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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

sprite- said:
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.
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Are you reading the same thread? Humbug and Greebo stated they were massively disappointed because Gibbo said the 480 wouldn't reach 980ti levels of performance. Humbug and Greebo have called it a fail card, a damp squid, a doorstep.

That's their words, most of the rest of the posters are holding out hope that the 480 is around 980 levels of performance. Roughly the performance level that the majority were thinking it would be.

The people that are slating the 480 the worst were the two people hyping it to the max before that.


This card won't affect Nvidia pricing in anyway. And was never meant to.
 
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Jono8 said:
Yes, the same reason some of them are only 5% or -10%. Funny you didn't bring those up though ;)
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Which card are you talking about. Seriously there could be a number of reasons for the huge gaps like the gtx980 running out of memory. There should never be that kind of gap between cards on similar architecture unless something is hampering the other.

Any how why would i go with those results when Techpower do a much larger selection of games. They even chart up the performance differences for me.
 
TheRealDeal said:
You talking about the gtx980 or 390x. I am talking about the gtx980. I see from your results there are gaps of up to nearly 80% skewing things. Were there reasons for this.
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In some situations Maxwell is over twice as fast as Kepler, depending on the game architecture if it hits particular weakness of Kepler then Maxwell will do way better.
 
Troezar said:
Well we all know Nvidia are currently top dog they just make you pay for it. I think Gibbo is playing a clever game. Rein in the expectations whilst also knowing the performance is very good. Big peak in positive feeling come the 29th and lots of sales.

Everyone knows a good salesman sells on emotion not facts and figures ;)
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Or reigning the hype in before it gets to extraordinary levels and then crashes and burns when the actual benchmarks are released and then he has to pickup the pieces.
 
D.P. said:
In some situations Maxwell is over twice as fast as Kepler, depending on the game architecture if it hits particular weakness of Kepler then Maxwell will do way better.
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Yea but we are talking gtx980 v gtx980ti which are both Maxwell.

Any how the original point has been lost. If the Rx480 is 390x performance it should be able to get close to stock 980ti performance if it overclock's well enough. If it can't then it either does not overclock well or it's base performance is lower than the 390x.
 
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D.P. said:
jono was comparing the 980Ti and 390x in his links.
So yeah, my Kepler remark was wrong but you can pretty much replace that with Hawaii.
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Yea he for some reason thought i was talking about the 390x. Me and Kaap were talking about the gap between a gtx980 and 980ti. Greebo was talking about the 390x.
 
This whole percentage difference can become a bit academic unless the frame rate crosses a threshold that is noticeable. Even less of an issue now we have Gsync and Freesynce. E.g. if your framerate doesn't drop below 60fps on a 60 Hz monitor does it really matter if you can render 20, 30 or 40% faster?
 
melmac said:
Are you reading the same thread? Humbug and Greebo stated they were massively disappointed because Gibbo said the 480 wouldn't reach 980ti levels of performance. Humbug and Greebo have called it a fail card, a damp squid, a doorstep.

That's their words, most of the rest of the posters are holding out hope that the 480 is around 980 levels of performance. Roughly the performance level that the majority were thinking it would be.

The people that are slating the 480 the worst were the two people hyping it to the max before that.


This card won't affect Nvidia pricing in anyway. And was never meant to.
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Spot on and this 480 is not a rival to the 1080/70 but an independent card to hit the market. Taken as it is, it is still looking to be a sweet card for little outlay.
 
Troezar said:
This whole percentage difference can become a bit academic unless the frame rate crosses a threshold that is noticeable. Even less of an issue now we have Gsync and Freesynce. E.g. if your framerate doesn't drop below 60fps on a 60 Hz monitor does it really matter if you can render 20, 30 or 40% faster?
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Nope, which is why Hardocp do these tests where they are looking for highest playable settings.

E.g., if you have a 60HZ screen then any GPU that maintains 60Hz is good to go, but if a card is 30% faster than perhaps it can run with higher settings, or will be ale to run a future game that is 305 more demanding.


More important would be frame variance and minimums but no one really looks in detail at that.
 
Kaapstad said:
Stock for stock and overclocked for overclocked the difference is about 40%.
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Oh really?

Based on Techpowerup game benchmarks... You are kind of right i suppose, well 1 out of 20 games right.... :o

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Raikiri said:
It's half time :p
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Oh i know, but half time doesnt mean "right lets get back on the forums and bicker like children for 15 more minutes".

I might have to go elsewhere for my AMD 480 News cuz this thread has been pathetic pretty much from the day it was started, i'm sick of scrolling through **** to see anything that remotely points to 480 news.

I'm actually doing upgrades, my Dominator Platinum DDR4 3200Mhz RAM came today, going Skylake next week with a 6700K and Z170 Mobo and i'll want to upgrade my GPU soon after so..


Guys, just refrain from schoolyard bickering, you're making yourselves look rather immature.

Edit.. and posts like the crap above my post has no relevance here, but keep posting crap when you dont even know for sure the performance of the 480 is around 390x/390/290/290x/Fury Nano/Fury/Fury x/blah/blah/blah..
 
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I can't see the card being slower than the 390X. The videocardz bench leak is probably the most accurate when you look at the various 3dmark results floating around. For a £230 card it's not bad at all.

No one expected 980ti level performance but I see many reveling in the news that it won't match it. The original expectation was between 390X to Fury nano level performance and I expect it to be around that. With overclocking it may reach Fury nano level or a bit higher but no way will it reach a 980ti. Bear in mind that the final drivers haven't been released yet so results could improve.

http://videocardz.com/61154/amd-radeon-rx-480-crossfire-3dmark-performance

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