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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
- Thread starter Kaapstad
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Point is it should really be compared to the card it's replacing and it's direct competition which is 380 and 1060. Those who bought 960 and 380 instead of 970 bought them for a reason. And that's what RX480 is targeting.
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some slide very interesting:
http://videocardz.com/61557/rajas-super-secret-cigar-stash
http://videocardz.com/61557/rajas-super-secret-cigar-stash
IF the 1060 launches in July at all i bet it will be the "not in the stores for months" edition like the 1070.
? 1070's are readily available.
as someone else said before, the rops might not be an issue, since AMD added a new feature called primitive discard accelerator
beside untill we see benchs with review drivers, we wont know if the 480 is any better, because chances are there is still performance to be squeezed out of these new features, like prim discard or color compression and other new stuff that older driver wont necessarily have them enabled.
so 12hours to go
oh and yea, looks like the 480 is going to be better at Gameworks titles
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Plenty of info,for people who actually read it:
1.)4 ACE design instead of the 8 ACE design in Hawaii
2.)Double the L2 cache
3.)First figures for the primitive discard accelerator
4.)It looks like the colour compression is 15% to 20% better than a Fury X
5.)Multi-viewport support
1.)4 ACE design instead of the 8 ACE design in Hawaii
2.)Double the L2 cache
3.)First figures for the primitive discard accelerator
4.)It looks like the colour compression is 15% to 20% better than a Fury X
5.)Multi-viewport support
Read my post, I never said that the 480 was entry level. AMD said Polaris was mainstream and entry level. There are Polaris 10 and 11 cards.
And I think you will need to check your figures, on average the 660 was 10-15% slower than the 580 as far as I can remember. The 660ti was a bit faster than the 580 but that was based on the GK104 chip. And even if we take your word and it did match the performance, that's all, it just matched it, didn't beat it. And that's the high end of the market. At the low the end the gains aren't so large after a die shrink.
a 980 is what? 50% faster than a 380x? hmm I still think people are expecting a lot at mainstream end of the market where margins are tight, for a 380x replacement to be over 50% faster and still launch at the same price.
So in less than a month this thread is on the verge of having more views than the over 1 year old 980Ti owners thread.
I think this is the most interesting part. AMD have managed to drum up a huge amount of speculation around this card which is essentially a 380x replacement. By rights, this release should have been very 'meh' with all eyes on the 1080. Amazing really. Looking forward to 2pm tomorrow so this can be put to bed at last.
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After this week it'll soon be about £269!
All I will say is I benched a 390X Strix OC in Ashes Singularity DX12, I then benched the RX 480 at stock, 1fps difference.
So yes in DX12 it is powerful and will improve.
Wait for the reviews tomorrow with game benchmarks.
Interesting, that sounds pretty good actually. You said earlier that these were great cards and would sell really well.
And now this statement.
I am hope that this means that it will be pushing 390x performance levels. That will be good enough for me. A small but significant upgrade over my 290, and after I sell my 290 and pretty cheap upgrade too.