RX 480 review is OUT!

[Mr.Meerkat]

Hardware canucks would say other wise...

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/72889-radeon-rx480-8gb-performance-review.html

[Praesi]

So they failed again...

I dont want NVidia to have the monopoly all the time.....AMD get your shit together!!

Well, the pricerange is ok though. They should make more clear that they dont even try to reach high tier lvl.

[wasd]

This means only one thing, Nvidia prices will not go down anytime soon.

[i_build_nanosuits]

LOL...i guess in like 13 hrs from now, if i watch all of the content on my youtube subscribed channels...i should have a good understanding of how it really performs...anyone watched all of that already?

 

 

[Demiqas]

23 minutes ago, Alexokan said:

How is bumping the performance of a new release up a tier for the same price downgrading a series? 

 

Nvidia did the same exact thing. 

Bumping up a tier? Thats a pretty poor bump up. It barely reaches the same performance as a 390 and from what I've seen this thing is going to cost nearly the same in Europe. So kinda hooray if you're american I suppose and tough luck for everyone else.

[wasd]

10 minutes ago, Demiqas said:

So kinda hooray if you're american I suppose and tough luck for everyone else.

Not really.  I have to wait what the 1060 and 1050 will be like.  Given the 1070 is Titan X level at $450.  I'm guessing the 1060 would be in between the 980 and 980ti.  The 1050 would probably fall into a 970 OC performance level.  If they price that 1050 around the 480's level, that would be more appropriate.

 

This is such a disappointment.  The 470 and 460 would be uber crap.  Like the gpus that Linus said were waste of money.

 

Zen better be good.  Otherwise AMD is finished.

[KillDog]

Well, I've gone through some respectable reviewers' videos (jayz, Linus and Sc.St.) and the RX 480 performs decently, not mind boggling performance like some people expected (because of overhype). Not considering OC performance, the stock RX 480 is as fast as a decently OC'ed 970, so it is worth the value I'd say.

Thumbs up for this card.

New perf/dollar king!!!

[wasd]

 

[IAmAndre]

23 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

LOL...i guess in like 13 hrs from now, if i watch all of the content on my youtube subscribed channels...i should have a good understanding of how it really performs...anyone watched all of that already?

 

 

Tiens, un frenchie

[App4that]

Man, AMD fans... First the 480 was as powerful as a 980, then it overclocked to a Fury, then the cooler was the best reference cooler ever.

 

Now?

 

"wait for the drivers" and ignoring the performance of the cooler. 

[latentjones]

So glad I bought my 1080 

[wasd]

7 minutes ago, latentjones said:

So glad I bought my 1080 

And it'll remain at that price for a long while.

 

AMD  keeping Nvidia prices high

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, wasd said:

And it'll remain at that price for a long while.

 

AMD  keeping Nvidia prices high

So much for the rebellion  

[Changrai]

lol the gtx 970 and rx 480 have the same price in sweden  and my 970 g1 pretty much beats a 980 stock so im good

[IAmAndre]

I have to agree with Luke, this is by far the best bang for the buck on the market. The only question is when will I buy it. Probably during the first sales.

[wasd]

1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

I have to agree with Luke, this is by far the best bang for the buck on the market. The only question is when will I buy it. Probably during the first sales.

I heard you get a date with either one of these guys with purchase.

[App4that]

3 minutes ago, IAmAndre said:

I have to agree with Luke, this is by far the best bang for the buck on the market. The only question is when will I buy it. Probably during the first sales.

They used the 4g models 200us price point, most will pick up the 8g at 239us. And the thing run hot as ****. 

 

390 is still the King of price/performance. 

[wasd]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

They used the 4g models 200us price point, most will pick up the 8g at 239us. And the thing run hot as ****. 

 

390 is still the King of price/performance. 

83 degrees at stock for a small die with a break-thru cooler is inexcusable.

[CostcoSamples]

Hardware Canucks does a great job summarizing benchmarks against comparable cards.  In his summary, the 480 is 5% faster than reference 970 at 1080p and 10% faster at 1440p.  It is not fair to compare the 480 reference against 970 OC.  We should wait for aftermarket 480 designs to make that comparison. 

 

Hardware Canucks

 

I don't know why you people are so disappointed.  This is exactly what AMD was aiming for - great performance for $200.  And everybody has come to expect reference cards to run loud and hot.

[wasd]

I would buy a 390 once they hit the $200 mark.

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, wasd said:

83 degrees at stock for a small die with a break-thru cooler is inexcusable.

And over 90 when you try to overclock it? Really? Do you think the AMD coffee clutch here will call the RX 480 the "fanboy edition" too? Or should we expect hypocrisy?

[App4that]

3 minutes ago, CostcoSamples said:

Hardware Canucks does a great job summarizing benchmarks against comparable cards.  In his summary, the 480 is 5% faster than reference 970 at 1080p and 10% faster at 1440p.  It is not fair to compare the 480 reference against 970 OC.  We should wait for aftermarket 480 designs to make that comparison. 

 

Hardware Canucks

 

I don't know why you people are so disappointed.  This is exactly what AMD was aiming for - great performance for $200.  And everybody has come to expect reference cards to run loud and hot.

And when a overclocked 970 beats the AIB 480, then what? What excuse then?

[CostcoSamples]

1 minute ago, App4that said:

And over 90 when you try to overclock it? Really? Do you think the AMD coffee clutch here will call the RX 480 the "fanboy edition" too? Or should we expect hypocrisy?

it is ridiculous that both AMD and Nvidia have still not realized that their shitty reference coolers are completely worthless.  Give us enough of a heatsink to keep temps reasonable and maybe more people would buy the fanboy editions.

[l__T__l]

The rumours seemed so much more positive than this, specs wise it should perform much closer to the 390x/980 and the AOTS benchmark saying 2x 480s used less power than a 1080 made it seem as though they made a 90w card that performed equally with the 980 and ran cool with OCing headroom due to its low TDP. It's not a bad card, and unlike the 970 it's only going to get better in the future judging by the past.

[IAmAndre]

I can see in Tom's Hardware's review that it's not that power efficient at all. Maybe that's what had to be traded for high performance and low price. For me, it means I'll stick with my 750 Ti to save the polar bears. Any rumor on a successor?