QOTW: How fast do you need the AMD Radeon RX 480 to be?

[HEXUS]

Is there a card the $199 newcomer will need to beat in order for it to be an instant purchase?

Read more.

[jigger]

Well $199 works out at around 72,000 Pesos and I can get a pair of Titan Z's for that. So taking into consideration SLI scaling the RX 480 would have to be around 92% of a R9 Fury Duo's performance.

If this was a US site anything faster than a R9 380X.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Probably needs to be R9 390X level or close at £165 to £200,as the 8GB version is meant to be $229.99 which is around £190 here. That would essentially double the performance of my GTX960 4GB and nearly 50% faster than a R9 380X. However, AMD needs to vary of Nvidia pushing out a GTX1060/GTX1060TI at close to that to spoil the party,so lets hope its a hard launch.

Still probably won't be an instant purchase as even though my GTX960 is getting taxed a bit now,it is still OK for the time-being but I will need an upgrade at some point.

[Ferral]

It is certainly interesting this new RX480 from AMD, I have also read elsewhere that apparently the performance is in the region of midway between 970 & 980 cards, granted this does remain to be seen but if it is then AMD could well be onto something big especially with their aggressive pricing.

Pair one of these with a decent FX CPU or an i5 (4Ghz or better for future proofing) and you should be onto a winner for a few years. I think you should in all fairness be able to run everything currently available at 1080p with Ultra settings hitting a steady 60 fps and 4k stuff at medium to high.

Mind you AMD's biggest issue is drivers, has been for a few year now, the Crimson drivers after March made Dark Souls 3 crash to desktop after freezing for me and a hard reset was required, thankfully the latest driver sorted this issue out but it shouldn't have been happening on a single R9 380.

Looking forward to seeing a few real world tests (Doom, Homefront : The Revolution, Ashes of the Singularity and so on) and the synthetic stuff

[DanceswithUnix]

I wanted to wait, but hardware failure forced me to buy an R9 380. Until something feels slow, I won't be buying for a while.

[borising]

I expect to be between Nvidia GTX 1080 and Nvidia GTX 1070, but for the price of $199 we'll see, maybe just a little slower than Nvidia GTX 1070.
For price of Nvidia GTX 1070 you can buy Radeon RX 480 and in Crossfire mode be faster than Nvidia GTX 1080.

[george1979]

If this works out it might do what the 4870 did some years back. Great bang for buck and scalable. I'll be watching with interest and may jump back to AMD

[QuorTek]

So I should wait for a price war between Nvidia and AMD now?

It might be quite beneficial for the customers whenever it get to it as well it will also show that them companies might be robbing us for good in general.

[CF_Hero_23]

I am currently Running 2xHD7870 XT's in X-fire and I have not upgraded since they were new.

Now the RX480 is supposedly faster than a 980 (Non Ti) and in x-fire 2 are faster than a 1080FE for $400
I think I just found a good reason to upgrade. Considering this is the same price I paid for my current set up this seems like a steel.

[CF_Hero_23]

So I should wait for a price war between Nvidia and AMD now?

It might be quite beneficial for the customers whenever it get to it as well it will also show that them companies might be robbing us for good in general.

This may be valid depending on your preference I have stuck with ATI/AMD since my 3870x2 and have upgraded every 2-3 generations since then. I will say though if the price war is good enough I may give into my sons intensive want for a GTX1070...

[sykobee]

At $199 / $229 : It's good at 11000 points, great at 12000, wonderful at 13000, stonking at 14000.

[zaph0d]

At $199 / $229 : It's good at 11000 points, great at 12000, wonderful at 13000, stonking at 14000.

I Think you've hit the nail on the head there - anything over 11k is decent value for money, if it can get anywhere close to 13k it's a class leader.

[pastymuncher]

I can't see it being fast enough for me. It would need to be 980ti+ performance to make it worthwhile to me and from what I have heard so far it's only going to be 970-980 performance although nobody actually knows yet because of AMD's ridiculous choice of having it under NDA until it goes on sale.

[cptwhite_uk]

I expect to be between Nvidia GTX 1080 and Nvidia GTX 1070, but for the price of $199 we'll see, maybe just a little slower than Nvidia GTX 1070.
For price of Nvidia GTX 1070 you can buy Radeon RX 480 and in Crossfire mode be faster than Nvidia GTX 1080.

You're trolling, right? You expect a $200 card to perform somewhere between a $600 and $380 priced cards?

[c12038]

Does this mean that existing cards either Nvidia or AMD will go down in price to compete with this level of pricing

[StealyClint]

If it's between the 390X and Fury X it will make the GTX 1070 look very bad value for money.