Oh okay, instead of the paper spec boost clocks (should be known that NV's paper clocks don't match their real gaming clocks. Either way, 76mhz differential resulting instead of an OC 970 that BEATS at 980 in many of the games tested, it'll probably trade blows with a 980 then.
My point is they tested 3 games which runs better on NV, where a 390X would struggle vs a 980 anyway, and tested it against an OC 970 that is about 980 performance... so the only conclusion from this is that the RX 480 is actually performing around 390X levels. Whether that's better than 980 perf class or not, depends on the games.
Yeah I wound't be surprised if the actual boost clocks were close to 1380 MHz. My SSC boosts to 1411MHz and stays there right out of the box. That's why I like to see actual boost clocks reported by review sites, kind of like how AnandTech does it per individual game. The paper spec boost clocks are deceiving In my opinion.
I would still expect the Extreme to boost higher vs. the Omega though. Those games are pretty NVIDIA centric, so I'm hoping you're right.
GGPC on YouTube did post some videos and I made a pretty loose comparison against his GTA V PC run. This was without review drivers and it's not on the same platform, so it's not apples to apples. I would expect with the same platform and drivers, it should match or beat a GTX 970. This run was done with a sight 970 OC.
https://vid.me/68pU