AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB

[m1dg3t]

Excellent card for the $$$! So in about 8 - 10 months it'll be equal to/better than last gens 'top poppers'? Can't wait to see what the board partners come up with in the near future

Why is/was the 380x left off of a few of the charts? Small oversight or are we getting creative in our bias? That is the card/segment this is replacing after all... Is it not? Or am i missing something?

 

[geon2k2]

I've read this review earlier in the day, and I was like meh, but since then I've been chewing on the results and it is actually not bad at all. Basically they brought R9 390 performance at the R9 380 price range, which is very good, and this can be seen so clearly in the performance per dollar chart.

So ... good job AMD.

 

[ikeke]

Question - can you confirm if AMD has done the "lets-overvolt-the-c*ap-out-of-this-chip" as with Hawaii again?

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/12/#diagramm-undervoltage-performancerating

?

 

[Ungari]

Excellent card for the $$$! So in about 8 - 10 months it'll be equal to/better than last gens 'top poppers'? Can't wait to see what the board partners come up with in the near future

Why is/was the 380x left off of a few of the charts? Small oversight or are we getting creative in our bias? That is the card/segment this is replacing after all... Is it not? Or am i missing something?

970 was also noticeably absent from a few of the benchmarks too.

 

[jabbadap]

I read tom's article it makes no sense to me, I am electrician by trade and the numbers don't add up

they say contact free which to me means CLAMP and I can't see how those would be accurate on something that small,generally you have a tough time getting a CLAMP to read properly with 18AWG wire I find it hard to believe its accurate on a PCB

They use HZO50 PROBE, which DC amperage precision is 1mA. And Raiser card which look like this.

 

[Tomorrow]

"and then there's GTX 1060 coming soon, too"

how soon? like in 1-2 weeks?

July 7th annoucement event and July 13th Reference versions in retail. Custom versions in August i would assume...

 

[IceScreamer]

Now that the initial dust has settled, hmm, not bad of a performer, but that power consumption, wow. Tom's review shows a very high power draw from the PCI-E slot, above the spec so that is worrying. Also, about that BIOS switch I've been hearing, could that in any way influence performance and/or power consumption.

 

[kiddagoat]

I dunno why people keep drinking all the ocean water around here...... stop expecting something for nothing.... they stated in the beginning it was an upper mid - low high end card. It fills that caveat nicely between the 970 and 980. Depending on the title it trades blows. I mean AMD has always ran hotter, used more power, and noise since what.... 4890?? maybe the 6970? It should just be expected at this point. This card hits the metrics they wanted and they kept the price where they said it would.

I don't understand the mentality of people wanting $500-$600 performance for $150...... or $200 in this case..... wtf??

Yeah breaking PCI-E spec does give a bit of reason for alarm but then again... unless your mobo is utter garbage along with your bargain bin PSU, you should not have anything to worry about.

 

[birdie]

Seems like Tpu f*ed up. All other sites are quoting lower power consumptions.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10446/the-amd-radeon-rx-480-preview/6

Um, no,

 

[happita]

Newer updated drivers (think 1-2 months from now) and AIB boards with 8-pin/6+6-pin configurations will certainly bring this little card well within the GTX980 range of performance.

I'm not worried about the debut crappy stock cooler, I'm more interested in custom coolers with refined power circuitry. THAT'S what people should be looking forward to.

The debut is ABSOLUTELY NO indication of how good this card can OC, it's up to the AIB partners.

 

[xkm1948]

I just want the new wattman to work on my furyX!

According to this, you may flash to unlock extra vram? Really? Care to dive into some details here Wizzard? Truth or bullshit?

6:20

 

[Tomorrow]

If it's true what pcper said then the question is why does the 8GB version cost more than the 4GB version if both use the same pcb with the same components already installed?

 

[Ungari]

July 7th annoucement event and July 13th Reference versions in retail. Custom versions in August i would assume...

I have to wonder if these cards will be available in any significant numbers given the wait for 1080/1070s.

 

[btarunr]

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.

R9 290 wasn't a bad launch, it was a terrific one. When it launched, the $399 R9 290 was faster than the $999 GTX Titan and $650 GTX 780, and R9 290X was fastest until NVIDIA launched GTX 780 Ti. I immediately bought an R9 290 after the review.

 

[truth teller]

quite nice improvements, both on the software and the hardware side of things, a bit under 390x perf with way less resources available, but i cant help feeling a bit disappointed that it doesnt match a 390x, maybe more mature drivers? oh well, guess the op info in that rumors thread was right all along

its still a nice steal for the price, but that core overclocking, dear god, could it be more pathetic? meh

maybe some aib can make a single slot variant (*nike slogan*), that would strike my enthusiasm (even if less outputs are available)

According to this, you may flash to unlock extra vram? Really? Care to dive into some details here Wizzard? Truth or bullshit?

wiz probably could flash between the two yeah, but i doubt 4gb cards sold to customers ship with 8gb, but hey one can dream right? (if these could be softmoded like modern oscilloscopes the card would become a rockstar and sell like hotcackes, not gonna happen though)

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Those who ditched their 970s & 980s for this disappointing card will cry. I knew this card isn't going to perform as per what AMD claims after posting all that hype materials at Computex.

 

[Frick]

Those who ditched their 970s & 980s for this disappointing card will cry. I knew this card isn't going to perform as per what AMD claims after posting all that hype materials at Computex.

What did they they promise performance-wise?

 

[ikeke]

I seem to remember something in the lines of "GTX970/R9 390 level of performance for $199".

I could be wrong though.

 

[Krekeris]

Did I missed something? Many let`s call them green people keep saying about something AMD promised and didn`t delivered. What you guys talking about? Mid-range card is performing as it was intended to do so. Performing about the same as higher-end last gen cards from both companies and being cheaper.

 

[dj-electric]

"150W TDP" is an undelivered promise.
Not all promises are regarding gaming performance

 

[ikeke]

"150W TDP" is an undelivered promise.
Not all promises are regarding gaming performance

?

See this, looks like the cards are overvolted quite a bit, similar to Hawaii-situation. Looks like ~30-40W can be cut from it with few tweaks in the WattMan

 

[xkm1948]

They didn’t tell any reviewers this fact unless they directly asked about it, so most reviews today missed that fact. We learned about it when AMD informed us that they wouldn’t be sending out any Radeon RX 480 4GB cards and instead would be using a BIOS to limit the Radeon RX 480 8GB cards to 4GB of memory. In theory if you can find a Radeon RX 480 4GB at-launch reference board you should in theory be able to flash it to a card with 8GB of memory!

Confirmed. So the best bang for the buck will be the current reference 4GB card. One BIOS flash and you get a free upgrade to 8GB.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

$240 for an 8GB variant is kinda pointless if it can't keep up in 1440p regions like it's older brothers... especially when played at top settings. even in 1080p region it fell short. They (AMD) should not put up a fight against Nvidia's 2nd Gen Maxwell & Pascal when performance benches are this disappointing. Hell, even the "kiddie zone", 900p it also falls short miserably when compared with older cards. While the 960 isn't really a worthy opponent, the 480 just got butchered by it's older brothers across all gaming benchmarks.

 

[Slizzo]

If it's true what pcper said then the question is why does the 8GB version cost more than the 4GB version if both use the same pcb with the same components already installed?

Over on Reddit, Robert @ AMD confirmed that they only had 8GB cards available for reviewers, so they provided reviewers with custom BIOS to simulate a 4GB card so they could also review that, as the only difference between the two cards is physical amount of VRAM and the RAM speed.

 

[NDown]

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.

How the hell does one perceive the 290 launch was "bad" except the 94 degees temp?

you sounds like a literal nvidiots with that kind of reply tbh

Those who ditched their 970s & 980s for this disappointing card will cry. I knew this card isn't going to perform as per what AMD claims after posting all that hype materials at Computex.

elaborate more ? i might be missing something but i dont know any official words from them except:

"VR-ready performance / 1080p gaming mainstream card at fair price"

if i recall VR minimum specs is around the 970/290 level and the 480 delivers just that kind of performance