Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Lokken86 · 28 Jun 2016 at 12:58

Toss3 said:
Gtx 980 is also more expensive.

True but we are hoping for as much price/performance over the 980 as possible for it not to be just another card.

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2016 at 12:59

Radeon Wattman said:
I thought that the official drivers for the card have not been released, so the NDA isn't broken. Wouldn't we be likely to see better results with the drivers set for release?

Official drivers vs beta, probably not much difference. Not gona magically alter a benchmark from say 480 matching a 970 to matching a 980 is it. I mean its amd for christ sakes, they arnt that good with drivers are they and from what i hear arnt good at releasing day 1 drivers like nvidia are. Besides all reviews will be using the drivers that were given to them a week or so ago. All reviews are probably finalized now ready to just upload and hit the live button.

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:01

Ayahuasca said:
He said he would't change pricing until it goes above 1.35

Hmm yeah i forgot about that. Ah well those who buy will buy at £220 then i guess.

Lokken86 · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:01

SkeeterUK said:
Official drivers vs beta, probably not much difference. Not gona magically alter a benchmark from say 480 matching a 970 to matching a 980 is it. I mean its amd for christ sakes, they arnt that good with drivers are they and from what i hear arnt good at releasing day 1 drivers like nvidia are. Besides all reviews will be using the drivers that were given to them a week or so ago. All reviews are probably finalized now ready to just upload and hit the live button.

NVIDIA haven't been that great at day 1 drivers right now either.

humbug · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:02

MSTRBKR said:
No, it will get worse. There's no sign of us giving the article 50 notification. There is no plan. It's going to get worse and worse until terms are agreed.

You know why, if Dave doesn't push the article 50 button it becomes a constitutional problem, thats why he resigned, he can't stay refusing to push it so he complicates it.

To these guys the EU is bigger than themselves, Britain and leave voters.

Migration, laws and regs... nothing will change, they will negotiate some half way in half way out calamity that lumbers us with the same crap because they want to remain in the single market.

Anyway, thats the last thing i'm saying on it.

LoadsaMoney · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:02

so 1060 coming in July, week or so after this, so the TAM not all for you, and no taking marketshare back, told you you shouldn't have been ******* about for months and months just showing the odd benchmark, instead of just releasing the thing, ahh well......

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:03

Lokken86 said:
NVIDIA haven't been that great at day 1 drivers right now either.

True i dont recall specific drivers during launches tho i think they have had drivers out then but they are generally good with day 1 game drivers compared to amd afaik. Hmm now i have to think did nvidia have drivers out day 1 when 1080 etc came out. As last time i think i noticed was when one of the 9xx range came out.

Phixsator · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:09

SkeeterUK said:
Official drivers vs beta, probably not much difference. Not gona magically alter a benchmark from say 480 matching a 970 to matching a 980 is it. I mean its amd for christ sakes, they arnt that good with drivers are they and from what i hear arnt good at releasing day 1 drivers like nvidia are. Besides all reviews will be using the drivers that were given to them a week or so ago. All reviews are probably finalized now ready to just upload and hit the live button.

Gonna burst your bubble champ.. nvidia hasn't been that great with drivers either and unlike most of the rubble here who repeat whatever they hear without thinking twice i actually owned a 980 ti for the last year and have also been on a r9 290 while waiting for my current 1070 so i would think what i say have at least some basis in reality.

You know the first thing i had to do when i got my 1070 after downloading the latest WHQL drivers for the card? downloader another set of hotfix drivers because my desktop would flicker all crazy all the time.

DHR · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:10

SkeeterUK said:
Hmm yeah i forgot about that. Ah well those who buy will buy at £220 then i guess.

Probably out, £20 cheaper and I would have been all over it.

karik666 · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:11

Hardware unboxed has tested the 480 in 23 games,including cf 480,cant wait to see his review,should be on youtube after 2pm tommorow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4LQMeJleE

brigantium · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:12

The £ staying down for a long period of time was a guaranteed consequence of the Brexit, I wish going back to 1.3-1.35€ was possible

(I know you're measuring vs $).

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:12

Phixsator said:
Gonna burst your bubble champ.. nvidia hasn't been that great with drivers either and unlike most of the rubble here who repeat whatever they hear without thinking twice i actually owned a 980 ti for the last year and have also been on a r9 290 while waiting for my current 1070 so i would think what i say have at least some basis in reality.

You know the first thing i had to do when i got my 1070 after downloading the latest WHQL drivers for the card? downloader another set of hotfix drivers because my desktop would flicker all crazy all the time.

Ah ok.

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:13

http://techfrag.com/2016/06/28/xfx-rx-480-black-edition-over-clocked/

Wonder if ocuk are getting these slightly oc cards in on day 1. If so it will be interesting to see what price they will be from the stock mhz ones will be.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:14

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160627PD207.html

Seeing that AMD is ready to release its new Polaris-based Radeon RX 480 graphics card soon and company vice president Raja Koduri steadily managing the Radeon graphics technology business, Nvidia has decided to start selling its GeForce GTX 1060 products, which were originally set to launch in August, in the near future to defend from the competition. With the competition between the next-generation graphics cards shifting forward, graphics card players have turned to focus on preparing for new products.

AMD is ready to release its Radeon RX 480 priced at US$199 on June 29.

Meanwhile, AMD's FreeSync technology has also seen increased adoption by graphics card players recently, relatively raising AMD's share in worldwide PC discrete graphics card market to close to 30% in the first quarter.

With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.

Since channels still have many GeForce GTX 960/950 graphics card inventory, Nvidia's sudden change of plans also forced graphics card players to turn to focus on new products instead of clearing inventory.

GTX1060 paper launch ahead!!

brigantium · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:18

http://techfrag.com/2016/06/28/xfx-rx-480-black-edition-over-clocked/

Damn!, only reference cards tomorrow.

AlamoX · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:19

LoadsaMoney said:
so 1060 coming in July, week or so after this, so the TAM not all for you, and no taking marketshare back, told you you shouldn't have been ******* about for months and months just showing the odd benchmark, instead of just releasing the thing, ahh well......

lol where did you get that from ? a picture ? fortune cookie ?

faceman123 · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:22

DHR said:
Probably out, £20 cheaper and I would have been all over it.

two of my friends said the exact same thing lol, Guess that £20 makes a big difference

Lokken86 · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:23

brigantium said:
http://techfrag.com/2016/06/28/xfx-rx-480-black-edition-over-clocked/

Damn!, only reference cards tomorrow.

I like reference. As long as they don't sell them as ' founders ' or some nonsense. They are cheaper and sometimes have a lot of overclocking potential.

XeNoNF50 · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:24

SkeeterUK said:
Yeah, screw the launch prices to compare to. At the end of the day the people who buy will just look at whats the best power for cheapest price. If this 480 is £215-220 for 8gb but theres a 970 for £209 and whilst it is older and less vram it still is what the 480 is looking to basically compete with so id say people would go for the 970. Or they might grab a 390x for 260 ish as thats more 980 speeds for just £30 more. True it might be a bit more power hungry and hotter but not many will care about those things.

The thing is, we have all seen the Nvidia launch. So the 1080 and 1070 came in perhaps at higher prices than the 980 and 970 did, but because of the process change they both beat the very best card out there (the ones they are competing with at the moment) and pushed prices of all of the older cards down.

I think the disappointment would be if AMD cannot do the same with the RX 480 with the mid range. Simply providing an alternative to the cards the same current price range which the new Nvidia cards pushed them down to serves to dilute the market rather than replace the market. This is why I think most of us are hoping for 390X/980 levels of performance in this card.

drunkenmaster · 28 Jun 2016 at 13:24

Phixsator said:
Gonna burst your bubble champ.. nvidia hasn't been that great with drivers either and unlike most of the rubble here who repeat whatever they hear without thinking twice i actually owned a 980 ti for the last year and have also been on a r9 290 while waiting for my current 1070 so i would think what i say have at least some basis in reality.

You know the first thing i had to do when i got my 1070 after downloading the latest WHQL drivers for the card? downloader another set of hotfix drivers because my desktop would flicker all crazy all the time.

People keep talking about Day 1 drivers as if one, games can't possibly work well with older drivers and two, day 1 drivers are perfect and fix all problems. Neither is remotely true yet somehow I see on every forum talk about how Nvidia always has a driver ready for a game release.... that half of them are worse than previous drivers doesn't seem to matter. Having a driver for a specific game seems to matter more to people than the driver actually being good. The previous months drivers working great for the game and the day 1 drivers causing crashing apparently doesn't matter, having day 1 drivers is the only thing that matters.

Ignoring sli/xfire which has been a joke for the past 12-18 months. Witcher 3 worked flawlessly on my 290 on 6 month old drivers, Nvidia released a day 1 driver, everyone complained AMD didn't have a day one driver.

Nvidia also released a day 2 driver, a day 3, a day 4.... and a day 7-8 driver that finally fixed stability issues introduced in that day 1 driver. But AMD drivers suck because they didn't have a Witcher 3 driver available as early as Nvidia... that it was bad for a silly number of people didn't matter.

AMD released maybe a day 2-3 driver which still sucked for xfire, was still great for single card and improved performance.

Day 1 drivers became a marketing tool to somehow hit AMD with despite no real benefit of day 1 drivers for users. They are effectively rushed drivers where first to release regardless of numbers of problems they introduce has become the most important.