.

A 20% overclock will still leave the 480 20% slower than a 1070, but then the 1070 will also overclock around 20%.
 
Greebo said:
Problem again is a 390x is only 10% behind a 980ti stock in a lot of games.

These 480 are pretty much confirmed to overclock by 20%.

So therefore it cant match a 390x at stock. Maybe a 380.
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The GTX980TI reference card is 20% faster and probably higher than that for the non-reference cards and that is according to TPU.

People are just overhyping and underhyping the RX480 now.

Gibbo says they will sell loads,so it is going to be a decent performance bump for the price.

Every single leak has hinted close to R9 390X/GTX980 level performance and I expect its probably what we will get.

Even if the RX470 is just behind a GTX970 by being 20% slower than an RX480 it would destroy a GTX960 or R9 380.
 
Gregster said:
SLI/CF depends a lot on the developers (mostly) and if the engine has poor support, so will the GPU regardless of what GPU it is.

Anyways, hopefully England can get the spirits lifted again :D
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Yes but GPU scaling does get better with certain cards. Take SLI scaling on 980Ti series and Fury series cards compared to their predecessors. Aren't we generally seeing scaling improve? Also with DX12 and Vulkan SLI & Xfire scaling should improve considerably?
 
Lets clear this up, since it appears the Nvidia brigade are getting a bit giddy.

  1. Nobody got "Over Excited" or "Over the top" when speculating on 480 performance, WCCFTech leaks indicated possible performance.
  2. Based on WCCFTech leaks the 480 would be between Nano / Fury and with a possible 1400/1500 OC we may have been looking at close to 980Ti performance at stock clocks
  3. Many peoples on here were quite clear, if the WCCFTech leak turned out true then it would be a card which would cause a huge impact. If not and say around 390/390x performance then it may be more mediocre.
I still hold out hope to be honest, if AMD offer something just par for the course then it really isn't going to help them in the short term. There needs to be a very clear distinction in performance that makes any purchase decision easy for AMD.

Some people just a little bit to please to highlight Gibbos words and point out how incorrect others were... Quite amusing really, enjoy paying through the nose for your GPUs for the next year or two if its true and AMD can't provide some decent competition - because they'll be literally no incentive for Nvidia to price aggressively if thats the case.
 
D.P. said:
This is where you are going wrong:, a 1070 is much faster than what you are stating:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1070/24.html
At 1440p A 1070 is 100*(100/71)= 41% faster than a 980, and 37% faster than a 390X.

At 1080P the 1070 is 43% faster than the 390X.

A 20% overclock will still leave the 480 20% slower than a 1070, but then the 1070 will also overclock around 20%.
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Hmmm most reviews I have seen put the 980ti trading blows with the 1070???
 
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