Who bought/is buying a Radeon RX 480?

[sze5003]

IMHO, unless mining ethereum, the $270 RX 480 8GB isn't worth the $.

Sapphire Nitro 480 4GB will be $219 and the 8GB version will cost $269.

The $50 extra spent on the 8GB version is better set aside towards a next GPU in 2 years.

Also, if Nitro 480 is $269, that's too expensive against both a GTX1060 at $250 and against a$299 Sapphire Fury. Fury is 16% faster than the Asus Strix at 1440p, and the GTX1060 AIB cards that sell for $250-270 are also faster. RX 480 at $270 is overpriced.

Probably won't see the 4gb for some time. The oc UK store has only the 8gb. I am not sure if this card is good for me at 1440p.

Tried to get in on the $299 fury but it's been out.

Currently - 1 British Pound equals 1.31 US Dollar

So the price in USD with shipping is $305.36

If you select pay with PayPal and go to PayPal check out the price jumps to £249. Of course PayPal may add fees too.

 

[Sonikku]

Well another week another disappointment. Still no stock and all the auto notifies at newegg in the world have yet to cough up a single blip.

 

[sze5003]

I've added the fury nitro oc to my now in stock notify. I'm gonna go with that since I plan on getting a 1440p monitor.

Also added a notification for the gigabyte 1070 that's $399.

Haven't decided on the monitor yet but well see. If I can snag a 4gb nitro randomly I'll stick with 1080p but I haven't seen anything yet. I've seen no mention of 4gb nitros on newegg.

Nowinstock has notifications for the nitros on OC UK.

I figure a 1440p monitor with free sync and a Rx 480 might be a waste though.

 

[ScottAD]

Currently - 1 British Pound equals 1.31 US Dollar

So the price in USD with shipping is $305.36

You're correct. Apparently I clicked Euro not pound.

 

[Stuka87]

Sapphire RX 480 Nitro Review: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3098...480-review-polaris-rethought-and-refined.html

 

[sze5003]

Hmm 404 review not found.

 

[RussianSensation]

Sapphire RX 480 Nitro Review: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3098...480-review-polaris-rethought-and-refined.html

Keep telling you guys the $219 RX 480 4GB AIB is the card to buy as a budget 1080p 60Hz 2-year stop-gap OR otherwise it's better to go $250 GTX1060 or all the way up to the Fury / 980Ti / 1070. AIB RX 480 8GB cards should cost $229-239, not $269-279.

The power consumption is pretty awful though against the 1060. AMD is getting blown away in perf/watt this generation.

Still great to see that we can now get ~ GTX980 level of performance for $219 USD brand new in less than 2 years!

Some other fun comparisons:

$1000 GTX680 SLI / $900 HD7950 CF < $220-250 RX 480 / GTX1060 in 4 years

$1400 GTX780Ti SLI / $1500 R9 295X2 ~ $400 GTX1070 in 2.5 years

$650 980Ti/Fury X ~ $345-365 just a year later!

Just goes to show how much of a $$$ pit high-end setups purchased at the launch price are to keep over long-term.

That's why I stress price/performance as such a key metric since every $1 saved is every extra $1 used towards a next gen card. GPU depreciation will only accelerate in absolute dollar values because GPU prices keep rising. The higher next gen GPUs get, the more they will fall in resale value as the next gen cards launch.

 

[Face2Face]

You're correct. Apparently I clicked Euro not pound.

No worries my fellow NC brother I will say, at that price it's make Nitro hard to justify, but the card is gorgeous.

 

[mohit9206]

I think OP should also make a who's buying /bought Nvdia 1060,1070,1080 thread because there was a lot of drama about Kepler losing lot of performance every year and people who bought expensive Kepler cards like 780 and 780Ti were getting worse performance than Maxwell cards costing half as much. Today a 780Ti performs worse than a 970. A lot of such owners vowed never to buy Nvdia cards again but seeing the sales of Pascal cards looks like they failed to keep their promises lol.

 

[Michael]

I have had a new build sitting around for a month plus now waiting for the video card choice. Right now I can get a MSI R9 390 with 8GB for $260 after rebate. There really is no performance difference with a RX 480 and it is available now without waiting unknown time just to hope to click fast enough when the new RX 480 come out.

I do not have a screen over 1080 and I prefer to run three screens instead of concentrating on one screen only.

I would be perfectly happy with a 1070 but really hard to get one in stock and at retail price.

I could use the HDMI on the R9 for the HTC Vive headset I want to get and call it a day until the next generation comes out.

Both AMD and NVIDEA have not impressed me with their launches this time. Not enough chips ready.

Michael

 

[tonyfreak215]

The Nitro was a little disappointing in performance, although they didn't touch the memory OC.

I'm thinking of picking up a used 290/290X and OC it to tide me over.
It'll be almost another month before I'll be able to grab a 480 and some of the newer games are starting to have stability problems with drivers on my 6970.

 

[Rifter]

When are the AIB 480's actually going to be available? people keep saying middle of july but that was a week ago.

Some sites are taking preorders so one would think its a matter of weeks not months but as mentioned above 480's in stock is impossible to find even for the reference models.

 

[Silverforce11]

Keep telling you guys the $219 RX 480 4GB AIB is the card to buy as a budget 1080p 60Hz 2-year stop-gap OR otherwise it's better to go $250 GTX1060 or all the way up to the Fury / 980Ti / 1070. AIB RX 480 8GB cards should cost $229-239, not $269-279.

I don't agree with you. $219 for 4GB 480 makes little sense unless you are willing to OC the memory. It's down from 2ghz to 1.75ghz on these and it's bandwith starved. Look at PC World's review of their Nitro 4GB, almost no difference vs reference 480 8GB despite no throttling and running over 1.3ghz.

Then you look at a review of the Nitro 8 GB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTFDJODCSCc

And look at that, ~10-12% performance uplift vs ref 8GB 480. Why? Memory is running 2ghz.

I mean is the 4GB using 7Gbps chips or 8Gbps? Because if it's using 7Gbps, then it's a dud. That extra core clock is being held back.

The 8GB Nitro is $249 to $259. A solid performance leap from the reference 480 8GB and it's got room to be pushed further if you up the voltage from stock 1150mV, as the memory can be OC to 9Gbps to feed it.

Obviously the best bang for buck is the reference 4GB 480, cos it's 8GB 8Gbps.

 

[codyray10]

I got lucky today at microcenter.

https://app.box.com/s/1fu2qg8z683wwktiwt6ce97761xh57qb

Edit: Apparently I dont know how to use the IMG tag, or it just doesnt work. But it's a picture of my XFX 8GB RX480 I picked up for $199.99 on clearance!

 

[poofyhairguy]

Congratulations! Crazy it was a clearance item!

 

[sirmo]

When are the AIB 480's actually going to be available? people keep saying middle of july but that was a week ago.

Some sites are taking preorders so one would think its a matter of weeks not months but as mentioned above 480's in stock is impossible to find even for the reference models.

According to Sapphire Ed, Sapphire should be sometime next week..

 

[sze5003]

I got lucky today at microcenter.

https://app.box.com/s/1fu2qg8z683wwktiwt6ce97761xh57qb

Edit: Apparently I dont know how to use the IMG tag, or it just doesnt work. But it's a picture of my XFX 8GB RX480 I picked up for $199.99 on clearance!

Nice man I guess they are clearing out the reference models seeing how they were all 8gb lol. No wonder the aib models are taking a while I bet they have different boards for 8 vs 4gb.

I'm still stuck on what to do. I want to go 1440p 144hz but the 4gb 480 won't be powerful enough. The $299 fury isn't available right now and getting a 1070 with a free sync monitor would be kind of pointless.

 

[guskline]

SilverForce11: That Sapphire Nitro OC RX 480 looks like a great card for the $$.

 

[sirmo]

SilverForce11: That Sapphire Nitro OC RX 480 looks like a great card for the $$.

Yeah if I didn't have an rx480 already, I would totally grab that Nitro.. it's a sexy card.

 

[Sonikku]

Damn. Microcenter needs to open up where I live. >.>

 

[Face2Face]

I got lucky today at microcenter.

https://app.box.com/s/1fu2qg8z683wwktiwt6ce97761xh57qb

Edit: Apparently I dont know how to use the IMG tag, or it just doesnt work. But it's a picture of my XFX 8GB RX480 I picked up for $199.99 on clearance!

Nice find! Sadly without a decent DP to DVI active adapter you won't be able to OC your Qnix.

Damn. Microcenter needs to open up where I live. >.>

I second that...

 

[sze5003]

Nice find! Sadly without a decent DP to DVI active adapter you won't be able to OC your Qnix.



I second that...

Is that a decent monitor? How well do you think it would do with the 480? Good enough for ultra? I'm asking because I have been looking at several 1440p monitors but I hate the bezels on these and the BenQ models.

I missed a deal on the Acer XF27HU and was thinking about the XG270HU as well. Having gamed at 1080p and upgraded most of my rig I feel a monitor upgrade is in need too.

 

[hellfire88]

Thats pretty close. A hypothetical build clocks in @ 360W: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/tzTKBP

You should be fine. I just ran kill-a-watt on oc'd 6700k@4.7 and oc'd 480 (1325/2100) using Crysis 3 and max was 305w, usually below 300w. This was on 1000w 80Gold+ PSU, but take away overclocks and should be same usage.

I couldn't find my Kill-A-Watt but just got a CyberPower UPS that shows the power draw from it. I only hooked up the PC (which is a Dell Precision T3620) with Core i7-6700K, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 SATA SSD, and 1TB HDD Plus this reference PowerColor RX 480 4GB in it. The problem I have is that the Dell uses proprietary PSU (I think size-wize its ATX but it uses non-standard power connectors) and the stock PSU is just 365W.

I fired up Heroes of the Storm since thats all I play nowadays, and in a team fight the power draw spiked up to 250W so I guess I should be OK with the 365W PSU. I got this PowerColor RX480 4GB for $199 and some say the early batches are really 8GB units? And that you can just flash an 8GB BIOS to it to convert it to 8GB, but I'm too chicken to do that.

I also have a Zotac GTX 1060 Mini on-order that I got for $249 - $25 (PayPal coupon on NewEgg) so I'll have to decide which one to keep. I have a feeling the RX480 will last longer in terms of acceptable performance for new games due to DX12/Vulkan performance but the GTX 1060 will draw even less power so I would not have to worry as much with that unit on my 365W PSU.

I game on a LG 34" 3440x1440 monitor, which would you guys keep? RX480 4GB (with chance to flash BIOS to 8GB if needed in future) @ $199 or GTX1060 6GB @ $225 if you're a gamer that doesn't upgrade that often (once every 3 years or so)? For reference my last GPU was an AMD R9 280x. Thanks!

 

[Rifter]

I'm still stuck on what to do. I want to go 1440p 144hz but the 4gb 480 won't be powerful enough. The $299 fury isn't available right now and getting a 1070 with a free sync monitor would be kind of pointless.

I am going Rx480 and a Dell ultrasharp 1440p u2515h. As my main pc use is photo editing I wanted a good ips panel, and the anti glare on the new dell's are much better than the old coating that tended to male them look washed out. This panel also has less than 10ms input lag so should be fine for gaming as well.

This is a stopgap measure for 1-2 years. At that time I'll see if the next gen nvidia has caught up on dx12, or even assess if dx12 is indeed the most common api being used. Then I'll buy a new $500 dollar range gpu thats best in dx12 as well as a 4k monitor with gsync or freesync depending on which gpu is best at the time, I'll also do a cpu/mobo/ram upgrade at that time, my trusty 930@4.2ghz I'm sure will get me by with a single Rx480 till then.

 

[sze5003]

I couldn't find my Kill-A-Watt but just got a CyberPower UPS that shows the power draw from it. I only hooked up the PC (which is a Dell Precision T3620) with Core i7-6700K, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 SATA SSD, and 1TB HDD Plus this reference PowerColor RX 480 4GB in it. The problem I have is that the Dell uses proprietary PSU (I think size-wize its ATX but it uses non-standard power connectors) and the stock PSU is just 365W.

I fired up Heroes of the Storm since thats all I play nowadays, and in a team fight the power draw spiked up to 250W so I guess I should be OK with the 365W PSU. I got this PowerColor RX480 4GB for $199 and some say the early batches are really 8GB units? And that you can just flash an 8GB BIOS to it to convert it to 8GB, but I'm too chicken to do that.

I also have a Zotac GTX 1060 Mini on-order that I got for $249 - $25 (PayPal coupon on NewEgg) so I'll have to decide which one to keep. I have a feeling the RX480 will last longer in terms of acceptable performance for new games due to DX12/Vulkan performance but the GTX 1060 will draw even less power so I would not have to worry as much with that unit on my 365W PSU.

I game on a LG 34" 3440x1440 monitor, which would you guys keep? RX480 4GB (with chance to flash BIOS to 8GB if needed in future) @ $199 or GTX1060 6GB @ $225 if you're a gamer that doesn't upgrade that often (once every 3 years or so)? For reference my last GPU was an AMD R9 280x. Thanks!

Kind of a tough choice at that resolution but if you upgrade every three years I'd keep the rx480 and it can easily be flashed to 8gb if it's reference. You should not run into any issues and you can make a backup of your ROM with the flash utility.

I'm tempted to say the 480 will get better with time although I wasn't impressed with the 1440p results. Both cards are pretty close in that resolution.

I am going Rx480 and a Dell ultrasharp 1440p u2515h. As my main pc use is photo editing I wanted a good ips panel, and the anti glare on the new dell's are much better than the old coating that tended to male them look washed out. This panel also has less than 10ms input lag so should be fine for gaming as well.

This is a stopgap measure for 1-2 years. At that time I'll see if the next gen nvidia has caught up on dx12, or even assess if dx12 is indeed the most common api being used. Then I'll buy a new $500 dollar range gpu thats best in dx12 as well as a 4k monitor with gsync or freesync depending on which gpu is best at the time, I'll also do a cpu/mobo/ram upgrade at that time, my trusty 930@4.2ghz I'm sure will get me by with a single Rx480 till then.

All I wanted was a $500 card like my 7970 that I kept so long. Too bad we didn't get that this time around unless you can say the 1070 will last as long, I think it may.

The Dell is a good monitor but a bit more than I'd want to pay. I'm really mad I missed the xf270hu on Amazon a few days ago when it was $399.

That leaves me with the other Acer that's currently $449 on Amazon. Unless I just got for an ugly BenQ 1440p model, or Aoq both at 144hz.

I've got now in stock alerts on the gigabyte 1070 $399 model, the nitro fury that was selling for $299, and I'll also look out for the 8gb nitro + next week.

I know the 1070 will let me max things like I had with the 7970 at 1440p but I'm worried a 4gb nitro will just leave me at low fps at that res.

I guess I'll just decide on a monitor first and then whatever card comes in stock first, thats what it will be. If I end up with either nitro card I'll probably use that as a stop gap, if the 1070, I'll keep it for 3-4 years.