5.5 TFlops would be around 80% of a 1070, 300$ would be a little bit less than 80% of 380$. I wouldn't be outraged at that prospect, but I wouldn't buy it either.
WHYCRY said:BTW I heard AMD demonstrated RX 480 in CF beating GTX 1080 at Polaris Tech Day.
Ideally there would be three SKUs above the 480 (480x, 490, 490x), but thats just wishful thinking.
That's even assuming they keep the same name scheme. Not saying they won't, but chances are RX 480 == R9 480X.
New name could be:
R 480
RX 480
R 490
RX 490.
But that's me taking a stab in the dark.
EDIT: I say this because RX 480X or RX 490X sounds pretty stupid to me.
EDIT #2:
Make it easier to put multi GPU names in there too
RX2 480 instead of R9 480X2 using their old scheme.
A comment left by WhyCry in the article about the leaked 480 slide. It is obviously open to interpretation and we are lacking important details (e.g. in what game or games), but there it is.
Or, RX 485.
I thought about R 480 too, but it makes no sense. RX is surely the family name. So, it's either 480X or 485.
If you think RX 480X sounds stupid, how about X1950 XTX?
X850XTPE
X1950XTX
Rage Fury MAXX
Never forget.
Guys X often refers to 10... Since we had R9, R10 makes sense, so RX.
Makes no sense to me to change it with the 400 series and not the 300 series.
So what will their entry cards be?
R8 470?
hahahaha. polaris are mid range chips but if it is price under 300$ it will still sell. well time for me to hunted down some used AIB 980 tis wish me luck.Kyle is never wrong.
RX could be "Graphics cards for VR" or whatever they want to market it as.
R9 went back to the 270x.
Either way, why talk about the naming for a whole page lol
At 5.5 tflops, this is *slower* than the ancient Hawaii-based 290x which was 5.6.
The solution to this is obvious... call it the 10-480.
There you go AMD. I just solved your naming issues for another 79 generations of models (up to the 99-480 in a few centries). Not only that, but future generations of people will easily be able to understand the model number naming scheme of current and past cards.
5.5tflops should be faster than a 980. But AMD has needed dx12 to make use of their power so far.
The 390x can do 5.9 TFLOPS and it's not faster than a 980.