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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

opethdisciple said:
I'm noticing a trend with both Nvidia and now AMD launches.

Multi GPU.

You got Nvidia recommending no more the two cards. Seemingly saying they are going to put all their efforts in to improving two card setups. You also got a new SLI bridge.

And now AMD are trying to say that two 480's are better than a 1080. Well with the state of multi GPU at the moment, that would be a very poor choice if you needed that sort of performance.
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THat's marketing for you. Their product can't match that of a single 1080 so "hey, just use two of them". The theory is good but in practice it'll have it's own issues although seems like 2 will be cheaper than 1 1080 so for those on a budget it's an option

D.P. said:
It could have gone down for any infinite number of reasons, shares are complex. The change could have been due to some additional financial forecast from.a 3rd party etc.
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It can also be because the market was expecting better, maybe for them to announce products to compete directly with Nvidia's latest offerings.
Over time things get priced into the market so when something is priced in which does not come to fruition then it gets priced out. This can be both positive and negative, ie, if the market expects bad results but the results come in better than expected , but still not good, then the price rises.
 
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have it dawned on anyone that perhaps they want to focus more on mGPUs? perhaps its in their pipeline of things to improve. So i would hold off with the doom and gloom speeches.
 
Phixsator said:
have it dawned on anyone that perhaps they want to focus more on mGPUs? perhaps its in their pipeline of things to improve. So i would hold off with the doom and gloom speeches.
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Okay bosss :D

Didn't think there was much doom and gloom here TBH - on the whole quite positive about the AMD budget range, other than the talk about the shareprice but 3% down is nothing and the share price swings up and down as they all do :). As the AMD shareprice has risen rapidly from its low point, staying anywhere above $3 is good for a while and $4.43 is way above that.
 
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Phixsator said:
have it dawned on anyone that perhaps they want to focus more on mGPUs? perhaps its in their pipeline of things to improve. So i would hold off with the doom and gloom speeches.
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Given their recent efforts and the fact that DX12 makes mGOU more complex you'd have to be a mug to invest in an AMD multi GPU setup currently.

I suspect AMD are hoping the VR market will blossom and mGPU will work better with with a one GPU rendering each eye.
 
they say it will be good for vr gaming, for the next three years, so its got to be better than a r9 290 or gtx 970 as they are the bare minimum for vr.
 
zakblood said:
the price is right, come on down, same speeds as the Radeon R9 390X, GeForce GTX 980, or air-cooled Radeon Fury.

and at a price too low to miss, pre ordering asap :)

£138.00, must be having a laugh, good bye 960, hello 480
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Not to say you shouldn't get the card but you might be a tad disappointed if you're expecting it for £138.
(Did you forget to factor in VAT?)
 
I am actually wondering if it's worth investing in some AMD shares right now. With this and Zen coming soon I can't see the share price going down really. Plus it wouldn't be massive amounts, just a small investment.

I am very impressed by the price. I am hoping it'll be above 390X performance and if not I can't help but feel I will be disappointed. I am also holding out for a version above this one that they "forgot" to mention.
 
AlamoX said:
like this :D ?

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Wow. Just wow. That is amazing.

And the best thing is that there's no solid reason why once it's working well (which it already appears to be), they couldn't start speeding it up to work faster. Amazing!

Thanks for sharing that! I had no idea my comment about grapes would lead to such an interesting response! Robots are great (even though they will eventually replace us).
 
Beren said:
Is the NDA holding or is there any more news out there about actual performance yet? As a budget gamer I am really excited about this card - I guess 4 weeks is hardly the end of the world but I want to know now!
Because this is firmly in my budget I am more excited about this launch than any in recent times, if I am at all representative of other gamers this could be a really strong marketing win for AMD - the whole marketing spotlight by them is on a card that the majority of people could target as one that will last them to the end of the 1080p era and potentially with CF be a very long lived build/upgrade for an affordable price.
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If it's going to be available to buy at the end of the month which AMD said it will be, then retailers are going to need to have them in their mitts by around two weeks from now I think (I'm sure Gibbo could correct me). Once they're in retailer's hands, there's a substantially increased chance of juicy leaks. Though you'll still have to wait until the end of the month for proper reviews, I would imagine.
 
Orangey said:
This combined with the fact they have given no real new info makes me wonder if Kyle was right and they are trying to slip out a lemon disguised as a lime.
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Just a graph showing roughly what the relative gaming performance like nvidia did with the 1080 and 1070 would be nice.

It would at least give us an idea. At the moment we don't know if its 390 performance or Fury performance.
 
andybird123 said:
So apparently the side by side screenshots of 480's beating a 1080 show up a possible problem;

http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/4...0-crossfire-rendering-differently-vs-gtx-1080
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From your link: "Even with procedural map generation taken into account, this is more than likely the result of applying different in-game settings"

Yeah, no. No-one is going to do that for a demonstration like this. As your article concedes, AotS uses a procedural terrain generation that can vary from run to run. There happens to be more snow in one run than the other. That's unfortunate but not evidence of AMD cheating and running the two benchmarks with different quality levels. Plus I highly doubt it makes a significant difference as others have pointed out. The fact that CF 2x480 can beat the 1080 at all with 51% utilization shows the card is pretty impressive. People crying conspiracy are just Fudding, imo.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
I am actually wondering if it's worth investing in some AMD shares right now. With this and Zen coming soon I can't see the share price going down really. Plus it wouldn't be massive amounts, just a small investment.
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You're too late. As DarrenM343 says the next year or two of products are already priced in. If you fancy AMDs prospects in whatever comes after Zen then maybe a good idea.
 
h4rm0ny said:
From your link: "Even with procedural map generation taken into account, this is more than likely the result of applying different in-game settings"

Yeah, no. No-one is going to do that for a demonstration like this. As your article concedes, AotS uses a procedural terrain generation that can vary from run to run. There happens to be more snow in one run than the other. That's unfortunate but not evidence of AMD cheating and running the two benchmarks with different quality levels. Plus I highly doubt it makes a significant difference as others have pointed out. The fact that CF 2x480 can beat the 1080 at all with 51% utilization shows the card is pretty impressive. People crying conspiracy are just Fudding, imo.
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That's just Fud spreading fud. We have official benchmarks from AotS and those show that 2xRX480 are about equal to a single GTX 1080 with the exact same settings.
 
Robi said:
2x RX 480 or 1x GTX 1070. That is now my dilemma.

Any advice?
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I will always add a lot of value to having the solution in a single card. I view CF / SLi as primarily a means for people to upgrade who already have one card and can't / wont spend a fortune to replace it with a single double-power card. So if the performance is roughly equal, I'd suggest the 1070.

That said, I personally would recommend holding on for the actual launch of Polaris because they might have other news and we might also find out more about when Vega is released. You don't want to be regretting buying a 1070 within five months of buying it.
 
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