RX 480 - How do you rate it

Ngel wroteit melts at 91 degrees and ruin your Motherboard and Cables oh, and your 200$ ^.^

no bias, m8.

For real though, it doesn't get anywhere near 91 degrees, you can very easily undervolt it to draw less from the PCIe, and a driver fix from AMD is coming next week, plus any half-decent motherboard on the market (so practically all but the lowest of low-end mobos) can output more than 75W via PCIe.

anayman_k7 wrote

Ngel wroteit melts at 91 degrees and ruin your Motherboard and Cables oh, and your 200$ ^.^

when it is not overclocked there is no issues, and the blower cooler can reach 5000rpm but it will be so noisy, in all reviews it managed to keep the card at 80C when spinning at 50%

I think he was being sarcastic.

it'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.

haidcar 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.

Don't forget how much potential is in it, that'll be unleashed as the drivers mature, add to that that Nvidia will stop optimizing for Maxwell, it'll match the 980 in some time. Also, it's not even meant to compete with the GTX 1070 some people are comparing it with, it competes with the yet to be announced GTX 1060.

Let 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.

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.

Defending it? We're just stating facts, it's the best card for its price, the "problem" it has would only affect old low-end motherboards, it's getting fixed with a driver next week and you can easily fix it yourself by undervolting the card at no loss in performance, same thing happened with the GTX 960 STRIX, OCed GTX 750 Ti's and GTX 950's with no PCIe power connectors, but they didn't get the same response as AMD is getting even though the problem was even worse.

RTG used AotS, a full feature DX12 game, in which CF and SLI scale much better than DX11 games.

They always fail with drivers at launch, but on the long-run their drivers are much better than Nvidia's as they keep increasing performance, and their drivers are getting better and are being released more often since the split. It's not like Nvidia are any better in the drivers front especially in the last while.

First of all GTX 970 is an x70 series card while the GTX 1060 is an x60 series card, so you're practically comparing apples to oranges here. Secondly, the 1070 is barely any faster than the 980 Ti, so no way in hell would Nvidia release a GTX 1060 that matches a 980 Ti, especially since the 1060 is rumored to have a severely cut-down GP104. Thirdly, if the last launch is anything to go by, the 1060 won't even match the 970 at launch, but may reach its performance after a while as Nvidia stops optimizing games for Maxwell *cough* or they release a driver that tanks the performance of Maxwell *cough*

agh? wut? I draw your attention to the chat. GTX 1070 is 13% faster than GTX 1080ti. Chart is normalized at RX480.
GTX 1070 is about 50% faster than RX480.

no one advertised as an alternative competitor the to gtx 1080. AMD advertised the best Pref/Watt, Pref/$ cards at given price point. and they delivered on that promise.
During a demo, they pitted two RX480 in CF vs a single GTX 1080 in order to show how efficient and price competitive the card is. being two $200 midrange cards, being able to achieve GTX 1080 level performance in a DX12 game.

I think people misunderstood that.

alk wroteYou've posted the image, and as i said based on the image, i didnt create random numbers, i took data from the image you have posted ... Where the 1070 is 150% faster than the 980ti, If you don't think these are actual numbers why did you post the image?
I never said claiming the single gpu faster card, i said claiming it to be a high end competitor in crossfire, again the selling point was faster than 1080 with lower price? They marketed their product that way, and according to that marketing it failed to impress!

The 1070 is 150% faster than the 980 Ti?!

And they specifically used AoftS, a fully-enabled DX12 game that uses A-Sync compute and scales much better with multi-GPU setups than DX11 games, they didn't claim it's better than the 1080 in DX11.

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Let Us See, if AMD RX 480 will fall lost in the green grasses , initial benchmarks are tipping to that , but let us give it time :)

anayman_k7 wrotedid anyone forget the 2x980 performance claim (turned out to be 63% better peformance)

Their claim was that it outperformed two 980s in SLI, not two 980s at full scale so 63% sounds about right.