AMD exec discusses Radeon RX 480 Ashes of the Singularity demo

[idris]

The big thing this gen is AMD is pushing that price point down nice and hard from the word go. Must be really good yield?

Spot on. Not only a good yield, more GPUs per wafer compared to their previous gen. All while permitting same gross margins as previous gen! AMD doing precisely what they said they would.

[sykobee]

Or the the developers didn't implement - or implemented differently - something for the Nvidia path (or even the Pascal sub-path) that did for the AMD path. Remember that with DX12 most of the architecture-specific tweaking is on the developer rather than the GPU vendor.

The weird thing is that apparently the 1070 renders it correctly... never mind the 980s, etc.

Yes, snow makes scenery look bland. That's one of its attributes. This is a snowy level, so sadly it should look a bit bland, and detract less from the action that actually matters.

The downward pricing pressure cannot be making Nvidia happy. The 1060 (1280 shader SKU) is in a bad place now, pricing is now restricted to being under $179 in all likelihood (when you do the performance maths). That is surely not what Nvidia wanted for this part (considering the 1070 is $379/$449, I bet the 1060 was scheduled for $229 to $279 (with a +$40 FE version) but we'll never know now. It'll compete against the RX 470.

[kpkCioby]

Maybe don't use a moron that can barely speak English with the proper accent, to present your products. No? Yea, didn't expect much from AMD anyway.

[idris]

Maybe don't use a moron that can barely speak English with the proper accent, to present your products. No? Yea, didn't expect much from AMD anyway.

"proper accent"?

[scaryjim]

Was that the shiny water bug? We still have a sticky on our PW forums for that ....

Yep, the infamous shiny water I don't believe it ever got "fixed" properly, but afaik modern AMD graphics don't have the same problem (pretty sure I have shiny water enabled on my laptop). I suspect that's more down to the problem being obsoleted rather than fixed though.

[HalloweenJack]

who would have thought given pascal is just Maxwell on steroids , Nv already know how to write a driver for it.....

[trog69]

Since when was it a shocker to find 2 mid-range cards that outperform one large card?...at least when scaling is working correctly.

Exactly. The only difference would be if most or all games accommodated the new AMD multi-card regimen, unlike the way things are with SLI/X-Fire setups that has compelled me to go with high-end single card solutions rather than two mid-level or even two high-end cards.

[Pleiades]

Maybe don't use a moron that can barely speak English with the proper accent, to present your products. No? Yea, didn't expect much from AMD anyway.

You're the moron, you ignorant buffoon. That guy has more qualifications than you can count (if in fact, you CAN count, which I doubt).

So get lost, troll.

[zulm]

Yesterday one card was 199usd, today two cards are 500usd, what gives?

[kalniel]

Yesterday one card was 199usd, today two cards are 500usd, what gives?

4GB card is $199. 8GB is $230 I think, so 2x8GB gives $460 and the <$500 that was marked.

[jigger]

I think the big difference this time is the cost.

£160-180 vs £600-£700

For the price of a GTX1080 you could buy a RX480 + full i5 k system to go with it, and freesync monitor and a copy of Windows.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WsLQzM

[zulm]

4GB card is $199. 8GB is $230 I think, so 2x8GB gives $460 and the <$500 that was marked.

Thanks that makes sense, missed the 8gb config

[Corky34]

4GB card is $199. 8GB is $230 I think, so 2x8GB gives $460 and the <$500 that was marked.

Is my memory failing me or did i read that DirectX 12 combines the RAM when using explicit multi-adapter mode?
If so could that mean the game had access to 16GB or that they're reporting the total available from two 4GB cards.

[Biscuit]

End of the month for release so at least 2 months before you actually get one in your hands. I really wish AMD would get ahead of Nvidia with releases more often.

Will be interesting to see how quickly Nvidia react to this card and get a 1060 into the market.

Also I just realised its an RX 480.... so have they just abandoned the whole R7, R9 etc thing to separate cards depending on their market segment?

[kalniel]

Is my memory failing me or did i read that DirectX 12 combines the RAM when using explicit multi-adapter mode?
If so could that mean the game had access to 16GB or that they're reporting the total available from two 4GB cards.

There are all sorts of funky things the DX12 multi-adaptor can do - no idea how it's reported, but if two 4GB cards had been used they'd have said <$400

Also I just realised its an RX 480.... so have they just abandoned the whole R7, R9 etc thing to separate cards depending on their market segment?

Appears so More confusion for the user sadly, when AMD were beginning to be quite sensible about model naming. RX almost implies better than 9 as per Roman numeral, but these aren't necessarily R9 beaters.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Unless OFC it is RX460,RX470,RX480,etc??

The next gen is RX560,RX570,RX580,etc??