AMD RX 400 series (Polaris) MegaThread! FAQ & Resources

[-Fran-]

Don't forget about the poor "Pro Duo": http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/radeon-pro-duo

Would we be getting a new version of the "Pro Duo"? As in "Radeon RX Pro Duo" or something?

Keep in mind those are dual Fijis (IIRC), so AMD has been doing it with every card they've had at the top. Which makes me think why would they do it for the Polaris GPU since it's not the top dog... That also takes away validity to the rumor.

Cheers! 😛

 

[Math Geek]

here is an actual single slot rx 460 card. sucks that it's from his but it's the first i have seen that is actually single slot.
http://videocardz.net/his-radeon-rx-460-4gb-slim-icooler-oc

wonder if anyone is gonna do the same for the nvidia cards.

 

[Robert Cook]

neat card, I have never dealt with HIS so I can only be moderately interested. that is a good amount of power for a slim card.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Nice, but it'll probably be loud.

 

[Math Geek]

no idea. never gonna buy another His card again but at least someone has seen the need and filled the need.

the His cards i have are very quiet but they are also double fan set-ups. hopefully since they have broken the ice a better company will come along and make one worth buying. MSI did the low profile 1050 cards so maybe the will also dabble into the single slot world.

 

[Robert Cook]

HA! HIS makes Ice cards, lets hope they will not break those, or from what I am hearing from you they already have...

 

[Math Geek]

my issue is business practices rather than quality of product. it's too bad they are so crooked cause the cards i have are actually pretty good.

there is a very valid reason newegg won't sell their stuff anymore!! really hard to find the cards in the US almost everywhere after the fiasco they created a couple years back.

 

[Martell1977]

my issue is business practices rather than quality of product. it's too bad they are so crooked cause the cards i have are actually pretty good.

there is a very valid reason newegg won't sell their stuff anymore!! really hard to find the cards in the US almost everywhere after the fiasco they created a couple years back.

Yeah, my brother was a "victim" of HIS. The GPU he bought of theirs had the fan disintegrate after 6 months(there were literally pieces all over the inside of the case) and they refused to fix it under warranty. On top of that they denied the MIR, however, Newegg was wise to them by that time and they fulfilled the MIR.

 

[renz496]

It's about time AMD developed a dual GPU card with full built-in hardware support for Crossfire/m-GPU that allowed the API to 'see' only one discrete GPU. So a controller chipset that handles all the dirty work! Something that, as a result, has much better compatibility and scaling than two cards.

I'm just dreaming though I suppose...?

doing such thing might only going to complicate things more. it reminds me of nvidia ninja core in their tegra 3 SoC where the core is not visible to OS at all. in the end they ditch that and go with big.LITTLE design where the 'power saver' core is completely visible to OS.

 

[Mousemonkey]

So how many of the talkers here are ready to put their chosen cards to the test folding for THF 40051 in the F@H competition?

 

[littleleo]

my issue is business practices rather than quality of product. it's too bad they are so crooked cause the cards i have are actually pretty good.

there is a very valid reason newegg won't sell their stuff anymore!! really hard to find the cards in the US almost everywhere after the fiasco they created a couple years back.

We dropped them awhile ago and we never got an reason from product management. I've never felt comfortable with the brand for some reason, so it didn't mater to me. What issues did you experience with HIS practices?

 

[Math Geek]

same as most. they refused to honor the MIR they heavily advertised ($30-40 per card!!) and had an issue with a card that needed warranty work. newegg stepped in for the MIR but could not get HIS to honor them either. they gave me 50% of them which was nice but they acknowledged they were having a ton of problems with them. this was holiday time a couple years ago when they came in strong with massive rebates during the sales season.

i'm glad i only bought 3 cards for personal use and did not buy any for clients. otherwise i may have been screwed out of hundreds of dollars in denied MIR's. as it was my 3 cards were $110 worth of rebates i could not get out of them. at the time there was many many reports and threads created all over the place about them refusing rebates for just stupid reasons. mine was denied because i did 2 of them on one form and my upc codes did not match. they had the 2 codes for 2 cards and matched them to the other card so they "did not match". all they had to do was swap them and of course they would have matched!! just plain stupid. 3rd one was separate but was denied because i stapled the upc code to the form. the form said to attach it so it did. they offered that if i sent another upc code unstapled, they'd give me the rebate. but of course you only get one with each card. so no other one to send in.

in the end they ignored my emails for 30 days until the window was closed for it to be appealed. then they quickly sent the "i'm sorry, your time is up so nothing we can do now" email. i swore i would bad mouth them here and anywhere else i post every chance i get for as long as i live.

i will never buy from them again and will actively discourage others to do the same.

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Wow Math Geek, that's terrible!

I imported a HIS 6670 from Amazon US to South Africa five years ago and I haven't one single problem with the card itself. However, there were no rebate offers with the deal, nothing. There were no rebate offers.

I saw an 8GB HIS 480 IceQ X2 on sale at a local e-tailer with a free copy of Civ VI - I'm suddenly a little bit glad that I didn't buy it.

 

[kansaw]

AMD RX 490 Retail Listing Pops Up

http://www.eteknix.com/amd-rx-490-retail-listing-pops-up/

 

[BurgerandChips66]

So maybe on December 13th the RX 490 will be announced, or it might be just Zen?

 

[-Fran-]

So maybe on December 13th the RX 490 will be announced, or it might be just Zen?

Ah... There's a meme for that!

"Why not both?"

Cheers! XD

 

[littleleo]

So maybe on December 13th the RX 490 will be announced, or it might be just Zen?

Who knows ZEN they will show up. Better late ZEN never. Or It could be tomorrow...tomorrow.. its only a day away!

Oops did I get that song stuck in your head, lol!

 

[SteelOwl]

Is freesync really that good and efficient? I am planning to buy LG 27MP68VQ-P. It uses freesync by HDMI. Will it be good?

 

[kansaw]

Is freesync really that good and efficient? I am planning to buy LG 27MP68VQ-P. It uses freesync by HDMI. Will it be good?

Freesync is very good. Contrast ratio and response time numbers on your monitor aren't that great. Checkout http://www.tomshardware.com/t/monitors/ right here on Tom's Hardware.

 

[renz496]

Is freesync really that good and efficient? I am planning to buy It uses freesync by HDMI. Will it be good?

depend on which model you intend to take? with variable refresh panel i think it is good if you can take that have VRR range down to 30hz because that's where smoothness matter the most. many FS monitor on the market only have work down to 48hz.

 

[SteelOwl]

That LG model 27MP68VQ-P (IPS) has freesync range of 40-75 Hz. Lower range as far as I see it in that budget range only have TN panels. Regarding that monitor I read some very good opinions on picture quality, I think it will be great monitor for that price and size. I am only scared how will it looks on black color...

 

[sarinaide]

The 490 looks like a Polaris based Fury X 2.0, Polaris with extra compute units and HBM. I really doubt it is a dual GPU.

 

[Robert Cook]

The 490 looks like a Polaris based Fury X 2.0, Polaris with extra compute units and HBM. I really doubt it is a dual GPU.

really? that would make sense but I thought I read somewhere that the Vega flagship was going to be Fury like.

that might have been from WTFBBQtech though

 

[sarinaide]

The 490 looks like a Polaris based Fury X 2.0, Polaris with extra compute units and HBM. I really doubt it is a dual GPU.

really? that would make sense but I thought I read somewhere that the Vega flagship was going to be Fury like.

that might have been from WTFBBQtech though

Vega is not even out in testing yet, if AMD made a flagship that is only good enough to compete with a 1070/1080 then they are in trouble. This is a Polaris based RX480 with HBM to squeeze out the 30% needed to compete with the Pascal parts.

 

[renz496]

The 490 looks like a Polaris based Fury X 2.0, Polaris with extra compute units and HBM. I really doubt it is a dual GPU.

really? that would make sense but I thought I read somewhere that the Vega flagship was going to be Fury like.

that might have been from WTFBBQtech though

Vega is not even out in testing yet, if AMD made a flagship that is only good enough to compete with a 1070/1080 then they are in trouble. This is a Polaris based RX480 with HBM to squeeze out the 30% needed to compete with the Pascal parts.

replacing those GDDR5 with HBM will not going to suddenly make those RX480 perform like 1070. also AMD never mention anything in between polaris 10 and vega. looking at how AMD talk about their product this year if such chip indeed exist we will know about it. if those bench are indeed real they will only point to one gpu at this point: smaller Vega.