AMD's RX 480 will cost $199

[WYP]

AMD's RX 480 will cost $199, feature 5.5 TFLOPs of gaming performance and up to 2.8x the efficiency of last generation AMD hardware.



Read more on AMD's Polaris RX 480 GPU.

 

[Type-8]

Awesome to see AMD being truly competitive. In fact, it's good to see that both companies are showing sizable leaps from the last gen.

Can't wait to find out what else they've got in store!

 

[NeverBackDown]

$400 for better than 1080 performance? Damn... Although if they didn't show it in a live demo, then we will have to wait till more info gets released.

Don't really like the new naming scheme though. Gonna be RX 480 ->R 480 ->RX470->R 470 etc.. seems odd.

 

[Wraith]

Something that flew right over my head until just now.. RX480 will cost $199.. that's under $400 for crossfire.

What the hell is this then?

<$500?? Well yes! Where did the excess $100 come from.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Something that flew right over my head until just now.. RX480 will cost $199.. that's under $400 for crossfire.

What the hell is this then?

<$500?? Well yes! Where did the excess $100 come from.

Probably including taxes and shipping... makes more sense to say $500 than $400 as some people may find it misleading.

 

[Wraith]

$400 for better than 1080 performance? Damn... Although if they didn't show it in a live demo, then we will have to wait till more info gets released.

Don't really like the new naming scheme though. Gonna be RX 480 ->R 480 ->RX470->R 470 etc.. seems odd.

They were shown in demo along side the GTX1080 running Ashes, but as we discussed during the presentation Ashes scales really well in SLI/Crossfire under DX12.

You can't tell from the screenie but they were pretty much side by side with the RX being just a few frames behind. The proof will come later this month when we see it chewing some real games.

 

[WYP]

They were shown in demo along side the GTX1080 running Ashes, but as we discussed during the presentation Ashes scales really well in SLI/Crossfire under DX12.

You can't tell from the screenie but they were pretty much side by side with the RX being just a few frames behind. The proof will come later this month when we see it chewing some real games.

with the ashes benchmark it isn't exactly the same every time, can't really compare the two looking at the frame from the screenshots.

Interesting data, but Ashes has great scaling, no other DX12 game does right now.

I am interested in Vulkan DOOM more than ever now.

 

[Wraith]

with the ashes benchmark it isn't exactly the same every time, can't really compare the two looking at the frame from the screenshots.

Interesting data, but Ashes has great scaling, no other DX12 game does right now.

I am interested in Vulkan DOOM more than ever now.

Vulcan Doom got my attention more than anything else TBF. Can't wait.
Anyway it's silly O'Clock and us minions require our rest.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Well with AMDs better DX12 support, don't think Ashes is the best one to compare with right now. Since it's heavily based off async shaders and in DX12 it's disabled if Nvidia hardware is detected.

 

[Tolemac]

I am interested in Vulkan DOOM more than ever now.

Me too I would like to see the comparison between the RX280 compared to the R9 290X that would interest me. So we should see UK pricing towards the end of the Month just before they are able to buy. However I really do not think it's an upgrade for me personally seeing as my R9 290X does 5.12 TFLOPS I will have to see if they come out with something more powerful maybe wait for Vega.

 

[tolagarf]

Very nice move from AMD. Let's see if they can keep up this kind of progress. Might mean cheaper cards from nVidia soon.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

The price/performance is looking pretty good, now I am just waiting for the reviews. At this stage; I would really like to see nVidia receive the finger, they just love to give it to us after all.

 

[barnsley]

I think we need less bias benchmarks/actual game performance before we can take AMD's claims seriously. If true, its a good start but as always 1 fast card > 2 slower cards.

 

[SeekaX]

200$ for a card they could charge 300$ for. Where is the catch, there must be one. If there isn't, i am intrigued, despite not really liking multi GPU configurations.

 

[DarthDudo]

200$ for a card they could charge 300$ for. Where is the catch, there must be one. If there isn't, i am intrigued, despite not really liking multi GPU configurations.

This was exactly my first thought it feels recently like as consumers we are being burned pretty hard with CPU/GPU/Mobo, I hope this turns out good would be the ideal gpu for my girlfriends first real gaming pc

 

[AverageNinja]

Interesting choice of AMD to introduce a 'lower-end' GPU first, rather than starting with the RX 490(X). Still, the price/performance-ratio of this card is off the charts. Can't wait to see what the future holds for AMD.

 

[Kushiro]

4/8GB Gddr5. Wonder if thats where the extra in the $500 might come in.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I think we need less bias benchmarks/actual game performance before we can take AMD's claims seriously. If true, its a good start but as always 1 fast card > 2 slower cards.

It's not biased. AMD just perform better in DX12. If we weren't being "biased", you couldn't compare any GPU in DX12 at all.. which wouldn't make sense. If anything the newer benchmark in AotS is less biased than before. It turns off Asynchronous Compute for Nvidia cards so they don't lose performance. Add in the fact that the 1080 is a little better with DX12 you have best case scenario right here. It's impressive to say the least. If they ran the demo in front of everyone then it's believable. But we need more info as one game doesn't define everything

 

[Dicehunter]

Going by the Computex info, 2 x 480's at $199 each will outperform 1 x 1080 at $700.

That is frakking awesome !

With the Zen 8 core 16 thread info coming out too I will finally be able to build an all AMD system around Christmas

 

[NeverBackDown]

We've known it was 8 core 16threads for a while now Dicey
I'm really hoping it's at least faster than Broadwell. Otherwise I don't see much going for it unless power consumption is extremely low and the chipset has all the latest possible tech.