Polish magazines RX480 benchmarks leaked - performance under 970

[Syfes]

Isn't this what we all expected? A card pretty much tying with the GTX 970, but $80 less expensive. AMD promised entry level VR for this card, so we pretty much knew it was gonna tie with the 970...

[ivan134]

3 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Possibly, but this is entirely about AMD products here.

 

NVIDIA is always a premium, and the cheapest one is $259.99, although this is at 24" 144hz.

So £30 more than the AMD 144hz 24" version.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313&cm_re=G_SYnc-_-24-236-313-_-Product

The VG248QE isn't a gsync monitor. 

[Valentyn]

8 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

The VG248QE isn't a gsync monitor. 

Oh you're right, that's weird. I searched G-Sync Monitors and it was in the list.

 

Just checked again, and it keeps showing up, but if it's not really a G-Sync monitor it makes the cheapest G-Sync one on Newegg this one at $379.99, that's a $150 premium over a competing AMD Freesync 24" 1080p 144hz monitor.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160226

 

So there's on hell of a premium on G-Sync over FreeSync, meaning that for a budget orientated gamer that wants a great combo AMD is the best bet.

[Syfes]

48 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

But regardless, I still even disproved your entire point. 50 fps STABLE will not be stuttery or have a lot of tearing. Yes there will be some extremely small amounts of tearing because your monitor is being fed 50 fps on 60 hz, but most people don't even notice.

Or underclock your monitor to get away from any tearing  I've done it quite succesfully in the past. A good amount of games will even offer you Vsync options based on your monitor's framerate, so you could for example underclock it to 50Hz (most monitors will do this, lower will than 50Hz will probably go out of range) and lock it there with vsync.

[WolfDeville]

I sincerely hope this isn't true. Really hoping AMD puts out something real special this year.

[00RaZoR11]

What if the magazine made up some numbers so people buy their paper like hot cakes?

[Krzych]

Here in Poland CD-Action is not any kind of respectable hardware reviewer, this is gaming magazine. Also those charts are containing many mistakes, like 380X performing better than overclocked 970 is some cases which is not possible. Games choice is also poor, for example World of Tanks is CPU bound and also limited by single thread so you cannot choose worst game to test GPU. Overall not very reliable reviewer who also made a lot of mistakes in this particular test. Those scores are legit and they can give you some insight on 480 performance, around 980 reference, just like it was rumored, but like I said they also come from poor testers, so just wait for proper tests.

[Phoenix721]

A stock 480 losing to an OVERCLOCKED 970 and you are dissapointed? That's exactly how it was rumored it's going to perform, around the 970 level.

[ace_cheaply]

11 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Oh you're right, that's weird. I searched G-Sync Monitors and it was in the list.

 

Just checked again, and it keeps showing up, but if it's not really a G-Sync monitor it makes the cheapest G-Sync one on Newegg this one at $379.99, that's a $150 premium over a competing AMD Freesync 24" 1080p 144hz monitor.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160226

 

So there's on hell of a premium on G-Sync over FreeSync, meaning that for a budget orientated gamer that wants a great combo AMD is the best bet.

Actually, the cheapest one I've found is 209.99

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01BV1XBEI/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1467128786&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=144hz+monitor&dpPl=1&dpID=51F2dZxXwRL&ref=plSrch

[00RaZoR11]

6 minutes ago, TehStranger? said:

I sincerely hope this isn't true. Really hoping AMD puts out something real special this year.

Hope. That's all we can do until tomorrow (or until the reviews are out by Jay, LMG and the others).

[captain cactus]

Guys, seriously. The NDA lifts TOMORROW. TOMORROW.  You can't wait for that?

 

End of thread (it apparently shifted topics to nVidia before the start of the 2nd page anyway, what is it with you guys). Go about your day, wait until tomorrow for all the respected reviewers like LMG, Jay, Paul, Science Studio, etc to release proper benchmarks and reviews, then come back and talk about it.

[SteveGrabowski0]

380x over 970 in Metro LL? I find that hard to believe. No reason to jump the gun about the 480's performance when we'll have benchmarks from reliable sources in 24 hours.

[SLAYR]

This magazine seems less trustworthy then wccftech.

[Valentyn]

28 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

Actually, the cheapest one I've found is 209.99

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01BV1XBEI/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1467128786&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=144hz+monitor&dpPl=1&dpID=51F2dZxXwRL&ref=plSrch

Oh nice, so it's $209 for a 24" 1080 144hz Freesync monitor.

 

Darn nice budget monitor with nice features.

[Sharkyx1]

This 970 from zotac is faster than some aftermarket 980s and significantly faster than reference 980.

[LAwLz]

On one hand, I can't wait for tomorrow when the NDA is lifted.

On the other hand, it is pretty funny seeing all the AMD fanboys go "oh my God it is amazing! AMD are so good!" every time a "leaked" benchmark shows the 480 performing well, and "totally fake guys! It doesn't use the proper drivers! Just wait until drivers make it better!" as soon as benchmarks shows it not being as good as the hype-train wants to make it out to be.

 

Still betting on the 480 being between the 390 and 390X in terms of performance.

[DildorTheDecent]

>Using Ice Storm and Cloud Gate as performance metrics. 

 

This magazine should just quit. They've got FireStrike Extreme at least but no one cares about the other two. 

 

It should also be an all stock shoot out. Overclocking results can come later. 

[Valentyn]

3 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

 

Still betting on the 480 being between the 390 and 390X in terms of performance.

That's what I'm expecting as well. Looking at the specs it should be around 390X performance, but only having 32 ROPS and lower memory bandwidth might be what stops it being faster than the 390X.

Damn shame we're only getting reference cards tomorrow. OcUK have stated they're only expecting Aftermarket ones around Mid July at the earliest.

[PlayStation 2]

Yeah, something seems really fucking fishy here. 

As in the R9 380X beating the 970 in Metro Last Light Redux at 1080p.

[AlTech]

3 hours ago, AresKrieger said:

Look just like the previous "leak" don't believe anything until tomorrow, because until then nothing is certain

Also, shitty pre-release drivers are shitty pre-release nasty drivers. Nothing special here.

[Ashaira]

8 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Yeah, something seems really fucking fishy here. 

As in the R9 380X beating the 970 in Metro Last Light Redux at 1080p.

could be those 500MB that slow it down.

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Ashaira said:

could be those 500MB that slow it down.

That is only an impact in arbitrary scenarios, save for the hyper settings on Mirror's Edge Catalyst.

Last Light Redux isn't exactly a huge VRAM killer.

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

 >Using Ice Storm and Cloud Gate as performance metrics. 

 

This magazine should just quit. They've got FireStrike Extreme at least but no one cares about the other two. 

 

It should also be an all stock shoot out. Overclocking results can come later. 

Also, why are they not using an i7-6700K? This should alleviate bottlenecks.

 

12 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

That's what I'm expecting as well. Looking at the specs it should be around 390X performance, but only having 32 ROPS and lower memory bandwidth might be what stops it being faster than the 390X.

Damn shame we're only getting reference cards tomorrow. OcUK have stated they're only expecting Aftermarket ones around Mid July at the earliest.

Who said it would have 32 ROPS? This is the likely config, 2304:144:64 (Stream processors: TMUs: ROPs)

[Coaxialgamer]

everyone chill out . The 480 launches tomorrow ,it's not like we can't wait another day .

I would also like to mention that amd advertises this card as "VR ready" . gtx 970 is minimum spec for VR , so making a card that performs worse would be incredibly stupid . Now I'm not saying AMD hasn't done anything stupid , but this just seems too much , even for them .

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Coaxialgamer said:

everyone chill out . The 480 launches tomorrow ,it's not like we can't wait another day .

I would also like to mention that amd advertises this card as "VR ready" . gtx 970 is minimum spec for VR , so making a card that performs worse would be incredibly stupid . Now I'm not saying AMD hasn't done anything stupid , but this just seems too much , even for them .

Yeah I agree we should wait for tomorrow but also be optimistic since it literally can't be worse than a  GTX 970 in order to meet the VR spec.