AMD reveals the capabilities of their AM4 motherboards

[Shingara]

Well thats the thing. What we have seen so far, it's not an absolute monster at all. You're just assisting with the hype. It's going to be a good performer yes. That's where it ends though, as there has been nothing to really back anything up.

The same goes for Nvidia when they release cards. Both parties use Biased benchmarks and charts. I'm impressed with the card, but I am not sold yet, especially using Stars Wars to showcase 4k @ 60fps or more.

What really backs it up is once the NDA is lifted and reviewers like OC3D, Guru3D etc can go balls to the wall on overclocking, run their own unbiased tests, and hopefully provide a well written and once again, "unbiased" opinion on the card.

Ye i should qualify what i mean when i say its a beast, im not so much pointing at pure game performance, thats not discounting that over 60fps in 4k on ultra is nothing to sniffle at, but its that from how they explained how the things actually work means that yes its a gaming orientated gpu but the way it uses memory is something new for us.

As i understand it that yes its been done before, it was bulky in the way it allowed you to use addition on system memory for vram. How good this system will be is something we will have to wait and see.

So thats where im coming from when i said its kind of a beast and how manufacturers can go nutz with the things, not that its gonna be cheap or that its going to destroy 1080ti.

 

[AlienALX]

Ie. A great card. That is a compliment. If you wanted to insult, should have said 470. That was a rough one...

+2. The 480 launch was a complete success IMO. Nothing over the top promised, delivered plenty of performance and created a new performance bracket for £200 or there abouts. What were Nvid charging for the 970? about £270?

I know loads of people who bought 480s. 470 was stupid though. Too much money, but was no doubt just a dupe to make people buy the 480.

 

[Doomslayer]

The biggest problem with all of the RX400 series GPU's they were way over hyped bye a lot of people and when they weren't as good at launch a lot of people were disappointed.

I knew they weren't going to match anything from the GTX1000 series card at launch.....lol

 

[NeverBackDown]

The biggest problem with all of the RX400 series GPU's they were way over hyped bye a lot of people and when they weren't as good at launch a lot of people were disappointed.

I knew they weren't going to match anything from the GTX1000 series card at launch.....lol

As did everyone else? They didn't call it an enthusiast card, they called it a mainstream card?

Don't know many people who were disappointed, I mean, the reviews as a whole were pretty positive about it on launch. The only bad launch of the RX series so far was the 470. Was basically going for the same money... but I put that on retailers, since the 480 went out of stock as soon as they came in, making them feel like they could charge more for the impatient folks

 

[Type-8]

The only problem i saw with the Rx 480 was that too many people who didn't understand what AMD were trying to do with Polaris came out and bashed it for not competing in the high end market.

Personally i still think it is the single best option out there for 1080p/60fps, which is what the vast majority of people play on. Pair it with a cheap freesync monitor and you have the ultimate budget build. That is what they were going for, and its helped them claw back some customers.

Now i'm just hoping that Ryzen also lives up to the promise

 

[Excalabur50]

The only problem i saw with the Rx 480 was that too many people who didn't understand what AMD were trying to do with Polaris came out and bashed it for not competing in the high end market.

Personally i still think it is the single best option out there for 1080p/60fps, which is what the vast majority of people play on. Pair it with a cheap freesync monitor and you have the ultimate budget build. That is what they were going for, and its helped them claw back some customers.

Now i'm just hoping that Ryzen also lives up to the promise

I have to agree with this statement and I have personally told people @1080p that the 480 is almost unbeatable for price to performance and into mid tier 1440p too and it's the card to buy

 

[AngryGoldfish]

For builds that aren't focused on games like GTA V, the RX 480 is always my go-to 1080p GPU recommendation.

 

[AlienALX]

I understood the 480 perfectly. No expectations, always pleasantly surprised.

 

[NeverBackDown]

For builds that aren't focused on games like GTA V, the RX 480 is always my go-to 1080p GPU recommendation.

Even then, it's not even bad for it. It'll still do an amazing job. On the other hand, how many people only use there PC to exclusively play GTAV? I doubt there's many. But I do see your point. Just don't think it's all that common.

But I kinda think we derailed this thread a bit... lol

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Even then, it's not even bad for it. It'll still do an amazing job. On the other hand, how many people only use there PC to exclusively play GTAV? I doubt there's many. But I do see your point. Just don't think it's all that common.

But I kinda think we derailed this thread a bit... lol

I mention GTA V specifically because it is actually a game that people buy dedicated PC's for. I didn't mention The Witcher 3 or Fallout 4 because, despite being incredibly popular and favouring Nvidia, are single player only and therefore don't fall into the DOTA/LOL/WOW/CS:GO category, which now includes GTA V. GTA V online is so massive that I would put it amongst those games. According to Steam it's the most popular AAA game. It may be far behind CS:GO, but it's still a triple-A title that's very, very popular. I know guys who only play it and have played it for almost three years.

I don't know how it stacks up against Battlefield, though, in terms of popularity and peak players.