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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

tavtavtav said:
I'm not sure that's it's entirely reasonable to limit threads like these to only people who intend to buy the card the thread is about.
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That's not exactly what me and Kaapstad discussed, is it.

Some people here arguing points for what is essentially an unknown statistic is unwarranted. By all means discuss, just don't be negative about things you have no answer to. Negativity is not good for anybody but some here want to be negative regardless.

This is a mass market GPU for a great price.
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tavtavtav said:
I'm not sure that's it's entirely reasonable to limit threads like these to only people who intend to buy the card the thread is about.
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The thread should not be limited in any way but some people do need to take a step back as they argue about things like their lives depended on it.:)
 
Think i'll finally retire my 7970 crossfire set up for 1 of these.

I don't play many games these days so this card fits the bill perfectly.
 
I will probably get one. One that is nice and cheap will do me for a couple of weeks testing and then passed on to my Mrs for her desktop.

I do find people get so offended when you put any negatives on a GPU and they don't own or have any intention of owning and that is for both vendors. Crazy :o
 
Gregster said:
I will probably get one. One that is nice and cheap will do me for a couple of weeks testing and then passed on to my Mrs for her desktop.

I do find people get so offended when you put any negatives on a GPU and they don't own or have any intention of owning and that is for both vendors. Crazy :o
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But some people have no intention of buying a Amd/Nvidia card but are one of the highest posters in that thread and which almost all their posts are negative as well, then something is wrong and we seen it time and time again on both sides.
 
i am gonna take one, but as usual waiting on sapphire nitro/vaporx.
maybe 2nd one if few games i play often have correct support for crossfire.
 
queamin said:
But some people have no intention of buying a Amd/Nvidia card but are one of the highest posters in that thread and which almost all their posts are negative as well, then something is wrong and we seen it time and time again on both sides.
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I have seen people called mugs, idiots, fools etc for buying a 1080 and that is OK but put some negativity on a GPU and people get all upset lol. It just makes me chuckle is all.
 
Gregster said:
I have seen people called mugs, idiots, fools etc for buying a 1080 and that is OK but put some negativity on a GPU and people get all upset lol. It just makes me chuckle is all.
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I was told to hang myself when I first got into GPU buying and suggesting I wanted an AMD GPU.
It's actually the reason I turned out to be so passionate about AMDs brand.

I don't see any negativity in the 1080 threads over the throttling issues. I take there is nobody there participating in that topic?
I can almost guarantee this thread will be swamped if the same thing happens on the 480.

That's the way it is. I know because I have witnessed it for six years plus now.

At times I thought I should retaliate. Now I just don't bother. I simply stay in the appropriate threads and flag trolling and spamming without replying. That seems to work best.
 
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Gregster said:
I have seen people called mugs, idiots, fools etc for buying a 1080 and that is OK but put some negativity on a GPU and people get all upset lol. It just makes me chuckle is all.
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ultra enthusiasts often do not care about brand or price, their choice mostly lands where top performing product is, it's as simple as that.
 
Ferrari100 said:
I wouldn't say that, lol.
I know a few younger people with good jobs and heavy bias, trust me.
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just saying that if AMD for exemple releases Vega chip that is faster than pascal titan, a good part of the enthusiast market share would shift vendor, thats just how i see it, they are less brand loyal, ofc you have exceptions but for the most part, it's a lesser degree than mid/high end.
 
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Ferrari100 said:
I don't see any negativity in the 1080 threads over the throttling issues. I take there is nobody there participating in that topic?.
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The usual suspects were all over it. Then most of the people buying them pointed out they were either SLI-ing, watercooling or just didnt actually get any throttling (with GPU-Z graphs to show for it) and it stopped pretty quickly.

The reason the 480 talk is having a lot of back and forthis theres no evidence to back up most of the claims being made, so its all assumption based at this point.
 
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If you calculate the Tflops for the RX 480 we get theoretical performance that is essentially the same as a 390X.

RX 480
2304 (stream processors) X 1.266 (frequency in GHz) X 2 = 5.83 TeraFlops

R9 390X
2816 (stream processors) X 1.050 (frequency in GHz) X 2 = 5.9 TeraFlops

GTX 1070 @ 1683MHz boost
1920 (CUDA cores) X 1.683 (frequency in GHz) X 2 = 6.462 TeraFlops


If the RX 480 can overclock by 10% (1.4GHz) then it would have the same Teraflops as the 1070.

Of course Teraflops is not an accurate method to gauge performance but it shows that an RX 480 at stock is 390X/980 level performance and not 970 level as some are trying to portray it as. If we take architectural improvements into account the card should perform closer to it's theoretical performance and we can expect better DX11 framerates than the 390X and the 980.

Since the 980/390X are currently priced at around the £300 mark, I would say that the RX 480 is a good deal at £200 or less.
 
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There seems to be a bit of a weird mentality from some of the Nvidia fans on this and other forums, it's almost as if spending more money on a gpu makes them better at life, im sure I'm not the only one who sees this as well.

Plenty of the Nvidia enthusiasts are openly rude and condescending towards AMD and AMD fans, I've even seen them being called peasants etc.

Just because you buy a gpu that costs more than someone else does not automatically make you a better person, and before people start taking pot shots at me for posting this, I don't buy Nvidia, because I do not like their business practice, they are very shady and over price their products because they can, I understand it's a business but that's how I feel.

I prefer to buy AMD as I know they offer me the best performance per pound spent normally, and I generally only upgrade when I feel the games I play start to struggle.

Currently I am playing Division alongside WoW and D3 and ESO, my 290 struggles a bit now on Division with all the bells and whistles, so I will upgrade, I have 2k sat waiting, I could go and buy 2 x 1080 and a G-Sync screen but I feel I would be wasting my money, I will hold off for Vega, buy the 480 in the meantime and see how Zen is then make my move.

But I know AMD is going to probably offer me the best bang for buck, plus I would t be paying any G-Sync tax on a free sync monitor
 
andybird123 said:
The usual suspects were all over it. Then most of the people buying them pointed out they were either SLI-ing, watercooling or just didnt actually get any throttling (with GPU-Z graphs to show for it) and it stopped pretty quickly.
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The problem you state is slightly different from what I read.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-fan-issues-fix/

But that conversation does not belong here regardless.


You had a post removed yesterday for saying that nobody will ever want to buy an AMD GPU. That's instigating and sad.
 
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There are people who say innappropriate things on both sides. Matt earned himself a short holiday for some of the things he's said to me in the past. You shouldnt take the words of a single person and say that applies to all people who buy a certain brand, thats exactly the same as the person who said that type of thing in the first place.
 
Quite tempted by two of these, however I want to go up to widescreen gaming and the large freesync versions dont seem to run as high a refresh rate as gsync ones. So sort of still waiting.
 
Ferrari100 said:
The problem you state is slightly different from what I read.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-fan-issues-fix/

But that conversation does not belong here regardless.


You had a post removed yesterday for saying that nobody will ever want to buy an AMD GPU. That's instigating and sad.
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If people do not want to buy AMD then why waste peoples time trolling this thread. They should go back to the Nvidia threads and talk up their brand there.

Only reason for people to spam this thread is to try and downplay AMD since they see the new card as a threat. Pathetic attitude when they should be happy that AMD is bringing much needed competition so that Nvidia is forced to reduce prices.
 
Ferrari100 said:
I was told to hang myself when I first got into GPU buying and suggesting I wanted an AMD GPU.
It's actually the reason I turned out to be so passionate about AMDs brand.

I don't see any negativity in the 1080 threads over the throttling issues. I take there is nobody there participating in that topic?
I can almost guarantee this thread will be swamped if the same thing happens on the 480.

That's the way it is. I know because I have witnessed it for six years plus now.

At times I thought I should retaliate. Now I just don't bother. I simply stay in the appropriate threads and flag trolling and spamming without replying. That seems to work best.
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I do remember you posting in the Pascal threads and posting negatively. You shouldn't really have double standards and I doubt you will be buying any Pascal products.
 
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