At $199, it could be @ R9 390 performance and still be a hit. The pricing is just too good to fail. However, from a technical standpoint, I would be rather disappointed. From a 232mm sized die, I expect greater than R9 390X performance @ stock clocks.
There's no such thing, you can see the same IPC regression from Maxwell to Pascal. There are obviously things that'll make the 480 better than 390x but the full effect will not be felt till the latest gen consoles, based on Polaris, are released & then DX12 games that make use of them, come to the fore.69-70%. And this is from pessimistic me so I'm shocked to see others post lower. 290X is at 68%, and I'd love to hear the reasons why it should not be faster since it has more TFLOPs. Afterall, 32 ROP defenders love to link the anandtech pixel fillrate test where a Tonga beats Hawaii, so why is that an excuse? They should have improved in the nearly 2 years since then even more. A 290X also only has a 25% bandwidth advantage, and again we have 2 generations of "compression" since Hawaii.
Either way, iiankiii is right and it _should_ be faster than a 390X. But I'm not holding my breath.
Talking about reviews, I'm curious to know your last minute expectations. Let's use TPU's 1440p chart as reference. Where do you think stock Radeon RX 480 will end up?
I'm going to guess around 70%
70% stock. Overclock 75%
I'm hoping AIB cards will be in the 80% range.
As long it does not fells below the R9 390 its more than fine, but with the cutdowns at memory and rops, there could be high variations game to game.
Ok so no actual source of throttling while gaming then, when multiple leakers have had no throttling issues. Just what you think because you've seen a picture of the card and a screenshot from furmark. Gotcha.
Can you provide links to these multiple leakers and their analysis? Thanks!
Can you provide links to these multiple leakers and their analysis? Thanks!
There are hundreds of posts in here by leakers with no mention of throttling when gaming.
Will be curious to see how relative performance scales with resolution this time, considering AMD used to close the gap at 1440p and 4K with Hawaii/Fiji.
I read that as a no.
I read that as a no.
I guess I read that as a no....Do you have any proof that the 480 is throttling while gaming? I provided proof of that in real world released 1080s when asked.
You didn't show any sign of throttling, so nothing to disprove here.