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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Jono8 said:
A. It has a 180w TDP. At stock I very much doubt it goes over that.

B. Since when has a blower not been able to cool a 180w TDP adequately? We have had 275W TDP cards released with crappy blowers in the past.

The 1080 starts at $599 or £525 here at the moment. Arguing otherwise is just silly.

I would also be willing to bet the lowest price 1080 cards will drop closer to the £500 mark in general, once stock become abundant/by the time the 480X release is in full swing as ~£500 is what the dollar MSRP price + VAT should be.
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You might want to rethink what you have said.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,review-33557-10.html

The average maybe 173w but the 1080 can pull well over 180w when needed. 311w Max was measured at stock and 392w overclocked.
 
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Jono8 said:
lol. You might want to delete this post. Save you the embarrassment.
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Lol explain to me why. It quite clearly goes over 180w. TDP is only a guide to what it can cool and not a guide to how much watts a card is going to use.

Would you pay £525 for a card with a stock blower. It's not capable as it is worse than the FE which is just about up to the job. This was the original point and i said it pulled over 180w. I was right.

There is a reason you don't see the awful 290x blower these days and why it was not on the 390x. Although it may be a better cooler than what's on the £525 1080x which is the cheapest looking piece of crap i have ever seen on an NV card.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
You might want to rethink what you have said.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,review-33557-10.html
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Jono said at stock, that Tom's Hardware article says 'Spikes above 300W are a thing of the past. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 barely has any...Bottom Line:
The 180W boundary is never crossed without overclocking. In fact, exceeding it would be impossible according to the engineers we asked. We repeatedly double-checked our results using different intervals, and the only measurement that gave us somewhat higher readings was 10ms interval (likely due to the measurement being less accurate).''
 
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TheRealDeal said:
Lol explain to me why. It quite clearly goes over 180w. TDP is only a guide to what it can cool and not a guide to how much watts a card is going to use.

Would you pay £525 for a card with a stock blower. It's not capable as it is worse than the FE which is just about up to the job. This was the original point and i said it pulled over 180w. I was right.
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Irrelevant. The 290x/390X pulls nearly 500w yet you could get blower style cooler versions of those (or at least the 290x you could).

Stop digging a hole for yourself.
 
Jono8 said:
Irrelevant. The 290x/390X pulls nearly 500w yet you could get blower style cooler versions of those (or at leas the 290x you could)
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It was a pure failure of a cooler. The FE is not great and it's £100 more. The cheaper cooler does not have a vapor chamber from what i have heard.

Lol digging i am stating what i see.
 
Xfire is dead.

Just because AMD haven't made it official yet don't be fooled. They never "officially" killed Mantle off either. I wouldn't build any more mGPU setups until there is a new tech which works better.
 
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Jono8 said:
So how did a "crappy reference blower" cool what you would deem a 500watt card then?
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It never cooled it and the gpu throttled. It ran at 95oc. If that's what you call cooling then good for you. If you wanted to avoid throttling you had to put some ear plugs in to cancel out the noise due to high rpm.

If i was paying £525 for a graphics card i would not be looking at a blower end of story and not one that's as cheap and nasty as what is on the £525 card.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
The average is never above 180W. Look at the max power and you will see 311w in there table. There is an easy read graph there as well.
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the 300watt spike is of the 980, the graph is a bit confusing, because it doesnt specify which card, the 1080 is at 176watt, it trottles down clock to stay under 180watt, and gets to 224watt when overclocked.
 
AlamoX said:
the 300watt spike is of the 980, the graph is a bit confusing, because it doesnt specify which card, the 1080 is at 176watt, it trottles down clock to stay under 180watt, and gets to 224watt when overclocked.
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No there is 2 graphs one with the 1080 and the other with a gtx980. They are both running metro at 4k. Then there is a table with results which is only the 1080. You can see the green spike right at the start of the 1080 getting over 300w. It happens once but it happens. It does hit the high 200's a lot. The gtx980 on the other hand goes well past the mid 300's.

The chart below these graph's is just 1080 numbers.
 
TheRealDeal said:
If i was paying £525 for a graphics card i would not be looking at a blower end of story and not one that's as cheap and nasty as what is on the £525 card.
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Good for you :confused:

That still doesn't retract from the point that the fairest comparison between RX480's and the 1080 right now is to compare the cheapest for the cheapest (after all, the RX480 only has a crappy plastic blower on it as well), which is my whole point.

Whether the KFA 2 or MSI blower is any good or not is irrelevant.
 
Spamming and trolling everywhere, some completely off topic.
:-(

At least this proves that so far AMD has done a great job with the RX480.

Lets hope they made plenty so we can all get one, or two, on release day.
:-)
 
Ferrari100 said:
Spamming and trolling everywhere, some completely off topic.
:-(

At least this proves that so far AMD has done a great job with the RX480.

Lets hope they made plenty so we can all get one, or two, on release day.
:-)
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Hilarious, from the poster who started it with completely out of whack price comparisons :p
 
Jono8 said:
Good for you :confused:

That still doesn't retract from the point that the fairest comparison between RX480's and the 1080 right now is to compare the cheapest for the cheapest (after all, the RX480 only has a crappy plastic blower on it as well), which is my whole point.

Whether the KFA 2 or MSI blower is any good or not is irrelevant.
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Lets compare Nvidia reference to 480 reference.
 
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