Tweakers.net review off the RX 480 including CF

[kelvindeschutter]

Tweakers.net just posted their review off the RX 480 that also include CF Thanks to Alternate.nl sending one to test CF

disclamer: its not posseple to make it like look it does there since they have a special system they use for putting benchmark number on their site

System specs

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Motherbord: Asus RoG Rampage IV Extreme
CPU: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4,4GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX KHX1866C9D3K4/16GX
SSD: Crucial MX100 512GB
Cooler: Intel Thermal Solution RTS2011LC
Powersupply: Corsair Professional Gold AX750
Case: CoolerMaster Test Bench
OS: Windows 10
Screen: Dell P2715Q

Picture off the testbench

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Synthetische benchmarks:

3DMark Fire Strike (graphics):

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Unigine Heaven 4.0 (normal):

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Games:

Alien: Isolation

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Dragon Age: Inquisution

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2560x1440 - ultra

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3840x2160 - high

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Far Cry 4

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2560x1440 - ultra - 4xMSAA

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3840x2160 - medium

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GTA V

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2560x1440 - very high

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3840x2160 - high

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Project Cars

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2560x1440 - high

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3850x2160 - medium

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The Witcher 3

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2560x1440 - high - hareworks off

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3840x2160 - medium

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Hitman

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3860x2160 - ultra - DX12

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Rise of the Tomb Raider

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3840x2160 - DX12 - very high

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the number look good except for htman on wich your better off running a single card but if you ignore that it look quit good. This are just the performance numbers over at the souce you can also find vr performance, overclocking results and powerdraw / nois levels. (did this so that i basicly don't ripoff their intire review) but now the most inportrant question: What you do think off this?

links for the missing stats: VR, energy and sound, overclocking, performance index

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[kelvindeschutter]

1 minute ago, Arokhantos said:

Huge price drop for gtx 1080 inc ?

maby but i don't think that will happen

[Citadelen]

That's some great scaling!

[suicidalfranco]

impressive scaling, but that drop in Hitman and Tomb, even worse than single card, daaaaamn daniel

[LucidMew]

38 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

That's some great scaling!

That's some great scrolling..... I had to do to get to the bottom of the page.

[Dionyz]

54 minutes ago, Arokhantos said:

Huge price drop for gtx 1080 inc ?

Sorry to busy getting sold out everywhere. (Only a few founders editions left for sale...)

 

By the time they are fully instock there will be a release of GTX 1080ti, and then you will see a price cut.

[captain cactus]

For very early drivers, that's almost consistently at near 90-95% Crossfire scaling. That's pretty effing amazing.

 

And again, about $450 for the same performance as a $700 GPU. That's impressive.

[patrickjp93]

So, both in minimums and averages the 480 XFire is consistently outclassed by the 1080, as expected. The only anomaly is 3DMark where AMD finally got a leg-up in synthetics. And knowing Nvidia, a solid 10-15% boost in performance is coming in the next month from drivers.

 

for $500-worth of AMD cards vs. $620 from Nvidia, it's not bad, but I prefer having my minimums up.

 

 

[SurvivorNVL]

The 480 feels an awful lot like a disappointment to me.  Crossfire is pretty good for the price, but it's still quite the disappointment as a single card, price is great, but it's only 970 level.  

[captain cactus]

2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

So, both in minimums and averages the 480 XFire is consistently outclassed by the 1080, as expected. The only anomaly is 3DMark where AMD finally got a leg-up in synthetics. And knowing Nvidia, a solid 10-15% boost in performance is coming in the next month from drivers.

 

for $500-worth of AMD cards vs. $620 from Nvidia, it's not bad, but I prefer having my minimums up.

 

 

The same should be said about AMD drivers. These are day-1 drivers in Crossfire. There's optimization to be done for both AMD and nVidia.

[Hunter259]

And people will still buy two of these instead of getting one 1070 or 980ti. So sad.

[kmanchine]

4 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

The 480 feels an awful lot like a disappointment to me.  Crossfire is pretty good for the price, but it's still quite the disappointment as a single card, price is great, but it's only 970 level.  

it is not disappointment. It`s great card. It`s not for people like most of you forum people. it`s for people like me that do not need top of line GPU, that occasionally play AAA games and are content with lowering few settings. Also as upgrade for people that are on 770 670 and etc, and you would be surprised how many people are still on old GPU.
This GPU will be great hit for AMD. That is until 1060 and we see how it competes with 480 and at what price. But i have feeling that AMD will stay as price/performance king.

[patrickjp93]

10 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

The same should be said about AMD drivers. These are day-1 drivers in Crossfire. There's optimization to be done for both AMD and nVidia.

Not with that scaling already in place. There's no room for improvement. And AMD takes forever to get driver optimization done.

[oo2k15]

Looks pretty good.

[ItsMTC]

2 hours ago, Hunter259 said:

And people will still buy two of these instead of getting one 1070 or 980ti. So sad.

Sad? Why?

[Hunter259]

8 minutes ago, ItsMTC said:

Sad? Why?

For the 8GB models it will be over $250 each for custom cards. This is way over the 980ti and 1070 pricing and it does not perform that much better than the two. Also 2 card configs are much more finicky and is not guaranteed to work. As always 1 card that performs as well or a tiny bit worse is better than 2.

[Fetzie]

3 hours ago, Hunter259 said:

And people will still buy two of these instead of getting one 1070 or 980ti. So sad.

Given that you can actually buy these, as opposed to the GTX 1070 and 1080...

 

2 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

Not with that scaling already in place. There's no room for improvement. And AMD takes forever to get driver optimization done.

They might not be able to improve CrossFire scaling, but there is always room to improve framerates.

[Xsilent(X)]

54 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

For the 8GB models it will be over $250 each for custom cards. This is way over the 980ti and 1070 pricing and it does not perform that much better than the two. Also 2 card configs are much more finicky and is not guaranteed to work. As always 1 card that performs as well or a tiny bit worse is better than 2.

 

980ti price $497

1070 price $459

480 8GB price $250

480 8GB cf price $500

480 4GB price $200

480 4GB cf price $400

 

Still outperforms Nvidia price of FPS  

[awesomeness10120]

3 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

So, both in minimums and averages the 480 XFire is consistently outclassed by the 1080, as expected. The only anomaly is 3DMark where AMD finally got a leg-up in synthetics. And knowing Nvidia, a solid 10-15% boost in performance is coming in the next month from drivers.

 

for $500-worth of AMD cards vs. $620 from Nvidia, it's not bad, but I prefer having my minimums up.

 

 

Should be expected to have bad frame consistency, as latency is introduced when working with more than one card, especially over the PCIE bus.

[Misanthrope]

Hopefully people trying CF don't replicate the PCI-E power issue otherwise it's liable to go

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"Allahu Akbar!"

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[awesomeness10120]

3 hours ago, SurvivorNVL said:

The 480 feels an awful lot like a disappointment to me.  Crossfire is pretty good for the price, but it's still quite the disappointment as a single card, price is great, but it's only 970 level.  

I believe Jay said he was told by AMD that they were targeting 970 performance at 960 price. He says it in his video here:

 

[awesomeness10120]

7 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Hopefully people trying CF don't replicate the PCI-E power issue otherwise it's liable to go

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I'm just gonna wait for an aftermarket RX 480 (or whatever the top end Polaris 10 card if another one is coming) with more power connectors. This is mainly a problem with the reference GPU and PCB.

[Hunter259]

29 minutes ago, Xsilent(X) said:

 

980ti price $497

1070 price $459

480 8GB price $250

480 8GB cf price $500

480 4GB price $200

480 4GB cf price $400

 

Still outperforms Nvidia price of FPS  

1. No one who can think will buy a 980ti for that price as many are around $420.

2. Custom 1070s that are in stock are below that price.

3. Custom 480s are most definitely not going to sell at MSRP.

4. It doesn't perform that much better than 1 ti/1070. This is without noting that all 980tis and 1070s overclock quite nicely and the 480 tends to much more fish in a barrel.

[Camisto]

What you cant see in these benchmarks is the terrible stuttering these cards produce in crossfire.  The FPS number is indeed high, but there is no point in a high number if what you actually see is booty.  Hopefully they can fix this issue.

 

 

[That Norwegian Guy]

5 hours ago, Dionyz said:

Sorry to busy getting sold out everywhere. (Only a few founders editions left for sale...)

 

By the time they are fully instock there will be a release of GTX 1080ti, and then you will see a price cut.

Nvidia are going to sit on the 1080 Ti until Vega so they can mature the drivers pre-launch to make it look better in direct Vega comparisons, like they always do.

 

This is why AMD cards always look bad on launch, yet 6 months later they're "mysteriously" ahead of the competition, because Nvidia by cooking the release longer used more of the potential up before launch.

 

AMD = Grower

Nvidia = Shower