Irrelevant. It's a GPU market not an AMD market, so a 480 cannot be a high end product unless it travels back in time.
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RDNA 3 rumours Q3/4 2022
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I had a 290X at the time and it wasn't an upgrade when I compared them. For around £300 it was the best card for a long time putting some of these recent gens to shame. It was a power guzzler though and I had to modify cooling with AIO some time later to make it cool/quiet.
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Irrelevant in comparison as the RX480 was AMD high end product whether you think so or not.
Had a rx480 before the 3070 it really was last of the line of mid tier cards at a reasonable price, 3070 was very overpriced roughly 2.5 times the performance of a six year old GPU at 2.5 times the price, price to performance has been terrible the last few years.
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LOL, what? It was never considered high end by anyone, not even by AMD who called it a mainstream card. And that's the market segment that Poneros is talking about.
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What was the high end card in the amd line up when the rtx 480 was out. Ill wait.
Pretty sure the Fury and Fury X held that spot for AMD. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-rx-480/24.html
The RX480 couldn't beat the preceding gen R9 390X rebrand of the 290X.
Apparently there was also a 295X2 - I must have blacked out for that release.
The RX480 couldn't beat the preceding gen R9 390X rebrand of the 290X.
Apparently there was also a 295X2 - I must have blacked out for that release.
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The 295X2 was, for a while, the most powerful, single card, solution you could buy and had a superb AIO and block. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized time. Had it not been for the limited VRAM I would have likely been using mine through 2018.
lol, see the two posts above, you didn't have too wait long.
But, it wouldn't even matter if they had no higher end card, it still wouldn't make it a high end card. What market segment was the RX 480 aimed at again? High end or mainstream? oh, that's right, the mainstream one.
I will just repeat it for you. Nobody considered the RX 480 a high end card, not AMD, Not the tech sites, not anyone who knows anything about graphic cards.
It was a big sob as well. I remember receiving mine from ocuk and the shipping box was so big i thought they made a mistake and sent me 2.
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I actually fit mine in a Sugo M-ITX case. If you could position it and the rad correctly without impediment, it was one of the best cards ever for venting heat away from the chips (except for, of course, the incomparable 5800 Ultra
).We'll unfortunately never see a performance delta again between the flagship and ultra-enthusiast models as much as we did with the dual-GPU cards. With those, you paid 80% more than the single GPU flagship, but you got an ~60% performance return (at the height of mgpu support). Nowadays, you pay 80% more for a ~25% performance increase e.g. 3090 vs 3080 -- it's a bit of a joke if you think about it.
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One can only hope MCM could bring back some of that magic...I actually fit mine in a Sugo M-ITX case. If you could position it and the rad correctly without impediment, it was one of the best card's ever for venting heat away from the chips (except for, of course, the incomparable 5800 Ultra
We'll unfortunately never see a performance delta again between the flagship and ultra-enthusiast models as much as we did with the dual-GPU cards. With those, you paid 80% more than the single GPU flagship, but you got an ~60% performance return (at the height of mgpu support). Nowadays, you pay 80% more for a ~25% performance increase e.g. 3090 vs 3080 -- it's a bit of a joke if you think about it.
It's actually around 115% more for 15% performance when looking at msrp pricing.
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You seem to have a real issue with the 3090 chap. Will you have the same outlook if the 4070 is say 10% faster? People upgrade cpu's for that type of gain and spend £200. Are you going to be upgrading your 3080?
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Which means 7700 in the next gen I guess.
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Wont be out for a while though.
My rig is almost 10 years old, a few more months won't hurt.
Soldato
Will be a mighty upgrade then! 
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