AMD announces Polaris pricing - $199 for RX 480

[treeroy]

He probably just mis spoke.

[stevie lee]

He probably just mis spoke.

maybe.

we need stuff to talk about inbetween CAT5th finding the proper stories

everything is just hype, fud, embellished stories to make either side NVidia/AMD look bad/better until the 29th june anyway.

just treat everything said with a massive salt shaker of salt (its bigger than a pinch) in the meantime.

[treeroy]

maybe.

we need stuff to talk about inbetween CAT5th finding the proper stories

everything is just hype, fud, embellished stories to make either side NVidia/AMD look bad/better until the 29th june anyway.

just treat everything said with a massive salt shaker of salt (its bigger than a pinch) in the meantime.

oh yeah - so much "leaks" and "rumours" in this industry

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

XFX Reference card pictured:

http://videocardz.com/61147/xfx-rade...1288-mhz-clock

The Chinese price would equate to £212 but I don't know if that is with any taxes or not.

Edit!!

That is the shop price as it includes taxes.

[cheesemp]

XFX Reference card pictured:

http://videocardz.com/61147/xfx-rade...1288-mhz-clock

The Chinese price would equate to £212 but I don't know if that is with any taxes or not.

Edit!!

That is the shop price as it includes taxes.

I want to see some non-reference boards... I hope they aren't too far behind as is the rumors are correct this card is supposed to OC very well.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Actual picture of a card on CH forums:

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1606404-1-1.html



Seems to come with a manual which says it consumes around 110W and the person who has the card says he estimates the card hits 1.4GHZ when reaching the power limit of the board which is 150W.

He still has no drivers for the card.

[kalniel]

Reference cooler doesn't look terrible either.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The latest leak:

http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

The 3DMark score is around R9 390X level.

[kalniel]

The latest leak:

http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

The 3DMark score is around R9 390X level.

Unfortunately the clock speed isn't reported by the drivers, the score is VERY similar to the 390X.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Unfortunately the clock speed isn't reported by the drivers, the score is VERY similar to the 390X.

They are also using quite an oldish driver set too - the 16.5.2 drivers were released on May 12th 2016.

[kalniel]

They are also using quite an oldish driver set too - the 16.5.2 drivers were released on May 12th 2016.

Interesting. Likely AMD are doing the same thing nVidia do - give out hardware and white paper info for reviews to write the bulk of the articles, then send out drivers to 'activate' the cards at the last possible instance so the benching occurs at the last minute and with the drivers in the best state AMD can get them in.

So earlier leaks are possibly from people modding older drivers to get some kind of result before AMD have given them the actual drivers (which presumably also only go to NDA signatories).

[cheesemp]

Interesting. Likely AMD are doing the same thing nVidia do - give out hardware and white paper info for reviews to write the bulk of the articles, then send out drivers to 'activate' the cards at the last possible instance so the benching occurs at the last minute and with the drivers in the best state AMD can get them in.

So earlier leaks are possibly from people modding older drivers to get some kind of result before AMD have given them the actual drivers (which presumably also only go to NDA signatories).

Or they are faking it working using a 390x as the real benchmark and the card they show won't work until the driver releases?

[kalniel]

Or they are faking it working using a 390x as the real benchmark and the card they show won't work until the driver releases?

Then they are doing a lot of work to make 3dMark think it's running a 480 rather than a 390X

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Chinese bloke doing some live testing of the RX480:

http://www.douyu.com/pc666

[kalniel]

Right so final reference clock speeds of the 8GB card at least*:

Base 1120mhz
Boost 1266mhz

And the expected 2304 Shader units

Giving 5.16 and 5.83 GFLOPS, not that that's always a hugely representative figure for gameplay.


*
https://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-...cations-Newegg
http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=9491647

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like review copies are being tested now:

http://hothardware.com/news/amd-rade...sting-underway

More pictures of the card:

http://www.techpowerup.com/223594/sa...ured-some-more