AMD unveils value-for-money Radeon RX 480 graphics card

Good news, but in the process they killed the value the older hardware had. I am only glad that AMD is listening to the market.
 
Based on the local pricing of the new Nvidia cards this will probably come in at just over R4k.

The GTX 1060 will likely deliver the same performance as this card when it's released, but based on the pricing of the other two cards it'll probably be around $250 unless Nvidia want to directly compete here.
 
Smart move by AMD. Hopefully their next flagship will have a killer price too. It will need to if they want to compete with the $380 GTX 1070, which is as good as a Fury X or Titan X (and probably even better for VR stuff).
 
I am going to wait until December to see how the tech landscape is looking, then on the Black Friday do an USA import. Maybe Vega will be around by then… by that time I will do my next gaming pc upgrade.
 
Bryn said:
Smart move by AMD. Hopefully their next flagship will have a killer price too. It will need to if they want to compete with the $380 GTX 1070, which is as good as a Fury X or Titan X (and probably even better for VR stuff).
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I also think it's a smart move. Nvidia beat them to the punch with the higher end cards but no concrete info on the 1060 yet.

I see them selling a boatload of these cards if they can meet the demand.

This is a good time for GPUs and I think the first time an affordable card is actually quite good. 1440p gaming on a $200 card is great news for me.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I also think it's a smart move. Nvidia beat them to the punch with the higher end cards but no concrete info on the 1060 yet.

I see them selling a boatload of these cards if they can meet the demand.

This is a good time for GPUs and I think the first time an affordable card is actually quite good. 1440p gaming on a $200 card is great news for me.
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Its great news for the PC gaming industry, Just need to get that exchange rate down.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I also think it's a smart move. Nvidia beat them to the punch with the higher end cards but no concrete info on the 1060 yet.

I see them selling a boatload of these cards if they can meet the demand.

This is a good time for GPUs and I think the first time an affordable card is actually quite good. 1440p gaming on a $200 card is great news for me.
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AMD, back in the day, did the same when they took on NVidia's GeForce GTX 260/280 series by introducing the 4850 @ $199 to take on the mainstream market and then by releasing the slightly higher priced 4870 which was exceptionally better than the 260 at an $299 – $150 lower price point. They then made the 4890 which took on the 280, this was at a time when team red was in the red, this move rescued them.

I remember purchasing my Radeon HD 4890 Sapphire OC 1GB Edition at that time. I have many old 'Flagships' in my collection. My last NVidia card was the EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB which could clock very closely to the GTX, the Ultra was way too expensive back then.
 
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10389/amd-teases-radeon-rx-480-launching-june-29th-for-199

Anandtech prognosticates on likely performance -

First off, the RX 480 will include 36 CUs. If we assume 64 stream processors to a CU – the GCN standard – then this brings us to 2304 SPs. AMD has not named the specific Polaris GPU being used here, but given the CU count I believe it’s reasonable to assume that this is a Polaris 10 SKU, as I’ve already seen Polaris 11 and it’s a very small chip better suited for notebooks.

AMD also revealed that the card would offer over 5 TFLOPs of compute performance. Given what we know about the CU count, this allows us to estimate the GPU clockspeed. This puts the lower bound of the GPU clockspeed at 1.08GHz and an upper bound (6 TFLOPs) at 1.3GHz, which would be in the range of 10-30% higher clocked than comparable Radeon 300 series cards.

In terms of raw numbers this puts the RX 480 just shy of the current Radeon R9 390. However it also doesn’t take into account the fact that one of the major focuses for Polaris will be in improving architectural efficiency. I would certainly expect that even at the lower end of clockspeed estimates, RX 480 could pull ahead of the R9 390, in which case we’re looking at a part that would deliver performance between the R9 390 and R9 390X, with final clockspeeds and architectural efficiency settling just how close to R9 390X the new card gets.
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crysis said:
Where are the nvidia fanboys now?
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Well… we still need to see the RX 480 reviewed in comparison to the latest NVidia 1070/1080? This includes Gameworks, DX11, DX12, etc. titles. Zoidberg is most probably correct that NVidia is likely to release a 1060? to match the market segment. At $199-$229 the RX 480 is a consumers king nonetheless.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Well… we still need to see the RX 480 reviewed in comparison to the latest NVidia 1070/1080? This includes Gameworks, DX11, DX12, etc. titles. Zoidberg is most probably correct that NVidia is likely to release a 1060? to match the market segment. At $199-$229 the RX 480 is a consumers king nonetheless.
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200$ 4GB

250$ 8GB
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Well… we still need to see the RX 480 reviewed in comparison to the latest NVidia 1070/1080? This includes Gameworks, DX11, DX12, etc. titles. Zoidberg is most probably correct that NVidia is likely to release a 1060? to match the market segment. At $199-$229 the RX 480 is a consumers king nonetheless.
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Nope^ They are combating these gtx 970 - 980
 
BeerIsNotGood... said:
200$ 4GB

250$ 8GB
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http://www.mweb.co.za/games/view/ta...he-AMD-RX-480-blows-away-the-competition.aspx

The RX 480’s price point is only $199 / $229 for the 4GB and 8GB variants respectively. Two of the GPUs in crossfire outperforms a GTX 1080 and costs $150 less. Below, watch Linus Tech Tips’ reaction to AMD’s announcement, noting that the GPU could be the best ever value.
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[video=youtube;eqCo0LTUhsE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqCo0LTUhsE[/video]
 
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