Let's see, launch date is June 29th.
There are 30 days in June.
That pretty much means you will only see 480s in June, that is all AMD promised.
Let's see, launch date is June 29th.We'll find out soon enough, but if rumours are true only Radeon RX 480 8GB will make it to stores this month (unknown stocks), while others come later.
I don't expect the cards to be fully utilized, but AMD has at least recently shown lower gaming performance per FLOP than the competition, as well as a larger delta in power consumption between gaming and compute. Case in point, 3.8TFLOPS for 7970 vs 3.1 for a GTX680 or ~6TFLOPs for a 390X vs 4.6 for a 980.
Obviously compute workloads vary (Bitcoin mining would draw less power than some games for example due to essentially zero MC load), but a shrinking delta between compute and graphics workloads would be welcome if it was caused by better gaming utilisation of the GPU resources. Hopefully as developers come to grips with DX12 and more games are released this starts to happen more.
Let's see, launch date is June 29th.
There are 30 days in June.
That pretty much means you will only see 480s in June, that is all AMD promised.
At least they should have better volume than Nvidia so that people can actually buy one without camping out websites or hoping to be able to buy a card within minutes of getting an availability email.
It's common to have a staggered launch of different SKUs. RX 480, then RX 470 & 460. Could be a few weeks out, gives time to digest news and benches, then later release another one and the media cycle is extended.
1,607 MHz to be exact...http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-overclocked-1600mhz-cooler-detailed/
1,600 Mhz... It would be interesting to know if clocking this high is stable, and what they are using to cool it clocked so high. 10 days is too long!
Yep, kind of what another GPU manufacturer just did, except they made you pay more to buy it early because they rushed release.
Can't wait for these cards to launch, will be a small upgrade from my 290 at worst while using less power and will have all of the new features like PLP eyefinity.
I dislike GloFlo for many reasons and we will never know what issue(s) they have since they are a private company, and don't got anyone looking over their shoulders, and I think they also have a NDA about what is allowed to be said by their partners.It's one of those technically correct statements, but in reality Polaris is an early Q3 product. I still think Global Foundries had/has production and process issues because AMD was showing off working silicon in January so something had to have gone wrong.
Is from the same guy for the first leak with a misterious 6+8 pin card with changed cooler.1,607 MHz to be exact...
What's the base clock of a GTX 1080? What does the number in parentheses display in that screengrab of 3DMark?
The answer is 1,607 and the base clock respectively. My guess is that we're looking at a hacked GTX 1080.
We need to see the Double Precission in order to confirm or deny it. DP on Pascal is an absolute dissaster.1,607 MHz to be exact...
What's the base clock of a GTX 1080? What does the number in parentheses display in that screengrab of 3DMark?
The answer is 1,607 and the base clock respectively. My guess is that we're looking at a hacked GTX 1080.
We need to see the Double Precission in order to confirm or deny it. DP on Pascal is an absolute dissaster.
I dislike GloFlo for many reasons and we will never know what issue(s) they have since they are a private company, and don't got anyone looking over their shoulders, and I think they also have a NDA about what is allowed to be said by their partners.
That said, we just don't know enough about how many lines, how many orders and how many fabs are being used to make AMD specific stuff. With Sony, MS, Nintendo (and even Apple), they all would get their orders prioritized before any consumer launch line.
AMD is actually doing better under the lead of Lisa, and I doubt they will run the risk of having multiple fabs produce what they need, unless they had guaranteed orders which translates to, business orders first, consumer lines bringing up the rear.
If AMD was flush with cash, things could have been different, but they are trying to dig themselves out of a hole.
Hopefully it'll be a disaster on polaris as well.We need to see the Double Precission in order to confirm or deny it. DP on Pascal is an absolute dissaster.
Hopefully it'll be a disaster on polaris as well.
Well, Gibbo @ OCUK says they have plenty of stock. The quote was "Ample, I repeat AMPLE!". Later, when asked if he'd sell more than 1000 in a month he said. "In a month for sure, I am actually hoping to sell 500+ on day one!"
That doesn't sound like limited stock because all these other players have snatched up everything. There's a reason AMD has waited until now to release these cards. In the past we likely would have seen them months ago with no stock and immature drivers. I think Lisa is running a different, tighter ship.
Well it's not likely to be a disaster. It is still GCN. Although I'd be shocked if it were 1/4 as good as Hawaii, which is monstrous.
In comparison it would appear that it took OCUK roughly 3 weeks to cross the 1000 unit number with the GTX 1080 (being mainly supply limited I'm assuming), so it doesn't look like GloFo will be an issue, at least no more so than TSMC has been for Nvidia.
How do you suppose that correlates to 480 availability? I mean if they sold 1000 1080's in "3 weeks" and plan on selling 500 480's day one.
As far as I understand it, they didn't sell 1000 since launch, they sold 5000 but have only shipped 1000 due to constrained supply.
I think a lot of people (i'm one of them) just won't order something if it shows up as out of stock so it's likely that they could have sold over the 5000 mark if they had adequate supply.
480s are apparently going to be plentiful so they shouldn't have that problem and you'd expect them to sell a lot more at that price point anyway.
Well, Gibbo @ OCUK says they have plenty of stock. The quote was "Ample, I repeat AMPLE!". Later, when asked if he'd sell more than 1000 in a month he said. "In a month for sure, I am actually hoping to sell 500+ on day one!"
That doesn't sound like limited stock because all these other players have snatched up everything. There's a reason AMD has waited until now to release these cards. In the past we likely would have seen them months ago with no stock and immature drivers. I think Lisa is running a different, tighter ship.