Tech Guru wrotehaidcar wroteit's funny that some people are hating on the RX480.
First thing first, it's $200 card, as much as GTX 960 now going for.
relative performance is better than GTX 970.
Card is geared toward mainstream consumer, those who don't want to spend more 200-250 on a GPU. This card will run games 1080p MAXed settings and will average 60 FPS in the latest games.
This is NOT the Flagship AMD card that's coming up later this year, Vega will come out to compete vs 1080, 1080ti, Titans.
Last but not least chat speaks for itself.
http://i.imgur.com/YzsWsxU.png?1
Still a 2 years old 970 Maxwell with a 3.5 GB + 0.5 GB Vram issue is relatively slower by 5%. Where is the place of such card , r9 390 , 390x , 970 , 980 even r9 380x or 960 OC will not be tempted to upgrade. It is good for what it is nothing more & I suspect It will make @ 250 USD in the MENA Region.
i think you're looking at it wrong. I don't suspect a person with 970 or 390x to upgrade ( unless the 390x person wants to replace the space heater with something more efficient). A person still rocking a 280X (like me) or GTX 950, 960, 770,760... would be inclined to upgrade. believe it or not, people don't upgrade their GPUs whenever a new generation comes out.
Last year AMD released Fury GPUs, they were geared toward high end and enthusiast consumers. they compete with 980ti and titan. However enthusiast community is actually a minority, and to be fair no one in his right mind would spend $700 to $1000 on GPU that would be obelect and gets beaten by a mid ranger in a couple of years.
With Polaris they're targeting the the vast majority of PC gaming community. these people looking for the best perf/$, not looking to spend more than $300 on a GPU.
That's not to say AMD given up on the enthusiast community, i am waiting for their Vega, at the end of this year to compete in the high end 1080, 1080ti range.
alk wroteLet it be said first, the amd rx 480 is a good deal bang/buck, but why are some people defending it more than the company itself did. AMD at the unveil pit the crossfire 480 against a 1080 and claimed it was faster, so saying this is a mid range card now is just backing down the claim of AMD, they had it against the high end card even if in crossfire, that is how they chose to show and decided their customer range as the high end card users claiming it is faster for far less price.
And the hate is not towards the 480, it is towards AMD as a whole, not first time they do so, and they always fail to polish the drivers to the extent of really showing of the performance of the card. yes they solved some issues, but let us be objective their drivers still lack in more than one area.
As a rating the 480 as the graph shows is about 5% faster than a 970 which is good, but by that the 1060 should also be faster than 970 and not by only 5%, as the graph shows, the 970 is faster than 780ti, i think the 1060 would be close to 980ti.
when you show two cards that's 2X RX480 in CF, edging out a single 1080, that alone clearly shows they're not claiming that a single GPU would be anywhere equal or as fast. I think you got the wrong message here.
1060 would not be as fast 980ti, no matter what. The 980ti is as fast as the 1070, right now. 1060 would be in the 980-960 range, which is the same relative position as the RX 480.