AMD announces Polaris pricing - $199 for RX 480

[scaryjim]

I believe Jigger's point is that AMD's card offers much better performance for the price.

OTOH we know the Polaris 10 die size is about 25% smaller than GP104, and it's not inconceivable that AMD are actually getting a decent deal on their 14nm wafers either. Plus, we don't whether RX 480 is a fully enabled Polaris 10 or not; AMD could be absorbing poor yields now in order to retain their pricing when yields improve. Plus I imagine the PCB, power delivery etc. are cheaper for a lower power card too ... all sorts of reasons why the RX 480 could be relatively cheap to produce and the GTX 1080/1070 could be more expensive.

[kalniel]

I believe Jigger's point is that AMD's card offers much better performance for the price.

OTOH we know the Polaris 10 die size is about 25% smaller than GP104, and it's not inconceivable that AMD are actually getting a decent deal on their 14nm wafers either. Plus, we don't whether RX 480 is a fully enabled Polaris 10 or not; AMD could be absorbing poor yields now in order to retain their pricing when yields improve. Plus I imagine the PCB, power delivery etc. are cheaper for a lower power card too ... all sorts of reasons why the RX 480 could be relatively cheap to produce and the GTX 1080/1070 could be more expensive.

Well I've been trotting out the high volume line for AMD for quite a while

But I don't think there's a huge improvement in bank 4 buck on AMD compared to nVidia - no more than we've already seen historically and nVidia don't seem to have been threatened by that in the past so I don't think they feel threatened now either (for that reason - as I keep saying, AMD chasing volume is a much more threatening strategy than the performance of their top cards).

[treeroy]

Well I've been trotting out the high volume line for AMD for quite a while

But I don't think there's a huge improvement in bank 4 buck on AMD compared to nVidia - no more than we've already seen historically and nVidia don't seem to have been threatened by that in the past so I don't think they feel threatened now either (for that reason - as I keep saying, AMD chasing volume is a much more threatening strategy than the performance of their top cards).

I don't know about the prices where you live, but here the new Nvidia cards are significantly more expensive than they usually are at launch. And the founders edition 1080 at £620 ($900) is on the cheaper side

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wccftech has released their promised leak:

http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-faster-than-nano-980/

Apparently the RX480 is a tad faster than an R9 Nano and consumed around 100W.

The $299 cards are meant to be cards geared towards overclocking.

[scaryjim]

... Apparently the RX480 is a tad faster than an R9 Nano and consumed around 100W. ...

So less than 2x perf/watt to Nano, but then nano was already a big improvement over the 290X/390X in perf/watt. It must be well over 3x the perf/watt compared to 290X.

TBH all the leaks so far are pretty consistent, even wrt the overclocking (if the board has an average power of 100W at stock, a 50% power target overhead seems like a reasonable estimate for a 35% overclock). I'm going to be very interested to see what these alleged beast mode 300W cards can do...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The RX470/RX480 PCB pictured:

http://videocardz.com/61091/amd-rade...tured-up-close

[jigger]

Sub 100 watts is impressive, but I hope AMD haven't strangled the cards on power draw like Nvidia.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wait,what a 490:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNgT...utu.be&t=1m20s

Emm,is he mistaken??

[stevie lee]

at 2:26 he also says the R9 470X a mobile gaming card.
https://youtu.be/YNgTR7SIPXA?t=146
he's leaking like a sieve emptying a bathtub.

[scaryjim]

Wait,what a 490: ... Emm,is he mistaken??

at 2:26 he also says the R9 470X a mobile gaming card. ... he's leaking like a sieve emptying a bathtub.

Here, quick - I've got something you both need:

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here, quick - I've got something you both need:

Its an Alienware bloke though!!

[scaryjim]

Its an Alienware bloke though!!

Is that meant to make him more reliable or less?!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Is that meant to make him more reliable or less?!

LOL,anyway it seems the RX stands for Radeon Experience.

[stevie lee]

probably a bit more reliable. seen as the specs for that alienware have been on the net for afew days already http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/alienware-alpha-r2/
so he's confirming the mobile version of the 470X,
no reason he isn't leaky sieveing the 490 release aswell.

[cheesemp]

probably a bit more reliable. seen as the specs for that alienware have been on the net for afew days already http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/alienware-alpha-r2/
so he's confirming the mobile version of the 470X,
no reason he isn't leaky sieveing the 490 release aswell.

Lets face it they will do one. Its just whether its a variant of the Polaris 10 or a Vega next year...

[scaryjim]

Except that the R9 M470X has already been leaked/announced and ISN'T a Polaris part - it's a Bonnaire rebrand: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-m400-...y-lineup-leak/

What he meant by "490" is pretty much open to conjecture. Potentially he does know something we don't, although it wouldn't be a particularly difficult something to work out - that an RX 490 graphics card is coming from AMD (see, that's not really a surprise, is it). it wouldn't be at all surprising if reps from gaming PC builders had been briefed about unannounced products.

Doesn't really tell us anything we don't know.