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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Gregster said:
Yer, I did try that on day 1 of testing as I remembered having to do the same with my 6970 but it made no difference sadly.



That does sound like a good plan. Yer, might well do that.
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I watched your review by the way, good job with it. Straight to the point, far too many reviews especially on YT feature endless waffling.

When you get a proper card how about exploring whether 4GB is plenty at 1080p or whether 8GB might be better especially in the longer term? I always opt for as much VRAM as I can per card, but I know many would rather pay less if they can.
 
Gregster said:
Yer, I did try that on day 1 of testing as I remembered having to do the same with my 6970 but it made no difference sadly.
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I meant turn the power efficiency on in the Radeon Settings control panel not the Windows control panel. The feature is only available to R9 300 series/Fury series cards and newer, so would not have been available on your 6970.

It's strange that when I turn this off I have problems, maybe my card is faulty too.
 
Gregster said:
Well I have to say that this 480 is the worst card I have ever had. No idea if it is drivers or the card or whatever but I have had enough. Just trying to put together a video showing benchmarks in loads of games (was going for 20) but so far I have only managed to get one game out of 4 to run (alien Isolation). I have had "The display driver has stopped responding", I have had lock ups, I have had the game.exe has stopped working.

I thought it might be Mirrilis Action causing the problem, so went with my external capture card and nope, not having it still. What a waste of time and effort! :mad:
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Silly has it may sound did you install the correct driver?

Scroll down here and make sure you download the driver under 480 64bit
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
 
Our German member of staff Der8auer has got a reference card upto 1500MHz core at which point it matches GTX 980. :)

For more information check and like Caseking Facebook page. :)
 
1500 only matches a 980? Thats rather crap if true as people i think would have liked a 1500 to match a touch over a 980 tho not 980ti levels lol. Hmm is the 980 in question overclocked at all? Is the 1500 stable for 24/7 is it under 60-70 temps when gaming.

(goes to look on fb now)

Hmm power draw from just the gpu seems quite high with that and isnt 24/7 and its under water or something i couldnt quite tell due to google translator not working well on that post on fb. Rather just get a 980, lower watts, good power, popular, will run better than 480 and before anyone says, no i dont care about ashes benchmarks or dx12 as no games with it are out that are any good (yet).
 
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