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AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For $199/$239

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the affinity-for-powerful-GPU dept.

Reader Vigile writes: It's been a terribly long news cycle, but today is finally the day reviews and sales start of the new AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card based on the company's latest Polaris architecture and built on 14nm FinFET process technology. With a starting price tag of $199 for the 4GB model and $239 for the 8GB, the RX 480 has some interesting performance characteristics. Compared to the GeForce GTX 970, currently selling for around $280, the RX 480 performs +/- 5-10% in DX11 games but PC Perspective found that the RX 480 was as much as 40% faster in DX12 titles like Gears of War, Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Compared to previous AMD products, the RX 480 is as fast as a Radeon R9 390 but uses just 150 watts compared to 275 watts for the previous generation. Chances are that NVIDIA will have a competing product based on Pascal available sometime in July, so AMD's advantage may be short-lived; but in the meantime, the Radeon RX 480 is clearly the best GPU for $200.AnandTech has more details.

3 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Vigile Clearly Works for pcper.com by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    So?

    It's just another hardware review site and it wrote about a topic of interest to the /. crowd.

    I'd like to remind you that /. is a news aggregator. That means someone submits stories. Whether we accept them is ultimately up to the firehose and the people here.

  2. Re:How much was this advertisement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, where you can find a 1070 for $300? The cheapest one in Newegg is $450, or 2 times the MSRP of the RX480... and thats almost one month after launch.

    Not to mention that the 480 is NOT in the same price class as the 970, as the name implies, is the successor of the 380/380X and goes directly against the 960 and 1060. The fact that performance-wise is between the 970 and 980 (or 390/390X) at the same MRSP as the 380 is great news for everyone, specially for NVidia users that right now are being gouged left and right with those overinflated prices and the FE scam.

  3. Re:Raw power was never the issue by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Informative

    As long as ATI drivers continue to be sketchy, my first choice will be Nvidia.

    Well, that's the question, isn't it? ...

    I don't see reviewers complaining about driver issues or rendering artifacts, I do see them commenting on the high performance for low price.

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