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I was looking at the Sapphire 8gb 480 non-nitro, which is £233 at one retailer.
Some people think it is the RX480 Nitro at that price.Originally Posted by kalniel
Hope so! Then I can avoid it - that thing looks hideous.
Yeah - it looks like those bling cases from a decade ago. The reference model actually looks OK!! OTH,if that is the reference model for £235,I feel this is the third 14NM/16NM launch which will dissapoint me.
AMD has such a big chance here - only they can screw it up. Heck,if I were them I would even do some rebates to AIB partners to have at least some of the 8GB models be closer to £200 as a fair number on other forums have not been happy with new gen pricing so far.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 11-06-2016 at 02:18 PM.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why does it seem like non-reference Nvidia cards are even more expensive than the overpriced founders edition cards?
https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer...force-gtx-1080
True.
The pricing just seems ridiculous compared to the USD RRPs.
Not sure what to make of this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment..._and/?sort=old
If you look down the page,a chap who is an editor of an Italian techsite says the full Polaris 10 chip has 3072 shaders??
That would be.. unexpected. 2560 would be a more reasonable figure.
That would mean that RX480 is only 75% (36/48) of the full die which is rather low. The GTX1070 is similar but AMD don't usually cut that much, do they? Maybe GF have or were anticipated to have bad yields?
Still, whatever else I could accuse Nvidia of, the usually execute quite well but the launch of GP104 seemed very rushed. Maybe they got some leak of the full spec Polaris 10 chip? Because 3072 shaders at the same frequency as RX480 would be very close to GTX1080 which would be very impressive for a chip only less than 74% of the GP104's size (232/314) even if GF's 14nm is denser than TSMC's 16nm.
But I agree with kalniel that 2560 is far more likely unless AMD was really worried about initial yields.
The 1070 is also 25% which is unusual even for Nvidia, but then it's a larger die so you'd expect yields to be lower. 3072 does seem a bit far-fetched but we haven't had confirmation of die size besides pixel-counting presentation slides AFAIK.
It depends - GF/Samsung 14NM is meant to be twice as dense as TSMC 28NM,so technically a direct shrink of Hawaii would be a bit smaller than the 232MM2 figure touted. You need to consider Polaris won't use a 512 bit memory controller and probably lacks the DP compute abilities of Hawaii too. Remember 3072 shaders is not massively higher than the 2816 shaders in Hawaii. AMD also has increased shaders massively on the same node in the past - the RV670 in the HD3870 had 320 shaders and the RV770 in the HD4870 had 800 shaders and on the same 55NM node,the die size went up from 192mm2 to 260mm2. Then you had Tahiti with 2048 shaders and a 384 bit memory controller which was around 365MM2 and Hawaii had 2816 shaders and a 512 bit memory controller and was only 438mm2.
I think it is quite possible,but whether AMD went that way in reality is another question.
Some leaks from Chiphell. Might be fake.
Official drivers successfully installed as the legitimate driver signature
Radeon RAGE 67DF: C7
4GB GDDR5 memory
@ 1080MHz core clock
This card is the test sample card 8 + 6pinSupposedly he has the 4GB version of the card.Temperatures are expected public version of 1266MHz point of view of 70 degrees is a cool card in between 40 to 50 degrees
And so there is a new BIOS update will run sub
1080MHz people how to live
DG Lee(Korean modder who is reasonably well known and leaked the picture of the 29th June NDA) says their example runs at 1.2GHZ+ but this is probably the 8GB version.
Different clock speeds for the 4GB vs 8GB card? But without a change in nomenclature? I was already annoyed with AMDs changing name scheme again, but that would be very confusing. I could imagine a 480 vs 480X having different clock speeds. Guess we'll have to wait for retail packaging to leak to find out.
On the other hand.. the RAGE moniker has history! I remember the Rage 128 Pro (but went with a TNT2 Ultra instead).
and for those too lazy to type it, the bit.ly shortened link points to http://www.pcgamer.com/what-to-expec...ng-show-at-e3/
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