AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB

[jigar2speed]

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I suppose they hit their performance point but I don't see them selling a lot of these cards.

Oh yes they will, disappointment is soon going to go away, since all the unnecessary hype was done by fanboys. Just look at the performance per dollar chart, nothing is even remotely close to the performance that you get for the money you spend.

 

[ShurikN]

The Price/Perf is amazing, but I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed with the power and temps, as well as OC. Sure the ones with 970/290/390 have no reason to upgrade, but there are a lot of people like myself with a low end card, and also those who are making a new budget build. This card is perfect for them.
Lets see what non-reference brings to the table.

 

[TheGuruStud]

I told you it was another Glofo failure. It's garbage. Power consumption is off the charts for 14nm and it can't clock at all (as expected).

Dump Glofo and sue them to break contract.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Well, I'd say that if it's about 290X performance with a much lower consumption, I'd not say that it's power hungry. My 290 draws a lot more power and therefor generates a lot more heat than this 480, but that's not the reason if I would upgrade. Some people (like me) just don't care about power consumption.

It's power hungry compared to the competition. 1070/1080 power consumption levels for 970/980 performance? That is terrible.

Imagine what the 1060 will do, if it is half the size of a 1080, with half the power draw. If it performs the same as a 480, the 480 will be obsoleted in the same year it released.

The performance isn't bad, the price is good, but the power efficiency is abysmal. There's only a small (~30%) improvement compared to Pitcairn (270X), while Pascal has shown a huge efficiency leap over Maxwell. Nvidia's 28 nm GPUs are as efficient as AMD's 14nm GPUs. GTX 1070 is over 70% more efficient. When it comes to power efficiency it's like Bulldozer against Sandy Bridge if not worse.

I wonder whether it's AMD or GloFo's process that's to blame. But this horrible power efficiency means that AMD will get slaughtered in high-end unless Vega doubles Polaris' power efficiency, which isn't going to happen.

Whats worse, ZEN is made on the same process as polaris. This might not bode well for zen CPUs either if it is a glofo problem. Again.

 

[nem..]

hey folks too much talking about , and recently I'm finding that the RX 480 is the same size die chip than 960 and with similar prices when released to go seeming in that range play the 480x truly,

here this table had taken from tpu and you can see, almost doubles all specs of 960, if we are to compare Polaris against Maxwell this would be the fair and best comparison , if they say that AMD offers performance Maxwell, but twice the memory bandwidth , twice memory bus, vRam size, the power of the chip, etc.

I leave here and the link to the database anyone can see for himself.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/

Specs comparision : RX 480 VS 960 VS 970 VS 980

 

[Absolution]

It doesn't use any heatpipes or other high-tech means to keep the card cool. Rather, there is a big slab of metal, with a copper core that has the blower fan sending air across its fins.

And that tard Raja said it is designed like a $500 card rofl. They couldnt even get a decent cooling solution.

 

[TheGuruStud]

It's power hungry compared to the competition. 1070/1080 power consumption levels for 970/980 performance? That is terrible.

Imagine what the 1060 will do, if it is half the size of a 1080, with half the power draw. If it performs the same as a 480, the 480 will be obsoleted in the same year it released.

Whats worse, ZEN is made on the same process as polaris. This might not bode well for zen CPUs either if it is a glofo problem. Again.

Zen better be at Samsung only (APUs at glofo I suspect).

 

[Disparia]

Very nice. Not in rush buy anything though as the slowest card in the house (GTX 660) is still fine for games that the kids play. Also, even before the reviews I knew I would wait for shortened aftermarket cards with better coolers.

 

[bug]

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Oh yes they will, disappointment is soon going to go away, since all the unnecessary hype was done by fanboys. Just look at the performance per dollar chart, nothing is even remotely close to the performance that you get for the money you spend.

Yes there is. The 970 offers about the same performance for $265. And that's for custom solutions which are already overclocked and will match 480's performance in this review. Yes, there will be custom, overclocked 480s, but they will also cost more than the MSRP.

 

[ISI300]

"Made in Globalfoundries, USA."
Well, that's a first.
This might be my next cadd, but due to lack of DVI and the crappy cooler gonna wait for AIB cards or the GTX 1060.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Everything about this card smells like a 2nd hand product released as new. Price included....

 

[rtwjunkie]

Personally, I think this card has a lot of potential and will sell remarkably well. I don't know why everyone sounds so disappointed.

It performs very well at 1080p, with price/performance being excellent. The only real downfall, as I see it, is the temperatures, which is a product of the cooling solution. It is still a safe level, despite exceeding the personal comfort level of many. This in turn impacts the overclocking ability. AIB partners will correct most of those two issues for those it is important to with better cooling solutions.

This is an extremely good card that is very affordable and has the potential to take the majority of the mid-level market. Just don't expect it to be what it's not, and your disappointments will wane.

EDIT: Good grief, I believe this review and follow-up has nearly killed the TPU servers!

 

[jigar2speed]

Yes there is. The 970 offers about the same performance for $265. And that's for custom solutions which are already overclocked and will match 480's performance in this review. Yes, there will be custom, overclocked 480s, but they will also cost more than the MSRP.

But why would you purchase GTX 970 4GB (3.5GB) at $265 when you can purchase RX 480 8GB card at $239 ??
EDIT: I forgot to add this thing has better DX 12 performance than GTX 970.

 

[EarthDog]

Anyone see our friend Medi01?

I wish we would have seen more performance for the power used and price...

 

[Valdas]

Almost what I have expected, except the power consumption. Delivers significantly less performance compared to 1070 and yet power consumption is similar. Oh well, it seems finally hype mist clears and we can see what the reality looks like. None the less price makes it a decent product.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Personally, I think this card has a lot of potential and will sell remarkably well. I don't know why everyone sounds so disappointed.

It performs very well at 1080p, with price/performance being excellent. The only real downfall, as I see it, is the temperatures, which is a product of the cooling solution. It is still a safe level, despite exceeding the personal comfort level of many. This in turn impacts the overclocking ability. AIB partners will correct most of those two issues for those it is important to with better cooling solutions.

This is an extremely good card that is very affordable and has the potential to take the majority of the mid-level market. Just don't expect it to be what it's not, and your disappointments will wane.

EDIT: Good grief, I believe this review and follow-up has nearly killed the TPU servers!

Here's the problem. If nvidia does manage to get the rumored 1060 out in july, it will take all the wind out of AMD's sails. A 1060 would crush the 480 power consumption wise at the same performance, and if nvidia prices it at, say $250, nobody is going to buy the 480 except those on the tighest of budgets.

 

[Assimilator]

AMD literally does not learn from their mistakes, this is the 290 launch all over again. This is why they deserve to fail as a company.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Here's the problem. If nvidia does manage to get the rumored 1060 out in july, it will take all the wind out of AMD's sails. A 1060 would crush the 480 power consumption wise at the same performance, and if nvidia prices it at, say $250, nobody is going to buy the 480 except those on the tighest of budgets.

Possibly you are right. However: 1) We know nothing of 1060 performance numbers yet, and 2) Let's not discount the NVIDIA ability to vastly overestimate the worth of their product and price it way too high for this market.

 

[KainXS]

now that the card is released, if the GTX 1060 is better you will pay more for it, nvidia never lets down on that just look at the 1070 and 1080. Not to mention that rumors like that are exactly what led to all this disappointment.

 

[red_stapler]

Yeah, I'm not giving up my 7950 just yet.

 

[DarkOCean]

for me it looks like new 8800GT which was almost 8800gtx level for half the price. I see similar here 480x vs 980. price / performance. cheaper almost 2 times(or even more). and price/performance
ratio shows exactly that.

8800 gt had over 20% oc headroom on custom cooler cards even the stock card did better than this and lower poer consumption

Same problems as usual: over hyped by fanboys and crippled with a crappy cooler...

Lets hope non ref cards can fix this

even if they'd used a cooler like the one on stock intel cpus would have been better

 

[silkstone]

I'm not sure what all the disappointment is about. It's roughly where we expected it to be. The biggest problem is the cooler and overclock.
For those out for a well performing mid-range card, it's far better than anything else in the price range.

I'd jump on it, if not for the poor cooler and no immediate need for a new card. The only competition this card has where I am, at a similar price point is a 290 or 970 for $100 more or a 960 at an equal price.
As it is, I will wait for the custom cards to come out with better cooling and possible 8-pin connectors.

 

[bug]

But why would you purchase GTX 970 4GB (3.5GB) at $265 when you can purchase RX 480 8GB card at $239 ??
EDIT: I forgot to add this thing has better DX 12 performance than GTX 970.

Linux support. At least AMD now has day 1 support, too, but it seems it's still not on par with what they offer on Windows.
970 aside, I'm mostly concerned about what the 1060 will do to the landscape.

 

[ShurikN]

I'm actually doubting the usefulness of 8GB as the card struggles to achieve 60fps at 1440p where that amount of memory is needed. I'd really like to see some benches with memory usage on 1080/1440p.

 

[ISI300]

AMD literally does not learn from their mistakes, this is the 290 launch all over again. This is why they deserve to fail as a company.

Oh, they DESERVE to fail?
200$ gets yolu at least 970/290 performance. Power consumption is a bit high but nothing that every power supply in every gaming system ever can't handle.
Cooler is a bit disappointing but that's what tne AIB cards are for.
I know some people like having their head jammed up their gloomy place and can't see the positives of a card that costs almost a third of what their G1 980 cost at launch but with almost the same performance.
Or are you one of those PR-firm hired Nvidia FUDsters?