Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

[eNe]

Who is the girl and does it come with reference models.

I wonder about the shipping cost of that... Unless it's dragon mail...

 

[Scougar]

There was talk of AMD not being able to get the clocks up on these GPU's.

Where was this?

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

Hi there

I wonder whats under the tarp or otherwise known as cloth!

Never mind the 480 I want what she is selling.

Would love to overclock that thing.

 

[Orangey]

I think it means AMD is blocking over 1400 OCs via their own tool to limit noobs ability to blow up their card.

Which would mean Afterburner etc for proper OCing. So you'll be waiting for unwinder to get his card from MSI again...

 

[humbug]

Where was this?

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/polaris-validation-failed-might-launch-in-october-now.html

not that ^^^^ dramatic but it does make one wonder, Nvidia are pushing 2Ghz, can't these get anywhere near that, if not why not?

 

[Undesirable]

Is it the mythical Radeon Wattman?

 

[Sacrifice]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/polaris-validation-failed-might-launch-in-october-now.html

not that ^^^^ dramatic but it does make one wonder, Nvidia are pushing 2Ghz, can't these get anywhere near that, if not why not?

Because they were targeting power efficiency with polaris.

 

[humbug]

Because they were targeting power efficiency with polaris.

So AIB cards with higher board power should overclock much higher than <1400Mhz

 

[SimBy]

So AIB cards with higher board power should overclock much higher than <1400Mhz

I think FinFET is a dud when it comes to overclocking. You need high leakage to OC good right? The whole point of FinFET is low leakage.

 

[humbug]

I'm talking about the clock rates, not so much overclocking, Pascal don't overclock well either but they are running at <2Ghz

 

[HarryBizzle]

I want a non ref cooler, I think, but I'm a sucker for a nice backplate.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Its weird that no leaked gpuz images showed what the 480s asic quality was.

 

[harney]

According to Japanese site TotalSuperPCGamingFuntime.com The Rx480 fails to beat a Rx470 in Horrace goes skiing.

Yes very disappointed in the same article the RX460 wins over the 480 in Defender of the Crown

 

[harney]

Not yet posted. They are currently waiting for lunar Jetman to benchmark. Then they'll rewind the tape and try frogger.

 

[Gregster]

Hi there

I wonder whats under the tarp or otherwise known as cloth!

Ban me now

 

[SkeeterUK]

Greg you didnt put Lisa (amd ceo) face on that.

 

[SimBy]

My eyes!!!

 

[D.P.]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/polaris-validation-failed-might-launch-in-october-now.html

not that ^^^^ dramatic but it does make one wonder, Nvidia are pushing 2Ghz, can't these get anywhere near that, if not why not?

They aren't designed to. Nvidia purposely designed Pascal to clock high by doing a thorough critical path optimization. Nvidia have officially said they gained hundred of Mhz from doing that. So around half the performance increase comes form the new node and half comes form optimization the Maxwell architecture for higher clock speeds.

AMD didn't, they put their resources in to other things like getting their front-end up to scratch


they will never clock to the same degree, by design.

 

[Gibbo]

Ban me now

Be careful because I actually might ban you now!

 

[Fishbait]

Hi there

Well $239 / 1.45 = £165 x 20% VAT = just shy of £200, yes the plan was to hit £199 with 8G !!! NO CHANCE NOW!

But now $239 / 1.31 = £182 x 20% VAT = near as dammit £220.


£20 increase on such a low price part because we left EU, on cards such as 1080 the price increase is simply too saddening.

Come on UK, sort it out, get the pound back upto at least 1.40 your ruining the economy!

Things could get pricier if Osborne has his way.