How Powerful is AMD's RX 480?
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d3athron3d
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Dark Bane it will crush 1080 and 1070 there are two polaris GPUs from 200 dollars to 300 dollars the cheapest polaris 10 packs 2304 sp 8gb 150w max so already on spec alone 1070 is dead and with no oc headroom after the 2ghz boost clock is kinda meh. then we have the yet to be announced full fat polaris which on so alone matches the 1080 cuda cores. add in the new arch improvements in the front end(DX 11, Tessellation,Compression, Geometry Processing) etc it will be epic.
Dark Bane
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So this is the card AMD fans have been waiting for. I've been waiting for an AMD card that surpasses equivalent Nvidia offerings for quite a long time. Now I see why this is being termed a game changer.
Glordit
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I would assume you are referring to the RX490 and Vega cards. As the RX480 can't go head to head with a 1080/70, it's not that type of card.
The Joker
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No just no.
The RX480 is aimed at a completely different market segment.
We also have absolutely no idea how it'll perform as there are no actual game or synthetic benchmarks available except for the little bit we saw at the event.
There will definitely be another Polaris card, which will most likely slip into the $300 range. As far as performance goes..I think AMD would like to target the 1070...Not sure if they can though.
The cards that tackle the 1080 and hopefully 1080Ti are code named Vega. these cards won't be available till at least October of this year. Very little info about Vega is known.
Also Vega won't be cheap. We know it'll be using HBM2 stacked memory which is fairly expensive vs GDDR5/X, we also know it'll be the big die card, if I had to guess I would say anything between $700-$1000 for the full fat Vega card.
FarligOpptreden
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Dark Bane
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From what I understand so far, I think the GTX 1070 has been or will be beaten by the RX 480 as it has been rumoured to have performance figures similar to the GTX 980. There seems to be some that think it'll even compete closely with the GTX 1080. Which may mean that the 490 may very well be one monstrous card. As for the Vega cards not being cheap, I really hope that's not the case.
Ghost02
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The GTX1070 beats the 980, it is more in line with the 980ti, the RX480 competes with the 970 but even if it got close to the 980 that would still be far off the 1070 and there is no chance it would touch the 1080. You're comparing products for vastly different markets.
The Joker
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Sounds like you're gravitating all the more towards the green team these days.
LOL xD You clown. I'm just trying to stop the spread of misinformation.
AMD themselves have said the RX480 targets the R9 390/GTX970 and could possibly take on the GTX980 at a much much lower price point while using far less power. Their plan is to gain market share. People need to realize that the ultra high end enthusiast market makes up less than 1 percent of gamers.
Mister 44
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It is strongly advised to take anything coming from videocardz.com (and 3DMark, for that matter) with more than a grain of salt, but this graph does seem plausible, considering what we know atm.
http://videocardz.com/60253/amd-radeon-r9-480-3dmark11-benchmarks
67DF:C7 CF = RX 480 Crossfire
67DF:C7 = Single RX 480
67DF:C4 = Single RX 470 (or R 480?)
http://videocardz.com/60253/amd-radeon-r9-480-3dmark11-benchmarks
67DF:C7 CF = RX 480 Crossfire
67DF:C7 = Single RX 480
67DF:C4 = Single RX 470 (or R 480?)
Glordit
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The X in the RX series is 10, since it would be lame to call everything a R10 480, R being Radeon, X being 10 and 4xx being the series of card, 460/470/480 and possibly a 580 series.
I am genuinely excited for the new AMD Cards, the last one I had was ATI 9600XT
Dark Bane
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If this is correct then the 480 competes quite favourably with the GTX 980. & since this is the reference card, I'm hoping we'll have non-reference cards that can reach or surpass the GTX 980Ti. But seeing this, I wonder if AMD will have anything to go against a 1080Ti, which I suspect we'll be seeing sooner or later.
Dark Bane
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Hehe, I didn't notice that "whistling:
Mister 44
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Like [MENTION=23903]Dark Bane[/MENTION] I didn't notice that either, but it does make sense now
I'm still rolling with a R9 270X and I guess I'm a bit of an AMD fanboi when we get to the GPU side (Intel on CPU) so I share your enthusiasm for the new line. Can't wait for October to see the high-end cards but I'm starting to think that the RX 480 may just fit neatly into my budget and give a decent performance upgrade.
These are just rumours, but if it is correct than we can see this AMD card matching the 980 for about R4500 - R5500 (based on the current price of the R9 380X which had ~ the same MSRP at release). I think it's a bit of a stretch for the RX 480 to take on the 980Ti even when overclocked, but you never know. When anounced, the RX 480X will probably fit into that tier.
This is sort of the 1st VR GPU Card generation.
The Nvidia 1080 is Top Dog the High Performance, High Price (although cheaper than past cards)
The Nvidia 1070 is Mid Range and Mid-Price.
The AMD is Lower Range Low Price.
[MENTION=21]The Joker[/MENTION] you right about AMD's 480 all these others people just AMD fan boys.
AMD will probably release a 490 which will compete with the 1070 but I doubt will rival the 1080.
AMD 480 though is a great price and make a great dual or triple card system, with VR needing to render 2 sources for each eye, you may see performance of Crossfire Systems increasing way beyond their current speeds. Rather than working together on one display they can work on separate displays.
AMD focused on what they could do and that was undercut NVidia's price not the performance. This generation of cards mean cheaper better graphics for all.