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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

r7slayer said:
Ahh man i hate that! I bet you nipped to the shop or something and they decided to try and delivery in that 10-15 min time your out haha. Always happens to me.

Could always nip the to the local depot and pick it up if your really impatient haha.
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Delivery time between 11:56 and 12:56 my daughter was home at 12:00 dead and said there was a missed delivery card. I will drive 40 miles tonight to get it :D
 
The Running Man said:
Guru 3D has 1060 specs' 3/6gb ram. 192 bit, 48 Rops, 1280 cores, 10 smm's.

Clock speeds unannounced.

If this is £200 or less then Polaris could be short lived
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It's faster than 970 and so one would expect it to also be more expensive with 970 still remaining in price stack and as 980 is gone I feel 1060 will be £250-£300 area, pure guess work but using common sense. :)
 
The Running Man said:
Guru 3D has 1060 specs' 3/6gb ram. 192 bit, 48 Rops, 1280 cores, 10 smm's.

Clock speeds unannounced.

If this is £200 or less then Polaris could be short lived
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IMO I don't think that'll happen. The way pricing on graphics cards always seems to go is they what it performs like in relation to the newest generation. Eg: if the 1060 is faster than a 480 then it'll be priced higher.
 
Gibbo said:
It's faster than 970 and so one would expect it to also be more expensive with 970 still remaining in price stack and as 980 is gone I feel 1060 will be £250-£300 area, pure guess work but using common sense. :)
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That would be a real shame Imo. I've always bought mid range cards:

I've bought, 8800gt,GTX 460 and then 760.

They were all 200 or under when launched. If we see a 30-50% increase I'm going second hand or last dregs special offer GTX 970 as these prices are madness.
 
The Running Man said:
That would be a real shame Imo. I've always bought mid range cards:

I've bought, 8800gt,GTX 460 and then 760.

They were all 200 or under when launched. If we see a 30-50% increase I'm going second hand or last dregs special offer GTX 970 as these prices are madness.
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I will be amazed if people who previously bought 460, 760, 960 cards suddenly decide to spend £250-£300 on a mid-range card.

Amazed. I just don't see it happening.

What I do see happening is people just sticking with what they've got, or buying 2nd hand, like you said.

Maybe you can push teh top-end cards higher and higher. I don't think there's the same flexibility / elasticity in the mid- and low-end markets. Where people are perhaps more price conscious and more determined to look for a bargain.
 
SiDeards73 said:
But on a serious not, mate either get some mental health help, or let the AMD hate go, its not healthy for you buddy and really its making you look a bit of a fool on these forums now. I used to think you was a pretty reasonable fellow but your sinking to complete new depths here with the constant vitriol.
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Lol, thats not hate, thats just rampant NV fanboism. There are some posters, Gux for one, that have an almost pathological hatred for AMD though.

Gibbo said:
I feel 1060 will be £250-£300 area, pure guess work but using common sense. :)
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So £250 for the 3gb Vram and £300 for the 6gb version then? No thanks. :)
 
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FoxEye said:
I will be amazed if people who previously bought 460, 760, 960 cards suddenly decide to spend £250-£300 on a mid-range card.

Amazed. I just don't see it happening.

What I do see happening is people just sticking with what they've got, or buying 2nd hand, like you said.

Maybe you can push teh top-end cards higher and higher. I don't think there's the same flexibility / elasticity in the mid- and low-end markets. Where people are perhaps more price conscious and more determined to look for a bargain.
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I've sold my GTX 760 last week so am looking for a new card but. GTX 970 for £150 or something seems to be the way forward tbh. I'm gutted I missed out on a. Strix going locally as I foolishly chose to wait for rx480 benchmarks.
 
Mtom said:
Do you really think NV would release anything which is cheaper than the AMD counterpart?
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The RX480 8GB is around double the speed of the GTX760 2GB it appears:

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480/images/perfrel_1920_1080.png

The RX480 4GB is only slightly slower looking at some of the reviews,and OcUK and a few others had them on sale or pre-order for £175ish. They seemed to have sold almost the whole lot of them. 1000+ in under 24 hours is pretty good going for a fail card,LOL.

Gibbo said they should be getting more in the next few weeks - it will be interesting to see where the purported GTX1060 3GB is priced at.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
Providing this and the Powercolor PCS+ card's dont come in crazily more expensive or badly reviewed, you likely have a sale!!


Come on Gibbo, you've got a willing audience here if the reviews arent awful.
Looking forward to seeing the reviews.

Any official release dates?
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powercolor has never been the expensive side and pcs+ coolers are legendary bad ass coolers - they've beaten sapphire's trix coolers before.....they are beastly......:) one I'm looking at getting
 
0h_no_not_again said:
The motherboard isn't where the droop is coming from though. It would take hundreds of amps to get a +12V power plane to considerably droop under DC loads.

It's the PCIe connector to edge connector interface that is the issue. The contacts are tiny, and while gold plated, tend to get dirty after a few insertions. One of the writers confirmed the 12+ supply was not drooping, and the +12V plane is good for 0.1v droop at most.

Just for reference, the PCIe spec (as of 2010 - sorry don't have the most recent) stipulates +12V ±8%, which is 11.04V to 12.96V @ the card.

Interestingly, @ 75W and 11.4V, you're burning 0.5V @ ~6.5A, giving 3W of heat in the connector! That's a lot! Look at the size of a 3W SMT resistor - they are huuggeee

EDIT: Used a PCB calc for a +12V "trace" to drop 0.1V under 6.5A of load over 100mm length (assuming normal copper weights, +15C temp rise). 4mm wide. A power plane would be 50mm average area after it's been cut by vias as a minimum
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I'd agree with you, except we measured a 0.3V drop (11.7) at the other, empty PCIe slots on a Rampage V motherboard. This means that at least some of that drop is occurring *before* the connector, implying traces, which may not be that thick in the area of the PCIe slots.
 
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