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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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Easy ocuk most ever talked about GPU launch. At its peak this thread was hard to follow.
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I understand that but it was quickly written off as a non-issue by a lot of people because it "doesn't change the performance so why worry?"
That's how I remember it going pretty quickly. Plus I have nothing to feel persecuted about, I haven't bought a 480.
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So basically what it boils down to is: if you have a reference card don't overclock them and they stay within the design spec and its fine. If you want to overclock then get a AIB card instead.
The reference cards were clearly designed with a budget in mind for people with little to no overclocking ability on their motherboards and limited over current draw in their PSU's i.e. OEM and budget builds. Hence the 6pin connector. They didn't take into account benchers who would push them beyond their design specs and and then post results. Theres a reason overclocking is always stated to be at the owners risk because its out of spec, if theres a fault here its that they should have been locked down so they they can't be overclocked. It looks like there will be a driver update to address that, though if they had been locked down to start with people would have complained because they couldn't overclock them instead!
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https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18485414
GPU score is what counts and it was 14900 which is gtx980/390x perf. His overall score is inflated by the i7-6950X with OC.
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Honestly most people are highly likely to be fine - I'm not a fan of just saying "its going to be fine" and ignore there is a problem there though given the information that has come to light - just not in my nature.
Really need some proper information from a motherboard manufacturer but one area that concerns me is overclocked 480s in crossfire on a more budget end of the spectrum board there is potential there to blow way past the intended amount of power being drawn through the board and potential to really test how well thermal or current management of the board works (or doesn't).
The other thing is the nature of the problem appears to stem out of something that can't easily be sorted by the AIB whacking an additional 6 or 8 pin on there.
I'm a bit perplexed by the configuration I can't really believe it to be an oversight but it does read like they originally intended it for another platform and overlooked sorting it properly for a desktop GPU.
Maybe it's cost reasons. Maybe it was cheaper to build the PCB this way to try and maximise profit.
+1 Think someone was getting a bit excited and forgot to look at the details.
At 1400mhz the rx480 with a Gscore of 14600-14900 is around 1.1ghz 390x to throttling stock Nano in firestrike GRAPHICS score.
The fury 3584 stock to clocked ranges from 15000 to 16500 gscore
The Fury X stock to clocked ranges from 15500-17500
Average rx 480 clocks seem to be 1330-1350 on ref cards so far.
Gm200 980ti/ titan x g scores are anywhere around stock 17k to oc'd 21k
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Its not bad tho...
1,100 GPU points above my 1550Mhz 970, if those Board Partners could find another 100Mhz they would start to look pretty good at £250.
agreed if they can reliably get 1400-1450 with the aib the 480 is a beaut. Just a shame they couldn't make a 2560 shader jobby with 1350-1400 guaranteed.
Yup. with the performance where its at with 2304 Shaders 2560 probably would have had me buying an AIB one.
I think it would have been of interest to other 970/390 owners too
Its a case of almost, but not quite, just that bit more would have broadened its appeal.
I think the only reason 970/390 owners are so fixated with the 480 is because they don't have any other options at their price range - but then what did you expect, higher end cards at launch will always be more expensive, so if you want more performance there's always the 1070 & 1080. There will be no world where you'll have cheaper options for that kind of performance.
Just wondering, lot of talk on performance here, what about visual quality? to my knowledge the RX480 has HDR support, though that requires a monitor to fully support that, would this still not translate into some gains on current monitors out there anyways?
I suspect vega might be a card that fits perfectly for those users to upgrade to but as we are looking at prices like 400$ and up are expected due to the expensive wafers at 14/16nm.