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 some note that it exceeds the standard power 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's reference cards? 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. If you already have a GTX 970/R9 390, this card will do nothing for you. (1/2)
FAQ: >When will we get non-reference cards? Typically, within a couple of months of launch.
>Buy this, or buy a GTX 970/R9 390? The RX 480 is slightly better, for slightly cheaper, so go for it instead. If you absolutely need a card RIGHT NOW and cannot wait for it to be in stock, then you do not lose much by getting a GTX 970/R9 390.
>Is it worth upgrading from a [card X] to this card? If you have something higher than a 380X, then no. If you have something like the GTX 760 or weaker, then it is worth getting this card.
>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.
(2/2)
Chase Gutierrez
Ordered one today that'll be arriving tomorrow. If I'm not satisfied with the stock cooler I'll be returning it within the 4 weeks that the place I ordered from allows you, even if you've used it.
William Flores
>A good launch for AMD
Jayden Gomez
>A good launch for AMD.
Bentley Roberts
Can this play Overwatch on ultra at 4k 240hz?
Caleb Price
(You)
Andrew Morales
go back to Sup Forums
Joshua Flores
Wait for AIBs
Landon Cox
>The card is slightly above the GTX 970/R9 390, and cheaper
3 bonus rupees have been deposited into your account.
Logan Russell
((((())))))
Jose Watson
No, AMD BTFO! It doesn't beat a $700 card, simply BTFO!
William Edwards
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Zachary Jackson
>inc vat
lol cuck
David Perry
>buying this dead on arrival card in EU and UK
Mason Lewis
Was considering getting this but I was expecting it to be close to 980 level performance, not 970. Would getting a gtx 980 still be a good idea? Currently eyeing this one: newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127838
Julian Collins
The King!!
Levi Myers
>10 second apart timestamp
You can't help that AyyMD's fuckup is so bad it's bringing out the hivemind.
Lucas Turner
AMD do not set the prices, except for in the US. They cannot be held responsible for greedy governments and greedy retailers.
Ignore any 970 shills, you're paying less for less vram (and the fact that NVIDIA are shifting them en masse to clear inventory)
Sebastian Walker
>4gb ram
Heh
Juan Edwards
wew he's gonna be pooing fire
Ian Morales
Nothing is going to use more than 4gb anyway lol
Noah Rogers
Seems the opinion so far is...
Decent leap in performance for budget cards, stock cooler is shit, wait a month or two for third party coolers and OC editions?
Camden Sanders
Hey can this 200$ dollar card play Witcher3 4k on Ultra with Hairworks on 60+ FPS?
if not,AMD BTFO LOLOLOLOL xD
Cooper Carter
>4GB 970
Ian Ward
3.5gb*
Thomas Jenkins
check ebay for 980's. there are some going for really cheap after people are selling them to upgrade to the new cards.
If the card doesnt conform to the pci-e spec, thats not a good launch for amd. Pretty sure that they wont be able to sell the card unless some major changes are made.
Caleb Moore
Doing pretty good.
They need to sort out drivers though, DX12 performance can theoretically be a lot higher.
Mason Nguyen
Ive never bought used tech before and I'm very cautious about buying from some random person online.
Austin Bailey
Yeah but I am a little iffy on the power consumption.
Eli Myers
For anyone wondering, expect third party cards out around 12th of July, I recommend not buying reference, there's no reason to, just wait for the 3rd party. Also, PowerColor is going to release a dual 480 GPU, their new flagship, I wonder how that's gonna do.
Nolan White
But they're not
Evan Fisher
>tfw Kyle was right and they sell the graphics division to Intel
Christian White
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Camden Anderson
Yes. Also that this is the best price/performance card out there
Isaac Johnson
Not even kidding this card is going to prematurely end the RX 480 and any relevance it once had.
Jackson Phillips
Don't worry, the 150 dollar Nvidia 1050 Ti will do exactly this!
Luke Martinez
literally who cares? do you live in a 3rd world shithole?
Henry Jenkins
I figured something was up with the voltage curve and power consumption at stock. This is it
Sebastian Taylor
3 GB card
Lol lol
Can't make this shit up
Jaxon Myers
delete this
Matthew Ramirez
I doubt a retard who doesn't know that the 480 is Polaris 10 and not 11 has insider info.
Jaxon Gray
i bought my 980 off ebay a year ago for over £100 cheaper than the store price at the time. just buy from someone who has a good reputation and pay with paypal so you're covered by ebay if someone fucks you over.
Isaiah Ross
No one needs more than 1gb anyways. Eat it up goy
Nathaniel Young
>muh vram that will never be used
There's a 6GB version.
Levi James
>underwhelming card >it'll be months before I can actually get one >Just built a new rig and I was hoping this thing would deliver on their claims of 980 tier preformance Give me one good reason why I shouldn't buy a 970 off Ebay.
Chase Richardson
So should I stick with refurbished products from a company or even random people with good ratings will be fine?
Wyatt Ramirez
I'm upgrading from a gtx 560ti to an rx 480 or a gtx 1060, whichever looks better after the 1060 releases. I don't really run that demanding of games GPU-wise, but I play a few CPU-intensive games and am wondering what a good modern upgrade for my i7 960 3.2ghz would be?
Bentley Ortiz
You don't need 6gbs though. It's either 4gbs or 8gbs. Anything in between doesn't make sense, like 3-core processors.
Matthew Moore
-t. Butthurt europeen that wants to crush competition with onerous regulation
Leo Sullivan
Repeating my question from previous thread.
When will AMD most likely to released their 470/460 line up?
Jace Ross
>retailers inflate nvidia 10xx prices >reeee nvidia jews increasing the prices and fucking us over reeeeeeeee
>retailers inflate amd rx480 prices >i-i'ts not amd >it's the r-retailers
Brandon Fisher
3.5 Shit dx12 performance Double power consumption Run hotter
Cmon you're not retarded user, I expect more from a Sup Forums poster.
Ian Watson
i5 6500 if you aren't going to overclock it
Andrew Hall
You really think the 970 is going to perform better in dx12 over the period of 2 years, for example?
Colton Gutierrez
wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1060-special-launch-event-july/ >Benchlife reports that the 3 GB models would be priced around $249 US while the 6 GB models will be priced at $299 US. Noooooooo. Literally all they had to do to bankrupt AMD was give it an equivalent price to the 480. Even making it slightly more expensive but perform much better would kill a lot of appeal the 480 had.
Samuel Edwards
both are fine. as long as they have a good reputation then you're set.
Nicholas Campbell
I dont know hot to delete them -=\
Easton Cooper
>tfw your wife buys a 1080 for her son but only lets you get a 480 for yourself
Blake Foster
I've never claimed that NVIDIA artificially increase prices They can set their own prices, it's a free market.
Elijah Miller
That's what I was looking at, yeah. Is it worth the upgrade? Or is the difference minimal?
Austin Phillips
>dx12 There's no way in hell I'm installing Windows 10.
Ayden Adams
For $300?
Christian Morales
Prices have gone through the roof with the 10xx because Nvidia either can't or won't meet demand.
Different shit going on.
Oliver Fisher
>3gb version priced like a 8gb 480 wtf njudea?
Adrian Roberts
In case you asking for serious question and not trolling. Lower performance with DX12 titles and maybe the upcoming Vulkan, so its less future proofs. Unless you want to play old games then be happy with a used 970 from ebay.
Satisfy?
Evan Gomez
Thanks for the advice user
Mason Miller
yup the vram will never be used. That's why the 3.5gb wasn't such a blunder at anything with >PS2 textures.
Julian Barnes
Wait, if that's the price of the "founders edition", then some of the AIB cards will legitimately be cheaper than that. AMD could still be finished and bankrupt.
Carson Hernandez
>192-bit yeah nah fuck off
Blake Powell
Those prices are fine.
Nvidia's VRAM is of exceptional quality.
Connor Allen
it's an upgrade that you'll notice but it's nothing crazy, cpus havent come as far as gpus in the same timespan
worthwhile upgrade though imo, if you run cpu intense games
Christopher King
nobody is ever going to need more than 2mb of hdd space lol
Landon Harris
>DX12 >Windows 7 Pick one.
Hunter Martin
NVIDIA is fucking finished
Isaiah Cook
Can someone sum up the merits of Polaris to me? The name seems to be dropped a lot, but does it actually bring anything new and exciting that doesn't show up in the benchmarks?
Nolan Brown
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Sebastian Reed
Considering how bottlenecked nvidias 16nm wafer supply is you'll probably get one by the end of september for $350.
Jayden Johnson
You will when you upgrade your CPU because if you don't some of your chip features will not be working.
Jack Green
Do newer amd cards require a mobo with uefi? I read something about the 380 needing it, but I haven't heard anything like that since I read it.
Benjamin Parker
>Want a GPU for games but doesn't want the best OS for games I bet you're one of those user who couldn't read for shit for themselves and think that spying = telemetry, also, misses the point of the telemetry being used only for microsoft account stuff, aka, not applicable when using a local account. >Being retarded Typical from Sup Forums fags leaking into Sup Forums
Cooper Jackson
You might want to double check their market share. AMD won the sub $400 bracket in terms of performance last gen, but Nvidia still sold more. Nvidia won't be finished for a looooooong time.
Elijah Ramirez
This doesn't surprised me at all. I got tons of experience of buying hundreds of cards from both companies.
AMD is still far a better option specially when you need to buy a lot of them.
Carson Richardson
I cringed
Tyler Flores
How is it compare to a R9 290? Worth upgrading?
Nicholas Lopez
Yes because the 1080 non-founders edition cards are _significantly_ cheaper than the nvidia goym edition, only $700.
Angel Evans
When do i get to stop playing this fucking waiting game
Levi Foster
As long as it's a decent upgrade I don't mind. My CPU/GPU are old as fuck anyway, and replacing them is as much for the performance boost as it is for replacing aging hardware.
Elijah Taylor
>telemetry is totally harmless bro Yeah, nah. If it was totally harmless then it wouldn't secretly communicate with Microsoft even when you have everything turned off.
Nathan White
Not worth it if you have a 290
Jonathan Nelson
We do not know. We have rumoured specs, and cards are typically launched in "families", so probably less than 4 months.
Isaiah Cook
Female pedophiles are more common than male pedophiles. Just nobody cares.
William Kelly
you do realize that the reference cards will be like $40 more expensive. it's a weird thing to do but that means the aftermarket cards will be like ~$210 and ~$250 which will put it within the same pricing as amd aftermarket cards or maybe even cheaper.
