Performance summary: 1- Tom's put this card as below the GTX 970 and R9 390, but not by much. 2- TechPowerUp, Anandtech, PC Perspective, Hexus, HardwareCanucks, and KitGuru put the card at slightly above the GTX 970 and R9 390. 3- LegitReviews, GamerNexus and HardOCP puts the card on par with the GTX 970 and R9 390.
Details: 1- All reviews mention that the cards does considerably better on DX12, where it can beat the GTX 980 2- The reviews praise the card's overall power consumption, but note that it exceeds the standard limits (86W from PCIe, instead of 75W) 3- Most lament the temps of the reference cooler. 4- Most of the reviews note that the reference cooler does well on the noise. As good as nVidia? No, but this is something to note, considering the horrible reference jet engines of AMD's 290/290X cards. 5- Overclocking results are mixed, some reviewers getting up to 10% OC, and some barely 2%.
Overall: A good launch for AMD. The card is slightly above the GTX 970/R9 390, and cheaper. Once non-reference versions are out, with better temps, this should be a great purchase.
>muh 2.8 times efficiency at 14nm still worse than 28nm maxwell
this card is a meme. the price is still attractive though
Joshua Smith
480 OR 390?????????????????????????
Jose Sullivan
The only bench that matters.
Nolan Scott
Buying a 970 rn
William Evans
Non-reference 490/x when?
Connor Edwards
480 because TDP.
Asher Gutierrez
German site Computerbase, which I find very reliable and thoroughly with their tests rates the Stock 480 on par with a custom OCd 970, slightly behind a stock 980. computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/ You don't need to be able to speak german to understand the graphs and diagrams.
Nathan Johnson
>Nvidia memecard lovers BTFO.
Jace Stewart
>. The card is slightly above the GTX 970/R9 390, and cheaper.
So basically completely fucking useless for everyone. Good job amd.
Camden Powell
probably september to december
Christian Mitchell
literally the only thing putting me off getting one of these is the display ports, i use 2x dvi single and 1x dual links for my setup and i dont wanna shill out on expensive adapters
Lucas Martinez
30FPS in AoS in DX12. fail.
Cameron Gray
Because it's one of a few where the 970 is in the lead? Hello Mr. Shill
Brayden Williams
480 Dummy. The power consumption of the 390 is fucking stupid. Wait for aftermarket cards that will allow the card to OC well and it will probably OC to Fury levels.
Michael Martin
Daily reminder that the 4GB version has 8GB, it's just locked up in the bios.
Angel Wood
u are dum as shit ROFL
Christian Wright
so we thought we'd get an amazing ground breaking never-before-seen value GPU
and instead we just got a great one.
I'm ok with this
Christian Parker
>Still not available in south america
Fucking hell AMD
Leo Martinez
As long as you're not pushing out 144hz dvi, the cheap adapters work fine
Don't risk it. They may have laser cut the thing to prevent any funny business.
Joseph Reyes
How the fuck did these poo niggers manage to fuck up the power draw so hard? Why not just add another set of pins?
Gabriel Martinez
it does worse in 1080 tho
Wyatt Johnson
>970 ssc So basically a 980
Ryan Anderson
>When will we get non-reference cards? Typically, within a couple of months of launch.
>I was expecting it to beat GTX Titan X SLI! This SUCKS! This is a $200 card. It beats older $200 cards, and is on par with older $330 cards.
>[company x] BTFO! Fanboys on suicide watch! lel, kek, and kys! We can do that, but it is a waste of your time and energy. We can talk about the new card instead.
I will split the sources section into a second post, for the next thread. Thanks!
Julian Powell
This is false. 4GB version uses 7GHz VRAM while the 8GB version uses 8GHz VRAM. Why add extra VRAM modules of a slower variety only to lock them up.
Aaron Jones
There are tons of people with 280 or below performing cards. It also makes the barrier for quality PC gaming even lower. You can now build a 1080p killing PC for $500.
Dominic Rodriguez
Add another set of pins so it can draw twice the power?
Matthew Perez
does shilling work? do people actually look at this shit and think "yep, reasonable argument. I'm getting a 1070"?
Grayson Anderson
but one of my monitors is, hence the dual link
Luis Baker
>15% performance improvement from OC despite power limit custom cards will OC "to the moon" like the leaks claimed
Sebastian Wright
Speak for yourself.
My Pitcairn is finally getting replaced.
John Perry
Alright
This thing is a beast
I'm fucking sold
Mason Ward
I presume the 4GB 480 is going to end up on the guide in a few weeks then?
Assuming that the prices remain close to what they should be and supply is okay
Jason Peterson
So this card is basically useless right? A competitor to a nVidia's last gen technology.
Leo Nguyen
Yes.
STRIX RX480
Bentley Jackson
>So basically completely fucking useless for everyone. Good job amd. Funny. AMD thinks and I tend to agree it targets 80% of the PC Gamers market.
Jeremiah Clark
Who the hell would buy a 970 or 1070? I imagine the only people that bought them were people who drool or parents/old folks who didn't know better and walked into a failing CompUSA store or something.
John Jackson
I am adding it now, and removing the 380X.
nVidia does not have anything new in the $200 segment.
Levi Smith
It was cheaper to keep the production line the same than switch them to only produce 4GB cards. AMD is making a good profit on the 480.
Kayden Cox
the rx 470 is only 1k points behind 480 in basic fire strike interesting
Jeremiah Fisher
What Nvidiacucks don't understand is this will hopefully bring gaming up to speed by lowering that barrier.
Anthony Hall
The power consumption is an issue though. Being able to overclock a cheap card through the roof is a great thing, and I look forward to it. But I'd hate to see this thing consume more than 225W after a full OC.
Henry Stewart
I'm going to wait.
John Ramirez
...
Ayden Sullivan
Yeah, 390, 480 and 970 all cost the same and perform the same. Went to check the noise levels to make up my mind on what to get. Looks like 480 wins.
Lucas Rivera
You're delusional if you think it will clock to fury levels
Easton Thomas
Good on you. I waited too much (560ti).
Gabriel Parker
RX 480 Crossfire or 1070 for 144Hz 1080p? The price:performance is pretty far in 480s favor, but I'm a bit wary of dual GPU.
Cooper Wilson
>overclocked 980 >faster than 1070 wtf DOOM
Angel Torres
Maybe. But if the card really does get to 1500+ mhz, who knows?
Ethan Ortiz
It's only almost two years late.
Isaac Edwards
1070 hands down. Crossfire a shit.
Bentley Scott
1070 is useless. You might as well go 1080 if you want 144 or better usage in the future. No clue why Nvidia released the useless 1070.
Elijah Long
The aftermarket cards which are supposedly able to be overclocked further can draw a whopping 300W from the PSU.
They come with 6+8 pin connectors for 225W + an additional 75W from the PCIe slot.
Cooper Stewart
>2g8 didn't come out today either... What did he mean by this?
Christopher Jenkins
ahmed, pls
Jonathan Williams
opengl is garbage.
Jackson Moore
>a 30% OC makes it perform slightly better than a 25% better card wow it's fucking nothing
Yep. It's a good card for the money. It just means AMD's GPU division is now in the same boat as the CPU division: they can only compete at sub-flagship levels.
Robert Gray
Not gonna lie, bought the GTX 1080 and it is overkill for 1440p. I'm averaging 140fps in DOOM with nightmare settings.
Cameron James
looks like a crackhead
Carter Ramirez
Yeah he's reliable.
Eli Richardson
>card with same performance as 970/390 is now considered mid range
Jaxon Jackson
I see the AMD pajeets crawled out of the woodwork. Everybody already has a card like that for the past 2 years, and for those who don't, by now a 970 costs the same as a 480, cheaper if you buy it used, has same power draw, and can OC better.
RX480 is a fucking joke, and the final nail in AMDs coffin.
Hudson Peterson
He got the same results as Paul's hardware, Linus and Digital foundry.
Robert Turner
Z E N E N
4 9 0 x 9 0 x
Jacob Rivera
back to Sup Forums, fuckwit
Kevin Mitchell
Bit of a nvidia shill.
>wont test ashes of benchmark because reasons >will test rise of tomb raider to show "true" dx12 >early "rx480" is cheating ashes of benchmark jumper
Henry Jackson
low yields because of lots of defects in chips hence the low numbers of cards available
Charles White
A single GTX1070 is always better in benchmarks against cfRX480. I am buying a RX480 myself but you have to be some kind of special retard to get 2xRX480 over a single 1070.
Colton Gray
This
The 970 and 390 are already showing signs of age because they can't even max out some of the recent titles. If it was 980 performance then it would be fine because the 980 still holds up strong today and is about 20% faster than both the 970 and 390 but because they flopped and could barely get it to match a 970/390 this card will be outdated in no time. Enjoy medium settings.
Noah Reed
>The price:performance is pretty far in 480s favor Eh?
2x8GB 480=$480 GTX 1070 = $400-440
1070 beats 2x480 overall in average fps. If you exclude the games that have shit CF support, 2x480 is 10% ahead. And that's in average fps. Due to frame pacing issues, average fps is a bad way to measure CF/SLI performance.
Aaron Evans
Go back to grinding Anki user. I dunno how you came to read it as that, but your translation is wrong.
it reads >Wasn't able to (2 get) today either What 2 get is referencing is beyond me, I'm guessing it's dubs, but don't quote me on that.
Easton Diaz
You mean overhyped trash that will be an even bigger disappointment than the 480?
Jonathan Wright
Seems right. Mid range=being able to max out 1080p while not being able to max out 1440p.
Asher Nguyen
How is a 200$ card not midrange?
Adrian Perez
>A single GTX1070 is always better in benchmarks against cfRX480. All the game benchmarks Falco linked suggest the opposite.
Logan Howard
How do you figure since AMD had the fastest card? Has anything from Nvidia beat the 295 yet? This old 2+ year old card?
Isaac Campbell
How is it "a fucking joke" since it performs between a 970 and a 980, uses less energy and custom designs will be GOAT for MUCH less money?
Oh wait, dont even answer me, since you are a shill.
Jayden Martinez
>wait for the next amd card/cpu >next amd card/cpu comes out, is a gigantic flop >but it will be better the next time guys! just wait until the next amd card/cpu
every fucking time.
When was the last time AMD released anything that was good? APUs are a joke, Fury was a joke, 390 series were full rebrands, Faildozer was a gigantic fucking joke, Phenom 2 was good but 2 generations behind, and Phenom 1 was a joke.
Anthony Turner
Of course. High end has been pushed. Technology evolves.
Gavin Mitchell
LMAO IT'S SHIT
Brayden Martin
It's low end. 1070 is mid-range, and 1080 is enthusiast tier.
Mason Bell
Guess it depends if you class ranges by cost or performance. If a GT730 could run 1440p games, would it still be a level entry card with amazing performance, or a high level card with amazing price.
Liam Perez
>When was the last time AMD released anything that was good? Tahiti. So +4 years ago.
Nathan Young
I'm almost considering buying a 970, dated as it might be and the 3.5gb meme and all.
Reason being I want nvidia but I want cheap. I was considering AMD only if it was actually as good as people said it was going to be, which turns out it isn't. It's worth it in terms of price but it's just a bit more.
Xavier Richardson
This card is okayish, but nothing more. People with a highend 3 years old card still won't buy this card.
