AMD Radeon RX 480 (14nm Polaris)

[DanceswithUnix]

Remember I am not running the latest CPU too - the equivalent of a Core i7 3770.

Even more interesting, I would have thought that might push things more in the direction of Vulkan.

(I guess I am also running about the equivalent of a 3770, with my FX chip).

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Even more interesting, I would have thought that might push things more in the direction of Vulkan.

(I guess I am also running about the equivalent of a 3770, with my FX chip).

According to Bagnaj97 who just upgraded from a overclocked FX6300 to a Core i7 6700,even under Vulkan it seems to hog a thread,but he is running an HD7870XT and found a decent perform increase by just upgrading the CPU.

Edit!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment..._rx_480_nitro/

Exactly, this is just with the stock clocks so there should be more headroom and performance to be unlocked with Sapphire's TriXX 3.0 software (coming soon).

I'll most likely be producing more benchmarks with the card soon, but that will come later

So,Wattman is the limiting factor for overclocking.

Some more previews and reviews:

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07/...o-erfahrungen/

http://www.eteknix.com/sapphire-nitr...s-card-review/

[watercooled]

Looks like pretty solid card, the Nitro+ OC OC Nitro Extreme edition looks like a decent bump in performance too, looking forward to full reviews.

They seem to have done a decent job of improving idle power consumption too, as well as drawing only slightly more power under load.

[blockedSounds]

Performs slightly worse than my 390 but at over a hundred watts less power draw. Nice one AMD. Not enough for me to upgrade yet though, not until something around this price point is capable of decent 4k performance anyway.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Sapphire card tested:

https://translate.google.co.uk/trans...tro-oc-test%2F

Overall,around 8% faster than the reference card.

[watercooled]

Given we've now seen GCN on TSMC 16nm (Xbox One S), I wonder if that means we might see Vega produced there, especially given they have interposer experience?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://vrworld.com/2016/08/05/amd-ra...rt-4tb-memory/

The way how Radeon Pro SSG works is quite ingenious. When AMD decided to reshape its mainstream GPU codenamed as “Ellesmere” into a “Polaris 10”, part of that effort was to bring more than 16 PCIe lanes inside the GPU. Polaris 10 has as much PCIe lanes as Intel mainstream processors – from Haswell, Broadwell of yesterday to today’s Skylake and tomorrow’s Kabylake. In our conversation with John Swinimer and his colleague, we learned that the initial prototype card is just the beginning. The GPU attaches to the on-board PCIe bridge just like Radeon Pro Duo does. However, the data does not go down to the motherboard but rather stays on the discrete board, ‘talking’ to the NVMe controller which features two M.2 slots.

[jigger]

Given we've now seen GCN on TSMC 16nm (Xbox One S), I wonder if that means we might see Vega produced there, especially given they have interposer experience?

I think thats possibly, but can TSMC offer enough wafers.

[D.king88]

I do love AMD for price-performance and for the general economy that an AMD rig offers but with the GPU's, I don't know...I see the reviews, see the measured noise output and they always just seem so much noiser to me.

Maybe it is pitch or something? Just something I am more sensitive too? I guess it is my fault for going with the stock cooler to try and save a little money