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When do non-reference models hit the market?

Totalimus
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TL:DR: After how many days/weeks usually non-reference models hit the market? I'm specificelly interested in Sapphire Nitro RX 480 model.

 

Hello. Yesterday I made a topic - https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/618223-hard-decision-to-make - where I asked for help for choosing the best gpu between R9 390 / GTX 970.

The reason why I didn't want to go with RX 480 was because it was 310 euros at the time and benchmarks showed it falls a little behind GTX 970 + only two online shops were selling them. Yesterday I decided to get a R9 390 but it was too late to order.

Today I log on the PC, check RX 480 prices again and to my shock 8GB reference model costs only 260 euros!

So that got me thinking - since R9 390 is 275 euros and Sapphire Nitro RX 480 is about to hit the market, maybe it will perform better than R9 390 as drivers mature and will have a decent OC'ing ability for about the same price as R9 390?

So do you think RX 480 will outperform R9 390 soon enough? When can I expect third-party cards to hit the market? After how much time did non-reference GTX 1070/1080 were available? 

 

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about 1 ~ 4 weeks usually

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Best guess is in about a month or so

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1 minute ago, DXMember said:

about 1 ~ 4 weeks usually

Awww man, I sold my GTX 760 two weeks ago, now I can't play anything I want. I want to get a GPU ASAP but don't want to be disappointed with my R9 390 purchase when Sapphire Nitro RX 480 arrives. :S

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3 minutes ago, Totalimus said:

Awww man, I sold my GTX 760 two weeks ago, now I can't play anything I want. I want to get a GPU ASAP but don't want to be disappointed with my R9 390 purchase when Sapphire Nitro RX 480 arrives. :S

Sapphire already showed off it's Nitro card on social media,

should be here soon

CPU: Intel i7 5820K @ 4.20 GHz | Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS | RAM: Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz | GPU: Sapphire R9 Fury (x2 CrossFire)
Storage: Samsung 950Pro 512GB // OCZ Vector150 240GB // Seagate 1TB | PSU: Seasonic 1050 Snow Silent | Case: NZXT H440 | Cooling: Nepton 240M
FireStrike // Extreme // Ultra // 8K // 16K

 

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Joker Productions/TechYesCity/SapphireEd just showed off first official pics of Sapphire Nitro RX480. Check out TGW on Jokers channel.

 

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10 minutes ago, Totalimus said:

Do you guys think RX 480 will outperform the R9 390 soon enough? 

The 480 and 390 are pretty much on par with eachother. I would only imagine the 480 will beat it once more optimizations are completed so I'd say wait for the 480.

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