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Polaris Hype Ship at 2:47! (damn youtube link on here don't regard the time stamp 
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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Greg I've been saying from the beginning 480 at stock speeds should be 980 possibly + in DX 11 speeds and DX 12 between nano and fury......and will get better with driver releases....
Where it OC too is the big unknown where it will land after that. Sapphire has confirmed 1500mhz ......but how it performs there and cooling with ref coolers is all stuff we still don't know......along with where aftermarket cards will hit with OC and extra power.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5amDuBHloqk
Here is some Overwatch gameplay with a FPS counter & stats.
Not sure how much good it is though using such a low demanding game.
Here is some Overwatch gameplay with a FPS counter & stats.
Not sure how much good it is though using such a low demanding game.
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Unless you wanted to make the leakers look like idiots, and only your sanctioned press getting the correct results.
Looks like its performing as expected, 100 FPS in 1080p. Now if that was 1440p + that would be interesting
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He also says in the comments that he has 'dodgy' drivers. so he more than likely was not running 16.6.2 drivers which have the polaris features enabled.
edit- looking to the end of the video he also had most settings on ultra, just render scale on high so 100% scaling.
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the guy that put the video up even said; he had dodgy drivers LOL
Isn't the whole idea that everyone under NDA are sanctioned press, just that the leakers (providing they aren't fake) manage to get the info/cards anyway through whatever sneaky means they do?
I think the leakers will get the best drivers when the 'sanctioned press' do, so it's all a matter of timing.
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Heres hoping that the performance increases. I want to get two for Crossfire as my single 290x is like a storage heater. I would have gone NV but I have a freesync and couldnt do without it now
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nevermind someone beat me to it
We've seen people do dodgy stuff (like the guy who swapped coolers because he thought it was a NDA loophole). Those that do leak and aren't under NDA get the wrong results and become less believable in the future. It's all about control of information, and making sure that anyone untrustworthy gets smoked out and blacklisted for the next event.
It really wouldn't surprise me to find AMD want people to say performance is better than expectations at launch, rather than worse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933LBq34y8I
Notice the card he takes out is the 1070 and then replaces it with the 480.
choo choo
Notice the card he takes out is the 1070 and then replaces it with the 480.
choo choo
Soldato
Hard to say what Frame rates this was running at, and if this was indeed 4K
It looks very smooth though even speeded up.
Soldato
Carta...as a crossfire user I would advise you not to bother. Its as bad as its ever been right now, scaling and driver support for new games is pretty much non existent. Yes it's amazing when you get a decent profile which in fairness the older games have now, it's amazing for benchmarking, but you end up waiting so long for a crossfire driver when buying a new released game these days. Save your pennies and wait for single big daddy Vega.
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Don't say that as I'm in the same 290x to possible 480 crossfire carriage true (I assume we continue with the train analogies right?)
well if thats 100 fps at 1080 thats not good. i have a overclocked 970 which gets avg 120 fps solid on overwatch
as with anything lets take with huge tablespoons of salt until actual benchmarks appear.
Think thats the best route?
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I am looking forward to it. Not sure what testing methodology I will be using as of yet but will see how it does at 1440P and 1080P and go from there. I might have to use 1080P for recording, as I had a PITA time with Raptr and trying to record the Afterburner overlay with my Fury X but my Avermedia capture card had no problems but restricted to 1080P sadly
I am a bit of a wind up merchant at work, so I doubt there is anything you can come up with that I haven't already been called
With the amount of money you spend on graphics cards why don't you just buy a 4k blackmagic device. I use them for my studio. They are cheap for studio stuff, but a little expensive for hobby gaming, but seeing as you spend so much and like to make these videos, then why not?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-blackmagic-video-assist-review
They have just released the 4K version of the above.
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yeh the gibbo post was pretty good, it was not what people wanted to hear but it was a bit like being cruel to be kind, I think unrealistic expectations would only do the 480 more harm than good.
anyways I'm already looking forward to the Hitler rant videos on the 29th, if they are at the expense of NVidia or amd they still make me laugh