AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB

[rhythmeister]

W1zz, would it be possible for you to add Doom to the benchmarks or when the RX 480 has its next driver suite to revisit this card? I'm VERY interested in one of these cards to upgrade from my HD 7870 Tahiti and would like to see how it compares to the GTX 970. I'm ALSO considering the green team as my monitor has G-Sync but undecided if I really need that feature at all

 

[laszlo]

what people do when a bug stick to the windshield? hmmmm shall they start the wipers or not ?

latest benchmark show that one penguin die if you use wipers one hr...

 

[Caring1]

I've been in the red camp and I've had it, I don't want to hear anything anymore about them.

So why even bother posting in a "Red" thread unless you wanted to troll?

 

[rtwjunkie]

GTX 970 cheaper today than 15 days ago?

Because within those 15 days Nvidia urged card manufacturers to cut prices on 970, 980 and 980Ti. My feeling is Nvidia sees it as competition to overpriced 1070 and 1080, and want them and the 980's gone from all stock.

Plus, 970 prices have fallen bit by bit since their production halted 2 months ago.

 

[Eroticus]

I would appreciate if you would point out where did you find an review for an 1.6Ghz clocked 970. (Read: REVIEW not some random slide pulled out of my backside with syntethic crap)

Also, I'm a peasant and game at 1440p/1080p where the difference is within margin error @ stock ( Read: 1051 MHz ). And even there, in games that I'M INTERESTED, and the only good ones too if you ask me (Read: The Witcher 3) the 970 is a more logical purchase than the RX 480 or 290X, if you OC it, it absolutely destroys the latter in these games while being more efficient (despite being 28nm) and is cheaper too.

You can't convince me of anything with shoving charts in my face, I've been in the red camp and I've had it, I don't want to hear anything anymore about them. This discussion is about the RX 480. I'm saying the 970 is a better purchase than the RX 480 and you try to convince me that 290X is better than 970. Completely on-topic.

YOU SAID, ur 970 OCing much better and more power effective, and i said you are wrong, i didn't join to GTX 970 review topic and i didn't said that my 3years old AIB 290x is much faster than GTX 970.

Even stock 290 /290x perform better than GTX 970 , you started to talk about how good ur 970 is OCing.

Sure i can't convince you, same like i convince people that are buying apple staff.

I'm just trying to stop unhappy people like you, from spearing propaganda.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

W1zz, would it be possible for you to add Doom to the benchmarks or when the RX 480 has its next driver suite to revisit this card? I'm VERY interested in one of these cards to upgrade from my HD 7870 Tahiti and would like to see how it compares to the GTX 970. I'm ALSO considering the green team as my monitor has G-Sync but undecided if I really need that feature at all

Your brain and eyes will thank you; that is if you get an nVdia card and enable G-Sync. It sure would be nice to see DOOM benchmarks too, I agree.

You will probably have to wait for the GTX1060 if you want the same performance/price point though.

 

[rhythmeister]

Your brain and eyes will thank you; that is if you get an nVdia card and enable G-Sync. It sure would be nice to see DOOM benchmarks too, I agree.

You will probably have to wait for the GTX1060 if you want the same performance/price point though.

I WAS waiting with great expectations for the RX 480 and still think it's a great card...but I suppose the battle with the 1060 could help the price of it drop and the 1060 may even be a step up from the AMD card. Can I wait EVEN longer to upgrade from my HD 7870 Tahiti though, so I can play Doom with full eye candy AND decent frame rates?

 

[Ungari]

Your brain and eyes will thank you; that is if you get an nVdia card and enable G-Sync. It sure would be nice to see DOOM benchmarks too, I agree.

You will probably have to wait for the GTX1060 if you want the same performance/price point though.

Just be prepared to wait a long time unless you are lucky enough to snag one of the 3 cards shipped to your local store.

 

[Eroticus]

I WAS waiting with great expectations for the RX 480 and still think it's a great card...but I suppose the battle with the 1060 could help the price of it drop and the 1060 may even be a step up from the AMD card. Can I wait EVEN longer to upgrade from my HD 7870 Tahiti though, so I can play Doom with full eye candy AND decent frame rates?

Looks like...

Doom is optimized with love.

Lower the quality and Disable SMAA.

 

[abihakim]

YOU SAID, ur 970 OCing much better and more power effective, and i said you are wrong, i didn't join to GTX 970 review topic and i didn't said that my 3years old AIB 290x is much faster than GTX 970.

Even stock 290 /290x perform better than GTX 970 , you started to talk about how good ur 970 is OCing.

Sure i can't convince you, same like i convince people that are buying apple staff.

I'm just trying to stop unhappy people like you, from spearing propaganda.

I would appreciate if you would point out where did you find an review for an 1.6Ghz clocked 970. (Read: REVIEW not some random slide pulled out of my backside with syntethic crap)

Also, I'm a peasant and game at 1440p/1080p where the difference is within margin error @ stock ( Read: 1051 MHz ). And even there, in games that I'M INTERESTED, and the only good ones too if you ask me (Read: The Witcher 3) the 970 is a more logical purchase than the RX 480 or 290X, if you OC it, it absolutely destroys the latter in these games while being more efficient (despite being 28nm) and is cheaper too.

You can't convince me of anything with shoving charts in my face, I've been in the red camp and I've had it, I don't want to hear anything anymore about them. This discussion is about the RX 480. I'm saying the 970 is a better purchase than the RX 480 and you try to convince me that 290X is better than 970. Completely on-topic.

Chill m8, as a Palit(It's called Digital Alliance in my country) "JetStream" GTX 970 and Sapphire Tri-X R9 290x Owner let me clear out some facts here.

Spoiler: GTX 970

Spoiler: R9 290x

See? OC vs OC both of them beat each other asses. They performed roughly the same in DX11 Heaven 4.0!
So, both of them are really a good cards at times. Great Value too!
About the Power Consumption i really don't care, as the electricty is cheap af in my country, so it doesnt matter!

If you wanted to get better performance for roughly the same Value. then GTX 780 Ti is the winner here..

Spoiler: 780Ti

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As an "avid" reader of Greenland /Polaris bit disappointed how they performed. But for the ppl who owns a card that less powerful than a R9 290 and GTX 970, $199/$239 Price Point is really good for them! Sadly not for me, I hope Vega would not dissapoint me, if so sadly i have to wait till Volta or Navi arrives..

 

[Eroticus]

Chill m8, as a Palit(It's called Digital Alliance in my country) "JetStream" GTX 970 and Sapphire Tri-X R9 290x Owner let me clear out some facts here.

Spoiler: GTX 970

Spoiler: R9 290x

See? OC vs OC both of them beat each other asses. They performed roughly the same in DX11 Heaven 4.0!
So, both of them are really a good cards at times. Great Value too!
If you wanted to get better performance for roughly the same Value. then GTX 780 Ti is the winner here..

Spoiler: 780Ti

=========================================

As an "avid" reader of Greenland /Polaris bit disappointed how they performed. But for the ppl who owns a card that less powerful than a R9 290 and GTX 970, $199/$239 Price Point is really good for them! Sadly not for me, I hope Vega would not dissapoint me, if so sadly i have to wait till Volta or Navi arrives..

"Heaven 4.0+ Tessellation" - Even overlocked 780 Ti would get better score than 290x.

 

[abihakim]

"Heaven 4.0+ Tessellation" - Even overlocked 780 Ti would get better score than 290x.

Ah yes! Sry about that, but i can assure you all the benchs are taken from my own computer(i5 3570 and H77, Oh hell yes i really care when it comes to price per performance) with the same settings (Extreme Quality, 8x AA, Windowed, 1080p).

 

[Eroticus]

Ah yes! Sry about that, but i can assure you all the benchs are taken from my own computer(i5 3570 and H77, Oh hell yes i really care when it comes to price per performance) with the same settings (Extreme Quality, 8x AA, Windowed, 1080p).

At last use 3DMark.

Heaven 4.0 NVIDIA vs AMD, is same like Star Swarm or SteamVR, AMD Would win there.

700$ 780 TI vs 549$ 290x


Here

 

[Dethroy]

Looking at mindfactory.de simply to get an idea how well the RX 480 faires against Pascal so far. Of course I am aware that Pascal has been out far longer than the RX 480. That's why I will periodically update this post to see which cards sell more units in a given time frame. One thing to keep in mind though, is that the GTX 1080 and 1070 most likely have a way higher profit margin than the RX 480 since both Nvidia GPUs are basically mid-range offerings priced as high-end. The following numbers will mark our starting point.

total units sold as of 2016-6-30 @ 3:00 pm (CEST/UTC+2):

• RX 480: 630 - card that sold the most units: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 @ € 269,00€ with 350 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on RX 480 cards: 169.800€
• GTX 1070: 2.130 - card that sold the most units: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X @ 499,00€ with 550 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on GTX 1070 cards: 1.065.886€
• GTX 1080: 2.650 - card that sold the most units: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Strix OC @ 799,00€ with 570 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on GTX 1080 cards: 2.008.867€

This amounts to 3.074.753€ vs 169.800€ (current card pricing).

 

[Tatty_Two]

In a 480 review comment thread......... lets cut the continued posting of half a page of benchmark crap for graphic cards that DON'T include the 480, it dilutes the review and member comment ON the review, roughly translated, keep on topic please, irrelevant benchmark propaganda can go into GN, this is not a Fanboi marketing stand. Thank you.

 

[Auryx]

So why even bother posting in a "Red" thread unless you wanted to troll?

I'm just saying that the RX 480 dissapointed and that the 970 is a better buy if found cheaper. I'm not the one filling every reply with irrelevant bullshit benches

 

[Eroticus]

I'm just saying that the RX 480 dissapointed and that the 970 is a better buy if found cheaper. I'm not the one filling every reply with irrelevant bullshit benches

Sir, Facts isn't bullshit.

I don't care, how much GTX 970 is cheaper in ur local shop.

There is MSRP and global prices

RX 480 4GB MSRP - is 200$ same like GTX 960 4GB.

This isn't really AMD problem that some retailers selling RX 480 for GTX 970 or 290x price.

I didn't said in any 1070/70 /980 TI / 980 /970 review topic, blabla ebay is selling these cards for 700USD, gtx 1080 has 900+ usd price tag in my country, and how much better is my GPU that out 1 year ago. and how cheaper i got it.

and you should not.

Looking at mindfactory.de simply to get an idea how well the RX 480 faires against Pascal so far. Of course I am aware that Pascal has been out far longer than the RX 480. That's why I will periodically update this post to see which cards sell more units in a given time frame. One thing to keep in mind though, is that the GTX 1080 and 1070 most likely have a way higher profit margin than the RX 480 since both Nvidia GPUs are basically mid-range offerings priced as high-end. The following numbers will mark our starting point.

total units sold as of 2016-6-30 @ 3:00 pm (CEST/UTC+2):

• RX 480: 630 - card that sold the most units: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 @ € 269,00€ with 350 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on RX 480 cards: 169.800€
• GTX 1070: 2.130 - card that sold the most units: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X @ 499,00€ with 550 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on GTX 1070 cards: 1.065.886€
• GTX 1080: 2.650 - card that sold the most units: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Strix OC @ 799,00€ with 570 units shipped
  total amount of money spent on GTX 1080 cards: 2.008.867€

This amounts to 3.074.753€ vs 169.800€ (current card pricing).

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Nice but not earth shattering. OcUK also had 500 GTX 1080 FE's for sale- a card that was supposed to be overlooked in preference to AIB custom cards. The entire inventory was sold out in minutes

What does it has to do in RX 480 review topic ?

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[Legacy-ZA]

I WAS waiting with great expectations for the RX 480 and still think it's a great card...but I suppose the battle with the 1060 could help the price of it drop and the 1060 may even be a step up from the AMD card. Can I wait EVEN longer to upgrade from my HD 7870 Tahiti though, so I can play Doom with full eye candy AND decent frame rates?

Well, from what I read; the GTX1060 will be announced on the 7th July 2016, it's about 1 week from now, maybe wait a bit longer and see? I am just saying, since you have a G-Sync monitor it will benefit you to go with nVidia.

 

[Dethroy]

What does it has to do in RX 480 review topic ?

To get an idea if AMD will gain any significant market share.

 

[Eroticus]

To get an idea if AMD will gain any significant market share.

Awww okay, but you won't guess that , from 1 store, there is too much varieties, like another stores, poor and rich countries,GPU supply over the time and much much more.

Example is WoW pretty failed in US, but had huge success in China(65m vs 110m+)

 

[Dethroy]

Awww okay, but you won't guess that , from 1 store, there is too much varieties, like another stores, poor and rich countries,GPU supply over the time and much much more.

Example is WoW pretty failed in US, but had huge success in China(65m vs 110m+)

I know it won't be 100% accurate. But I'd thought it may point in the right direction, though.
If anything, people like me that like numbers, may find it interesting regardless of its accuracy

 

[Casecutter]

Power efficency was almost the only thing they promised, and didn't deliver anything close to 2.5×.

The claim was "2.5x improved performance-per-watt compared with its 28nm-class hardware".

The quantifier here has always been what constitutes its 28nm-class hardware and what Perf/W matrix? Is "class" based on die size or level of performance today? In other words is it compared to a Pitcairn like the 270X, or say the 290X/390. Is performance in actual games (which ones), Firestrike or average of both?

I'm not saying this Ellesmere part by types of matrices used in most reviews doesn't seem elevated above what I would've thought, however I can't quantify if AMD's statement is true or a fabrication with out a clear revel of their parameters.

And there's the problem; Even W1zzards' summary isn't a appropriate quantifier as I don't believe he's using the actual power consumption from "each game", but uses the one "typical gaming power consumption result" from which of these (below) I have never understood.

• Average: Metro: Last Light at 1920x1080 because it is representative of a typical gaming power draw. The average of all readings (12 per second) while the benchmark was rendering (no title/loading screen) is used. In order to heat up the card, the benchmark is run once without measuring power consumption.

• Peak: Metro: We use Last Light at 1920x1080 as it produces power draw typical to gaming. The highest single reading during the test is used.

 

[Dethroy]

And there's the problem; Even W1zzards' summary isn't a appropriate quantifier as I don't believe he's using the actual power consumption from "each game", but uses the one "typical gaming power consumption result" from which of these (below) I have never understood.

• Average: Metro: Last Light at 1920x1080 because it is representative of a typical gaming power draw. The average of all readings (12 per second) while the benchmark was rendering (no title/loading screen) is used. In order to heat up the card, the benchmark is run once without measuring power consumption.

• Peak: Metro: We use Last Light at 1920x1080 as it produces power draw typical to gaming. The highest single reading during the test is used.

• What's not to understand?

 

[bug]

• What's not to understand?

I think he means if Metro: Last Light is a good indicator of typical power draw, then it's not a good indicator of peak power draw - we'd need the most stressful game for that.
As a side-note, I've never understood the difference between max and peak either.

 

[W1zzard]

then it's not a good indicator of peak power draw - we'd need the most stressful game for that.

It's actually a very good indicator both in averages and peaks. That's why I picked it. No, it's not Furmark, that's why we have the Furmark test.