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[BOROSUN]

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rade...ormance_183699

weird stuff. also there's a guy OC hit 1500 on the 480 but wasn't scaling on firestrike benchmark.

[Future240]

More weird news


http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ear...gb-memory.html




I am curious to see how the 1060 measures up to the 480. Rumors say it might perform like a 980. I would hate to see AMD lose to Nvida in the low end market to. AMD needs to come with some heavy hitters. I am tired of seeing benchmarks where it is


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[BOROSUN]

techpowerup verified you can flash bios to unlock the extra 4gb.
I wish these were ddr5x.

[Future240]

Originally Posted by BOROSUN

I wish these were ddr5x.

That is what I did not get. I am guessing cost, but if these card could have had dd5x like the 1080, it would have been a KILLER card.

[BOROSUN]

lol yeah looks like 490 is ddr5 also. if this little info leak is legit.

http://videocardz.com/61897/amd-rade...-rx-400-series


1080 just powers thru anything even on dx12 with its crappy preemption.

[Future240]

If the 490 Keeps ddr5 as well, then makes me wonder about the performance. looking at benchmarks the 390x peforms 15-25 frames above the 380x.


http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages...review,20.html


I wonder if the 490 will be the same. The 380x msrp was 239, the 390x was 429 (I am using the X verisions since no 490x's have been confirmed).


If they keep similar pricing the 490 would have to be a killer card to compete with the non ref 1070 at 379. It would have to either undercut the price and be within performance, rival the 1080 for cheaper, or sit between the 1070 and 1080 in terms of price and performance.

[BOROSUN]

I'm guessing around $340 or +$10-20-ish reference since its ddr5. hopefully it will perform 15-25fps over 480.
or can be that rumor dual Polaris 10 ranging around $400-450+ish to $500-ish.

anyways, fuck all this guessing shit. I wonder if amd will panic when 1060 schools them @ $250.

[BOROSUN]

http://wccftech.com/rise-of-the-tomb...compute-vsync/

best news ive heard in a while. multi-gpu and ACE.

[Future240]

Now we need new benchmarks. I hope more developers support multi gpu. Xfire 490's ( not a typo) is likely to be killer.

[BOROSUN]

rotr
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g...mance_update/4


doom vulkan
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/new...t-to-doom.html

[BOROSUN]

Lol

[Future240]

^^Yea we wish the 480 did that to the 1070/980ti




The vulkan results are outstanding. I really hope more developers adopt this api.

[BOROSUN]

what have I done.

I pull the trigger right before I heard the 490 vega rumor.

this all amd's doing. shame.

[Future240]

Say it ain't so!!!!



Real talk though, I don't blame you.

[BOROSUN]

I just did a firestrike Ultra bench.
barely touched it. bumped to a ez stable 2ghz.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14204428?


490 vega hbm2 is going to kick this ass though.

[Future240]

We hope. I was expecting the 480 to be around the 1060 and we saw how that went.

[BOROSUN]

on a proper dx12/vulkan it does beat it. also one thing I notice about Polaris is... although, limited on frequency oc it scales better then a oc 2ghz 1060.

hopefully, hbm2 and vega will scale better then Polaris. like off the charts scaling.


on other amd news...seems like positive news for zen.


now just waiting for the price.

[Future240]

Yes true it beats it on dX12 when utilized properly but that is a gamble on AMD that developers will leverage DX12 and vulkan. On opengl and DX11 the rx480 gets trounced regularly by the 1060. If it could have matched the 1060 in performance on DX11 and Opengl It would have been a no brainer.


I am waiting with a cautious enthusiasm on Zen. The last time I got hyped by an AMD cpu release was Bulldozer and we all know how that went.

[BOROSUN]

a little hype train for red rebellion


I believe this will be the 4k killer card we or I've been seeking for. with hbm it scaled nicely with 4k although only had 4gb+old gen arc. 1080 couldn't do it, titan x pascal still couldn't do it.

HBM2 or bust.

[BOROSUN]

dx11 480 > 1060.
its just the beginning of a long battle.

[Future240]

At work so can't see the vid. but the new deus ex game has the 480 beating the 1060 at all resolutions.

[BOROSUN]

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages..._review,9.html




lol
why cant 3dmark get it right? oh yeah no parallel async and high on pre-crap-m-tion aka fake async.

[Future240]

I saw that. I was shocked. I didn't think dx12 would be that huge of am improvement. Less hope that trend continues.

[BOROSUN]

hopefully , this is just the beginning. as devs are tweak and play with parallelism/multithread task. its going to be more and more efficient.

[BOROSUN]

I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. I notice .my 1080 doesn't fully render texture on the sides especially on wide fov. until it hits a certain centered/central peripheral? maybe its a gradient technique just to squeeze more fps.

[HyperTek]

can we rename this to PC gamer thread? =P

i recently went from gtx 970 to 1070



also bought a GT Omega Art racing cockpit, thrustmaster t500rs, some goodies for it too, and an oculus rift


btw my msi gtx 970 is for sale $150 +shipping, still like new with original box etc

[BOROSUN]

dope.

btw did you get that $30 3.5gb claim from NVidia?

[HyperTek]

nah i should look at filing that

[Frank_Jaeger]

Originally Posted by Future240

^^Yea we wish the 480 did that to the 1070/980ti




The vulkan results are outstanding. I really hope more developers adopt this api.

Vulkan is tedious. I might refit my game with Vulkan down the road, right now it's running on OpenGL 3.3.

[Future240]

Originally Posted by HyperTek

can we rename this to PC gamer thread? =P

i recently went from gtx 970 to 1070





also bought a GT Omega Art racing cockpit, thrustmaster t500rs, some goodies for it too, and an oculus rift



btw my msi gtx 970 is for sale $150 +shipping, still like new with original box etc

That 970 is hella tempting. I would love an upgrade from my 7950.

Originally Posted by Frank_Jaeger

Vulkan is tedious. I might refit my game with Vulkan down the road, right now it's running on OpenGL 3.3.

I've heard that, vulkan is harder to code for than ogengl. What game do you have?