AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB

[Air]

Ok? When was the last time AMD had a mobile GPU?

Or do you mean laptop GPUs?

Yes, I meant laptops, sorry.

 

[Frick]

Yes, I meant laptops, sorry.

Aye, the next generation gaming lapotops shall be very interesting.

 

[NDown]

What's wrong with all of you? How was this card advertised?

"A card for 1080, for a mainstream gamer. Fairly priced."

And what it is? Hmmm, it performs as 970 (for less price) - it's a candidate for replacing my few years old, mid-range card. Will probably wait better cooler, though.

1440p/4k lovers - go buy what actually can move your games, spend 800eur - we're not in the same class. But take a look (on Steam, for instance) - how many people actually PLAYS 4k? And how many people actually owns integrated GPU... You'd be quite surprised by results, judging by comments here...

And for save-the-planet bunch: what's your PSU wattage? 300W? 500W? You go to flame wars for 20W - one energy-efficient lightbulb equivalent. Sorry, I don't agree with your logic - as long as I own a fridge, freezer and several kW-ranged home appliances. Hell, my wife's hairdryer uses 2kW. So, if I gamed heavily 12h/day, I'd use the similar extra power as she does on daily basis...

I guess most posters here are quite distant from the real world and real life and expect no-energy consuming hardware able to run most demanding games of today (quite high expectations), and don't care at all about the cost of it (quite low expectations - I pay attention on cost greatly). Go ahead, tell me that extra 20W (applies to various hardware wattage comments in the past) will return 600eur soon. If you think so, then you obviously don't pay electric bills - your parents do...

I don't claim that this card is ideal - but do that it does what they said it will. Mainstream gaming, decent price. Look at the Performance/$ (and Watt/$, save the whales). And if the principle "no way in hell that I'll ever pay 500eur (much less 1000) for a GPU" is applied, than I have to accept 1080p gaming (not that hard at all) and mid or low range.

One other thing - 1060 in JULY? Vega in OCTOBER? They're both lying, if you ask me...

the only post that doesnt reeks any stupidity in this thread

it's not that bad imo and perform exactly as advertised, the 1080p for mainstream gamers part i mean

of course i wont throw away my 970 just yet for this card

i dont even know if AMD ever said that this card will perform anywhere near 980 level

it's mostly from people @videocardz that said the RX 480 will be at 980 level

you have issues if you think this card will be anywhere near 1070/previous high end gpu in terms of performance

 

[efikkan]

LOL don't be so gloomy! The card performs right where realists (not overhypers) expected it to, in the 970 and 980 territory, beating the 970 most of the tine, and a few times the 980. Also, it's affordable.

I predict the only thing Nvidia is going to do is overprice their suggested price for a 1060, leaving the 480 and the follow on AIB models the clear winner.

In your dreams.
I'm just being realistic, which will be harch for many.
At 70-80% better efficiency Nvidia can easily compete with the upcoming GTX 1060 and GTX 1050(Ti).

 

[jabbadap]

I read the following on Toms Hardware:

"We skipped long-term overclocking and overvolting tests, since the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption through the PCIe slot jumped to an average of 100W, peaking at 200W. We just didn’t want to do that to our test platform."

Uhh thats not good at all, I would take over power from the 6-pin connector rather than risk motherboard power circuits like that.

Edit: they might even face the import ban because of that. See
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4qfwd4/rx480_fails_pcie_specification/?st=iq13a7kc&sh=d8555242

Spoiler

Spoiler: Hypetrain, do not look

Nvidia employee's yesterday's tweet:
https://twitter.com/PellyNV/status/747805063519731713

 

[Plus Alpha]

how are you people measuring slot-power consumption AND not total card power consumption
I think the people at toms are mistaking total board power for power drawn though the pci-e slot its self

 

[deu]

While not a very solid card when it comes to Power efficiency. I feel like AMD is just playing a catchup game with NVidia. They barely are catching up with nVidia's last generation Mid range cards (970/980).

Hyper was all about Cost/Power efficiency and it is way below 1070 (154W) vs 480 (166w) given the huge performance difference between the two. I am not sure where the card shines besides the outstanding price.

Everything you say is (sorry to say), really newbish.


1. Power: It beats any other card in that pricerange... Im not trying to provoke here, but have you even read through the review and checked the numbers!?
2. As for catching up: do you know how small the die size is? 232mm2 vs 970's 398mm2 It cost AMD more or less half the price to spit out a chip and they can produce almost double the amount.
3. GTX970/980 WAS NOT midrange (no matter how much you think it was) they where highend and the 980Ti / TITAN was considered entusiast.

Creating the most value-for-money card for the biggest gamer segment avaliable is what AMD have just done; whether or not NVIDIA can match them we will see, but neither maxwell nor pascal will be cost-efficient compared to polaris in that level (mid) atleast not from what they've shown so far.

 

[Plus Alpha]

@W1zzard can you clarify then when you said 'board' power you where referring to total consumption of the card and not the draw though the PCI-e slot ?

 

[Ungari]

So no OC headroom on the core, runs hot, and is loud and is over pci e power specs. ehhh when I read this I felt like

Save some reviewers that achieved over 1350Mhz.

 

[rtwjunkie]

In your dreams.
I'm just being realistic, which will be harch for many.
At 70-80% better efficiency Nvidia can easily compete with the upcoming GTX 1060 and GTX 1050(Ti).

No, not in my dreams. Unlike alot of people on here, I don't go to bed drooling over new hardware.

What you are doing is creating the same hype with your conments for the 1060 as so many did for the 480. Those of us that were realists are not disappointed.

Be careful that you don't get your wish and more as NVIDIA prices the 2060 right out of competitiveness in the mid tier market.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard can you clarify then when you said 'board' power you where referring to total consumption of the card and not the draw though the PCI-e slot ?

Board power is power draw of the whole graphis card. PCIe Slot + 6-pin in this case

 

[Hood]

The performance of the RX 480 may actually be much worse than indicated by this article. Has anyone here looked at the Passmark High End Video Card chart? It show the RX 480 just barely beating the GTX 770 (and GTX 960). And Passmark rates the GTX 970 as being over 33% faster than the RX 480. So what's the real story?

 

[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

 

[jabbadap]

how are you people measuring slot-power consumption AND not total card power consumption
I think the people at toms are mistaking total board power for power drawn though the pci-e slot its self

With pcie raiser cables. For cheapest way of doing that you can use ampere clamps and normal voltage meters. Tomshardware has some more serious equipment for doing it though.

 

[Ungari]

As long as you keep your usage within the fast ram, 970 destroys this steaming pile. 970 clocks well, this garbage can't even make a dent.

I'm not sure which reviews you have been looking at but I've seen the reference Stock Clock 480 trade blows with EVGA SSC 970.

 

[Palladium]

If the RX480 is only 110W I would have bought one in a heartbeat, because at the least that will be competitive in perf/W with Pascal done at a similar price point especially with the 1060 being rumored at just a week away.

Now in it's current 163W incarnation, mobo killing potential, lousy OC headroom and the noisy ref cooler, not going to bother until I see the 1060.

 

[GLD]

When Sapphire releases a custom cooled RX 480 8G I will buy. Seeing as the RX 480 is ~40% faster then my R9 380 it will be a decent upgrade for me. I wont be going with a reference card at the moment though.

 

[Ungari]

I just realised this chip will be terrible for notebooks, where power consumption is a lot more important. With the same cooling/power budget, Nvidia can offer 80% more performance.

Notebooks will use Polaris 11 chip.

 

[illli]

If they launched this card with a good cooler, 5% better performance (10% over 970) and better power usage the reaction here would no doubt be very positive

If the above had happened, sure. But the problem is AMD needed to make a great, not good but GREAT, first impression... not sure why they would send these flawed cards out for review. I'm inclined to believe the out of spec power draw from the motherboard pci-e slot is some kind of flaw.

 

[acperience7]

I must have missed something... Other than the Blu-ray and Idle power draw, I don't see what's wrong with this card...It looks like it does what it was made to do for the price it was supposed to do it for. Maybe the people throwing their hands up in this thread are being sarcastic? If I didn't have a Fury already I would snap up a 4GB version.

 

[jabbadap]

Notebooks will use Polaris 11 chip.

Well being similar power consumption as gm204 chip, I won't write of polaris 10 chips from higher end laptops. But of course gp104 will be most powerful laptop gpu, at least until vega(if not longer).

 

[SIGSEGV]

Save some reviewers that achieved over 1350Mhz.

http://oc.jagatreview.com/2016/06/t...on-rx480-ke-1-4ghz-dengan-cooler-3rd-party/2/

 

[EarthDog]

The performance of the RX 480 may actually be much worse than indicated by this article. Has anyone here looked at the Passmark High End Video Card chart? It show the RX 480 just barely beating the GTX 770 (and GTX 960). And Passmark rates the GTX 970 as being over 33% faster than the RX 480. So what's the real story?

passmark? Lol... enough said.

 

[jabbadap]

http://oc.jagatreview.com/2016/06/t...on-rx480-ke-1-4ghz-dengan-cooler-3rd-party/2/

Well that's the spirit, that meagre default pcb is still keeping it down though. According to Kyle[H](I know hardocp is not really liked here) AIB:s custom cards can be OC to 1490MHz - 1600 MHz.

 

[Plus Alpha]

With pcie raiser cables. For cheapest way of doing that you can use ampere clamps and normal voltage meters. Tomshardware has some more serious equipment for doing it though.

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