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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Seanspeed said:
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.
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You could find such posts, ones that also say the performance difference 6 months from now in DX12 titles will be a different story. DX12 will make such utilising new features a far far quicker process than happened for the 7970/290x.

Also yes, the RX480 is tuned for tdp efficiency rather than performance. What is to be seen is if it can overclock well with a AIB card tuned for power delivery and clockspeed while using higher power.

Regardless I think a year from now in DX12 games the RX480 will be beating the 390x with ease in basically every game, 6 months, beating it in most games, a few months matching or beating it.
 
Robi said:
Probably asked a million times:

2x Radeon 480 8Gb or 1x GTX 1070.

I can get both for relatively the same price (doesn't matter where or how).
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jackass3_16 said:
My conundrum too :rolleyes:
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I would always advise anyone to get the best single card solution they can afford.

But, reviews of the 480 will be out in like 40 minutes so you can see for yourself, maybe AMD have pulled off a miracle and have perfected crossfire and that's what they meant when they said they were going to disrupt the market :p :D

Ah, seriously, though, reviews should answer the question for you, but, if in doubt, get the single card.
 
Rroff said:
At 1440p I'm pushing the boundaries of 3GB VRAM and doesn't take much to hit 4GB - even at 1080p I wouldn't be buying anything with 4GB or less if I was buying a new card now for serious gaming.
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The difference in fps is 0 when going from 4Gb to 8Gb currently at 1440p or even 4K. Look are the Fury X and Fury. No issues with 4Gb.
 
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