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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

fs123 said:
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.
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TheRealDeal said:
Maybe you should go tell Wizzard he's doing it wrong then as you have the 980ti at 40% faster and he has it at 20%. That's a massive difference.
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Not my fault if they don't know a CPU bottleneck if it hits them over the head.

Here are a single watercooled 980 v an air cooled 980 Ti.

I just used the out of the box clockspeeds but they can both overclock by about the same amount.

I did not even bother to change the default fan profile on the 980 Ti.

This should only be used as a rough guide but it backs up what I said about performance difference.

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http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/8881869/fs/8881704#
 
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Sorry to burst bubbles guys but I hold 980Ti in a very high regard. Maxwell was and is incredible.

Do some of you realise how powerful and truly fast 980Ti is? How overclockable they are?

980Ti absolutely batters a 980, then it overclocks like an absolute banshee on top of that, they rape a 980 and even beat Titan X in games.

Even the 1070 struggles against an overclocked 980Ti, its a very good card. If some of you were genuinely expecting AMD's mid-range part to compete with NVIDIA's flagship at half the price then your deluded.

Maybe just maybe in some chosen games a highly overclocked RX-480 might get close to a bone stock reference 980Ti, but never beat it and once a 980Ti is overclocked its bye bye as they overclock like demons.


If RX-480 performs around 980 with twice the VRAM, less power usage at a much lower price I think AMD have a great card on their hands. :)
 
I'm surprised everyone assumes Gibbo is
a) right and
b) talking about the aftermarket cards.

He'll probably not have seen an aftermarket card yet and he's a very good salesman but does he know what it can or can't do? On air, water & LN2, reference design or otherwise, with drivers that probably are just making their way to reviewers and can probably gain further as the weeks go by?

(Edit: Not having a go Gibbo and I think you're right about what people should expect... it's just kinda funny that you're assumed to be the all-knowing oracle :p)

Having said that it doesn't need to hit 980Ti speeds to be good, especially in the cheapest format. For those who'd have been aiming at a 960 previously it sounds a huge step up for similar money - sure 8GB and a sweet aftermarket cooler giving higher overclocks would be nice but I don't think that's where this card excels personally, it's what it can do at the bottom end. $200 is a heck of a lot cheaper than $300!
 
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Seanspeed said:
You're probably right.

But I also think it'd be awful to see the card being trashed because many in here were hyping it up to be something it doesn't turn out to be, creating disappointment and also an invitation for any haters to come in and act like smug class acts.

It can still be a good card at a good price without it being knock-your-socks-off good like some here are expecting.
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And I just said this this morning. ^
 
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fs123 said:
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.
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If the RX480 = 390X (or just above), then where does that leave the RX470? If its 380X performance for similar money then that doesn't sound great.
 
Gibbo said:
If RX-480 performs around 980 with twice the VRAM, less power usage at a much lower price I think AMD have a great card on their hands. :)
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So is that stock 480 or overclocked ?:p

980 level + overclocking should get to Fury Pro level at least. Nice.
Once the extreme AIB versions come out then we can get serious :).
 
Somebody ninja edited a response to me. Something about someone doing the benchmarks wrong? Please reiterate.

Also Gibbo, you say if it performs like a 980 but you have one so you know by now surely. That just seemed a little clouded.
 
Lokken86 said:
Somebody ninja edited a response to me. Something about someone doing the benchmarks wrong? Please reiterate.

Also Gibbo, you say if it performs like a 980 but you have one so you know by now surely. That just seemed a little clouded.
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NDA, I am not going to post any results or release figures. So clouded is the best you will get.

But I was shocked some people seem to think this is a 980Ti or Titan X performing part, has no one looked at all the sites showing 390-390X performance and around 980 levels? They are all out there, I am just confused why all of a sudden some are touting it as a 980Ti performer.

Those thinking 980Ti levels need a reality check, the 980Ti is hugely powerful I'd be very surprised if an RX-480 could match a reference 980Ti, let alone an OC one as they overclock incredibly well.
 
Gibbo said:
NDA, I am not going to post any results or release figures. So clouded is the best you will get.

But I was shocked some people seem to think this is a 980Ti or Titan X performing part, has no one looked at all the sites showing 390-390X performance and around 980 levels? They are all out there, I am just confused why all of a sudden some are touting it as a 980Ti performer.

Those thinking 980Ti levels need a reality check, the 980Ti is hugely powerful I'd be very surprised if an RX-480 could match a reference 980Ti, let alone an OC one as they overclock incredibly well.
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Perhaps some people are thinking about compute alone - on that it should match a stock 980Ti or thereabouts, though it remains to be seen how effective the card is at delivering that power in games, given the 290X also matches a 980Ti in that regard.
 
Gibbo said:
NDA, I am not going to post any results or release figures. So clouded is the best you will get.

But I was shocked some people seem to think this is a 980Ti or Titan X performing part, has no one looked at all the sites showing 390-390X performance and around 980 levels? They are all out there, I am just confused why all of a sudden some are touting it as a 980Ti performer.

Those thinking 980Ti levels need a reality check, the 980Ti is hugely powerful I'd be very surprised if an RX-480 could match a reference 980Ti, let alone an OC one as they overclock incredibly well.
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Does that include DX12?
 
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