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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Looks very disappointing, 10-20% slower than the 970 in the benches I saw

Guess my upgrade is going to be Nvidia again
 
Will wait for better reviews from more reputable sites (not HardOCP :)) before deciding. Though if early indication are that it's 390 performance at similar prices then meh.
 
Sacrifice said:
What AMD was thinking was: we need a 380x replacement card. People here should remember that surely?
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Surely they could've done that later. They needed something around 1080 level to help push the brand and give Nvidia a right bashing, but instead they release this disappointment.

Who ever makes the decisions at AMD needs to be fired
 
FoxEye said:
Those £350 and £450 cards are last generation's cards.

What are your expectations from a new generation, then? With a node shrink?

Same price/perf as old generation? If so, then you are a corporations wet dream?
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Except it isn't same performance? It's replacing the 380x and is faster.

mahius said:
Yep. That's how it goes. 970/390 performance for the RX 480 isn't a bad thing (it's what I expected), but at over £200 it is. It barely improves the price to performance, which is the major goal of each new GPU die shrink. Or at least AMD claimed it so with Polaris.

And that's my big complaint with this all so far. For a 380 replacement, it sure is far from 380 prices.
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The 8GB model is a 380x replacement and it's launching at the same price as the 380x launched at. Blame brexit as Gibbo said these were coming in at £199.

Seanspeed said:
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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Except it didn't, it was between the 570 and 580 in performance. The 660ti was a little faster than the 580, but was based on the GK104. Expecting a two tier jump in performance at this price range was asking a lot, especially as AMD were also focusing on trying to get the power use down as well.

I was only expecting it to be somewhere between 390 and 390x performance wise. IF it's slower than the 970/390 then I will be very disappointed as that isn't even a one tier jump in performance.
 
Sacrifice said:
What AMD was thinking was: we need a 380x replacement card. People here should remember that surely?
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Yup.

But according to the logic of some...

"We should chastise Nv for their upcoming gtx1060 card with its pitiful gtx970 performance, and if AMD dare to launch at any point a R 400 series card with R7 360 performance then we should march upon their headquarters."
 
Toss3 said:
But why release something we've had for 2 years already? The GTX 970 seems to be the better buy at this point, especially the models that overclock beyond 1500mhz. Not sure what to do now. :( Thinking about picking up a second hand 290x as I already have a block for it.
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If that's your way of thinking then we'd never get any new cards. Why release 970 of we already had 780ti. Why release 1070 if we already had 980ti, why release 1080 if we already had titan. Why release a 960, 950, 390, 380 , 370, 280, 270, 7850, 6850, 6870, 6770. Why ever release anything that's not 50% faster than most powerful card from previous generation?

All cards released in the last 10 years apart from X2, titans and other monsters that offered huge increases are clearly pointless.
 
Armageus said:
An 8Gb RX480, if you want to gamble on console ports getting more texture heavy as we move to the "upgraded" XBox and PS4 Neo. AMD also tend to carry on pushing out driver performance releases for a lot longer than NVIDIA.
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I am thinking the same but there are still peepz here who rather get a 970 for whatever strange reason
 
yoyo59 said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...aphics-card-20-pounds-cashback-gx-263-ea.html

£8 over budget but hey its evga?

:p

or

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...aphics-card-20-pounds-cashback-gx-352-as.html


both have £20 cashback
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Cheers been wanting to update my hd7770 for a while.
My only concern with a 4gb card is how long that will be ok for these newer games.
Guess I will have to wait for prices, more reviews and choose between a 480 4gb, 8gb or the nvidia 970.
 
Simon Belmont said:
Surely they could've done that later. They needed something around 1080 level to help push the brand and give Nvidia a right bashing, but instead they release this disappointment.

Who ever makes the decisions at AMD needs to be fired
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No, they couldn't, they have been trying that strategy for years and it hasn't worked for them.

They stated that they were changing strategy this year and aiming at the mainstream market first. Where most of the sales are.

will it work? don't know, but they weren't having any luck doing what you suggested so they needed to try something new.
 
just seen that review and was really disappointed! Might as well get a 970 or a second hand 980.
 
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