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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Seanspeed said:
Managing graphics tasks to two different GPU's is the problem. It's not that it cant be done, it's that it becomes a lot more difficult and requires more effort to be done right. And as scaling never works in a reliable manner due to bottlenecks, it's not necessarily the most efficient route anyways.

And Vulkan is even farther behind than DX12.

If you want a list of upcoming big PC games that wont use DX12:

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Civilization VI
Dishonored 2
FIFA 17
For Honor
Mafia 3
Mass Effect Andromeda
Prey
Resident Evil 7
Shadow Warrior 2
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Tekken 7
Titanfall 2
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
No Man's Sky

I'm sure there's more.

I mean, I really think the announcement of all those Xbox titles coming to PC really kind of twisted the picture a bit in terms of the amount of support DX12 is getting in the big picture.
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Well they might get patched just like Tomb Raider did and make 480 a much better option. New tech is new tech u can't fight future simple as that, after looking at those quantum benchs one must be insane to buy 970 or 980....
 
Erik13 said:
Well they might get patched just like Tomb Raider did and make 480 a much better option. New tech is new tech u can't fight future simple as that, after looking at those quantum benchs one must be insane to buy 970 or 980....
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Love when someone say a game wont have dx12 on a list when it will like civ VI
Its awesome to have for all those turns at the end game.
BF1 will have dx12 as well as many other ea games

None in the right mind buy a maxwell card today and then Furyx and the 480 is the buy today choice
Vega be interesting for many amd owners to upgrade to.
 
I could really do with a new card asap. Made my mind up on the 480. It's mega frustrating not knowing clock speeds for these AIB models as I feel like I would be mad to pre order until I do. Hopefully released before launch so I can place a preorder and get a card in the first batch! :)
 
flopper said:
Love when someone say a game wont have dx12 on a list when it will like civ VI
Its awesome to have for all those turns at the end game.
BF1 will have dx12 as well as many other ea games

None in the right mind buy a maxwell card today and then Furyx and the 480 is the buy today choice
Vega be interesting for many amd owners to upgrade to.
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While this was posted a while back and BF1 will use both DX11 & DX12 you have to wonder how long that will continue.
People defending DX11 and downlplaying DX12 increased growth seems a bit silly to me..

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when looking back at AMD's product launchs, i can't help but think they often shoot themselves in the foot, and i am not talking about budget constraints like the 290 cooler, but mostly by poorly made choices, like going overboard in promoting a product that turns out to be a mid range more expensive and outperformed by the card they are replacing(285-280), or launching Fiji XT first then Fiji pro later on with practicaly similar performance, but im not going to expand on these choices and what alternative choices could have been made instead.
let's talk about the launch of the RX 480, a card promoted for a 199$ price tag, then launched with a limited or non-existing stock of the 4GB variant, but rather settle for 40$(20% of the card's price, ridiculously high 20$ extra is enough) more expensive 8GB variant, this puzzles me knowing the 1060 is to be released end of july, and that AMD is releasing this card for market share, wouldn't it been better if AMD used this month to assert the price difference between the 2 card by releasing or focusing stock on 4GB ? and it definitely would have sold even better than the 8GB.
could have even avoided any power issue the card had, since the 8 memory modules actualy eat about 50watt, a 4GB would be using about 20-25watt less, puting the card power draw around ~140watt.
looking back at this launch i see few things that could have been done differently:
1-focus on 4GB variant
2-dont push the clock to the limit of what it was designed for
3-stop making reference design altogether, and leave it to AIBs, untill i get enough resources to do it right.
 
Was the 480 actually supposed to compete with highend cards? No.. Now please go back to your corner.

Most new items have teething problems. I find that peoples expectations are absolutely surreal. Why can't people be happy instead of constantly moaning.



AlamoX said:
when looking back at AMD's product launchs, i can't help but think they often shoot themselves in the foot, and i am not talking about budget constraints like the 290 cooler, but mostly by poorly made choices, like going overboard in promoting a product that turns out to be a mid range more expensive and outperformed by the card they are replacing(285-280), or launching Fiji XT first then Fiji pro later on with practicaly similar performance, but im not going to expand on these choices and what alternative choices could have been made instead.
let's talk about the launch of the RX 480, a card promoted for a 199$ price tag, then launched with a limited or non-existing stock of the 4GB variant, but rather settle for 40$(20% of the card's price, ridiculously high 20$ extra is enough) more expensive 8GB variant, this puzzles me knowing the 1060 is to be released end of july, and that AMD is releasing this card for market share, wouldn't it been better if AMD used this month to assert the price difference between the 2 card by releasing or focusing stock on 4GB ? and it definitely would have sold even better than the 8GB.
could have even avoided any power issue the card had, since the 8 memory modules actualy eat about 50watt, a 4GB would be using about 20-25watt less, puting the card power draw around ~140watt.
looking back at this launch i see few things that could have been done differently:
1-focus on 4GB variant
2-dont push the clock to the limit of what it was designed for
3-stop making reference design altogether, and leave it to AIBs, untill i get enough resources to do it right.
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sweols said:
Was the 480 actually supposed to compete with highend cards? No.. Now please go back to your corner.

Most new items have teething problems. I find that peoples expectations are absolutely surreal. Why can't people be happy instead of constantly moaning.
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what high end are you talking about ? i am talking about 1060
 
AlamoX said:
when looking back at AMD's product launchs, i can't help but think they often shoot themselves in the foot, and i am not talking about budget constraints like the 290 cooler, but mostly by poorly made choices, like going overboard in promoting a product that turns out to be a mid range more expensive and outperformed by the card they are replacing(285-280), or launching Fiji XT first then Fiji pro later on with practicaly similar performance, but im not going to expand on these choices and what alternative choices could have been made instead.
let's talk about the launch of the RX 480, a card promoted for a 199$ price tag, then launched with a limited or non-existing stock of the 4GB variant, but rather settle for 40$(20% of the card's price, ridiculously high 20$ extra is enough) more expensive 8GB variant, this puzzles me knowing the 1060 is to be released end of july, and that AMD is releasing this card for market share, wouldn't it been better if AMD used this month to assert the price difference between the 2 card by releasing or focusing stock on 4GB ? and it definitely would have sold even better than the 8GB.
could have even avoided any power issue the card had, since the 8 memory modules actualy eat about 50watt, a 4GB would be using about 20-25watt less, puting the card power draw around ~140watt.
looking back at this launch i see few things that could have been done differently:
1-focus on 4GB variant
2-dont push the clock to the limit of what it was designed for
3-stop making reference design altogether, and leave it to AIBs, untill i get enough resources to do it right.
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You always troll in these forums with similar drivel against AMD.
Please spare us, and go somewhere else.
 
Jono8 said:
No i am basing that on all the information we have so far which is that the RX480 has a HUGE way to go to get the same overclocking capability as the 980Ti (in terms of a percentage overclock over stock).

We've only seen 1500mhz and that was on an extensively modified water cooled RX480 with the power limit set at 300%!.

Yes the AIB cards may have more power connectors but we saw how well that helped on the 1070 and 1080 didn't we...:p
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Yes but if you knew anything about overclocking the 1070 and 80 you would know that's due to either hardware or driver level preventing high overclocks. Could be GPU boost throttling it down because of the power limit. I remember 8pack making a remark on this. So assuming the 480 is exactly the same is jumping the gun isn't it? The Fury x didn't overclock for crap i guess all cards are doomed now huh? :D
 
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