RX 490 is closer than you think. Brace yourself team red.

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22 minutes ago, RagnarokDel said:

so 4x 480 on a single PCB?

 

16 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

thats going to BURN THROUGH YOU MOTHERBOARD yay for the R9 295x2 lol

 

whatever it takes  

 

 

[dizmo]

7 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

What's the point then, when you can get a Sapphire Fury for $300?

They're not going to produce the Fury forever. I imagine they're already ramping down production and will then shift to the newer cards. They can't price it too closely to the 480, or it'll cannibalize sales from that card.

[Bananasplit_00]

11 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

What's the point then, when you can get a Sapphire Fury for $300?

$300? its like $200 used!

[DrMikeNZ]

7 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

I'm just excited because I've been waiting to buy one. Going to give team red a try for a while. Tired of Nvidia's shit multi-monitor support.

When I last switched from using AMD to Nvidia, I only found different issues with multi-monitor configurations. Both suck with it.

24 minutes ago, RagnarokDel said:

so 4x 480 on a single PCB?

I am sure if they were to do anything quite that silly, they would make it a dual PCB card, with two 480's on each PCB. Someone needs to make one for laughs.

12 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

What's the point then, when you can get a Sapphire Fury for $300?

That isn't new though, people want new.

Due to low stock, depending on the country, the Fury can still be quite expensive ($650 USD used where I live).

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2 minutes ago, DrMikeNZ said:

Due to low stock, depending on the country, the Fury can still be quite expensive ($650 USD used where I live).

 

5 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

$300? its like $200 used!

 

16 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

What's the point then, when you can get a Sapphire Fury for $300?

 

I have one of those and it's great.  Not so cheap in CAD (it was $360 recently, (so ~$270 US)) but seems like it's up there in terms of card for the money, especially considering 1060s and 480s are like $350 to up over $400

[Sintezza]

15 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

 

 

 

I have one of those and it's great.  Not so cheap in CAD (it was $360 recently, (so ~$270 US)) but seems like it's up there in terms of card for the money, especially considering 1060s and 480s are like $350 to up over $400

 

Thats indeed a really good deal for a Fury.

 

[System Error Message]

regardless the HD 7970 is still going to be much faster than the 490 in double FP and its also faster than the titan xp in double FP too.

[dizmo]

30 minutes ago, System Error Message said:

regardless the HD 7970 is still going to be much faster than the 490 in double FP and its also faster than the titan xp in double FP too.

Because that's what most gamers are concerned about

[Trik'Stari]

2 hours ago, DrMikeNZ said:

When I last switched from using AMD to Nvidia, I only found different issues with multi-monitor configurations. Both suck with it.

I am sure if they were to do anything quite that silly, they would make it a dual PCB card, with two 480's on each PCB. Someone needs to make one for laughs.

That isn't new though, people want new.

Due to low stock, depending on the country, the Fury can still be quite expensive ($650 USD used where I live).

Perhaps, but I hear Eyefinity is much better.

[asim1999]

14 hours ago, dizmo said:

I'm pretty sure this was already posted...and their new card isn't supposed to be anything ground breaking, unfortunately.

from what i have seen, it is around the same performance as a 980 Ti or 1070 

[DarkBlade2117]

14 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Good. Looking to replace my 290X Lightning. I see no official benchmarks to derive what its supposed or not supposed to match. Just need it to perform significantly better than the 480, run cooler than Hawaii, while being a single GPU solution.

 

More competition means Ngreedia cards will see a price drop, and everyone wins. So AMD haters can stfu. 

I'll take your 290X Lightning

 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, asim1999 said:

from what i have seen, it is around the same performance as a 980 Ti or 1070 

Yeah. Nothing like a top tier combatant sadly.

[Bensemus]

15 hours ago, Liltrekkie said:

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More names doesn't make it simpler. Nvidia's naming scheme is simple. first 2 digits are the generation, next two are where the card falls into the generation. Titan is the only one without numbers and was simple up to this launch as reusing X was dumb. "ti" means it's better than the non "ti" version. AMD's naming scheme isn't really that much different but it does have more names per generation so it's definitely not easier than Nvidia's scheme.

[Liltrekkie]

12 minutes ago, Bensemus said:

More names doesn't make it simpler. Nvidia's naming scheme is simple. first 2 digits are the generation, next two are where the card falls into the generation. Titan is the only one without numbers and was simple up to this launch as reusing X was dumb. "ti" means it's better than the non "ti" version. AMD's naming scheme isn't really that much different but it does have more names per generation so it's definitely not easier than Nvidia's scheme.

 

Nvidias naming scheme is simple? 

 

Explain the 1060 3 GB, 1060 6GB and the new china only 1060 that's GP106 and not GP104. 

 

How in the world is that simple? 

[Guest]

Just now, Liltrekkie said:

 

Nvidias naming scheme is simple? 

 

Explain the 1060 3 GB, 1060 6GB and the new china only 1060 that's GP106 and not GP104. 

 

How in the world is that simple? 

950           960 970 980 980 ti

750 750 ti 760 770 780 780 ti

1050 1050 ti 1060 1070 1080

 

Forget about China

 

[Liltrekkie]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

950           960 970 980 980 ti

750 750 ti 760 770 780 780 ti

1050 1050 ti 1060 1070 1080

 

Forget about China

 

 

You forgot the 3 GB 1060 and 6 GB 1060. Both clearly different products. 

 

And no, you can't forget about a product launch just because it is currently china only. Just because we don't live in china doesn't mean it doesn't matter. 

 

NVIDIA has 3 products under the same 1060 name. I'm not sure how anyone thinks that is simple at all.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Liltrekkie said:

 

You forgot the 3 GB 1060 and 6 GB 1060. Both clearly different products. 

 

And no, you can't forget about a product launch just because it is currently china only. Just because we don't live in china doesn't mean it doesn't matter. 

 

NVIDIA has 3 products under the same 1060 name. I'm not sure how anyone thinks that is simple at all.

ugh AMD

 

r9 290

r9 390

r9 290x

r9 380

r9 380x

 

[AshleyAshes]

I like AMD.  I've been using AMD since my ATi All In Wonder 128.  But I have a 390X and while I'd like to stick with AMD, they have no serious higher tier cards than the RX 480 and my 390X can out perform that.  If AMD doesn't want me to buy a 1070 next, they'll have to make the 490 worth it.

 

But I'm not interested in angry conjecture like that seen in this thread.  Objective benchmarks of the final hardware by third parties only.

[Liltrekkie]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

ugh AMD

 

r9 290

r9 390

r9 290x

r9 380

r9 380x

 

 

And this matters why? I proposed a better naming scheme, and I know AMD isn't the king of naming schemes in the past. 

 

And you said NVIDIAS naming scheme is simple. Which currently, it is not. Because there are 3, THREE, DIFFERENT 1060 products. 

 

What in the world does AMD have to do with my argument?

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Liltrekkie said:

 

And this matters why? I proposed a better naming scheme, and I know AMD isn't the king of naming schemes in the past. 

 

And you said NVIDIAS naming scheme is simple. Which currently, it is not. Because there are 3, THREE, DIFFERENT 1060 products. 

 

What in the world does AMD have to do with my argument?

no, just because there are 3 1060 does that make it bad? There are RX 480 4gb and 8gb that's 2. 

[Liltrekkie]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

no, just because there are 3 1060 does that make it bad? There are RX 480 4gb and 8gb that's 2. 

 

And the only difference between the two 480's is the VRAM. 

 

Unlike the 3 GB 1060 and 6 GB 1060. Which has 1152 cuda cores and 1280 cuda cores respectively. Literally the ONLY difference with the AMD product is the VRAM. Otherwise both 480's perform identically except for different VRAM intense tasks.  

 

Yes, that is bad. You have 3 1060's out there each vastly different from one another. Which brings me to my original point, in what way is NVIDIAS naming scheme simpler when you have 3 vastly different 1060 products?

[MoonSpot]

4 hours ago, Liltrekkie said:

 

And no, you can't forget about a product launch just because it is currently china only. Just because we don't live in china doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

Can't forget about it because you never know where retailers are sourcing their products and if some online ebayer is flipping regional versions to other markets.

[Mattb6288]

If the performance rumors are true and it comes out around the $400 price range, I might go back to AMD and sell my 980 Ti.

[Zeeee]

yeahhhhh prettty damn sure this makes zero sense. Why release a 490 in december when in 6 months vega will launch with all new cards??? Same with Volta?

[Trik'Stari]

Why I am switching to team red (currently running an Nvidia 970):

 

switches from 5760x1080 back to three 1920x1080 monitors

Nvidia: "Oh, I better cut the display signal to all three monitors and crash the PC so that it restarts".

 

How is the leading graphics card manufacturer in the world, this fucking shit?