AMD Polaris Thread: Radeon RX 480, RX 470 & RX 460 launching June 29th

[Glo.]

And some more leaks from china.
http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

GTX 1080 scores in FS Extreme around 5000 pts.
RX480 here has 5800 pts.

 

[thedavexp]

GTX 1080 scores in FS Extreme around 5000 pts.
RX480 here has 5800 pts.

I think you will find that is fire strike ultra

5856 in FSE (latest drivers) on stock is about 980 level, give or take

 

[Glo.]

I think you will find that is fire strike ultra

5856 in FSE (latest drivers) on stock is about 980 level, give or take

Yup, my bad, I misplaced both benchmarks

 

[trane]

Obviously this is not the final driver. It's using 16.5.2, whereas the recent official benchmarks were done on 16.20.

That said, this gives us an indication for the worst case scenario performance. Which is still on par with a GTX 980. Not to mention AMD does better in games than Nvidia. 390X usually scores lower but is faster than 980 in games.

 

[Qwertilot]

Well, actually I'm going to wait for the reviews. I don't hold out much hope though for the cooler on such an inexpensive card to be very good. We'll see.

I think there will be some good ones - this is after all going to be the biggest AMD card that anyone sane would buy for some months.

So at the very least the the AMD specific AIBs will do something glamorous. Probably some serious overkill even - like people putting three fan coolers on 960's!

Seemed utterly baffling to me that - my short/one fan one is very well behaved, quiet and seems to exemplify basically what a card with this sort of TDP is 'for'. Oh well
(Well if the 480 is nearer to 150 than 100 then you'll want 2 fans to keep it properly quiet.).

 

[AtenRa]

I want the small size card, so i will wait for the custom designs.

 

[Sweepr]

And some more leaks from china.
http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

Here's other cards using updated drivers, for reference.

NVIDIA 368.39 WHQL, AMD 16.6.1 Hotfix, AMD 16.5.2 (Radeon RX 480)

Graphics Scores:
- Radeon RX 480 8GB: 5856
- Radeon R9 390X: 5877
- Geforce GTX 980: 6198
- Geforce GTX 1080: 10360

NVIDIA 386.16/19, AMD 16.5.2 (same driver as Radeon RX 480 8GB)

Radeon RX 480 8GB: 2708 (3DMark Score)

Early rumours of 4.000 points @ Fire Strike Ultra were way off.

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Driver 16.5.2 / 16.5.2.1 (same driver as Radeon RX 480 8GB)
NVIDIA GeForce Driver 368.13 (Download)

Radeon RX 480 8GB: 2708 (3DMark Score)


In this benchmark the card is doing better at Extreme (1440p) than Ultra (4K).

 

[Yakk]

I'm on a wait & see for AIB models.

I really, really like the no DVI single slot possibility of the reference model cards from AMD, but the 480 card is so cost advantageous that adding a waterblock will be adding about 50% of the card cost if I add it to my loop.

Decisions, decisions...

 

[thedavexp]

Here's other cards using updated drivers, for reference.

Graphics Scores:
- Radeon RX 480 8GB: 5856
- Radeon R9 390X: 5877
- Geforce GTX 980: 6198
- Geforce GTX 1080: 10360

Radeon RX 480 8GB: 2708 (3DMark Score)

Early rumours of 4.000 points @ Fire Strike Ultra were way off.

Radeon RX 480 8GB: 2708 (3DMark Score)


In this benchmark the card is doing better at Extreme (1440p) than Ultra (4K).

The firestrike ultra score was done on an older driver according to the leeker. He did one score on old drivers and one on newer drivers on extreme newer being 5856

 

[Head1985]

yeah sweeper always choose worst case for rx480.
From guru 3d review rx 480 is 4% faster than 390x in firestrike in 1440P.But we still dont know clocks for rx 480.Also i am not sure about drivers.It looks like rx 480 only have like half support.Newer drivers should bring even more performance.

 

[el etro]

So, we can conclude it performs exactly like a R9 390x?

 

[DarkKnightDude]

So, we can conclude it performs exactly like a R9 390x?

We don't know performance till we see for ourselves. But so far, seems like its around 390X/980 level.

 

[Headfoot]

So, we can conclude it performs exactly like a R9 390x?

No. We can't conclude anything from vague rumors with unknown drivers, unknown benchmarking practices, unknown clock speeds, etc.

We can guess and speculate. But real conclusions have to wait another 9 days

 

[DarkKnightDude]

And some more leaks from china.
http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

Seems a bit shorter then I expected.

Stays pretty cool considering its at 33 billion mhz.

 

[realibrad]

Seems a bit shorter then I expected.

Stays pretty cool considering its at 33 billion mhz.

So faster than a GTX 991090191. AMD FTW!

 

[Pheran]

And some more leaks from china.
http://imgur.com/a/N0sx7

Over 3 Bilions!!! MHz :biggrin:

You heard it here first folks - RX 480 runs at 3 PHz and has 128 PB of RAM. nVidia is doomed!

 

[sze5003]

I'm on a wait & see for AIB models.

I really, really like the no DVI single slot possibility of the reference model cards from AMD, but the 480 card is so cost advantageous that adding a waterblock will be adding about 50% of the card cost if I add it to my loop.

Decisions, decisions...

It doesn't have dvi? What about display port? I have a display port to dvi adapter but nothing else.

 

[Sweepr]

From guru 3d review rx 480 is 4% faster than 390x in firestrike in 1440P.

Wrong. Overall score for Radeon R9 390X is higher in Guru3D (5682 vs 5564 pts).

 

[krumme]

So what? Its nitpicking. If it can oc 25% its more like 1070 perf in actual games and thats what matters.

 

[thilanliyan]

So what? Its nitpicking. If it can oc 25% its more like 1070 perf in actual games and thats what matters.

But...you can OC the 1070 as well.
Getting to 1070 performance for $199 though would be pretty sweet if possible.

 

[antihelten]

So what? Its nitpicking. If it can oc 25% its more like 1070 perf in actual games and thats what matters.

Current rumours has it overclocking by about 18-26% (1266 to 1500-1600), which would still put a fair bit short of a 1070, assuming the stock performance is equal to a 390X.
The 1070 is roughly 40% faster than a 390X, so with an 18-26% overclock on the RX 480, the 1070 would still be about 15-20% faster.

This would mean that RX 480 and 1070 actually has fairly comparable perf/$ (at MSRP anyway). The rumoured 1500 MHz RX 480 is $300, whilst the 1070 is $380 (at MSRP, which would hopefully be available by the time RX 480 launches). So 20% more performance from the 1070 for a 27% increase in price, or vice versa a 17% drop in performance from the RX 480 for a 21% drop in price.

 

[Head1985]

Wrong. Overall score for Radeon R9 390X is higher in Guru3D (5682 vs 5564 pts).

Gpu score have rx 480 higher

 

[frozentundra123456]

But...you can OC the 1070 as well.
Getting to 1070 performance for $199 though would be pretty sweet if possible.

Agreed on both counts. These comparisons of what I would call optimistic estimates of overclocked 480 vs stock 1070 are ridiculous. But yea, if the 480 hits the estimated performance and is selling at 200 to 250 it should be a great deal. It is probably more performance than I need. I am waiting for prices on 460/470.

 

[sze5003]

Current rumours has it overclocking by about 18-26% (1266 to 1500-1600), which would still put a fair bit short of a 1070, assuming the stock performance is equal to a 390X.

The 1070 is roughly 40% faster than a 390X, so with an 18-26% overclock on the RX 480, the 1070 would still be about 15-20% faster.

This would mean that RX 480 and 1070 actually has fairly comparable perf/$ (at MSRP anyway). The rumoured 1500 MHz RX 480 is $300, whilst the 1070 is $380 (at MSRP, which would hopefully be available by the time RX 480 launches). So 20% more performance from the 1070 for a 27% increase in price, or vice versa a 17% drop in performance from the RX 480 for a 21% drop in price.

1070 is affordable for me but I doubt it will be at MSRP by next week. That price will be available at some point. I expect the 480 to offer pretty decent performance but I don't think it was made to compete with the 1070, very close though if over clocked right.

 

[antihelten]

Gpu score have rx 480 higher and guru 3d have only GPU score

Nope, Guru3D uses the full score in their graphs, not the GPU score. Also the 390X numbers from Guru3D are from this review which used the positively ancient 15.15 beta drivers.

1070 is affordable for me but I doubt it will be at MSRP by next week. That price will be available at some point. I expect the 480 to offer pretty decent performance but I don't think it was made to compete with the 1070, very close though if over clocked right.

I honestly have no idea when the 1070 might be available at MSRP, all I can do is hope (naively so perhaps).

As for whether or not the RX 480 will come close to the 1070, it depends upon your definition of close I guess. A 20% gap is not really close in my book.