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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

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


EDIT: Oppps... almost forgot the link : BattleField 1 shown at AMD's Computex RX 480 Launch
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This sounds promising, I'm presuming this is a complete rebuild on a different or updated engine? (note to self: look it up)

With the mention of As compute it'll be interesting to see how both sides perform, let's just hope we don't hear about any major changes/additions being done like we did not long before ROTTR released.
 
nashathedog said:
This sounds promising, I'm presuming this is a complete rebuild on a different or updated engine? (note to self: look it up)

With the mention of As compute it'll be interesting to see how both sides perform, let's just hope we don't hear about any major changes/additions being done like we did not long before ROTTR released.
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i really really wanna know what he means with premium multi-gpu support

and that more about the multigpu support will come later
 
h4rm0ny said:
Well Nvidia don't have any comparable cards for them to show it against. There was no other card they could pick. If AMD had shown it against a 980 everyone would just attack them for comparing against the previous generation. The comments practically write themselves... 'afraid to compare with the current tech...', 'AMD's new generation is less powerful than Nvidia's last...' and so forth.

When Nvidia actually release a 480 competitor, then proper comparisons can begin.
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Or they could just do what Nvidia did and give us relative gaming performance compared with last generations card. That would have been far more useful to everyone.

All I am saying is that I think it is a bit rich of you to have a go at people comparing the RX480 to a 1080, when that is exactly what AMD themselves have done and when that comparison is the only official benchmark we have. With AMD using that slide on their announcement material as the only comparison, of course the two are going to be compared.
 
HardStyler3 said:
i really really wanna know what he means with premium multi-gpu support

and that more about the multigpu support will come later
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I have requested more info like this at the show next week as it's clear people want to know more about mGPU. Hopefully my words will not go unheard and/or they are already planning to tell us more.
 
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Jono8 said:
Or they could just do what Nvidia did and give us relative gaming performance compared with last generations card. That would have been far more useful to everyone.
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That would have far less value from the point of view of what they're trying to show. They haven't really given us any meaningful benchmarks yet, their emphasis was price-performance. And on price-performance you can legitimately compare different classes of card. In fact that's the only way you can compare them. What you can't do is say that "the argument is about which is best between 480 and 1080 [in terms of performance]" which is what the article Ferrari linked to said.

You recognize that comparing 480 and 1080 on price-performance is a very different thing from comparing them on performance which is what I actually said was wrong to do.

Jono8 said:
All I am saying is that I think it is a bit rich of you to have a go at people comparing the RX480 to a 1080, when that is exactly what AMD themselves have done and when that comparison is the only official benchmark we have. With AMD using that slide on their announcement material as the only comparison, of course the two are going to be compared.
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Well, like I said. There wasn't anything else to compare it to. Comparing it to their own last generation would open themselves to the same attacks as comparing it to Nvidia's last generation.
 
Jono8 said:
Or they could just do what Nvidia did and give us relative gaming performance compared with last generations card. That would have been far more useful to everyone.

All I am saying is that I think it is a bit rich of you to have a go at people comparing the RX480 to a 1080, when that is exactly what AMD themselves have done and when that comparison is the only official benchmark we have. With AMD using that slide on their announcement material as the only comparison, of course the two are going to be compared.
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AMD compared two 480s against one 1080. Wouldn't be a fair comparison for a single 480 to go against it. Now it was $500 worth of gpu against $700, or would you have wanted a $700 card beating a single $200 card and then complaining how AMD can't make anything competitive? :D
 
Sixense said:
AMD compared two 480s against one 1080. Wouldn't be a fair comparison for a single 480 to go against it. Now it was $500 worth of gpu against $700, or would you have wanted a $700 card beating a single $200 card and then complaining how AMD can't make anything competitive? :D
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*sigh*
 
h4rm0ny said:
You recognize that comparing 480 and 1080 on price-performance is a very different thing from comparing them on performance which is what I actually said was wrong to do.
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I don't think anyone on here has been comparing them directly in terms of performance, single card for single card, and If they have (in terms of benchmark numbers) it was only to gauge what sort of single card performance we can expect.

The comparisons discussed have been whether it is better to get a single 1080 for £100-£150 more compared with 2x RX480 which is a totally valid comparison and totally on topic for this thread seen as that is what AMD have shown us and compared themselves.

Are we forgetting what this thread is about? As far as I can see it is a thread discussing AMD's Polaris launch/presentation of the RX480.
 
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tommybhoy said:
Nv funding(please don't add Async:p) this public showing gets Nv access to promoting it as a Nv title without actualy branding it-same as they've done with nearly every Frostbite release.;)
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Another own goal by amd? Considering all the past dice/mantle/vulkan debate, would have thought amd would have had this as a show piece of their tech.
 
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