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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

PhoenixUK said:
Another thing that many people seem to miss - those graphs make it look like the difference is massive but when you look at the numbers we see in some cases 40vs 45fps vs a 980. 100vs 110fps. 64vs 60fps. In reality you won't even notice the difference. If game is unplayable on a 980 or 970, it will be just as unplayable on a 480 tbh. We're talking 5-10% across the chart.
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I stopped using graphs like these for understanding GPU performance. They don't tell the full picture.
Digital Foundry results will be live soon much better, then looking at x amount
 
where are all the people who said this card will lower the 1080, 1070 price? & also said 980ti will be sub 200 lmao nice dream though.

970 is faster and is cheaper has better support and more software features and runs cooler
 
Sacrifice said:
Not really salty. Look at my specs. I don't know why anyone with a 290-980 would have been considering this card in the first place. never hyped about it, had nothing invested in it being good or bad.

Of course it's fine to see a product stack, but people need to keep in mind something. This is a reference card designed to be cheap with a cheap cooling solution. Wow it doesn't beat an AIB 970? People were acting like it was beat by a 970 for less/equal price. That is not the case in this review. Just pointing something out. :)

EDIT: I mean look at the clocks on the EXOC- 1500 Mhz!
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EXOC actually has a base clock of 1165Mhz and a boost clock of 1317Mhz. So yea, this isn't some monster 970 or anything. It can probably do 1400-1500Mhz quite easily.

And it's really not unreasonable to have wanted better from the 480 if this review is accurate. This is the first node jump in years and it's also using an upgrade GCN architecture. An example I used before - a GTX660(214nm^) matched a GTX580(520nm^) when it came out. It was a very big jump and dramatically improved the price/performance ratio in the mainstream bracket.
 
harney said:
:D

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YAS!!!! :D
 
Just wait for more benchmarks, we will see how it performs officially in less than 2 hours.

It's in everyone's interest that it's good though. At the very least if it's good then it'll force prices of other cards down so I don't get why anyone would will it to be bad or laugh if it is.
 
Seanspeed said:
EXOC actually has a base clock of 1165Mhz and a boost clock of 1317Mhz. So yea, this isn't some monster 970 or anything. It can probably do 1400-1500Mhz quite easily.

And it's really not unreasonable to have wanted better from the 480 if this review is accurate. This is the first node jump in years and it's also using an upgrade GCN architecture. An example I used before - a GTX660(214nm^) matched a GTX580(520nm^) when it came out. It was a very big jump and dramatically improved the price/performance ratio in the mainstream bracket.
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Unfortunately for both Nvidia and AMD- we've been stuck at 28nm for so long that these cards with similar performance are now a lot cheaper than they would have been had the 390 not been a rebrand.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
While Nvidia put on amazing coolers that can handle overclocks well as standard? Oh wait.
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Well reference 1070/1080's are managing 2000Mhz+ still. 3rd party cards only getting like 50-100Mhz more. So I'd say it is a fair bit better, yes. The ref 480 looks like it is clocked closer to its limits than the ref 1070/1080.
 
FoxEye said:
lol, AMDamageLimitation mode engage!

The 390, which performs better than this pile, was £240 for the last 6 months or so.

Try again.
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:rolleyes:

Then buy one and celebrate by yourself, for the sanity of everyone else.

While you wait for delivery, maybe spend some time sharpening up your critical thinking skills and working on your intellectual honesty.
 
Jono8 said:
It is because there was hope that the 480 might overclock to near 1070/980Ti levels.

The ass seems to have fallen out of that now though.
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That was always a baseless speculation by people who should have known better. Still, if it's below 390, that's slightly disappointing. I'll wait for a few more benchmarks and reviews to come in though. It pulled ahead in some interesting cases like Mordor and Project Cars. There's something going on here.

But we'll know better towards the end of the day, I guess.
 
Overclockers were never going to go with the reference cooler, I'm not super into overclocking these days but I'd pay extra for one that can just for a play around now and then.

And most of us dislike reference blower style coolers. Hopefully we will have news on the partner cards today with an ETA
 
Seanspeed said:
Well reference 1070/1080's are managing 2000Mhz+ still. 3rd party cards only getting like 50-100Mhz more. So I'd say it is a fair bit better, yes. The ref 480 looks like it is clocked closer to its limits than the ref 1070/1080.
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I haven't seen anything that shows a reference 1070/1080 able to maintain more than 200Mhz over stock for more than 15 minutes.
 
It's Multipurpose - It's a Cheap GPU and a cooker too. Cook your gaming fries on it at the same time! = FEATURE.

AMDs always run hot. Won't make the mistake of going to them again. As overpriced as nVidia are, they are the better cards.

People thought these cards would force the prices of the 10 series down - if anything, nVidia are probably laughing and will now put the prices up!
 
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