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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

drunkenmaster said:
The 7870 was 212mm^2, the 6970 was 389mm^2. RX480 is 232mm^2, Fury X is 600mm62, hawaii is 438mm^2.

The 7870 had a 256bit bus and was a 190W card, the 6970 was a 256bit bus and was a 200W card and they had nearly identical performance.

Now, how fast do you think the 7870 would have been if the 6970 was 15% bigger, and the 7870 used 80W instead of 190W?
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You're making my case for me man. 7870 vs 6970 sizewise is pretty much the same situation as 480 vs 390X. So yes, I was hoping for *at least* 390X performance. And dont go acting like you werent' expecting that also. I could track down plenty of your posts where you were being *highly* optimistic about its performance potential.

It looks like they tuned for TDP efficiency rather than performance.
 
It's quite a hilarious thread for me as my last card was an 8800GT so for £175.00 it is going to be like being reborn and a new world opening up.

This £300 deal with the free sync monitor sounds interesting.
 
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