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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Jono8 said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ess-graphics-card-80nsj6dhk5vk-gx-087-kf.html

You're odd.

It is also actually much more fair to base it on US MSRP as we don't know how the RX480 will be gouged at on release (like the 1080 has).
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Please don't get personal with me. I have just acknowledged it's the first I have seen.

Actually I have read that AMD may have tweeted the price to be £160 in the UK??

If so its even more evidence of AMD's great deal.
Why are you in an AMD thread defending Nvidia GPU pricing? Im pretty sure most people have stated the 1080 price is waay to high before we even knew of the 480 price.

I'm sure there are more appropriate threads for that.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Ok even if you compare it to the £525 card (which i am guessing most people will buy to use under water looking at the design of it) even if the 480 is £200 then you are still £125 better off.

If the card they showed was the 4GB variant (dunno what version it was?) and they are infact £160 each, you are actually £205 better off, enough to buy a 3rd 480 and still have enough cash for a Pizza and some beers hahaha.

Fact is, the AMD pricing of the 480 is insanely good.
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It is good, but comparing xfire 480 to a 1080 is kind of strange. Even if it gets close to performance in some games there will be many where it doesn't get close at all, and all the usual multi-GPU problems.

Comparing it to a 1070 the price performance looks very different. Crossfire 480 will be similar performance to the 470 much of the time,moccasin ally faster but will cost $460 vs $380. Personally I would buy the 1070 even if meant in a few games with great scaling it was a little slower.
 
Ferrari100 said:
Please don't get personal with me. I have just acknowledged it's the first I have seen.

Actually I have read that AMD may have tweeted the price to be £160 in the UK??

If so its even more evidence of AMD's great deal.
Why are you in an AMD thread defending Nvidia?
I'm sure there are more appropriate threads for that.
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Who says I am defending Nvidia? I am defending the truth (sounds well noble that doesn't it). The 1080 is stupidly priced , but all I am saying is I would still rather pay the £115 extra and have a 1080 than xfire RX480's (if they do indeed perform similarly).

Bias helps no one to make the correct decision on what GPU to buy.
 
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Jono8 said:
So what? The cheapest is £525 ($599) which is what we are comparing it with (as the RX480 will START at $199 (4gb) and $229 (8gb)).

:confused:

The bias is strong here.
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If you're going to slobber on about 'start' prices then you should look at the founders price, which is what the 1080 'started' at.
Either way, until we see actual benches this is all speculation, hopeful speculation, as it would be nice to see a card costing 1/3rd the price, that delivers 1/2 the performance. Good for the market in general, and good for gamers. I'd be looking to upgrade my and my wife's rigs at that amount.
 
Ferrari100 said:
Please don't get personal with me. I have just acknowledged it's the first I have seen.
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You may want to practice what you preach. You are the one getting really narky at people for showing up your assumptions and bias, its hardly surprising when they reply to you in the same tone you set as the precedent.
 
with crossfire some may need a bigger psu.

it will be interesting to see the crossfire power usage.psu needed.

if you want to be anal you could factor in the 2 card usage electric bill vs one 1080.

:p
 
Jono8 said:
So what? The cheapest is £525 ($599) which is what we are comparing it with (as the RX480 will START at $199 (4gb) and $229 (8gb)).

:confused:

The bias is strong here.
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you do realize that out of like 30 models Only One is at 525£, and it's a blower from galax with that aweful clown, that 1 model is there to give the illusion of starting price, while being out of stock most of the time, average 1080 with OK coolers to get rid of reference trottle is about 580£, the average for good custom coolers for overclocking is about 650£, the MSRP price is just PR for this line up from nvidia, and the founder edition pricing is the average price, because nvidia isn't going for perf/$.
AMD on the other hand, their whole strategy for polaris is contingent on it's price, and you wont see models stray away for more than 10-20£ from the MSRP 160-190£, not 50-150£ of the 1080.
 
AlamoX said:
you do realize that out of like 30 models Only One is at 525£, and it's a blower from galax with that aweful clown, that 1 model is there to give the illusion of starting price, while being out of stock most of the time, average 1080 with OK coolers to get rid of reference trottle is about 580£, the average for good custom coolers for overclocking is about 650£, the MSRP price is just PR for this line up from nvidia, and the founder edition pricing is the average price, because nvidia isn't going for perf/$.
AMD on the other hand, their whole strategy for polaris is contingent on it's price, and you wont see models stray away for more than 10-20£, not 50-150£
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No, the 1080 starts at £525 / $599, and was available to buy from release. This is a fact. I can't even believe this is being argued :confused:

AlamoX said:
and you wont see models stray away for more than 10-20£ from the MSRP 160-190£, not 50-150£ of the 1080.
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Do you even do percentages bro? :p
 
~>Dg<~ said:
with crossfire some may need a bigger psu.

it will be interesting to see the crossfire power usage.psu needed.

if you want to be anal you could factor in the 2 card usage electric bill vs one 1080.

:p
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that's the point most wont, a 500watt PSU which is like the minimum for most gamer, should be able to run crossfire 480, with only 2x6 pin needed.
150watt is the maximum theoretical draw of the card, the typical use should be between 200-250watt in crossfire.
 
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