Radeon RX 480 Benchmarks

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, MilkJugg24 said:

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.

 

 

Actually people thought it would be competitive with the GTX 970 and GTX 980. And it's just not.

[A/C]

2 minutes ago, MilkJugg24 said:

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

 

 

But didn't they already do the test on the existing drivers which are now available?

 

I mean how did they test against a 980 back then if the drivers weren't available

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

4 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

But the problem is that it is not a good 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.

It is just as good of a deal as the previous generation cards.

 

PCIe 6-pin is rated for 75 watts.

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

Oh okay, thank you. But I found another topic on nvidias site, regarding this same question:  "But it seems something confused here. The gtx 480 max power consumption is 250. But the motherboard can offer 75w+ 6pin offer 75+ 8pin offer 85=235w < 250w. why is that? for me it seems the offered power should be greater than 250....... "

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/472194/pci-e-power-cable-8-pin-vs-6-pin/

 

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, MilkJugg24 said:

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.

 

 

thought 390 everyone expected well above the 390x, don't know why though we spend far too much time on rumours, nothing lives up to hype anymore. 

[DarkBlade2117]

18 minutes ago, zMeul said:

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

And you wonder why people don't take you seriously.

Tag me even you hate on the GTX 1060 when it releases.

[raphidy]

3 minutes ago, MilkJugg24 said:

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.

 

 

By the time we see drivers, we'll have Nvidia's competition and their marketing parade maybe Vega even. So much for Premium VR...

 

Where's RTG defenders? I hope they come back because everyone is kinda down in this thread.

[SteveGrabowski0]

You guys were just building this card up too much. It performs exactly as all of their marketing for the last year has indicated it would: minimum spec VR. The card trades blows with a 290x for $200. Just because it doesn't challenge the 980 Ti (why in the hell was anyone expecting this?) doesn't make this a bad card. I think it's pretty fucking awesome that there is a $200 card that murders 1080p now. Fuck the GTX 960, fuck the R9 380/380x, people don't have to compromise now on a budget. You can get a legitimate powerhouse of a card for $200 instead of some gimped piece of crap. If I didn't already have a GTX 970 I'd probably buy this card today. I think AMD is going to sell a boatload of these cards.

[rattacko123]

I was expecting it to be better than 390, but sadly it trades blows with the 390, it loses some and wins some. Kinda expected considering it only has 32 rops. Still not a bad card though.

EDIT: woah, if that 170W power draw is correct, then AMD just flat out lied about their efficiency

EDIT2: I'll wait until the Linustechtips review comes out before making final decisions, I was considering upgrading from my 970 to RX480, but now I'm not so sure, especially with the lack of rops. I hope AIB cards will be better than reference design.

[Kimmers]

Was excited to switch to the red team for gpu acceleration but after what I've been reading it seems as though I'll stay with Nvidia for better drivers.

[dlink377]

That's it. I am waiting for GTX 1060. It seems I am hyped for shitty 290 and less than GTX 970 performance.

 

I must learn my lesson to not hype any graphic card release in the future. Manufacturer are big lying mouth. Premium VR not even beating GTX 970. Shitty OC performance. Nope and Nope.

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

You guys were just building this card up too much. It performs exactly as all of their marketing for the last year has indicated it would: minimum spec VR. The card trades blows with a 290x for $200. Just because it doesn't challenge the 980 Ti (why in the hell was anyone expecting this?) doesn't make this a bad card. I think it's pretty fucking awesome that there is a $200 card that murders 1080p now. Fuck the GTX 960, fuck the R9 380/380x, people don't have to compromise now on a budget. You can get a legitimate powerhouse of a card for $200 instead of some gimped piece of crap. If I didn't already have a GTX 970 I'd probably buy this card today. I think AMD is going to sell a boatload of these cards.

Agreed on most everything except murdering 1080p: my 290x just could not handle Witcher 3 max 1080p and high instead of ultra still couldn't get consistent 50fps in Novigrad. 

 

To "murder"  1080p I'd expect more than that, specially since max details do make a difference due to lower dpi overall. 

[captain cactus]

6 minutes ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Oh okay, thank you. But I found another topic on nvidias site, regarding this same question:  "But it seems something confused here. The gtx 480 max power consumption is 250. But the motherboard can offer 75w+ 6pin offer 75+ 8pin offer 85=235w < 250w. why is that? for me it seems the offered power should be greater than 250....... "

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/472194/pci-e-power-cable-8-pin-vs-6-pin/

 

6-pin is 75W. 8-pin is 150w, not 85w.

[zMeul]

22 minutes ago, raphidy said:

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

did you actually looked at the power draw and the abysmal thermals of the card 

GTX1080 was "hot", check AMD's RX480 ... I wonder what the fuck will they do with RX490 and up - ALC all over again

[Deli]

1 hour ago, dlink377 said:

That's it. I am waiting for GTX 1060. It seems I am hyped for shitty 290 and less than GTX 970 performance.

 

I must learn my lesson to not hype any graphic card release in the future. Manufacturer are big lying mouth. Premium VR not even beating GTX 970. Shitty OC performance. Nope and Nope.

Try to come to a conclusion with the first and only Youtube review?

[You_are_a_cunt]

Gonna be that guy and say it:

 

his methodology is shoddy, at best.

His historical bias towards AMD is well known

benchmarks were made on different configurations, which skews the results somewhat

Drivers are probably iffy, so another gray area there

 

I'll just wait until more reviews come out before I spend my two cents.

[MilkJugg24]

8 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Actually people thought it would be competitive with the GTX 970 and GTX 980. And it's just not.... yet.

Fixed.

 

I'm not going to repeat myself again.

[Teddy07]

I am calling it. Not buying it, period!

[dlink377]

2 minutes ago, Deli said:

Try to come to a conclusion with the first and only Youtube review?

I already don't know which one is true, which one is pure bullshit.

 

I guess I will wait for an hour before the Linus/Anandtech review comes out before making conclusion.

 

Based on last few reviews, the performance is not what I expected at all.

[Krzych]

Alric's review is fail of the year so far. Not only he used old divers and didn't give any info about power draw, fan speeds, noise and etc, but he also broke NDA, there is still one hour to go. And now he is claiming that he didn't know that NDA ends on specific hour, while the rest of the world including all reviewers and everybody else in the world know when NDA ends. He also got crashes on 1,5% OC while there are XFX models clocked at 1328 Mhz (5% OC) out of the box. Just 100% unreasonable, I am waiting for serious reviews from GamersNexus, Techpowerup, Purepc and etc.

[zMeul]

so yeah .. remember people, next time AMD seems overly enthusiastic of a new product launch it's because the product is actually shitty 

the barely beat their own GPU that has almost 3y under it's belt .. with a "revolutionary process node"

[raphidy]

5 minutes ago, zMeul said:

did you actually looked at the power draw and the abysmal thermals of the card 

No, well don't really care, 6 pin vs 6 pins +8 is still better for around the same perf. Less current in, less heat out depending on efficiency. Definitely less current in as it's not coming with 8 pins add on.

[SteveGrabowski0]

7 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Agreed on most everything except murdering 1080p: my 290x just could not handle Witcher 3 max 1080p and high instead of ultra still couldn't get consistent 50fps in Novigrad. 

 

To "murder"  1080p I'd expect more than that, specially since max details do make a difference due to lower dpi overall. 

That could be your cpu slowing you down in Novigrad. 1080p max pretty much needs a 980 Ti in Witcher 3, that game just chews up gpus. I have to do a lot of settings tweaking with my 970 to maintain a relatively smooth 60 fps, and it still dips into the 50s a lot.

[Misanthrope]

6 minutes ago, Deli said:

Try to come to a conclusion with the first and only Youtube review?

Right let's just wait for everyone to post the exact same results except some BS numbers from Logan at tek syndicate that nobody will be able to reproduce. 

 

We've been down this road before you know... 

[rattacko123]

4 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

Wait for more reviews? You can't make judgement based on a single review. NDA ends in like 2 or 3 hours, doesn't it?

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[mrchow19910319]

9 minutes ago, zMeul said:

did you actually looked at the power draw and the abysmal thermals of the card 

GTX1080 was "hot", check AMD's RX480 ... I wonder what the fuck will they do with RX490 and up - ALC all over again

Since you mentioned RX490.... Found a pic online...