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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.

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    1. Re:How much was this advertisement? by Anubis+IV · · Score: 1, Troll

      The 1070 costs ~$200 more an by your logic it's also obsolete because you could buy a 1080 instead

      If that's your understanding of my logic, then it appears I did a very poor job of explaining myself.

      By your understanding of my logic, the Mac Pro renders the Mac mini obsolete, but that's not the case, of course, because they're aimed at different price points in the market, in much the same way that the GTX 960, 970, and 980 are aimed at different types of users at different price points. The latter two have been obsolesced by the launch of their successors, the 1070 and 1080, respectively. The 960, however, is the one that's supposed to compete at this price point, yet there's no mention of it anywhere in the summary. And given that it has yet to be replaced in NVIDIA's lineup, it absolutely gets slaughtered by these new cards from AMD.

      Why not talk about that instead of making a disingenuous comparison against the 970? Rake NVIDIA over the coals for THAT glaring hole in their lineup while providing at least some form of acknowledgement that AMD has a similar one too.