Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

FoxEye · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:18

Minstadave said:
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.

Don't you get it? Don't you *understand*? You're not allowed to say anything that makes the 480 look bad.

The fact that we've had 390s for £240 loooooooooooong before the 480 came out... must not be mentioned!

Buy a 480! Support Red!

(Or wait for the 1060, should be 480+ perf for even less power! If power consumption means as much as AMD fans here are saying, then why wouldn't you buy a 1060 with EVEN LESS power draw?

)

nashathedog · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:18

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

This is what we need to see, will aftermarket cards with more power available do much better on the performance front.

Feoilban · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:18

Maybe this is an interesting bench in regards to the 4 gig vs 8 gig discussion

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1748?vs=1749

Tute · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:19

To be fair, I did expect more but the 4GB is very keenly priced, so much so that i've dropped the money on one.

The 8GB is just silly though, you've got to be mad to pay £50 more for that.

I would imagine this is where the card shines:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/19.html

In games where it scales (yes that's a big IF) it's pretty much 1080 performance for under £400.

Besty · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:19

we shall see once the AIB Boards land, AMD not been strong in first reviews for years.

Its only once the drivers mature and overclocking results are considered I think it will be knocking on the door of the 980.

If i was buying now for my PC I would assume 980 perf out of the 480.

Feoilban · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:20

FoxEye said:
Don't you get it? Don't you *understand*? You're not allowed to say anything that makes the 480 look bad.

The fact that we've had 390s for £240 loooooooooooong before the 480 came out... must not be mentioned!

Buy a 480! Support Red!

(Or wait for the 1060, should be 480+ perf for even less power! If power consumption means as much as AMD fans here are saying, then why wouldn't you buy a 1060 with EVEN LESS power draw? )

Where in the reliable reviews do they say the 480 is a bad card or something in that vein ?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:20

Tute said:
To be fair, I did expect more but the 4GB is very keenly priced, so much so that i've dropped the money on one.

The 8GB is just silly though, you've got to be mad to pay £50 more for that.

PCPER says both cards are the same - so it will be interesting to see if people can re-enable the RAM if it does actually have 8GB.

HeX · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:20

Looks like my 290 lives to fight another day. Lets see what 1060 brings to the table.

Orcish-Horde · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:21

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

What did you just doo!!!!!!! :eek:

RavenXXX2 · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:21

Tute said:
To be fair, I did expect more but the 4GB is very keenly priced, so much so that i've dropped the money on one.

The 8GB is just silly though, you've got to be mad to pay £50 more for that.

You might still get 8 out of that 4GB

Tute · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:22

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
PCPER says both cards are the same - so it will be interesting to see if people can re-enable the RAM if it does actually have 8GB.

Really? That's actually quite funny. What was the point then, I assumed the £50 saving was down to less RAM chips physically on the card.

HeX · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:22

Just spotted this over at /r/amd

Marcoloves360 · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:22

im with a vapor-x 290x and paid £220 1 year ago, stil beats the rx 480, i know less power but no reason to go and sell my gpu i will keep my card till it dies or 2 more years i play everything at 2k im good. oced to 1100/1600

tyler_jrb · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:22

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

I saw a different photo before that one loaded up :eek:

meldarthx · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:22

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
From a German review site:

Another quality AMD launch.

they found the bug - sent out drivers that fix it - if the reviews didn't bother to use the new drivers; could explain the lower performance and higher power useage......

like I said I don't think we've really seen the 480 stretch its legs yet....

Killer7xx · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:23

Noctifer said:
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/12/

The reference board are crap. Lower voltage increases performance and actually lowers power usage by 50 Watt.

Maybe suggests that reference models are using really low binned chips compared to the AIB models? Perhaps that's where the 1.5GHZ+ overclock rumours come from. If that's the case we could be seeing AIB cards which have way better performance at the same power draw as the ref cards.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:23

Tute said:
Really? That's actually quite funny. What was the point then, I assumed the £50 saving was down to less RAM chips physically on the card.

PCPER said that - 4GB cards have lower clocked RAM.

It will be interesting to see if this is the case.

HRL · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:23

Feoilban said:
Maybe this is an interesting bench in regards to the 4 gig vs 8 gig discussion

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1748?vs=1749

Interesting. Do wonder if that's more due to the 8000Mhz rather than the 7000Mhz on the 4Gb cards.

h4rm0ny · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:24

Rroff said:
I have a variety of GPUs and performance tools - I do a bit of casual game development so have a fairly good idea about that stuff.

Okay. You understand why I asked though because there are often people claiming they've "run out of memory" because they see it full. I'll remember that you're a game developer in future. Cheers.

straxusii · 29 Jun 2016 at 15:25

HeX said:
Just spotted this over at /r/amd

Waiting for the Hitler bunker vid 'All those who bought a 980Ti over the fury leave now'