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

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think it will get close to an R9 390X - if AMD does any better I would be surprised.

[Doherz]

For me personally it needs to be powerful enough for me not to be able to justify the price of a 1070. I'm liking the clean looks of the new reference cooler too.

[Stoggy28]

i may be wrong but they said in DX12 performance 2x 480's beats the 1080 by 3 or 4 fps so id assume it to be around 11k maybe 12k even 2 is still 200-300 cheaper

[Fluffmeister]

Robert H said the dual 480 test gave 1.83 the performance of a single 480.

Their example had the GTX 1080 @ 58.7fps and the dual 480 @ 62.5fps.

I made that 34.2fps x 1.83 = 62.5fps. So a single 480 runs at 34.2fps.

The caveat though; this is AotS, which seems to heavily favour AMD hardware.

[jigger]

Robert H said the dual 480 test gave 1.83 the performance of a single 480.

Their example had the GTX 1080 @ 58.7fps and the dual 480 @ 62.5fps.

I made that 34.2fps x 1.83 = 62.5fps. So a single 480 runs at 34.2fps.

The caveat though; this is AotS, which seems to heavily favour AMD hardware.

Hmm much interpretation in that maths

But who is Robert H?

[LSG501]

Honestly I'd say it's likely going to hit around gtx1060ti to gtx1070 at a push. Although I have read plenty of comments that it is basically performing on par with the fury cards.

Which if it does come in at the expected price of around £180 that's actually pretty good and more than enough for 1080p and 1440p gaming which are still very popular resolutions.

[cheesemp]

Somewhere around 390x stock? Maybe just below. Either way I think its my next card as the 1070 doesn't look like its worth almost double the cost for the 10~15% performance hike.

[Fluffmeister]

Hmm much interpretation in that maths

But who is Robert H?

Robert Hallock is the global technical marketing lead for AMD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...oversy/d3sw31g

Happy or not?

You are welcome to take 62.5 and divide it by two, but that looks even less rosy.

[enemys]

If it's about R9 390X, then I might get a pair of them to replace my R9 390. If not, I may get a used R9 390X.

[cptwhite_uk]

I think everyone is being way to optimistic here. I'm expecting a 3D mark score fire strike score of around 10,500. That would put it squarely in the middle of the GTX 970 and GTX 980, and somewhat below the still unknown GTX 1060. Given the 1080 is best in class, 1070 matches last gen best in class, I'm expecting the 1060 to be around GTX980 performance levels for around £240-£270 price range and the 480 to fall around £70-80 cheaper for maybe somewhere between 5-10% less performance than the 1060, but with a 20-25% cost saving making it better bang per buck. This is pure speculation but it makes sense nVidia will hone the 1060 to beat the 970 for similar money, but not make the 980 irrelevant until the 1060 Ti is launched. I'm expecting price drops on the 980 to around £300-320 range in the not too distant future so it's still a viable choice price/performance wise to clear existing out old stock.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It is 2304 shaders at 1266MHZ which would mean in terms of TFLOPS ratings is not far off a R9 390X. The R9 390 is already slightly faster than a GTX970 and a R9 390X is GTX980 level now. On one of the Chinese forums famous for leaks,it was mentioned the RX480 was within a few percent of a R9 390X.

The R9 390 series will have double the memory bandwidth but the RX480 will have colour compression which the R9 390 series lacks and you can see with the R9 380X and R9 280X,the loss of one third of the bandwidth of the latter made little difference. So I would expect at 1920X1080 and 2560X1440 it should not make a huge difference.

The real Elephant in the room,is how well the RX480 overclocks,since if has decent clockspeed headroom,we might find aftermarket cards boost a decent amount higher at stock.

[malfunction]

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...somewhat below the still unknown GTX 1060. Given the 1080 is best in class, 1070 matches last gen best in class, I'm expecting the 1060 to be around GTX980 performance levels for around £240-£270 price range... This is pure speculation but it makes sense nVidia will hone the 1060 to beat the 970 for similar money, but not make the 980 irrelevant until the 1060 Ti is launched.

The GTX-960 is quite cut down, 128-bit memory interface, etc. I wonder if they can hit 970 levels of performance with the 1060 using a 128-bit memory bus or if the core would really be held back at the 1.5GHz+ speeds these new cards are hitting? There are rumours of a 192-bit bus being used which sounds more realistic, and it would seem nVidia want to push the prices up though I don't think it would hurt to reduce the number of cards / tiers they offer at the moment (710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 750 Ti, 950, 960, 970, 980, 980 Ti, Titan X).

It is 2304 shaders at 1266MHZ which would mean in terms of TFLOPS ratings is not far off a R9 390X. The R9 390 is already slightly faster than a GTX970 and a R9 390X is GTX980 level now. On one of the Chinese forums famous for leaks,it was mentioned the RX480 was within a few percent of a R9 390X.

The R9 390 series will have double the memory bandwidth but the RX480 will have colour compression which the R9 390 series lacks and you can see with the R9 380X and R9 280X,the loss of one third of the bandwidth of the latter made little difference. So I would expect at 1920X1080 and 2560X1440 it should not make a huge difference.

The real Elephant in the room,is how well the RX480 overclocks,since if has decent clockspeed headroom,we might find aftermarket cards boost a decent amount higher at stock.

If it can hit 390X performance levels (or more with a mild overclock) I'd be happy with that as the new mid-ground. And I'd probably happily swap my current 290X for an RX480 just based on the power usage - my lounge PC that I use for gaming on a 1080 screen is unlikely to need more performance any time soon but a lot less heat and a lot more quiet sounds appealing.

[EzioAs]

About as fast or slightly faster than an R9 390 would do for me.

[=assassin=]

As good as the new NVidia cards seem to be, something around this price range is a more viable solution for me, and if it is around 970/980 performance for $199 then it's a bargain!

[Fluffmeister]

It's looking like a side-grade for anyone that already has a 970/980/290/290X/390/390X.

After Maxwell, people apparently don't care about power consumption anymore, but hey ho the value of everything i mentioned is about to take a nose dive, hell even the Fiji HBM dream is about to die in the form of "Nano" or "Fury".

[aakash_sin]

Between 980 and 980 Ti justifies the price.
Performance per dollar is a win here. I am a performance per dollar fanboy.