Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

[Yrkoon]

heh. https://www.google.com/search?q=CPU...ved=0ahUKEwi__5TO_ZbNAhWpCsAKHWWRBRMQ_AUICSgC

when i was 15 and went to college the lectureres kept calling the pc cases's hard drives.... it drove me up the wall lol

any ways im excited for these new cards, gonna be smack bang in my price range and probably double the performance of my 270x woot woot, been dying for a new gpu for so long and got rest of system all new and shiny just been waiting

it is amazing that it has took this long for something cheapish to double my gpu power, i hope they are really available to buy on the 29th and nvidia can go do one, oh my 270x is the bottlekneck now lol

 

[SkeeterUK]

I wonder how good the 480 will be in say witcher 3 with full details on except hair. You reckon maybe 60fps without drops at 1080p? Gta 5 maxed out at 60 without drops? Think those are the only games i cant get to 60 maxed so far. Oh and the division.

 

[Rroff]

Arguing about the meaning of TDP. lol.

Nearly everyone including myself makes errors when it comes to TDP - at best it is only a loose guide to actual power consumption due to being thermal design power after all heh. The rating is usually only a guide for designing the various parts relevant to power and thermals and I believe different companies tend to use different TDP bins as well i.e. some will round to 25 watt bins and others 30, etc. - with GPUs it a very good idea to look at it as a thermal and electrical envelope for the product due to the way it is utilised.

EDIT: And yeah companies interchanging power and TDP tends to complicate things.

 

[chroniclard]

When's this thing landing in stores, 29th?

Looking to build a budget gaming rig with it being able to run witcher 1080p 60fps, probably grab a used z87 board and i5/i7 chip as seems to be the best bang for your buck second hand option. Sub £450 in total, already have monitor and accessories.

I had a 970 before and that ran it fine with a few things turned down so assuiming this 480rx will be a good bit better?

Marginally better rather than a "good bit better".

 

[TheRealDeal]

The problem is that a lot of review sites uses TDP and power draw interchangeably even although there are important difference.


The bottom line is AMD has an official power draw of the 290x as 250, the FuryX as 275w. Both cards frequently pull significantly more when under load.

The gtx1080 pulls up to 311w in a review i showed the other day. It's average power usage is 173w though. That's why Nvidia state it's TDP s 180w. It's the average and not max they base these things on by the looks of it.

The cooler then has to be able to cool the average heat output of 173w hence the 180w tdp. That's my take on it. Tbh though i turned 38 today and am hammered so feel free to give me some insight lol.

 

[bayo000]

If you want to talk TDP start a new thread. This gone way off 480 topic now.

 

[hyperseven]

If you want to talk TDP start a new thread. This gone way off 480 topic now.

funny isn't it, the whole thread has turned into some bizzaro game of GPU 'Top Trumps'.

With all these new cards, either brand, why is there no love for a bundled game? No new never settle on the horizon? One of the manufacturers has got to have BF1 tie in.

 

[oweneades]

I wonder how good the 480 will be in say witcher 3 with full details on except hair. You reckon maybe 60fps without drops at 1080p? Gta 5 maxed out at 60 without drops? Think those are the only games i cant get to 60 maxed so far. Oh and the division.

Performance is rumoured to be between the GTX 980 and Fury (non X) so assume similar to what they achieve in those games (I don't know if thy match what you are after off the top of my head).

The 480 itself doesn't really interest me as a desktop card (based on rumoured performance it isn't an upgrade) but I am interested in the avenues it opens for AMD in the mobile market (as Polaris). Competition is desperately needed in the gaming laptop space as currently Nvidia have it all to themselves. Arguably they won't take the performance crown (mobile Polaris "490" would have to better a desktop class GTX980 but we could see a good shake up in the mid - high end class models.

 

[maonayze]

Your entire post is utterly ridiculous
It is quite simple. AMD claim a power consumption for the 290x of 250w, AMD for the FuryX 275w. Both cards actually use 20-30 watts more than stated during gaming. All the evidence has been presented including official AMD documentation from their website.


You can go on and on being anal retentive about language but the facts are the facts.


When it comes to Polaris 10 AMD have publicly stated less than 150w. We won't know know try figures until the reviews.

When the referee has already counted to 10 and declared a winner it's time to concede and bow out knowing you lost to a better man....on that day. I am sure there will always be a rematch.

Please, Please AMD drop us some more info.....this place is going nuts

 

[Gregster]

Agreed Maonayze, we could do with some more info about anything really. I am hoping to hear something about a 490 or 490X or even Vega would be sweet.

 

[maonayze]

Agreed Maonayze, we could do with some more info about anything really. I am hoping to hear something about a 490 or 490X or even Vega would be sweet.

I think hearing about Vega would be a bit of a shock, let alone sweet. We don't really know hardly anything about the RX480 in reality....

Personally I'd like to see the 480 being closer to the Fury (non-x) in performance and the 480X (If it exists) to give the 1070 a run for its money, as this would indeed shake a few things up in GPULand.

P.S. Greg, I thought you had ordered the EVGA FTW, not the G1 gaming? Did the waiting for the FTW break you? LOL

 

[TheRealDeal]

Performance is rumoured to be between the GTX 980 and Fury (non X) so assume similar to what they achieve in those games (I don't know if thy match what you are after off the top of my head).

Personally i think that's dreaming to much. 390 or X performance is probably what we will get. With graphics cards we love to think on the high side and set ourselves up for disappointment. If it is Fury performance Amd will have over achieved.

 

[GAC]

not hearing anything is a tad worrying with what little we'v seen. a single test result at what two cross fired cards can do which tbh threw up more questions than definite answers. all we have now is wild guesswork on what it MAY do. as for the vr vr vr stuff that means very little to most people as how many gamers have a rift or vive sat there doing nothing waiting for a new graphics card ??

its either amd's shockingly bad pr team being idiots again or they dont want to say anything which may nudge people to buy nvidia cards before the end of june. who knows, but not knowing anything much 3 weeks before the claimed launch with stock on shelves isnt going to help pre orders and stock fly off the shelves.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

funny isn't it, the whole thread has turned into some bizzaro game of GPU 'Top Trumps'.

With all these new cards, either brand, why is there no love for a bundled game? No new never settle on the horizon? One of the manufacturers has got to have BF1 tie in.

If anyone has a BF1 tie in it'll be AMD but I hope you're right. I would love to see something along those lines and hope for more for the consumer as both companies compete.

 

[fs123]

Personally i think that's dreaming to much. 390 or X performance is probably what we will get. With graphics cards we love to think on the high side and set ourselves up for disappointment. If it is Fury performance Amd will have over achieved.

The 480 has 5.83 Teraflops theoretical performance which is about the same as a 390X (5.9 Teraflops). A 10% overclock to 1400MHz would take it to about 6.4 teraflops.

With architectural improvements I think we can expect performance to get around Fury Pro level when overclocked at least. A bargain for around £200.

 

[meldarthx]

The 480 has 5.83 Teraflops theoretical performance which is about the same as a 390X (5.9 Teraflops). A 10% overclock to 1400MHz would take it to about 6.4 teraflops.

With architectural improvements I think we can expect performance to get around Fury Pro level when overclocked at least. A bargain for around £200.

honestly this is a good est - why I've figured it would 480 would fall around 390X/980 speeds......and improve with driver improvements....possibly up to nano speeds

 

[Gregster]

I think hearing about Vega would be a bit of a shock, let alone sweet. We don't really know hardly anything about the RX480 in reality....

Personally I'd like to see the 480 being closer to the Fury (non-x) in performance and the 480X (If it exists) to give the 1070 a run for its money, as this would indeed shake a few things up in GPULand.

P.S. Greg, I thought you had ordered the EVGA FTW, not the G1 gaming? Did the waiting for the FTW break you? LOL

Yer, I crumbled . I was mainly after a custom cooled card with good warranty and Gigabyte fitted the bill and had stock.

 

[The_Gump]

If anyone has a BF1 tie in it'll be AMD but I hope you're right. I would love to see something along those lines and hope for more for the consumer as both companies compete.

AMD is indeed supporting BF1... as seen in the Computex footage shown during the 480 launch (link below)

I'm surprised no has has really mentioned what was shown... AMD is partnered to the game and it also shows something called "Premium MultiGPU Support".
With all the doom and gloom about mGPU set ups, and lack of support for them, I would have thought more would be discussed about this.

My thoughts are... AMD + DX12 + VR = a resurgence of mGPU

AMD have already talked about supporting and partnering with quite a number of developers (dont have a link to that info sorry, it actually might of been during the same conference). And since they seem to be advertising this "Premium MultiGPU Support" thing, it leads me to believe that BF1 wont be the only game they will want to showcase as mGPU friendly. Logic says they would try and push it with as many games as possible.

Add to that the fact they showed a crossfire bench for the 480 AND the fact that they have also been pushing mGPU as the way to go for VR... we just might see quite a big effort from AMD towards supporting mGPU set ups.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Oppps... almost forgot the link : BattleField 1 shown at AMD's Computex RX 480 Launch

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Just to add some real info to loosen up the AMD bashing.
This is an article from March with some interesting bits:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10145/amd-unveils-gpu-architecture-roadmap-after-polaris-comes-vega

"Meanwhile AMD has also confirmed the number of GPUs in the Vega stack and their names. We’ll be seeing a Vega 10 and a Vega 11. This follows Polaris GPU naming – which has finally been confirmed – with Polaris 10 and Polaris 11. I have also been told that Polaris 11 is the smaller of the Polaris GPUs, so at this point it’s reasonable to assume the same for Vega."

So two Vega GPUs?? So I assume one is closer in size to the GP104 and the other is a GP102 competitor??

That is really unusual for AMD when you come to think of it a bit more - their high end tends to be one GPU under 400MM2 when a new node is used,so it looks like AMD might be going for a larger GPU to fight the GP102.

 

[Ferrari100]

Yer, I crumbled . I was mainly after a custom cooled card with good warranty and Gigabyte fitted the bill and had stock.

I'm still considering two AMD RX480's in crossfire.

I'm hoping AMD will live demo a couple of crossfire games for us in advance.