Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

[RavenXXX2]

Can't you get 980's for around that now also?

Yes. From what I can gather the 390/X never sold that well compared to the more expensive 970/980, the 480 approaching £300 for years old performance aint going to shift many. 480 strong point is its price not the performance.

 

[TomRL]

Just found Haribo's in my 480 box. I love you people.

 

[Gibbo]

Too much at 275. Now it is just an 390 direct replacement.

This is why I said trying to get lower, I feel the upper limit for 480 custom is 259GBP and 239-249GBP is far more ideal.

Sorry I have no pound symbol as am in AMD Munich HQ office, dodgy keyboards here.

Ref is 219-239GBP depending on brand, custom I can see from 239-279GBP.


Also when all 980/970 and 390/390X is gone then even at 250-300 480 will sell as it won't have competition apart from upcoming 1060 which will no doubt be priced similar or a little higher than 480.

 

[Orangey]

Hmm seems Vega will not be here for a long time (2017, Q2 even?) if the 480 is getting a Toxic...

 

[stuartdn]

has it been established if the 4gb cards really do have 8gb or not?

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-radeon-rx-480-4gb-video-cards-8gb-memory_183548

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Can't you get 980's for around that now also?

It might be where the GTX1060 is roughly priced - lots of noise it might be around $299,although hopefully will be cheaper to put some downwards pressure.

 

[Bantu]

has it been established if the 4gb cards really do have 8gb or not?

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-radeon-rx-480-4gb-video-cards-8gb-memory_183548

The official view is that reviewers were sent an 8GB card with 2 bioses, 1 for the full 8GB, 1 restricting to 4GB and 7000Mhz.

This was part of an AMA on reddit with an AMD rep. I would like an official confirmation from someone on OCUK who's opened their card but that doesn't seem to be coming.

I was planning on opening mine up, but now with aftermarket cards seemingly soon on the horizon i want to reserve the option to return it to ocuk.

 

[Telecaster]

Oh how those scoffed when some of us reckoned the AIB cards would be close to £300...

$199 FTW.

 

[AlamoX]

lol got banned on the 29th, so much for the release discussion, so frustrating
anyway performance of the 480 was ok as expected, price also, personally didnt expect much of the cooler, and i was right
but super disapointed at the efficiency, and overclocking headroom.
i was hoping AMD wouldn't make this error, but they went ahead and made it, it's just really dumb, i think performance was sub 970, and watching all the hype AMD pushed the clock higher, they really shoudn't have done it.
160-170watt power draw ?? its supposed to be 120-130 watt, and i think the pci-e draw will be solved in the bios, this is probably a mistake made during last clock push, someone confused the setting for the 12vrail with pci-e draw limit.
but the thing i cannot understand is the amount of power the card needs, even if they made custom PCB for AIB, with better thermal and power delivery, raising the OC headroom, what would the card need for 1500-1600mhz 300watt? what card uses 30% more power for like 5% overclock ?
this is insane, need to see the 470 and it's efficiency compared to the 480, to establish if this is a chip issue or a inadequate clock issue.

 

[r7slayer]

Too much at 275. Now it is just an 390 direct replacement.

Can't you get 980's for around that now also?

At around 1350MHz region though it will be faster than a 390x and 980. Its already at 970/390 performance.


Not to mention 8Gb of memory vs 4 on the 980.

 

[cr!spy]

Sorry to butt in, but I was literally about to buy a 2nd hand 970 and noticed the 480 today - would I still be better off buying the 970 for 1080p gaming as they seem similar in performance?

 

[flopper]

At around 1350MHz region though it will be faster than a 390x and 980. Its already at 970/390 performance.


Not to mention 8Gb of memory vs 4 on the 980.

None in their right mind buy any maxwell cards when dx12 and games like BF1 and such is coming.

Cards offers a performance level for your gaming, to increase that experience you need to spent and must spend double the money or triple the money to even notice a difference.
Like you have a 7870 and get a 480 and then you used to have 60fps in BF3 with the 7870 and with a 480 you have 120fps. Now you doubled the fps for a decent and fair cost.

if you have a 390/390x/980/970 or such there is basically no card except the 1080 that is near that increase for fps and gaming difference but then you pay here 500 more euro than a 480 and dont get double the fps.

You have a dimishing return on your investment.
Its why I rather buy something of value, OC a little, adjust a setting or two and have superb fps without paying my hard earned cash for something thats just not worth it.

 

[Yutang13]

Sorry to butt in, but I was literally about to buy a 2nd hand 970 and noticed the 480 today - would I still be better off buying the 970 for 1080p gaming as they seem similar in performance?

What's the price for the 970? If it's less than a 480 then it's a valid choice.

 

[r7slayer]

Sorry to butt in, but I was literally about to buy a 2nd hand 970 and noticed the 480 today - would I still be better off buying the 970 for 1080p gaming as they seem similar in performance?

Probably not. Depends how much you can get the 970 for second hand tbh.

The 970 isn't a true 4Gb card its 3.5gb with 500Mb of slower Vram. As many have pointed out 4Gb is now pushing it to the lower end limit of 1080p and may very well not be enough now.

Not to mention AMD cards seem to do a lot better in DX12 than maxwell and id expect the same from the 480 to be just as good if not better.

The 480 reference card is about on par if not slightly faster than the 970 but i doubt you'd notice how much faster it was in games. But the reference cooler and power design holds back the 480 from what ive seen. Custom (AIB) cards will be the way to go but it sounds like they may cost anywhere upto £270.

So it goes back to how much you can get the 970 for second hand lol. If you can get the 970 for £180 or less then might very well be worth it!

 

[AlamoX]

Sorry to butt in, but I was literally about to buy a 2nd hand 970 and noticed the 480 today - would I still be better off buying the 970 for 1080p gaming as they seem similar in performance?

personally i dont see the point in buying 970/980 today, especialy when looking at the memory/price/DX12 performance.
you would be better off with 480, but a custom one.
beside i dont see the need for having sli 970, a single 970 pushes the memory limit in quite few games, so i think sli would be kind of a waste.

 

[XeNoNF50]

This is why the 4gb card at 176 GBP on release was such great value. That was AMD redefining the price/performance index, exactly what they should be doing to be successful. Then they went and scrapped it!!! Mental.

 

[r7slayer]

This is why the 4gb card at 176 GBP on release was such great value. That was AMD redefining the price/performance index, exactly what they should be doing to be successful. Then they went and scrapped it!!! Mental.

This wasn't AMD. AMD didn't change the 480 price in the UK lol.


Edit- spelt change as chance lol.

 

[meldarthx]

This is why the 4gb card at 176 GBP on release was such great value. That was AMD redefining the price/performance index, exactly what they should be doing to be successful. Then they went and scrapped it!!! Mental.

Gibbo says they haven't after he talked with them and will be making more

 

[DHR]

The 4gb is still kicking around at £174.

 

[finalcloud]

4gb one is the only one worth it (and at £175 not more like it is on ocuk). £275 for an AIB 480 is silly money.