AMD Radeon RX 480 (14nm Polaris)

[=assassin=]

The lack of DVI (would need to pay for an adapter), and what seems like slightly worse than GTX970 performance, at a slightly higher price, makes this a more disappointing release than I was hoping for :/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The lack of DVI (would need to pay for an adapter), and what seems like slightly worse than GTX970 performance, at a slightly higher price, makes this a more disappointing release than I was hoping for :/

The RX480 4GB is cheaper(the GTX970 is a 4GB card) and it depends on the review. OcUK had the 4GB model for £176 and Ebuyer has it on pre-order for £173.

[chinf]

I was hoping for DVI too; Sapphire's non-reference RX 480 has a DVI port, so that might be an option. In my case, I could probably just use HDMI but I'd still need to buy a new cable.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looks like the cards are power limited and even if you overclock it does not improve the score:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oc7zXhzlzU



If you up the power slider it actually makes a big difference even on third party cards,especially if you overclock.

[watercooled]

I'm sure people are aware, but just to be sure, the 970 in the Hexus review is running at 1150 GPU and 1304 Mem, compared to stock 970 @ 1050 and 1178 (which I assume the other reviews are based on). I believe it's the highest pre-overclocked 970 you can buy and roughly performed 8-12% faster than a reference 970 in Hexus' review @ 1440p

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...x-970-phoenix/

I hadn't even noticed that TBH, thanks for pointing it out! I wish sites would make it obvious when they're comparing reference to significant pre-overclocks.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looks like undervolting the card improves performance:

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/...bei_der_rx_480

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Sweclockers review tested quite a few games too:

http://cdn.sweclockers.com/artikel/d...394bbf68352dac



The card is definitely throttling as a poster over on AT forums,showed that for a 4% clockspeed increase you were getting a 10% to 12% performance increase!!




Edit!!

Another review showing the card is not maintaining clockspeeds:

http://i.imgur.com/eYGtMeA.jpg

[DanceswithUnix]

The lack of DVI (would need to pay for an adapter), and what seems like slightly worse than GTX970 performance, at a slightly higher price, makes this a more disappointing release than I was hoping for :/

If you have a high enough resolution to need dual link then that will cost a bit for an active adapter, but otherwise it is only £3.20 for DP+ to DVI passive cable: http://www.ebuyer.com/727653-xenta-d...able-disdvieby

However I guess VGA is now dead as a connector. Not sure I want to invest in adapters for that, but the kids are both using VGA into a TV so that will cost me in buying them proper monitors at some point.

[forsakenrichy]

From the rumours I thought this would be at least faster than a gtx980. Quite disappointed tbh

[Bagnaj97]

However I guess VGA is now dead as a connector. Not sure I want to invest in adapters for that, but the kids are both using VGA into a TV so that will cost me in buying them proper monitors at some point.

Displayport to VGA adapters start at about £5 on Amazon. HDMI to VGA are about the same price. Sure, VGA has had its day, but it's cheaper than buying proper monitors for the kids!

[cheesemp]

Ouch - some price gouging on amazon - £330.49 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/XFX-RADEON-...eywords=rx+480
and £269 + P&p! https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-RX-480-...eywords=rx+480

Silly thing is Amazon themselves have one for £219 so I don't understand why someone is trying it...

[DanceswithUnix]

Ars have had a play with crossfire. Headline result, 1070 performance for the price of a 1070 so a bit meh.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/201...tx-1080-ashes/

Displayport to VGA adapters start at about £5 on Amazon. HDMI to VGA are about the same price. Sure, VGA has had its day, but it's cheaper than buying proper monitors for the kids!

Thanks, last time I looked was a while back and they were north of £20. At that price, two of them would have been half the cost of just buying a new monitor so it would have felt like throwing good money after bad keeping the VGA going. At a fiver, seems worth having one for the bits and bobs drawer.

[scaryjim]

Displayport to VGA adapters start at about £5 on Amazon. HDMI to VGA are about the same price. Sure, VGA has had its day, but it's cheaper than buying proper monitors for the kids!

HDMI to VGA adapters readily available on ebuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/697450-hdmi-to...r-nlhdmi-hsv01

Or ask on here; I suspect you might find a few people with spare adapters lying around that they don't use any more (that's how I got hold of a DP - VGA adapter a few years back ).

EDIT:

Ars have had a play with crossfire. Headline result, 1070 performance for the price of a 1070 so a bit meh.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/201...tx-1080-ashes/

Did you read the TPU crossfire review they linked to? Their performance conclusions are far more interesting, as they flagged results ignoring the games where XF doesn't scale at all:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/...ssFire/19.html

Starts off 10% faster than a 1070 at 1080p, and scales to close on 20% faster than a 1070 at 4k, getting extremely close to the 1080, if you take out the games that don't scale with XF. But there's plenty of games that don't scale - a couple of key quotes from their conclusions:

... However, only 6 out of 16 tests are taking advantage of the second card. ...

... a lot of games that came out don't support multi-GPU at all due to engine limitations. There's not much AMD or NVIDIA can do about such games, and this is what scares us about multi-GPU solutions going forward.
...

It's quite a balanced piece really, recognising that wher eit works XF RX 480 is a good solution, but highlighting the possibility that it will become increasingly less viable to have any kind of multi-GPU solution, regardless of vendor.

[DanceswithUnix]

HDMI to VGA adapters readily available on ebuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/697450-hdmi-to...r-nlhdmi-hsv01

Or ask on here; I suspect you might find a few people with spare adapters lying around that they don't use any more (that's how I got hold of a DP - VGA adapter a few years back ).

Interesting, though that would have be going from displayport to HDMI to VGA which seems like asking for trouble

[scaryjim]

... though that would have be going from displayport to HDMI to VGA ...

How so? The RX 480 has HDMI as standard. That said the DP - VGA adapters are a little cheaper, so probably a better option (as long as the cards have the clock drivers for analogue output - I have a dual DP OEM Radeon 3450 that won't output over a passive DP - VGA adapter!).

tbh, it's nice to see a GPU manufacturer finally making the move to DP in a meaningful way - we've been hearing for years now that DP is the way to go for monitors, and HDMI for TVs, but we've been stuck with mid-range and low end cards with DVI and VGA ports. Multiple DP/HDMI just makes sense (although it'd be nice to see at least one adapter thrown into the mix - I mean, it used to be that you couldn't buy a GPU without them including two DVi - VGA adapters - I had a box full of the things at one point!).

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Sapphire AIB RX480 is coming soon it appears!!

Yes over reference it has:

- 8-Pin
- DVI Port
- OC out of box (1325-1350MHz region, TBC)
- Black Shroud
- Removable fans for cleaning
- Backplate
- MSRP 275.99 GBP (OcUK is trying to get lower)

I really like it and as always the Nitro will be one of the best if not best cards on market for aesthetics, cooling, reliabity etc. and now they have 3yr warranty is also great.

He said he is trying to get down to £260 but interesting the price is the same as the GTX980 and he mentioned that he thinks the GTX1060 will cost around the same or higher.

Pushing them!

Sapphire will be first, then no doubt PowerColor, XFX should have cards to pre-order in a week or two.

Asus will have RGB Strix, no idea on price and probably small shipments, so not great. MSI Gamer X also, again no price but stock should be better but Sapphire, Powercolor will have best stocks for sure as always and no doubt best pricing too.

Edit!!

It appears third party cards will be out soon.

Second Edit!!

Had discussions with several AMD partners in last 24hrs and I have convinced them 4GB has demand and as such more shall be manufactured and should be on shelfs late July.

So the 179.99 4GB 480 shall return in a months time!

Looks like more 4GB cards on the way!!