Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:07

Gerard said:
Pc per mentioned being able to do a bios flash as 8 gig is on a lot of the cards, just disabled through bios.

anderp · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:07

For those asking about the girl...

Noctifer · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:08

Sargatanas2511 said:
How strange, thanks for that. I will make sure to read that more in depth when I get home.

I wonder if it has anything to do with throttling or if it's just low quality parts.

It's a cheap card, the cooler sucks. I would not recommend till boards with better cooling come out.

Radeon Wattman · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:08

anderp said:
For those asking about the girl...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :eek:

Orangey · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:09

RavenXXX2 said:
Shows what a gulf there is between the AMD and Nvidia architectures when the 480 is about on par with the 1070 in power consumption, it's embarrassing.

Where is DM with his 14nm hype?

NexusK · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:09

If i didn't already know better i'd have thought that was Steve Buscemi

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:10

PCPER said:
Another oddity – and one that may make enthusiast a bit more cheery – is that AMD only built a single reference design card for this release to cover both the 4GB and 8GB varieties. That means that the cards that go on sale today listed at 4GB models will actually have 8GB of memory on them! With half of the DRAM partially disabled, it seems likely that someone soon will find a way to share a VBIOS to enable the additional VRAM. In fact, AMD provided me with a 4GB and an 8GB VBIOS for testing purpose. It’s a cost saving measure on AMD’s part – this way they only have to validate and build a single PCB.

Emm,so why is the 8GB version that much more??

humbug · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:11

I think something has gone wrong for AMD here, its trading blows with a reference 970, i doubt they intended it to be that.

h4rm0ny · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:11

windheaven said:
a 390x is £249 and a 480 is £218 might as well buy the 390x

The 390x is only that price because it's EOL and reduced to a comparable price to clear. Do people really not understand this?

JoeF1 · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:11

How long is the wait till After market ones or up?

Apache14 · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:13

That power draw being over the 1070 is really bad for AMD, as this card performs nothing like that AND was pushed as a power efficient card ....

Not a good card in that respect ..... £175 good value tho :/

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:14

From a German review site:

Basically, the 16.6.2 that most started their reviews with had a bug resulting in lower performance due to PCIe bandwith issues. AMD sent out a new driver only two days ago, the 16.20.1035.1001-RC1, which is up to 5% faster than the 16.6.2. If you read Polaris reviews, check which drivers they used!

German original (www.ComputerBase.de):

AMD hatte ursprünglich den Crimson 16.6.2 zum Testen zur Verfügung gestellt. Wie ComputerBase jedoch an diesem Montag erfahren hat, hat dieser mit einem Bug zu kämpfen, der die PCIe-Bandbreite limitiert. AMD hat ComputerBase daraufhin den Crimson 16.20.1035.1001-RC1 zur Verfügung gestellt, der das Problem behebt. Alle Werte wurden daraufhin noch einmal erhoben, denn je nach Spiel steigt die Performance durch den neuen Treiber um bis zu fünf Prozent an.

Another quality AMD launch.

anderp · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:14

Radeon Wattman said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

<3

Radeon Wattman · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:14

JoeF1 said:
How long is the wait till After market ones or up?

This is all i want to know now. Seems like the awful cooler is holding it back a bit

nashathedog · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:15

h4rm0ny said:
The 390x is only that price because it's EOL and reduced to a comparable price to clear. Do people really not understand this?

The reason doesn't matter the point is today you can get an 8gb 390x for not that much more.

Minstadave · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:15

h4rm0ny said:
The 390x is only that price because it's EOL and reduced to a comparable price to clear. Do people really not understand this?

Surely the prices they're available at today are the only ones that matter. The 390X isn't much more currently, performs better and clocks better.

Feoilban · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:16

humbug said:
I think something has gone wrong for AMD here, its trading blows with a reference 970, i doubt they intended it to be that.

Why not

They knew 970 performance when they developed the 480

It still does 390 performance anyway which makes it a good card (according to you)

TNA · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:16

anderp said:
For those asking about the girl...

Haha, that was awesome!

Apache14 · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:16

And here comes the 1060 ....

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1060-special-launch-event-july/

sand_dune · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:17

Haha, RX 480 is a great card, quicker than 980 in DX12, supports all latest tech and is just £175.99. Those who came here just to tell us how much they hate AMD should get a job or should get a job that pays more than a minimum wage.

Go get yourselves a used 980 right, good luck breathing dead skin cells of some other dude from it. If not worse.