Wouldn't be surprised to see a Sapphire triple-fan cooler, Radeon Fury style for a RX480. That would probably beat the Sapphire Fury's performance and noise levels, which would basically set it in a class of its own as best out of the box air cooled card.
For those of us who bought a 290 at $210 or a 290x at $260, this is a bit underwhelming. But maybe it just goes to show what incredible value those cards offered. I think it's great that AMD is offering what looks like a fantastic card at $199. I guess it's just not meant for people like me who jumped on an all-time great deal back in early 2015.
I'm surprised to see so many advocates for blower coolers. I'm a layman what it comes to GPUs, but based on my personal experience, blower coolers are awful.
In 2012, I bought an EVGA GeForce 660 Superclocked card with a blower cooler, and by now it is causing me all kinds of problems, many of which probably happen because it overheats. I expect that the crappy blower cooler on it is a large reason for why that card is so faulty.
After that GPU crashes my system (often when it does so, a hear a sound as if a vacuum cleaner turned on inside of my PC; I think the sound originates from that GPU's blower fan becoming mega screwed up), which it does all the time, it is always very hot to the touch.
Now I have to buy a new GPU since that old one is defective. The RX 480 would be a good candidate, except that the blower cooler on is to me an instant red flag that screams, "This is crap, don't buy it." I like my hardware to last as long as possible, and blower coolers are counter-productive to that goal IMO. I expect that if I were to buy an RX 480 with a blower cooler, I'd probably have to replace that in a few years too.
AMD's designers should have known that blower coolers are bad and therefore decided instead to put something better on those cards. I can't see any reason why they wouldn't have, unless they wanted to be cheap and cut corners on quality.
Polish magazine CDA was released today with card review, some info:
RX480 1266MHz 8000Mhz 8gb ref
970 Zotac Amp Omega
Tested on I5 6600K
"Radeon is slighty slower than custom oc'd 970 but beats stock 970"
"Reference model we had in test was pretty bad in terms of oc, it overclocked by 5%"
R480 - Zotac 970
Metro:Last Light Redux:
1920 45 49
2560 26 28
3840 10 12
Witcher 3 high:
1920 50 52
2560 37 39
3840 22 23
World of Tanks high:
1920 95 107
2560 78 91
3840 39 43
what a lot of people don't realize is that whatever temps will be in the launch day reviews are the best case scenario
blowers get dusty real quick and their cooling performance goes down. without taking the cooler apart (which is something 99% of people won't do), you can only do so much (and let's be honest, a lot of people won't even do any basic cleaning).
as a result, after a couple of months we could have a lot of RX 480's that are permanently hot and underclocked. just saying.
LOL WUT?!
Get this crap out of this thread. You can discuss blower coolers in "Cases&Cooling" subforum.
Also, it is mind blowing that someone is suggesting $100 premium NV FE cooler is somehow performing better when clogged with cats fur, yet it is throttling in mint condition on open test bench in AC room.
reported.
This is getting ridiculous.what a lot of people don't realize is that whatever temps will be in the launch day reviews are the best case scenario
blowers get dusty real quick and their cooling performance goes down. without taking the cooler apart (which is something 99% of people won't do), you can only do so much (and let's be honest, a lot of people won't even do any basic cleaning).
as a result, after a couple of months we could have a lot of RX 480's that are permanently hot and underclocked. just saying.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296153&postcount=928
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296172&postcount=932
oh well, it seems that a 2 year old mainstream card (GTX 970) spanks the overhyped RX 480 in nearly every scenario. So much for >R9 390X performance.
Cheapest gtx 970 on newegg is 265$ after 2 years.
This gpu is priced at 200$(4GB version for apples to apples price comparison)at launch.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296153&postcount=928
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296172&postcount=932
oh well, it seems that a 2 year old mainstream card (GTX 970) spanks the overhyped RX 480 in nearly every scenario. So much for >R9 390X performance.
Anyone know anything about the Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Omega? That's the version they tested. If they OC'd the balls off it, that'd explain it beating the 480. OC headroom seems poor, but I'll wait for other reviews.
LMFAO: "5% overclocking causes severe artifices in 3DMark, while 7% overclock causes system to freeze". What is this? +60Mhz causes artifact?
http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=267069&postcount=2183
We shall flay the liar, who's with me?
what a lot of people don't realize is that whatever temps will be in the launch day reviews are the best case scenario
blowers get dusty real quick and their cooling performance goes down. without taking the cooler apart (which is something 99% of people won't do), you can only do so much (and let's be honest, a lot of people won't even do any basic cleaning).
as a result, after a couple of months we could have a lot of RX 480's that are permanently hot and underclocked. just saying.
How can they possibly ship a high volume product with only 5% frequency overhead? A bit in the wrong side of the bell curve and the product is DOA.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296153&postcount=928
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5296172&postcount=932
oh well, it seems that a 2 year old mainstream card (gtx 970) spanks the overhyped rx 480 in nearly every scenario. So much for >r9 390x performance.
TIL 970 = 970 oc
Yeah 290 was an incredible deal. Not only that but rx480 gpu is not meant for people who like to upgrade their cards every year. So if you bought a $250 290 in 2015, you would normally keep it for 2-3 years like 95% of people do and buy the next $250 card in 2018 which should be a good upgrade from 290.For those of us who bought a 290 at $210 or a 290x at $260, this is a bit underwhelming. But maybe it just goes to show what incredible value those cards offered. I think it's great that AMD is offering what looks like a fantastic card at $199. I guess it's just not meant for people like me who jumped on an all-time great deal back in early 2015.
Who waited 2 years for what? What does this even mean?it's barely OCed
if a miniscule increase in performance is worth a 2 year wait, well, there might be a bit of bias on your part
Depends on the buyer, if he's going CF then the 8GB 480s will be much better, quieter & cooler than CFed 290s though moving away from 390 will definitely be a sidegrade. So unless you've bought the 290/x at a firesale, the 8GB 480 variants would definitely be something worth upgrading to.Yeah 290 was an incredible deal. Not only that but rx480 gpu is not meant for people who like to upgrade their cards every year. So if you bought a $250 290 in 2015, you would normally keep it for 2-3 years like 95% of people do and buy the next $250 card in 2018 which should be a good upgrade from 290.
People who buy new card every year would obviously be disappointed because there just isn't the performance jump in one year anymore as it used to be 10 years ago.
it's barely OCed
if a miniscule increase in performance is worth a 2 year wait, well, there might be a bit of bias on your part