RX 480 reviews are out

[watzup_ken]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10446/the-amd-radeon-rx-480-preview

Well, its a preview with some reliable performance numbers.

 

[wwenze]

Well we already know that the Gloflo 14nm is worse than TSMC 16nm but this is unexpected

 

[HWZ Editorial]

[Review] AMD Radeon RX 480 review: A budget card with not-so-budget performance

AMD has shied away from high-level performance with the Radeon RX 480, but that doesn't mean that the card is shabby. In fact, this may be one of the most interesting (and value for money) cards AMD has made in a while.

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[Encrypted11]

Anandtech has been disappointing under Ryan Smith. Most recently, after 1080 preview, no full review to date.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[watzup_ken]

Anandtech has been disappointing under Ryan Smith. Most recently, after 1080 preview, no full review to date.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't know if there is any constraint on their end, but I have to agree with you. Reviews are appearing months after the product is launched and it seems they are reviewing things that people are not that interested.

 

[watzup_ken]

Nice review. Just one feedback. It would be great to be consistent with the colours of the bar for every test. I noticed that I need to reconfirm on the legend to make sure I am reading the correct bar because the colour is not the same.

 

[wwenze]

Anandtech has been disappointing under Ryan Smith. Most recently, after 1080 preview, no full review to date.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Thou you say this, they are the only review comparing RX 480 with GTX 1070 so far, which is what is most important.

Like who would want to care GTX 970 if it's already known GTX 1070 is way faster.

 

[wwenze]

Well... $388 multiplied by 1.6 = $620, so this thing beats 1070 by raw value

However raw value isn't the only thing important. Future-proofing and actually being fast enough is; Integrated GPU would otherwise have best raw value.

 

[watzup_ken]

Reviews everywhere now. haha.

http://techreport.com/review/30328/amd-radeon-rx-480-graphics-card-reviewed

 

[wwenze]

THG also out. That power consumption is real.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10,4616-9.html

 

[watzup_ken]

After reading a few, I do feel somewhat disappointed as the RX 480 is not up to what I expect it to be. It is faster than the 380X, but it is just marginally better than a GTX 970 with the same level of power consumption. Hopefully the RX 480 can find a more stable footing with more people adopting DX 12.

Perhaps I am asking for too much for a card priced at USD 199 and 229 bucks.

 

[monikernemo]

So whens the rumoured lightning Edition of the 480 going to come out

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[Phen8210]

After reading a few, I do feel somewhat disappointed as the RX 480 is not up to what I expect it to be. It is faster than the 380X, but it is just marginally better than a GTX 970 with the same level of power consumption. Hopefully the RX 480 can find a more stable footing with more people adopting DX 12.

Perhaps I am asking for too much for a card priced at USD 199 and 229 bucks.

I think RX 480 str lies in DX 12, maybe after optimization it will perform a little better and hopefully able to par with the 980 in a few titles.

 

[Dr.Vijay]

Is it?
#oops.

Let's see if we can tweak that tomorrow and then update our base file

Nice review. Just one feedback. It would be great to be consistent with the colours of the bar for every test. I noticed that I need to reconfirm on the legend to make sure I am reading the correct bar because the colour is not the same.

 

[watzup_ken]

THG also out. That power consumption is real.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10,4616-9.html

I can conclude that the GCN architect simply cannot match the Maxwell/ Pascal in terms of efficiency. But I feel that they vested more resources into the A-Sync engine, which may have resulted in lower efficiency.

 

[watzup_ken]

I think RX 480 str lies in DX 12, maybe after optimization it will perform a little better and hopefully able to par with the 980 in a few titles.

That could be the case. Perhaps more mature drivers will give it a slight bump too.

Again, I think it is not a bad buy at 199 USD onwards.

 

[chong]

Well we already know that the Gloflo 14nm is worse than TSMC 16nm but this is unexpected

This does not bode well for Zen...

 

[watzup_ken]

Zen... Considering that AMD has been stuck on 28nm for a long time, so 14nm should at least make them more competitive with Intel.

 

[jaloon]

The worst thing is that they hyped Perf/W earlier by comparing it to 28nm products, resulting in an underwhelming situation whereby their competitor's product and process gives a better product.

 

[wwenze]

AMD made me miss the $100 off $600 qoo10 coupon