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actually at this point i am remembering this old article http://videocardz.com/60253/amd-radeon-r9-480-3dmark11-benchmarks

and last night amd confirmed the part number C7DF:C7 as the 480. so i'm actually off as the 3dmark scores leaked here show it as better than a 980. took me a few to lool it all up and put 2 and 2 together. so it's actually closer to a 1070 if these numbers are to be believed. and $200 for "almost" a 1070 is a MASSIVE game changer.

long time berfore we know for sure but isn't that the whole point of this exercise, to try and figure out what it all means :)
 
Wouldn't that be funny if they used different settings for the 480 Crossfire and GTX 1080?

AMD-Radeon-RX-480-Ashes-of-The-Singularity-2.jpg
 


I hope they release details on the settings used. 144Hz at 1440p is great but was that on low (probably not) Medium (maybe), high (maybe), Ultra (not sure) or Nightmare (this one would be the one to do )?
 
That new GPU shows was amazing, i hope its about £159 in the UK will be perfect for me for battlefield 1. ive never had an nvidia card radeons have never let me down, so ive my eye on the 480
 
I imagine the stock lost is because the "normal people" was expecting a direct answer to the 1080, so AMD being direct this time saying "no, it won't compete 1:1 with the 1080" I'm sure scared some speculators.

Plus, like I read somewhere, you can't really compare the nVidia announcement's strength with AMDs. The positive drive [difference] behind each is gigantic. AMD's was lukewarm at best, when in turn Jen's was an explosive Volcano, haha. That also as an effect on perception for speculators.

Cheers!

EDIT: forgot tagged word 😛
 


Lol I can sum up that article with two statements:

Shock horror headline "Stock Tumbles".... actualy figure in article: "3.35%"... lol

Click bait nothing more.
 
There is an AMD thread. While so simple and logical, it took me a while to get here. Hello everyone!

Have you guys seen this?

A shame there's still a month worth of NDA before the actual benchmarks. Same with nVidia and their reveal early may. I might be imagining things but I kinda remember not having to wait so long in the past.
If it gets anywhere close to 1070 at this price point then things might get interesting.
 
It won't get near a 1070, I don't think. But I do think that it may beat out Nvidia's 1060 for sure in terms of price/performance. Mathgreek brought up a great point that Pascal cards seem to be a bit more expensive than their Maxwell counterparts. If the GTX 1060 was a $230 card and has the same or worse performance than a 480, the only thing it'd have to brag about is lower power requirements. Anyway, a 150W TDP I am fine with. We're out of the 200s and 300s so I'm happy.
 


AMD stock tumbles (by 3.35%) to 4.42 (a few months after it was trading at less than 2).
 


Yep saw it. :)

I'm glad AMD is targeting the mainstream segment. It's the perfect place to shoot at before Nvidia starts releasing it's budget Pascal cards in the winter.
 


Winter? Where'd you hear that?

Wait, in that LTT video the RX 480 has a 6-pin connector. I thought it was 8?
 

...Spite? If overclocking, I expect its requirements to exceed 150W. Then again, PCIe slot and cable specifications are flexible.

Anyway, I died of laughter in that video when that guy dropped the bag with the GPU :lol:
 
So according to Gamer Nexus the $199 will "only" have 4GB GDDR5 on board wit the 8GB version not yet finalized but probably around $250.

No matter if you need the extra vram or not, I don't think that's a good way to get sales going. Many people that are not so much into VR might not want to get "last gen vram". But that's just the feeling I got after reading this.
 


For the 380, 2GB was the norm and 4GB was the "extra" card. So it only makes sense that for the RX480, 4GB is the norm and 8GB is the "extra".
 
That's pretty lackluster, then. My HD5870 has 2GB of VRAM. I believe it's a 6 year old card and I remember maxing it out with HQ textures even back then so I can only imagine the newer games are even more VRAM hungry.
 


:rofl::rofl: :lol:

Yeah same here lol. Poor guy, that's gona live with him for all his life. But hey, at least we now know the "radeon RX is built tough". 😛
 


Perhaps Rx because it is just what the doctor ordered? no I see what you mean, I do not like RX .GTX sounds good XT sounds good, R and X do not go well together.
 


Good thing he's the CEO otherwise we'd have yet another #riptom
 
I don't disagree that R9 was not betetr but I am just trying to understand it. Everyone is now expecting a RX 480X but to me that just sounds redundant.

Unless they have decided to do what ATI did after the 9800 XT and went with X to denote the 10 instead of going to the 10800 XT.

Is Polaris the tenth uArch ATI has ever had? I would assume it isn't since R600 was the HD 2000 series and R1000 would have been the HD 6000 series so by now it would be the R14000 or 14th uArch design.

Who knows. Will know more later I guess.
 
I think RX sounds better than R9. I don't see anything wrong with RX. I think they changed it to RX simply because they wanted to, they want to say, "this is not just another rebrand, it's something new". I'm guessing they'll also quit calling the 470/460/450 R7 then. They'll just be RX I guess.
 
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