Alleged RX 480 specifications leak online

[WYP]

Alleged RX 480 specifications have leaked online, hinting at GTX 980 like performance at a TDP of under 150W.

Read more on the RX 480's leaked specifications.

 

[Agost]

Oh no please AMD

Single 6 pin... I'm afraid it's not even going to match the Fury X as I hoped.

I don't want to wait until Vega...

 

[SeekaX]

"Look at all these features we have over a two year old upper mid range GPU which beat our asses in power consumption before."
In general i think taking direct shots at the competition in marketing is a bit sad, but when you have to aim at the last generation it's even sadder. Not saying that the RX480 is bad, it'll probably be pretty neat, i just think the slide is pathetic.

 

[ricksavoie]

"Look at all these features we have over a two year old upper mid range GPU which beat our asses in power consumption before."
In general i think taking direct shots at the competition in marketing is a bit sad, but when you have to aim at the last generation it's even sadder. Not saying that the RX480 is bad, it'll probably be pretty neat, i just think the slide is pathetic.

When you use the word pathetic in your comment your Nvidia colors are coming out. The slide makes sense if it is going to be priced the same or similar to the cards in the slide. The fact that the 1080/1070 is just being released, they can't have any true comparisons... unless you think Nvidia had been shipping AMD samples to test against, LOL!

 

[Wraith]

Phaha! Only the 1 6Pin that's so weak. (ooh satire)

 

[SeekaX]

When you use the word pathetic in your comment your Nvidia colors are coming out. The slide makes sense if it is going to be priced the same or similar to the cards in the slide. The fact that the 1080/1070 is just being released, they can't have any true comparisons... unless you think Nvidia had been shipping AMD samples to test against, LOL!

They shouldn't compare their product at all with the competition, i'll give anyone flack for doing that. If anything they should compare their new product to the old product it replaces, when a manufacturer tries to make the competition look bad i just lose respect for them. Comparing products from different manufacturers is the job of a third party reviewer, not a biased marketing department.

 

[Wraith]

They shouldn't compare their product at all with the competition, i'll give anyone flack for doing that. If anything they should compare their new product to the old product it replaces, when a manufacturer tries to make the competition look bad i just lose respect for them. Comparing products from different manufacturers is the job of a third party reviewer, not a biased marketing department.

Nail meet head SeekaX is spot on with what he says, when a company goes out of their way to directly compare their products to a rival it's just petty and childish.
They would have been better off showing us where their new product fits within their own current line up. This does nothing for AMDs image and only really encourages fan boy like behaviour.

 

[Nerdfighter]

It's not necessarily bad that AMD is filling a different market section with Polaris. Let's say "big Polaris" performs similarly to the GTX 980 for $299, that would be a killer product.

 

[Tolemac]

We will know more in a just under 7 hours when AMD have their livestream at computex

 

[W1tness]

Oh no please AMD

Single 6 pin... I'm afraid it's not even going to match the Fury X as I hoped.

I don't want to wait until Vega...

I mean, the 1080 has one 8 pin as did many new cards this past generation. One 6 pin is a good thing considering how 1: less power and Fury class performance on a reference design is amazing and 2:This is just a reference design and AIB partners(just like with any other card in history) will add more power for overclocking and better cooling.

 

[Doomslayer]

I knew AMD had no answer for the 10 Series cards from Nvidia and so what AMD do oh we will go after the 900 series cards. Hahahahaha now they have no chance of getting even close to Nvidia :lol:

 

[Kushiro]

haha, TBH AMD deserve the crap they get for doing this.

Not disputing that the card is decent, its quite nice and what people should have expected.

Also how many pins it has isnt exactly a big deal. Not only can the card draw more than the spec, but it doesnt have to consume as much as the connectors can provide either.

Who knows there could be a 480x coming.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I knew AMD had no answer for the 10 Series cards from Nvidia and so what AMD do oh we will go after the 900 series cards. Hahahahaha now they have no chance of getting even close to Nvidia :lol:

Everyone knew Polaris wasn't an answer to Pascal. It's obviously Vega. You just figured that out?

 

[barnsley]

I knew AMD had no answer for the 10 Series cards from Nvidia and so what AMD do oh we will go after the 900 series cards. Hahahahaha now they have no chance of getting even close to Nvidia :lol:

Why don't you compare the 960 to the Fury X while you're busy comparing products that are for different segments for the market?


Its a midrange card. Great job.

 

[Agost]

I mean, the 1080 has one 8 pin as did many new cards this past generation. One 6 pin is a good thing considering how 1: less power and Fury class performance on a reference design is amazing and 2:This is just a reference design and AIB partners(just like with any other card in history) will add more power for overclocking and better cooling.

The point is I was hoping for a card closer to the performance of a 1070 at around 300$.

Don't get me wrong, 200$ for 390X/980 like performance is good, but I'd like to switch to both AMD and UHD but this means I'll have to wait for Vega. And it's at least 6 months away.

About overclocking... I hope that's like you said, but I'm afraid that OC issues which came with Hawaii and Fiji could still be a thing with Polaris. Still hoping for the "full" 2560 SP chip, I'm pretty sure that there is one.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The point is I was hoping for a card closer to the performance of a 1070 at around 300$.

Don't get me wrong, 200$ for 390X/980 like performance is good, but I'd like to switch to both AMD and UHD but this means I'll have to wait for Vega. And it's at least 6 months away.

About overclocking... I hope that's like you said, but I'm afraid that OC issues which came with Hawaii and Fiji could still be a thing with Polaris. Still hoping for the "full" 2560 SP chip, I'm pretty sure that there is one.

They didn't have overclocking issue inherently. It was the type of Planar process they used that didn't clock well. FinFET should provide a boost for them. They'll probably be conservative to keep TDP down for OEMs but there ability to OC should be much better. Wouldn't be surprised to see 1400mhz from them.

 

[shambles1980]

as far as i see.. from speculation/rumour the 480 will sit between 970 and a 980 for $200 or £160 RRP..
Thats a very atractive price performance point for people who usually get the previous gen cards when the new gen releases...

I.E 1080 is release im thinking il try and get a 980 for a few hundred second hand. and see a 480 brand new for £160 which is in the ball park of performance.. id be stupid not to buy the 480...
Obviously have to wait for release actual bench tests and see what the price will really be. because £160 vs $200 never happens... its always 1:1 $200 = £200 in some warped we dont understand conversion rates way.

 

[Agost]

They didn't have overclocking issue inherently. It was the type of Planar process they used that didn't clock well. FinFET should provide a boost for them. They'll probably be conservative to keep TDP down for OEMs but there ability to OC should be much better. Wouldn't be surprised to see 1400mhz from them.

They were using the same TSMC process as nvidia, and both Kepler and Maxwell overclocked better than Hawaii and Fiji...

I hope they will release the full 2560SP chip (not 100% sure about that though) and I really hope it clocks well.

 

[NeverBackDown]

They were using the same TSMC process as nvidia, and both Kepler and Maxwell overclocked better than Hawaii and Fiji...

I hope they will release the full 2560SP chip (not 100% sure about that though) and I really hope it clocks well.

No they both used the same 28nm node, the designs were different. AMD was using HPMT(can't remember the exact acronym) whereas Nvidia was using HPS(or M can't remember) and the difference was that HPMT was designed as a size reduction in total Area compared to previous designs(45nm) instead of faster gate switching/power consumption. HPS on the other hand was designed more for the opposite. Clocks/power but bigger sizes. Just means lower yields and margins. So yes same process. No not same design. Not all 28nm run in the same design, high power GPU design's don't scale well down to mobile chips.

As for clocks, it was leaked that the GPU at the event was running almost 1300mhz and memory at 2ghz(8000 effective)

 

[Kushiro]

Personally I felt that the hawaii line OC'd quite decently. Well at least for all most of the ones I got. used quite a bit of juice, but that was really the only complaint. around 1150 was what I could get from most on stock. With overvolting etc I could get around 1250 -1350 a rare few even got to 1400. bench stable was even ~50mhz higher