So what you're saying is that AMD performs worse on mining BTC/watt metric :hmm:If you're only using the card for mining (some people do this) than power cost is a factor in the profitability of said card.
If you're just gaming ~20 hours per week you're right in that it really doesn't matter that much or would only amount to a few dollars in difference for the average person.
So what you're saying is that AMD performs worse on mining BTC/watt metric :hmm:
So once again we I see a thread turned in to national energy charge thread.
What do you expect when the only improvement vs a 390X is in performance per watt? That is all there is to talk about. Introducing the The AMD RX 480 LED light bulb! Replace your light bulb now and save 2.5X power.
There must be an awful lot of those people because cents per hour saved is the only rational benefit of buying a GTX 960 vs its closest priced AMD competitor. Yet lots of people did just that. Same with the 970. The only benefit it offered vs the competition was cents per hour saved at the cost of lower performance per dollar. The fact that the savings were only $0.0002 per hour didnt seem to matter.
A guy on TPU Forums received an RX480 in advance and while it does seem to perform well in Batman Arkham Knight (390X level, at least at 1080p), it doesn't seem to exactly have thrilling VR performance. Check out the posts on the last few pages by user gasolina:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...leaked-and-tested.223351/page-22#post-3479235
390x level is good. He says he can also max stuff out at 1440p which is nice. But for VR this is just entry level. I would expect you need something more powerful for full VR.A guy on TPU Forums received an RX480 in advance and while it does seem to perform well in Batman Arkham Knight (390X level, at least at 1080p), it doesn't seem to exactly have thrilling VR performance. Check out the posts on the last few pages by user gasolina:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...leaked-and-tested.223351/page-22#post-3479235
mopetar said:Weird that it scored higher than AMD's stated score (6.8 vs. 6.3) but it's still on the low side for what you'd want if you were getting a card strictly for VR, especially if you want something slightly more future proof.
390x level is good. He says he can also max stuff out at 1440p which is nice. But for VR this is just entry level. I would expect you need something more powerful for full VR.
What do you expect when the only improvement vs a 390X is in performance per watt? That is all there is to talk about. Introducing the The AMD RX 480 LED light bulb! Replace your light bulb now and save 2.5X power.
Well from what I've read around the internet, the RX 480 performance is similar to in between a 390 and 390X, I guess when it comes out we'll see by actual users.it should be compared to a 380, not a 390x
I know mining BTC isn't profitable, for at least the last couple of years, & was using BTC just for reference. However you did say this ~Don't know how you read that from what I wrote.
I'm saying that if you're doing 24/7 mining with your card, you'll probably care about the power usage relative to other cards, whether they're from the same manufacturer or not.
Also, no one does bitcoin mining on GPUs any more since people started widely deploying FPGAs and ASICs that are far more efficient making it pointless to use a GPU at all. If you meant Ethereum mining, I don't know of anyone doing dedicated mining who uses Nvidia hardware (unless they're just casually mining with their gaming GPU) since AMD tends to have a massive performance advantage for that particular application.
in response to~If you're just gaming ~20 hours per week you're right in that it really doesn't matter that much or would only amount to a few dollars in difference for the average person.
when he was saying that choosing between Nvidia & AMD simply to save some cents on power costs is futile, & it is, however what you inferred doesn't make sense since the original argument was in regards to different GPU vendors & gaming. If you're talking purely about mining then it's a whole different ballgame altogether.If people are really trying to decide what GPU to get based on how many cents per month they may save in power, you need to take up another hobby.
Well from what I've read around the internet, the RX 480 performance is similar to in between a 390 and 390X, I guess when it comes out we'll see by actual users.
Some would say that $100+ cheaper for that same performance is also a real and tangible improvement. And those are costs now--not reflected in 390X release price which was like $150+ more, right?
A guy on TPU Forums received an RX480 in advance and while it does seem to perform well in Batman Arkham Knight (390X level, at least at 1080p), it doesn't seem to exactly have thrilling VR performance. Check out the posts on the last few pages by user gasolina:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...leaked-and-tested.223351/page-22#post-3479235
On a related note, the TPU database has been updated today to list the RX460 as having 16 ROPs, the RX470 as 24 ROPs and the RX480 as 32 ROPs, so perhaps the rumors were true.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2849/radeon-rx-460
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2861/radeon-rx-470
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2848/radeon-rx-480
He's not using official drivers. That said, 99% of stuff we are seeing is with wrong drivers from ppl who got their cards unofficially and thus do not have access to the NDA drivers.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...leaked-and-tested.223351/page-23#post-3479239
Don't the guys at TPU also have samples for the review(s) they will be releasing on June 29th? My guess is that they have legitimately acquired correct technical information for these cards.The 32 ROP rumor was based on GPU-Z.
GPU-Z has the exact same numbers as TPU, since GPU-Z is made by TPU!
Here is some bench result I saw it. the 480 had better CPU with higher score, others seens like i5 score.
However you did say this ~in response to~when he was saying that choosing between Nvidia & AMD simply to save some cents on power costs is futile, & it is, however what you inferred doesn't make sense since the original argument was in regards to different GPU vendors & gaming. If you're talking purely about mining then it's a whole different ballgame altogether.
Yeah, how can people not be excited about having a high performance gpu for $200 now? Instead of crap price to performance cards like the GTX 960 and R9 285.
It's true that the driver version is not same as the ones the reviewers are using (or supposed to be using, i.e. 16.6.2).
Don't the guys at TPU also have samples for the review(s) they will be releasing on June 29th? My guess is that they have legitimately acquired correct technical information for these cards.
It's almost always nice outside year round and they have a pretty stable average temperature compared to most of the US, so the summer doesn't feel that much hotter than any other time of year. Once you get used to it you don't feel like you need AC.
Any reason why the 480 is getting a 14.4% (12.5% for Extreme score) improvement in performance for a ~9% OC?
Edit: The 980 is getting 9.4% (8.4% for Extreme score) improvement on a ~16% OC. This seems counter-intuitive or almost as though the OC results should be flopped.