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NDA should be up now and reviews should start going online.

RX480 4GB: 199USD MSRP.
RX480 8GB: 239-249USD

What's new on the RX 480?

More here

Reviews

Guru3D
TechPowerUp
Phoronix
Anandtech
PCPer
Tech Report
GamerNexus
PC Games Hardware (German)
Tom's Hardware
Engadget
ComputerBase(German)
Ars Technica
Digital Foundry
Gamespot
Hardware Canucks
TweakTown
TechSpot
TechPowerUp(Crossfire)
eTeknix

Video Reviews

LinusTechTips
Digital Foundry
Hardware Unboxed
Tek Syindicate

 

[RootCause]

Woo!
More reviews will start trickling at 9am, correct?

 

[Aztechnology]

Show us what it means to be true super sand AMD.

Woo!
More reviews will start trickling at 9am, correct?

9am EST is now.

 

[hooijdonk17]

Wow, Guru3D is getting hammered?

Tech Report review: http://techreport.com/review/30328/amd-radeon-rx-480-graphics-card-reviewed

Like we've noted, the 4GB version of the RX 480 delivers efficiency and performance figures that are both pretty similar to a GTX 970, and it pulls off this feat for a $200 suggested price. We think that's a nice place to be. A performance jump like this hasn't happened around this price point for a long, long time, and it's quite welcome. The RX 480 8GB offers a bit of "future-proofing" in memory-hungry games like Rise of the Tomb Raider for $40 more. Either card should meet Oculus' and HTC's recommended specs for a Rift or Vive, so aspiring VR junkies can put the $65 to $150 extra that a GTX 970 would command right now toward a VR headset. Regular gamers can just enjoy fast, smooth gameplay in traditional titles and pocket the cash.

Right this second, the RX 480 sets a new bar for performance and smoothness at its price point, and it's undoubtedly the midrange card we'd recommend to most—at least, once AMD's board partners get their hands on it. It'll be interesting to see what Nvidia's answer to the RX 480 will be, but for now, we're excited to see where AMD will go now that it has its eyes on the stars.

 

[ethomaz]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10446/the-amd-radeon-rx-480-preview

Looking at the overall performance picture, averaged across all of our games, the RX 480 lands a couple of percent ahead of NVIDIA’s popular GTX 970, and similarly ahead of AMD’s own Radeon R9 390, which is consistent with our performance expectations based on AMD’s earlier hints. This means that 970/390 performance has come down by around $90 since these cards were launched, from $329 to $239 for the more powerful RX 480 8GB. In the case of the AMD card power consumption is also down immensely as well, in essence offering Hawaii-like performance at around half of the power. However against the GTX 970 power consumption is a bit more of a mixed bag, and this is something to further address in our full review.

 

[StarPlatinumTheWorld]

In, don't disappoint us AMD.

 

[Kayant]

Pc video review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSL8jq1wzw&user=pcper

 

[Vuze]

GamersNexus (always highly recommended)
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2496-amd-rx-480-8gb-review-and-benchmark-vs-gtx-970-1070

 

[georly]

Really curious to see how this pans out.

Stuck between this and a used 970/980 once the price drops on those (because of this and people upgrading to the 1070/1080).

Leaning toward this, but we'll see how low the 970s go.

 

[Xater]

PC Games Hardware (German): http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Radeon-Grafikkarte-255597/Specials/RX-480-Test-1199839/

Seems to shine with DX12.

 

[riflen]

PCPer is up.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

So it's aroundabout a GTX 970 in most games. Why do AMD cards do so bad in GTAV?

 

[Baron_Calamity]

https://twitter.com/PellyNV/status/747805063519731713

 

[Dead Prince]

if i have a 570 ti would this be an upgrade?

i don't mind crossing streams again. i'll actually finally be saving up to build a pc for next year.

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

Linus Tech Tips is up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GdfDCq86Gk

 

[hooijdonk17]

It's a GTX970+ card for $199. Mission accomplished.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

https://twitter.com/PellyNV/status/747805063519731713

What a child.

graphics card fanboyism is bad enough when it's the fans, don't need the companies horning in

 

[Bl@de]

Representing the german language:

Computerbase

PC Games Hardware

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

Ordered 4GB version for £176, crazy freaking price. I expected £200.

 

[mugurumakensei]

PC Games Hardware (German): http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Radeon-Grafikkarte-255597/Specials/RX-480-Test-1199839/

Seems to shine with DX12.

am I reading that right? this card uses more power than a 1070?

 

[Turin Turambar]

Cool. I usually like TechPowerUp summary graphs

edit: but watt performance is much worse! https://tpucdn.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480/images/perfwatt_1920_1080.png

So between a 970 and a 980, as it was said, with a very good $/perf ratio.

 

[ethomaz]

AnandTech says RX 480 is a fully enabled Polaris 10... so no Polaris 10 with 40 CUs.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Seems bang on expected for the price. Concerned about the temps though. Need to see those better coolers.

 

[Kimawolf]

Damn seems its sold out on newegg. I wanted to get one for my GF. Seems like i will be waiting.

 

[Vanillalite]

These aren't the reviews I've been looking for.

Disappointed

It's basically a $200 970

Price still good, but it feels more 970 than somewhere in between a 970 and 980.

 

[riflen]

Wait, so all the reference cards have 8GB of VRAM, but the "4GB" products have half the VRAM disabled? Heh, that's one way to go I guess.

Another oddity – and one that may make enthusiast a bit more cheery – is that AMD only built a single reference design card for this release to cover both the 4GB and 8GB varieties. That means that the cards that go on sale today listed at 4GB models will actually have 8GB of memory on them! With half of the DRAM partially disabled, it seems likely that someone soon will find a way to share a VBIOS to enable the additional VRAM. In fact, AMD provided me with a 4GB and an 8GB VBIOS for testing purpose. It’s a cost saving measure on AMD’s part – this way they only have to validate and build a single PCB.

 

[Kayant]

So 4GB models have 7Gbps GDDR5 whilst 8GB verison has 8Gbps as per DF.

 

[Karspankey]

Is it worthy to upgrade to this from a GTX 960 2GB or is the GTX 1070 a more worthy upgrade?

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Wait, so all the reference cards have 8GB of VRAM, but the "4GB" products have half the VRAM disabled? Heh, that's one way to go I guess.

man, I wonder how many of those 4GB cards have 8GB of good ram. I have a feeling it's high

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Wait, so all the reference cards have 8GB of VRAM, but the "4GB" products have half the VRAM disabled? Heh, that's one way to go I guess.

That sounds odd, or something was missed.

Is it worthy to upgrade to this from a GTX 960 2GB or is the GTX 1070 a more worthy upgrade?

1070 is a better card, for twice the price. From. What I can see this is a nice upgrade on the 960

 

[bomblord1]

Guru 3D

AMD is clearly positioning these cards as a great alternative for 2560x1440 gaming as well, so we will place a focus on that in the review. In our findings the card is faster compared to the competition's GeForce GTX 970, and starting at 199 USD for the 4GB version that's not a bad position to be in. Obviously there's more to check out other than performance, we'll have a peek at PCB heat levels, GPU temperatures as well as noise levels.

Consistently beats the 970 even in games known not to favor AMD

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

Wait, so all the reference cards have 8GB of VRAM, but the "4GB" products have half the VRAM disabled? Heh, that's one way to go I guess.

Holy shit, I hope this is true.

 

[LordOcidax]

Really great, going to buy one of the custom. Great Job AMD.

 

[Caayn]

https://twitter.com/PellyNV/status/747805063519731713

I'd love for NV to actually do a normal launch.

 

[Prophet Steve]

Seems like a very solid card. Some of the expectations were way too high. Curious to see how fast NVidia will respond with a lower priced card.

Although it seems their high end offering will not have any competition for quite some time.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Guru 3D



Consistently beats the 970 even in games known to favor AMD

um

 

[Aztechnology]

These aren't the reviews I've been looking for.

Disappointed

It's basically a $200 970

Price still good, but it feels more 970 than somewhere in between a 970 and 980.

$200 OC'd 970 which is an amazing performer still. Wait until custom AIB's if the OC rumors are true though. At 1500mhz-1600mhz these cards would have a performance jump of over 20% on the 970 for $200 with 8GB Vram. That would be quite impressive.

 

[ethomaz]

So 4GB models have 7Gbps GDDR5 whilst 8GB verison has 8Gbps as per DF.

From AnandTech 4GB version only have 7Gbps but 8GB version have some with 7Gbps and others with 8Gbps.

 

[Vuze]

Is it worthy to upgrade to this from a GTX 960 2GB or is the GTX 1070 a more worthy upgrade?

Apples and oranges, both in performance and price. Obviously the 1070 will provide you with a lot more power but naturally is more expensive.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Daddy's getting one soon, oh yes

 

[Xater]

am I reading that right? this card uses more power than a 1070?

Only when not in use. 480=15W and 1070=10W

 

[bluecapsule]

Heat and power consumption are much worse than what I was expecting. That's a bit disappointing. The blower cooler on it is rubbish based on Anandtechs preview.

 

[SinSilla]

I've only had a look at the Guru Benches and they look very promising.

It's on par/faster than a 970 and manages to catch up to a 980 in some cases (dx12).

Let's see how these perform with good cooling!

 

[bomblord1]

um

fixed

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

"There is no longer a reason to buy the GTX 970" -- Luke from LTT

Strong words

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

https://twitter.com/PellyNV/status/747805063519731713

There's a lot of quality burns in the replies.

"There is no longer a reason to buy the GTX 970" -- Luke from LTT

Strong words

I mean, aside from how you can't unless you buy the dwindling stock, or get one used. But yeah, looks like the stock RX480 beats the stock 970 most of the time. Great results. Just a matter of seeing how the third party designs can overclock, it could reach 980 levels.

 

[Vanillalite]

Guru 3D



Consistently beats the 970 even in games known not to favor AMD

Usually it wins, but by like 1-5 frames. It's essentially a hair faster 970 vs really in-between the 970 and 980.

 

[Karspankey]

1070 is a better card, for twice the price. From. What I can see this is a nice upgrade on the 960

Apples and oranges, both in performance and price. Obviously the 1070 will provide you with a lot more power but naturally is more expensive.

Ah, I see. I think I'll try and get the 1070 sometime this year. Thanks guys!

 

[LordOcidax]

$200 OC'd 970 which is an amazing performer still. Wait until custom AIB's if the OC rumors are true though. At 1500mhz-1600mhz these cards would have a performance jump of over 20% on the 970 for $200 with 8GB Vram. That would be quite impressive.

Some people dont want to understand that. Is a really amazing card for the price.

 

[Caayn]

Tweakers (Dutch) includes crossfire benchmarks. https://tweakers.net/reviews/4709/1/amd-radeon-rx-480-crossfire-vr-dx12-en-overklok-getest-inleiding.html