Why do you think VR is geared mainly towards gamers? If anything the applications in academia, medical & even general entertainment is an order of magnitude that of the gaming industry & they're the first ones on the VR bandwagon, scientists & researchers especially.By the time VR matters/matures, with enough supporting titles and improved, better priced VR hardware, we'll probably already be on Volta, Navi. I doubt many people will factor in VR performance when looking at lower-mid range Polaris.
AIB partners are reporting to me this morning that with extremely good custom air coolers the 480 GPUs are seeing from 1480MHz to 1600MHz clocks, but tell me it is a "lottery draw" on GPUs.
That makes no sense. If someone put fan on RX 480 ref to 100% and still can't OC, it's not a thermal issue.
Esp if AIB cards can do up to 1.6Ghz. If that's true, it screams artificial gimping from AMD. Bios restrictions on clocks or a very low power/voltage limit on the ref card to artificially create more expensive AIB variants for a higher segment.
Calm down, folks. He admitted to using old drivers.
Or it's artificially/intentionally being done to the reference versions simply to keep the temps in check for the reference versions at a quiet fan speed/curve.That makes no sense. If someone put fan on RX 480 ref to 100% and still can't OC, it's not a thermal issue.
Esp if AIB cards can do up to 1.6Ghz. If that's true, it screams artificial gimping from AMD. Bios restrictions on clocks or a very low power/voltage limit on the ref card to artificially create more expensive AIB variants for a higher segment.
Calm down, folks. He admitted to using old drivers.
What, why would a reviewer use the wrong drivers...
Or it's artificially/intentionally being done to the reference versions simply to keep the temps in check for the reference versions at a quiet fan speed/curve.
They certainly cannot afford another 290(x) temp/throttling/loud reference cooler disaster in the press.
I know if I was AMD that would be the LAST thing I'd want.
He made the amd song, he is the most reputable amd reviewer out there!I wanna see from reputable sites like AT, Computerbase, Guru3d & TPU before making that call.
But yes, if it's performance drops off as resolution rises, it's strong indicator of ROP bottleneck.
because he didnt get the press drivers he signed no nda thats why he could release the video now
We'll know within a few hours.But isn't there a clue about why the cards don't overclock on the slides leaked yesterday.
It may not be artificial as such, and possibly just a question of reviewers not adjusting the fan speed.
The youtube review tried overclocking and had the temperature shoot up to 91 degrees and any higher and it would crash. It is possible that increasing the fan speed could keep the temperature down and thus leave more headroom for overclocking (with AIB cards already running cool enough that this isn't necessary).
Hey Rus, isn't Vega 10 the big chip (meant for Fury) and Vega 11 the smaller one (meant for RX 490) ?
Btw, RX 480 is eligible for Total War Warhammer key!
https://twitter.com/AMD/status/746024194551349248
Dang, that certainly sweetens the deal. Game is top seller on Steam still.
Edit: Is that an RX 490 on the list? lol
So, if it had 64 ROPs would it still be 232mm² and $200? Is there a better combination at that size/price?
It's a $200 TO $240 CARD FOR GOODNESS SAKE! AMD packed a lot of performance in a card for that price range.
Let us all calm down and wait for all of the reviews to start rolling in.
I think AMD's real goal is to produce a large scale market share card that is affordable. So far it looks like AMD is in the ballpark with the RX480.
So, if it had 64 ROPs would it still be 232mm² and $200? Is there a better combination at that size/price?
I expect to read A LOT of biased/NV PR posts about how Polaris for GPUs is AMD's Bulldozer for CPUs (i.e., AMD is officially out of high-end/performance space). AMD's desire to launch Bottom-Up this time seems to have confused most of the Internet and even some review sites...