{"id":102729,"date":"2016-09-01T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102729"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:00:43","slug":"this-how-powerful-amds-radeon-rx-series-graphics-cards-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/102729-this-how-powerful-amds-radeon-rx-series-graphics-cards-really-are","title":{"rendered":"This how powerful AMD’s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD has officially released its Polaris-based Radeon RX Series graphics cards, with the products available across most South African retailers.<\/p>\n

Despite relatively low stock and volatile pricing, many South Africans have purchased AMD’s new Polaris graphics cards over Nvidia’s Pascal-based options.<\/p>\n

But just how big is the performance leap between Polaris and previous Radeon GPU generations? We compared the performance of the Radeon R9 280, R9 380, RX 470, and RX 480 to find out.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the performance benchmarks of Radeon\u00a0graphics cards\u00a0along with their\u00a0performance increase percentage over the previous generation.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Card name<\/th>\nPeak Compute (TFLOPS)<\/th>\n\n
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Release price<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/th>\n
G3DMark\u00a0Score<\/th>\nPerformance Increase<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
R9 280<\/strong><\/td>\n3.34<\/td>\n$279<\/td>\n\u00a04,762<\/td>\n\u00a0–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R9 380<\/strong><\/td>\n3.48<\/td>\n$179<\/td>\n\u00a05,540<\/td>\n\u00a016.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RX 470<\/strong><\/td>\n3.79<\/td>\n$149<\/td>\n\u00a07,302<\/td>\n\u00a031.8% *<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RX 480<\/strong><\/td>\n5.16<\/td>\n$200<\/td>\n\u00a07,570<\/td>\n\u00a036.6% *<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

*<\/strong>Performance increase over Radeon R9 380<\/p>\n

The newer Radeon RX series offers a noticeable increase in performance compared to the performance gap between the 200 and 300 series.<\/p>\n

This is to be expected however, as Polaris is the first 14nm FinFet GPU in the Radeon lineup, with previous GPUs being manufactured on\u00a0a 28nm fabrication process.<\/p>\n

It is also important to note that Polaris is not a high-end GPU architecture, as that title\u00a0will be assumed\u00a0by AMD’s upcoming Vega GPU architecture, which is set to release in early 2017.<\/p>\n

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We find out how big the performance leap between Polaris and previous Radeon GPU generations really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":97520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[21607,19617,10519,47,1771,21605,45,14875,13978,21609,1486,21110],"class_list":["post-102729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","tag-28nm","tag-better","tag-comparison","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-cards","tag-leap","tag-nvidia","tag-pascal","tag-performance","tag-r9-series","tag-radeon","tag-rx-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102771,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729\/revisions\/102771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}