Radeon RX 480 Benchmarks

[raphidy]

2 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Also not Benching the new Total War game in DX12, but uses 11. Then uses DX12 for Tomb Raider, where dx12 is usually slower than DX11.

Odd choices for me there. 
Interesting thing for me is in Fallout 4 and Assa Creed with full Gameworks settings on the 480 pulls well ahead of the 290X and 390 suddenly, but struggles in the other games.

Yup, should wait for other benches, this guy did choose weird settings.

 

That was interesting, did they implement the cuda translator or converter? Might be that or the new features that they implemented for gcn 4.

[captain cactus]

So it's performing at 970-390 levels at half the power draw and like $150 cheaper.

 

I honestly don't see the problem here. As for the 1.5% overclock resulting in super high temps: either it's just that bad, bad cooler mount or a faulty chip. Before you guys draw many more conclusions wait until the other guys have their videos up, then love/hate all you want.

[MilkJugg24]

This card still rocks in price/performace in the 4GB version, I honestly don't see why everyone was so hyped/disappointed. It did what it was supposed to.

 

Wait for one or two waves of drivers and we'll see who truly comes out on top for the majority of the market.

 

Personally, I'm going to get my hands on a second 390X for $329.99. Hooray for price drops!

[Kobz360]

Australian Prices: Cheapest 4GB model I've seen is $319 AUD which surprisingly isn't too bad, though the 8GB models range from $379-450 AUD. 

[HKZeroFive]

3 minutes ago, Kobz360 said:

Australian Prices: Cheapest 4GB model I've seen is $319 AUD which surprisingly isn't too bad, though the 8GB models range from $379-450 AUD. 

The 4GB is decent, it's at a solid price point between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 but I'd be tempted to pay $15 more for the MSI R9 390 instead of a reference 8GB RX 480.

[Kobz360]

2 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

The 4GB is decent, it's at a solid price point between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 but I'd be tempted to pay $15 more for the MSI R9 390.

The cheapest 390 you'll find here is 400-410 AUD, so in that essence it's pretty good ($379 8gb 480 vs 390). I still don't wanna make full conclusions though until I see more reviews. A 1.5% OC affecting Elric's card that badly is quite strange especially considering all the AIB OC'd reference cards. 

[zMeul]

all those people who sold their R9 290s, 390s and GTX970s are about to scratch their eyes out ... good! 

[Bojamijams]

1) This reviewer is an idiot and probably the most unscientific of all the reviewers I've seen

 

2) Nvidia fanboys and zMeul's are still fanboying hard I see.  

 

3) No mention of the fan curve used or what it was at and what the dB rating was at that fan speed

 

4) no mention of the usage of the new overclocking tool which allows voltage changing

 

5) No reseating the heatsink to see if it maybe had poor contact or not enough paste.  No investigations done whatsoever. See point #1

 

6) This forum is no better then WCCF in terms of commenters/trolls/general skepticism or intelligence displayed.  

 

[Deli]

1 hour ago, Kobz360 said:

The cheapest 390 you'll find here is 400-410 AUD, so in that essence it's pretty good ($379 8gb 480 vs 390). I still don't wanna make full conclusions though until I see more reviews. A 1.5% OC affecting Elric's card that badly is quite strange especially considering all the AIB OC'd reference cards. 

We'll know if he got a bad sample or what in one and a half hour. 1.5% OC is very odd indeed.

[BbsMentos]

8 minutes ago, MilkJugg24 said:

This card still rocks in price/performace in the 4GB version, I honestly don't see why everyone was so hyped/disappointed. It did what it was supposed to.

 

Wait for one or two waves of drivers and we'll see who truly comes out on top for the majority of the market.

 

Personally, I'm going to get my hands on a second 390X for $329.99. Hooray for price drops!

Since they showed two of them being as powerfull as a 1080, we could expect it to be close to the 980, I know that ashes runs better on amd and I know the cards were cherry picked, but I was expecting it to be right between the 970 and the 980, not under and overclocking like dogshit

[HKZeroFive]

6 minutes ago, Kobz360 said:

The cheapest 390 you'll find here is 400-410 AUD, so in that essence it's pretty good ($379 8gb 480 vs 390). I still don't wanna make full conclusions though until I see more reviews. A 1.5% OC affecting Elric's card that badly is quite strange especially considering all the AIB OC'd reference cards. 

Centre Com is selling one for $395. I'm just happy we're not getting fucked over on prices...

 

We'll need more reviews to come to a conclusion on the card's overclocking ability but I feel like it'll be the same story.

[raphidy]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

all those people who sold their R9 290s, 390s and GTX970s are about to scratch their eyes out ... good! 

Not really, I want a 480 just for the power draw and not heating my room when gaming.

[LAwLz]

23 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Except in Fallout 4 and Assa Syndicate, then it does well somehow with Gameworks features on. I found that rather interesting. Also why Bench Tomb Raider with DX12, but the new Total War game with DX11. Both should be 11 and 12 tests.
 

Those are the exceptions rather than the norm though. Not what you should base the performance on. But not even in those games it manages to match the 970, which is cheaper (at least in Europe).

 

 

9 minutes ago, FatalityDiablo said:

so I guess every game from now on running Dx12 is a "biased amd game" .. rip logic.

No... We got quite a few DX12 games right now, and the gap in Ashes is far bigger than in the other games. There have always been games that favors one manufacturer over the other, even in DX11. I am fairly sure some of the Batman games heavily favored Nvidia cards. Just because that Batman game used DX11 doesn't mean all DX11 games favors Nvidia. Do you understand? Can't believe I have to explain this...

 

7 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

So it's performing at 970-390 levels at half the power draw and like $150 cheaper.

 

I honestly don't see the problem here. As for the 1.5% overclock resulting in super high temps: either it's just that bad, bad cooler mount or a faulty chip. Before you guys draw many more conclusions wait until the other guys have their videos up, then love/hate all you want.

It is not 150 dollars cheaper. You can get a GTX 970 for under 300 dollars, and the 8GB model (which was benchmarked here) will not cost 200 USD. It will cost more. So the difference might be ~40 dollars. The R9 390 can also be had for under 300 dollars. It does not perform at 970-390 levels either. It performs worse than those cards.

 

The problem is that we are getting the same or worse price:performance than we already had. AMD didn't price it at 200 dollars because they wanted to bring better price:performance to the market. They did it because even their own cards from the previous generation is outperforming it at a very similar price.

[Morgan MLGman]

45 minutes ago, zMeul said:

like no shit 

150W, but, some spanish (I think) reviewers actually measured the power draw to be quite near 170W - and that puts in GTX970 AIB territory

GloFo doesn't disappoint, like they did with 14nm LPE and delivers a shitty power hungry process node

 

RX480 ... facepalm AMD 

"runs a little bit hot" it's an understatement - no wonder some people yesterday pointed this out, specifically

 

ps: the Ashes result was very disappointing as it's one of AMD's most biased benches

You claimed a 380X performance on it multiple times, where is it now?

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, raphidy said:

Not really, I want a 480 just for the power draw and not heating my room when gaming.

Lol. Over here with 230w TDP and 20% worse framerates . I'll take that room heater any day

 

The 480 is a joke.

[Kobz360]

1 minute ago, HKZeroFive said:

Centre Com is selling one for $395. I'm just happy we're not going fucked over on prices...

 

We'll need more reviews to come to a conclusion on the card's overclocking ability but I feel like it'll be the same story.

Ahh that's fair enough then. Hopefully MSY (despite their garbage customer service) can deliver even better prices. Our price vs. the US is a lot more logical with this card vs. what's currently going on with out 1070 and 1080 prices. ~$1150-1250 on a 1080 is absolutely insane 

[raphidy]

5 minutes ago, Bojamijams said:

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I agree, but you know typical use of a non techy would be him. You have lot of those in murica!

[GregButcher]

Kinda dissapointed, yeah i know it does approx the same as the 390 but with half the power and heat, which is admirable, but from all the hype and whatnot i was expecting more... Still for the price they are giving it, its a very good deal, its just not the performance jump i was hoping for, so im definitely holding out until vega comes along

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

43 minutes ago, zMeul said:

it's not idiotic at since since there is no law that said the PCIe power can't deliver more than it's "rated" for - just a hind to R9 295X2 and it's monstrous power draw

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Don't cards also get something like 75W from the PCI-E Lane itself? 
Which is how low-end gpu's are powered.++So taht's 150W from 6-pin + 75W from Mobo.

[Misanthrope]

56 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

I'm not sure why that is actually. XFX got 1360MHz factory without issues apparently.

And probably jet engine sound levels. 

[Citadelen]

*sigh*

[LAwLz]

8 minutes ago, GregButcher said:

Still for the price they are giving it, its a very good deal

But the problem is that it is not a good deal. It's an average deal. Price:performance wise it will be pretty much the same as if you went out and bought a GTX 970 or R9 390 right now. In Sweden, the UK and possibly some other EU countries the 480 is even more expensive than the 970 and 390, making it a worse deal.

It is just as good of a deal as the previous generation cards (and in Europe it is a worse deal).

 

5 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Don't cards also get something like 75W from the PCI-E Lane itself? 
Which is how low-end gpu's are powered.++So taht's 150W from 6-pin + 75W from Mobo.

PCIe 6-pin is rated for 75 watts.

So it's: 75w (6-pin) + 75w (motherboard) = 150 watts.

[mrchow19910319]

13 minutes ago, zMeul said:

all those people who sold their R9 290s, 390s and GTX970s are about to scratch their eyes out ... good! 

Sa.a.sss..aaa..savage. 

 

[MilkJugg24]

5 minutes ago, BbsMentos said:

Since they showed two of them being as powerfull as a 1080, we could expect it to be close to the 980, I know that ashes runs better on amd and I know the cards were cherry picked, but I was expecting it to be right between the 970 and the 980, not under and overclocking like dogshit

Again, we'll have to wait for more drivers to see if the card really stands out.

 

And the fact that it's in the ballpark of a 970 is doing what people thought it was going to do, which is just to be a plain and simple "VR Ready" card.

 

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

Thank god i didn't dump my 390 strix for the 480 :P. I was actually getting tempted to "upgrade". Guess its the gtx 980ti for my next upgrade($550sgd used compared to the gtx1070 at $768).