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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

humbug said:
It was never confirmed, just speculated on until the 380X was eventually released.
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Nope it was confirmed by amd about a week after release.
285 was announced in Aug 14, I remember the underwhelming 30 years amd hype event because they needed shareholder notice.
Tech report did a review on the 2ND sep, stating they believed there would be a 285x.
A week later anandtech had confirmation from amd that the 285 wasn't a full chip.

http://techreport.com/review/26997/amd-radeon-r9-285-graphics-card-reviewed/2

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8460/amd-radeon-r9-285-review
 
D.P. said:
FuryX official TDP 275w
Actual power consumption: 300w
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review,10.html


Unless the game is CPU bound once the Hawaii and Fiji are fully loaded they pull 300w and their official TDP is 275w for FuryX and 250w for 290x.
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AMD didn't publish any info on TDP, all they said was average power consumption 275 Watts.

Depending on which reviewer you go to they calculate under or over 275.

It has 375 watts of power inlets, thats its TDP.
 
humbug said:
AMD didn't publish any info on TDP, all they said was average power consumption 275 Watts.

Depending on which reviewer you go to they calculate under or over 275.

It has 375 watts of power inlets, thats its TDP.
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No, TDP is not the same as peak power. Peak power is typically 1.5x TDP.

Actually power consumption will vary with GPU load. In CPU bound scenarios the GPU power draw is reduced.
 
You guys do know that the TDP is the amount of heat generated by the CPU that needs to be dissipated during normal operation and not the watts?
 
I certainly do ^^^
Heat output in watt is a direct conversion of power consumption in watts.
A 375 Watt card has a minimum 375 watt TDP rating. Fury-X is a 375 watt card

D.P. said:
No, TDP is not the same as peak power. Peak power is typically 1.5x TDP.

Actually power consumption will vary with GPU load. In CPU bound scenarios the GPU power draw is reduced.
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Lets try this another way, if your going to assert someone is factually wrong its usually polite to provide data to backup those facts from source.

so instead of just asserting your self by reasserting lets have some facts from source.
 
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humbug said:
I certainly do ^^^
Heat output in watt is a direct conversion of power consumption in watts.
A 375 Watt card has a minimum 375 watt TDP rating.



Lets try this another way, if your going to assert someone is factually wrong its usually polite to provide data to backup those facts from source.

so instead of just asserting your self by reasserting lets have some facts from source.
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I provided a link that showed the FuryX pulling 300w, higher than the 275w figure that AMD states. The same link showed the 290x pulling 286w, well over AMD's 250 published figure.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review,10.html
 
I see a lot of people defending AMD saying "they never said this" "they never did that".

For example "AMD never said what part of the market they wanted to target with the 480". But we can infer from the name it was meant to be faster than the 390, a 3 year old arch. Given the shrink and new arch, a lot faster. It's supposed to be a mid-range part but being slower than last gen's mid-range makes it appear low-end. Perhaps that is why they have tried to cloud the issue by renaming it "RX".
 
D.P. said:
I provided a link that showed the FuryX pulling 300w, higher than the 275w figure that AMD states. The same link showed the 290x pulling 286w, well over AMD's 250 published figure.
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No, what you did was cherry pick a couple of reviewers and passed them off as thie authority on it.

Guru3D do not set AMD's TDP rating, AMD do that, so where is AMD rating thier Fury-X as having a TDP of 275 Watts.
 
brawl3r said:
Don't know if this has been posted, I am taking it with a big spoon of salt, but maybe they broke their NDA not sure.
or just click baiting either way.

http://neurogadget.net/2016/06/07/amd-polaris-r9-490-vs-gtx-1080-powerful-difference/32453
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With comments like...

Both the GeForce GTX 1080 and the R9 490 were released just a short while after each other (the latter released less than a year after the former).
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The article is pure click bait, unless they have a time machine and even then it is still click bait, but with a doc brown twist. :)
 
brawl3r said:
Don't know if this has been posted, I am taking it with a big spoon of salt, but maybe they broke their NDA not sure.
or just click baiting either way.

http://neurogadget.net/2016/06/07/amd-polaris-r9-490-vs-gtx-1080-powerful-difference/32453
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It's just a load of nonsense. Someone looking at paper specs from another website, including the unconfirmed specs of a card that hasn't even been revealed yet, and trying to figure out their relative power based on that. I bet you could show the same author the specs for an i5 6600K and an FX 9590 and they'd say the AMD chip was obviously more powerful because it has more cores and more gigglehurrz.
 
humbug said:
No, what you did was cherry pick a couple of reviewers and passed them off as thie authority on it.

Guru3D do not set AMD's TDP rating, AMD do that, so where is AMD rating thier Fury-X as having a TDP of 275 Watts.
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Straight form AMD website
http://products.amd.com/en-us/searc...deon™-R9-Fury-Series/AMD-Radeon™-R9-Fury-X/67

System Requirements
WATTAGE 275 W
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Edit and the 290x
http://products.amd.com/en-us/searc...-Radeon™-R9-200-Series/AMD-Radeon™-R9-290X/38
 
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