Monday, June 13th 2016
Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro, Reference Cards Pictured
Here are some of the first pictures of the Radeon RX 480 Nitro, and a reference-derived semi-custom graphics card by Sapphire. The RX 480 Nitro features a new dual-fan aluminium fin-stack cooling solution by Sapphire, with what looks like a metal cooler shroud featuring brushed aluminium finish, and a pair of 100 mm fans ventilating a dense aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The company is also working on a card that's similar in design to AMD's reference card, with a few cosmetic changes, such as a glowing "Sapphire" logo instead of "Radeon," and a back-plate. The Radeon RX 480 is expected to go on sale a little later this month.
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67 Comments on Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro, Reference Cards Pictured
As Nvidia continually marching to provide for their own "Eco-System" within PC gaming if that what make business sense for them good. It will soon enough be a question; are you on PlayStation, X-Box, Nvidia, or a open PC gaming platform?
Edit: Opp's my bad I thought you where that Eroticus member, my mistake if you where joking
I have a 780Ti with 3GB of VRAM and a 3440x1440 monitor. Guess what? ALL the games you guys talk about that they need more than 4GB of VRAM for higher res, are ALL working like butter on my monitor. GTA 5, Far Cry Primal (what a garbage), Mirror's Edge C., Witcher 3, Assassins Creed, NFS, etc, none of them are stuttering because of lack of VRAM or going lower than 35fps (minimum).
If a game uses more than 4GB of VRAM it doesn't mean that it requires more than 4GB of VRAM. People still fail to understand that...
Let's just put it here for now :)
Some people bothered zooming in and checking for artifacts.
And concluded it's fake.
Anyhow, 480 is either between 970/980 or between 480/Fury (non-X) is a safe bet. :)
CrossFire
Lisa Lu holding 460 and 470 in hands, some stupid clip about AMD lab and OMG Zen.
OMG Zen what, pretty please? Oh, it can run Doom. Who would freaking have thought! What a breakthrough, thank you so much for revealing that!
What the f*cking hell, guys, does this "amazing amazing", "OMG OMG OMG" (I recall nVidia's Huang had a bonkers lady who was OMG-ing on everything), even work?
Why are they even bothering doing it?
PS
Thanks for VC leak, looks legit. I wonder where the hell is Fury (non X) in that chart.
PPS
So, 480 is 70-73% of 1070's performance, according to the chart above.
As for the whole 2x GPUs, I just hope AMD starts releasing 2xGPU single card versions. I dont have space for crossfire :P
Edit: And I just saw that the $199 will be for the 4GB version. Damn AMD. Now we might be looking at a $299 8GB version -_-