Gotta do leaks to get some publicity, genious. But yeah, really sad. Having trouble waiting a single day?
Lol at making. Someone supposedly benchmarked it (possible). Then made nice presentation and printed it. Then it ends on desk of this person who photographs it with his jeans in background. And then it is being edited and there is part of other photoshot in few pixels at bottom. Data there... Let's presume they are true. Resolution scaling aside, At medium details that OC R9-380x performs bit better in games which are lighter on GPU. But once details go high, RX-480 is actually pulling in front a lot. Witcher 3 is GPU heavy game at all details so it is ahead by 25% even when they test medium details. Metro Last Light really scales GPU requirements with detail level and so while it is 8% slower on medium details. Once maxed it is 36% faster. World of Tanks is not exactly heavy game, so it is bit slower. As it is targeted for around 60Hz masses, I'll say it is nice that fps drop at higher details is lower than previous generation. And comparison to GTX 970 OC AMP! which is not weakling of any sort. it is very close. (And considering that they did not OC RX-480...)
That 970 boosts to 1304mhz at least out of the box add another 80 mhz it competes with 980. So the RX 480 is doing alright if the RX 480 was lets say the xfx 1328mhz oc edition it would be beating the 970 zotac.
Well yes why not? If you get them for good price that is. Most won't be buying second hand cards tho and a lot of them are outside of the warranty already.
worse then 970oc that would be pretty bad if true. even more since there are rumours the thing is hot and loud. I really hope AMD got a winner here and what i mentioned is not true at all.
So I guess it would mean that it's slower than Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 which boosts to 1392 MHz by default. Mine can be overclocked further than that though... It runs benchmarks happily at 1626 MHz. I don't know where the limit is so I'll just run it at 1,5 GHz without extra voltage (if I add extra voltage it boosts to 1626 MHz with the same +108 MHz GPU core offset, weird). First card that I've owned that you can make quieter than stock even after overclocking with custom fan profile. It was a nice surprise since Gigabyte's GTX 780 GHz Edition was a mess cooling wise. But shouldn't people compare this to 380 and 960 series cards instead of 970 and 390? It doesn't seem to be that much faster than 380X which it replaces... Assuming that those benchmarks are true and if I had 380X, I wouldn't upgrade. I'd wait for Vega or GTX 1060 at least.
It should be compared to 380/380x and 960 yes it is in the same "league" even tho it is almost as fast as a 980 stock. The RX 480 seems to be roughly equal to tad overclocked 970 or 290 tho in fire strike it is actually faster roughly as fast as 980 g1 gaming actually after tiny oc. If the ~13400 score holds true. So it is a good viable upgrade to everything under 970 and 290 as it should be kind of like 970, 290 would be. If it was 980ti performance for 200$ it would be stupid. With this performance the price is warranted and it looks like a real product. 4gb should be 30-50€ cheaper then 970 here. And the 8gb roughly same price. I don't think 1060 will be any faster then this but roughly equal.
It's pretty normal that next gen mid-range card equals (or beats) previous gen entry high end/performance mainstream cards - never beat last gen enthusiast/halo cards though. I don't really see what's so special about Polaris. Seems to be pretty standard upgrade and GTX 1060 is probably going to be the same.
It is normal yeah and it is doing it somewhat. But yes I am buying one Polaris not for myself tho no need I get enough performance out of my 290x easy.
Agreed. However nvidia over delivered with 1070/1080 which *outperform* the previous cards one tier higher 980ti/TX. The norm is for new gen to deliver on tier higher performancd for same price. I don't believe 1060 will have trouble matching this performance
