AMD Radeon RX 480 (14nm Polaris)

[jigger]

Wouldn't it be down the the manufactures to put 8GB or 4GB on the cards?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Sapphire Gods have listened Nitro shall be 249 delivered on OcUK !!!

This could make things interesting!!

[jigger]

Indeed. At £249 delivered that should put a cap on the price.

[satrow]

Caution required, reports of RX 480's killing PCIe slots: https://community.amd.com/thread/202410

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Powercolor Devil RX480 spotted:

http://videocardz.com/61769/exclusiv...devil-pictured

[DanceswithUnix]

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!).

My daughter for example has a VGA port TV connected for main display, and for youtube recording preview and playback a 1366x768 TV on the HDMI port (unusable for a main screen due to cheap TVs not being able to turn off the 5% overscan on their HDMI port so you can hardly see the "start" button for example).

Given that a DP port can do HDMI and a DVI-I port can do VGA or HDMI all through just having the right passive adaptor or cable, I never really got why people would want HDMI ports on graphics cards.

You can now get Freesync DP monitors from £100, I would still be tempted to just throw the towel in on the older tech.

[kryton666]

Powercolor Devil RX480 spotted:

http://videocardz.com/61769/exclusiv...devil-pictured

Still just a 6 pin pcie,so still power issues?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still just a 6 pin pcie,so still power issues?

Emm,it says 8 pin in the article just like the Sapphire RX480 Nitro has.

[kryton666]

Still just a 6 pin pcie,so still power issues?

Emm,it says 8 pin in the article just like the Sapphire RX480 Nitro has.

So why is the extra 2 pin not plugged in in the pic?

[kryton666]

Still just a 6 pin pcie,so still power issues?

Emm,it says 8 pin in the article just like the Sapphire RX480 Nitro has.

So why is the extra 2 pin not plugged in in the pic?

And does not look as if there is a place to plug it in.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They are smart, this is the far bigger market! 2000 sold at OcUK in just over 24hr !!!!

WTF??

And does not look as if there is a place to plug it in.

Yeah,looked at the pic - weird. Well we will soon find out!!

[jigger]

WTF??



Yeah,looked at the pic - weird. Well we will soon find out!!

Sapphire have probably just the HSF on a reference board to get some pic's to send out.

[kalniel]

Sapphire have probably just the HSF on a reference board to get some pic's to send out.

That'd be funny, given it's a powercolor GPU

[jigger]

The Nitro card pic had a 6 pin too, but Sapphire do make all the cards IIRC.

[Xlucine]

I hope the aftermarket cards do find more speed. Fun with numbers time...



So on a game that doesn't seem that brilliant for the 480 (the 970 beats it), we see 63fps.

Now, assuming the Vega can hit the same clocks, and has the predicted 4096 shaders I make that 63*4096/2304 = 112fps

AMD would need to find another 12% to beat the 1080 with Vega on that bench. 1420MHz core would do it, perhaps with faster HBM2 memory.

I'll put money on vega having an AIO cooler, and it ought to have better stepping and a beefier power supply - a 15% OC with all of that going for it shouldn't be hard. It'll probably need to beat the Nvidia 1080ti by then though, so AMD may not be able to tap into the ultra-high margin upper end of the market.

[watercooled]

Caution required, reports of RX 480's killing PCIe slots: https://community.amd.com/thread/202410

Storm in a teacup. Check GTX960 reviews, it spikes much higher than the 480 and I don't recall the same hysteria around that. But then this is AMD, which means the same problem which gets ignored for Nvidia is a devastating headline, of course.