Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

JoeF1 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:48

Argh, few weeks then. Cool, cool.

Thanks.

makavien478 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:48

As i said ocuk love to price gouge exactly as they have with the 4gb card

Rroff · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:49

LoadsaMoney said:
Its a ******* terrible one!

I think people need to step back and get some perspective :S

Morfinel · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:50

Apparently AMD is dropping 4GB version, I hope it's to follow by price drop of the 8GB version to £180, this would make more sense.

Telecaster · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:52

Seems like it's turned out more cheap and cheerful than expected, aimed squarely at paupers

shankly1985 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:52

If it's true the AIB GPUs hit 1.4 1.6 it will be excellent.

new boy · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:54

shankly1985 said:
If it's true the AIB GPUs hit 1.4 1.6 it will be excellent.

Nope, I'm firmly out of having any faith in future AMD products from here on.

N19h7m4r3 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:54

shankly1985 said:
If it's true the AIB GPUs hit 1.4 1.6 it will be excellent.

It wasn't long ago reference card apparently hit those numbers... I trust no rumors at all.

Mr Latte · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:54

Poneros said:
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. So let's see what the sales numbers are!

Common sense but irrelevant in here.

Lokken86 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:55

Everyone on ocuk forums typically expecting a 980ti killer for 50quid. For 180 you can buy one of these, it performs like a 290x and can play everything at 1080p amazingly. Job done. You lot need to stop with the hype and see it for what it is. A good card at a reasonable price that we did'nt have before.

kieran_read · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:57

Gutted.... I only play at 1080p, this can't even hit 60fps on some games. My target was at least 70-80fps otherwise what's the point.

A more technically advanced game will come out next year and it will be even further from hitting that magical 60.

Guess ill wait for 480 AIB hopefully it will hit 980+ performance at higher clocks.

Seanspeed · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:58

Poneros said:
Do people also expect next year's Honda Civic to be a BMW M3? If they do, they're going to be disappointed because that's not what it was intended to be. Likewise, the 480 wasn't intended to occupy the high-end card segment, i.e. be a successor to the 390/x. Those cards are coming out later on.

What I find funny is that no one's complaining so much that the 1070 is basically at 980ti levels and not faster when this here is the same situation.

Ok, first off, that car analogy has been tried a while back and it was ripped apart justifiably.

Cars aren't expected to be 50% faster every 2 years, for one thing.

And cars have all kinds of regulatory and creature comfort concerns that GPU's dont have to worry about whatsoever.

Their development and iterations have nothing in common with GPU progression. It's a poor analogy.

And as far as the 1070 argument goes, are you ignoring that the 1080 exists? The 1070 is a *cut down* GP104. The 480 is the full Polaris 10 chip as far as we know. Yet it's still incapable of even matching, much less besting, the previous higher tier card(390X). A card, I might remind you, that is really just a rebranded card from 2013 with more vRAM and a base clock closer to its OC'ing limits.

SiDeards73 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:59

kieran_read said:
Gutted.... I only play at 1080p, this can't even hit 60fps on some games. My target was at least 70-80fps otherwise what's the point.

A more technically advanced game will come out next year and it will be even further from hitting that magical 60.

Guess ill wait for 480 AIB hopefully it will hit 980+ performance at higher clocks.

May I enquire which monitor you have?

Seanspeed · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:59

kieran_read said:
Gutted.... I only play at 1080p, this can't even hit 60fps on some games. My target was at least 70-80fps otherwise what's the point.

A more technically advanced game will come out next year and it will be even further from hitting that magical 60.

Guess ill wait for 480 AIB hopefully it will hit 980+ performance at higher clocks.

Dont judge whether a card can hit 1080p/60fps purely by benchmarks. These benches are meant to compare cards, not judge what card can do what in a specific game necessarily.

I'd be surprised if there's many games the 480 couldn't hit 1080p/60fps with decent settings.

Telecaster · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:59

Lokken86 said:
Everyone on ocuk forums typically expecting a 980ti killer for 50quid. For 180 you can buy one of these, it performs like a 290x and can play everything at 1080p amazingly. Job done. You lot need to stop with the hype and see it for what it is. A good card at a reasonable price that we did'nt have before.

But 290x were only £200 in the end, so years later with a die shrink we get 290x performance for £20 less? Progress. #bettered lol

Sargatanas2511 · 29 Jun 2016 at 18:59

new boy said:
Nope, I'm firmly out of having any faith in future AMD products from here on.

Can I ask, out of curiosity what you actually expected of this card and in what way it doesn't deliver for a £180-£220 card?

karik666 · 29 Jun 2016 at 19:00

b4z said:
The price for the Sapphire 4GB went from £179.99 to £188.99 in the space of a few hours?... :/

It was actually the space of a a few minutes,lol.

Supernova · 29 Jun 2016 at 19:00

Telecaster said:
Seems like it's turned out more cheap and cheerful than expected, aimed squarely at paupers

Looks at signature... 980ti. $199 card - what did you expect!?

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Lokken86 · 29 Jun 2016 at 19:04

Telecaster said:
But 290x were only £200 in the end, so years later with a die shrink we get 290x performance for £20 less? Progress. #bettered lol

Could you get a 290x for 200 for anything more than a special offer?