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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Calm your **** down u don't know no disguised swearing about this card and that is the only reality, rest is meaningless speculation which is actually 99 percent of this useless thread
 
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Question: if the perf is closer to 390 than 390x, and the price is £220+, is that still a great deal/ great card in your estimation?
 
D.P. said:
That is wishful thinking these are just placeholder prices, especially the lower prices, plus that process is legally dubious.

Gibbo may set prices according to AM but if AMD don't set regional prices then there isn't much he can do. It mostly comes down to what he can import them at, he certainly can't sell them at a loss.

It is clear from the 1070 and 1080 prices that the UK regional market is giving close to 1:1 exchange rate to the US when factoring in taxes, shipping, import costs and regional margin differences. 480 custom cards are known to be $250-300, there should be reference cards at $230.
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Not really. All i am saying is it's not likely we will be seeing stock cooled cards at £280-£300. I really don't think that's wishful thinking at all. You could be right about the $230/£230 but that's still nothing like Athlons £280-£300 post. Sure i think i am being a bit optimistic on the £200 side but it's more realistic than £280-£300 which is just not going to happen.

The 1070/80 sales are outstripping demand so i think that's adding to there price atm.
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
First we had the hype train, then the trainwreck, then a backpedalling by one, er, member, and now we have the Nvidia fanbois coming in like a pack of football hooligans streaming over the terraces of the opposing team hollering and looking for a punch-up.

You couldn't make it up.
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Lols, that pretty much sums it up for sure. So many folks forgetting that we all need competition within the Pc market for it to be better for the folks purchasing the tech.

The irony that fanbois don't understand the name of a product doesn't really mean anything, it's what you produce with it that counts. Although lets face it most of the fanboi's only play games or beat off to overwatch pornhub searches.

Still pretty set on getting an RX480 even though I've been buying team green for well over a decade.
 
Pulseammo said:
If I'm looking at the same "competitor" as OcUK then they certainly don't look like they do the volume that OcUK does... Gibbo has surely hinted retail price quite strongly with $229/1.41 * 1.2vat * 1.10 to 1.20 shipping and margin. I'm not sure why margin comes into the calculation, I'd have thought margin was implied by the MSRP unless AMD expects retailers to make no profit selling these cards?

So the hint by Gibbo is: £214 - £233 at retail and free shipping?

Edit: Oh Gibbo covered the MSRP and margin, apparently sometimes the manufacturer does expect the retailer to make a pittance.
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For the reference model of $229. But the custom cars will start at $250 and go up to at least $300., which is what we see for the custom XFX card on line.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Not really. All i am saying is it's not likely we will be seeing stock cooled cards at £280-£300. I really don't think that's wishful thinking at all. You could be right about the $230/£230 but that's still nothing like Athlons £280-£300 post. Sure i think i am being a bit optimistic on the £200 side but it's more realistic than £280-£300 which is just not going to happen.

The 1070/80 sales are outstripping demand so i think that's adding to there price atm.
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I never said the stock cooled reference cards would be 280, I was clearly talking about the custom cards that will retail for $250-300USD quite liekly being in the £270-290GBP range.

Athlon was talking about some more premium XFX models, or at one of them clearly was.
 
Well, if the 480 (and frankly the 1060 too) end up closer to £300 than £200, I'm done with PC gaming.

I mean, what's next? A 560 at £300? An 1150 at £350? It's just madness. We're all being taken for fools.
 
AllBodies said:
For 16nm, as I said.

Yes currently with the cards that both companies are producing the 1080/70 are top-end, but they are not within their whole family and/or for the life of the node.

A ~300mm2 card on any node is mid-range. It's just the strategy now is to bring out a mid-range card first, milk the profit margin, and then bring out the real high-end card later.
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What the hell does the tech (16nm) have to do with it? They are NOT mid range cards, and they are not mid-range price.
 
D.P. said:
I never said the stock cooled reference cards would be 280, I was clearly talking about the custom cards that will retail for $250-300USD quite liekly being in the £270-290GBP range.

Athlon was talking about some more premium XFX models, or at one of them clearly was.
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If they are priced that high you can bet they will be seriously fast or they won't sell.
 
FoxEye said:
Question: if the perf is closer to 390 than 390x, and the price is £220+, is that still a great deal/ great card in your estimation?
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at 5.8Tflops for the RX480@1266mhz, for it to be 390 performance then the architecture will have had to have gone backwards in terms of performance. its 5.1Tflops for the 390 at 1ghz.

The majority of the enhancements release in earlier slides are all performance enhancing.
 
faceman123 said:
This is why AMD is failing. The Vast Majority of these card sales are to ordinary people like me and you. The face remains the Same performance at the same price point three years in a row, Now if the card was £150 with 390x performance then it would be fine. It's absolutely unacceptable. Nvidia released the 970 which destroyed a 780Ti which was previously £500. Now I don't see AMD releasing the 480 which would beat their top card.
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The majority will be to system builders. Also we don't know the performance but it currently looks like it's faster for the money than it used to be so that's simply not true. 390X's are nowhere near sub-£200 which these certainly could be especially in 4GB guise (which is fine if it's 3 in a row you're claiming eh? :p)

AMD are bringing out a high-end card with Vega. The 480 is not that and never was or will be.
 
D.P. said:
I never said the stock cooled reference cards would be 280, I was clearly talking about the custom cards that will retail for $250-300USD quite liekly being in the £270-290GBP range.

Athlon was talking about some more premium XFX models, or at one of them clearly was.
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The Core Edition is one of the cheaper XFX lines - probably reference or the cheapest line.

Considering that Sapphire cards tend to cost more than XFX which is a cheaper brand(VTX3D probably is the cheapest),and the MRSP of the XFX RX480 as stated on AT forums is $250,it seems really weird that we have a £75 increase in the UK after VAT. For a Sapphire RX480 to be nearly £50 cheaper is even weirder and they are one of the pricer AMD AIBs.
 
If these cards are nearer £300 than £200, then quite frankly the joke is on AMD. I would rather spend £65 more and buy a cheap 1070.

I still hope this card will perform well enough to surprise us, and cost as close to £200 as possible to be affordable enough to be worth considering.

The wait for benchmarks is testing my patience! :)
 
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I think most people don't spend over £200 on a Graphics card outside of Techie sites

What are the Steam stats for cards used?

I think that's what AMD want- those people- The majority
 
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