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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

melmac said:
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.
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It totally matched the 580 in anything remotely new at the time. And was LESS than half the size of the 580 die.

And I'm not saying I expected a two tier jump in performance this time. I'm just putting into context why the jump we did get is disappointing. If it's going to take a good, 3rd party cooled 480 to even match a moderately overclocked 970(cheap 970's could boost to 1317Mhz), then we're really only talking a very minor improvement in price/performance over an 18 month old card.

This needed to be at least 390X levels of performance out-the-box to be noteworthy.
 
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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So, you think going for 80+% of the market in the $100-300 was wrong? Ok... Most people would think that was a good strategy.

Even if they had a 1080 competitor, you expected this to be it?
 
Finding it very difficult to keep up with this thread. Is everyone basing the "doom and gloom" posts on a single YouTube video from someone I've never heard of with a single 480, or have we had any reviews published by any of the more established websites confirming the card's performance/power usage/temperature?
 
Scramz said:

1.3% overclock over 1266 boost, gets hot very fast and crashes. His is not a good overclocker at all.
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what drivers did he use? noted he didn't use the release driver for 480...and wouldn't say what driver he used.....

I'd say very suspect - says looks to be a driver issue and he'll come back to it with newer drivers.....

another prelease review without drivers :D
 
Relentless81 said:
Any solid info yet?

Too much spam in this thread and not enough time to read it all, would anyone be able to break it down to solid info please?
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Looks similar to maybe a stock 970/390 overall.

Seems to do better than the 390 in titles the 390 was weak at.

Good in DX12 as expected.

Cant OC worth a damn.

Mind, this is just one review from some Youtube channel, though it did seem legit.

I'm still interested in reading some thorough write-ups from Guru3d and whatnot, though.
 
PhoenixUK said:
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.
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The GTX 970 offered better performance than the GTX 780 Ti for much less money and it wasn't the only card in the range. The GTX 980 spanked everything else on the market at that point. Also the the GTX 780 Ti was only a year old, so I wouldn't really be complaining if the RX 480 offered Fury X performance for 350€. But the 290x is how old already? Almost 3 years old, and the RX 480 cannot even manage to beat it.

The point is why release something that isn't even faster than your last gen products available for the same amount of money? 290x is still the better buy. They could have just lowered the Nano price to 300€ and it would have been a much much much better buy.
 
Sacrifice said:
What AMD was thinking was: we need a 380x replacement card. People here should remember that surely?
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It's exactly what they are doing, they even said it. But people were expecting some miracle mid range card that was going to compete against the 1070. I just think people can't get their heads around the fact that AMD are hitting the value end of the market first.

Will still be a disappointing card if it doesn't reach 970 performance levels though.
 
meldarthx said:
what drivers did he use? noted he didn't use the release driver for 480...and wouldn't say what driver he used.....

I'd say very suspect - says looks to be a driver issue and he'll come back to it with newer drivers.....

another prelease review without drivers :D
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I find it hard to believe a respected youtube hardware reviewer releasing a review with rubbish drivers?! He will use the correct drivers.
 
melmac said:
It's exactly what they are doing, they even said it. But people were expecting some miracle mid range card that was going to compete against the 1070. I just think people can't get their heads around the fact that AMD are hitting the value end of the market first.

Will still be a disappointing card if it doesn't reach 970 performance levels though.
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Well... at £175 they may just have something here.
 
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