Most games right now are DX11 but if I was buying new graphic card, I would look to the future and DX12. Generally there are two kind of buyers: those who think about future and those who not. Nvidia fanboys seem to fall on former category. Like those dumbasses that bought GTX 980 Ti for 700$ two months ago and value is at most 400$, that makes 150$ a month or 5$ a day. It was no surprise that 14/16nm cards are awesome against over 4 year old 28nm parts.
You are still waiting? for Drivers? for async shaders? on an NVIDIA card? BUT WHY? are you then going to rush out and purchase an Nvidia card ?
especially If the driver level version outperforms the hardware version .software is way easier to update than hardware is.I would like to see the driver version now as well.if it outperforms the hardware version.lol.I hear bubbles popping..
The people that bought 980ti are still solid in gaming experience. I bought r9 380x 8 months ago and I paid 260$ (in my country) but now there's rx480 for 240 bucks you see we all are screwed By the way Nvidia's new-gen cards are not bad in DX12 titles either, they use their raw strength to make up for their lack of hardware async it seems. That's what I mean, who gives a fck if a card without hardware schedules can perform on par with the one that has it on-board?
It's like saying "you should've bought the 290x because it aged better" and ignoring the fact that that specific chip had constant support throughout 2 cycles and it's not because they wanted to it's because they had to since the "current gen" one was a rebrand of the same chip. How can you think about the future with a mainstream card that maxes out 1080p ? Don't mean to burst your bubble but the term "future-proof" is non-existent.
R9 290x vs RX480
Year: October 2013 vs June 2016
Cores: 2816 vs 2304
Render Output Units: 64 vs 32
Bus Width: 512 bit vs 256 bit
Fab Process: 28nm vs 14nm
Memory: 4GB vs 8GB
Core Speed: 800MHz vs 1266 MHz
Memory Speed: 5000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
Power (TDP): 300 watts vs 150 watts
Launch price: $549 vs $239
Performance: Similar
This is bad... How?
I am looking to upgrade from a pair of 4 gig asus DCU2 670's , but power consumption , heat,and Bullit hole in foot ,has me.STILL looking ..
It is my belief, that NVidia was waiting for this prior to releasing the 1060. Which is gonna just slaughter this thing with power consumption and OC headroom.not to mention its gonna run somewhat cooler/quieter
and to think I was considering the jump back to AMD .(I still call it an ATI)...for the 480. now I have to wait for the 1060,and if NVidia can get them on shelves quick enough .only neveressence ,hardreset .and some coinminers will still buy the 480..though there is prolly already an asic card to outperform this at a comparable price.
sorry AMD better luck next release.
I hear Nvidia isn't making much money on consoles these days.I hear AMD is not making much money on consoles these days either..
Are these Nvidia fanboys having extremely small cases with no fans or something? Nobody cared a bit about power consumption until after Maxwell it's only thing that matters.
While AMD offers good features, they don't really care about some watts. Nvidia cripples features and so power consumption is lower. Downside is that after two years Nvidia still cannot even get async compute working at all (n)
As for DX12, - who gives a ****? There are exactly 13 games that use it at the moment, with only 9 more in the coming year (Wikipedia). There are literally thousands of games out there.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/1.html
After two years many gives.
Just leaving this here....
R9 290x vs RX480
Year: October 2013 vs June 2016
Cores: 2816 vs 2304
Render Output Units: 64 vs 32
Bus Width: 512 bit vs 256 bit
Fab Process: 28nm vs 14nm
Memory: 4GB vs 8GB
Core Speed: 800MHz vs 1266 MHz
Memory Speed: 5000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
Power (TDP): 300 watts vs 150 watts
Launch price: $549 vs $239
Performance: Similar
This is bad... How?
The performance jump isn't that high from a node shrink compared to the competition. That's just my two cents.
My computer's better than yours. Why would I even listen to what you are saying?Stick to playing games; with that advice you are a failure at financial management.
Just in case anyone is thinking of getting one of these, it seems some people have reported that the rx480 is drawing too much power over pcie slot... as much as 86 watts.
http://www.custompcreview.com/news/amd-rx480-exhibiting-excessive-power-draw-pcie/30612/
I'll admit I chuckled at that one. At the moment though the performance for $200 (4GB) or $240 (8GB) is pretty compelling. Once the 1060 comes out though I would expect that if performance is in line with theThats like saying a yugo still support standard rim sizes, its still a yugo.
If this is AMD's new arch, I cant imagine we will have any sort of competition in the next 12-18 months. Yay for higher prices.
Freesync is (supposed to be) cheaper, more readily available, and work for both sides.And Nvidia has G Sync. What's your point?
Its not tribalism its quality control.G-Sync is Green only. While I own Nvidia currently (and am likely to pick up the 1060 or 1070 over this) the benefit of adaptive sync monitors outweighs petty tribalism.
FALSE; maybe you're too young to remember but.....No, it's not. Like I already said, before Maxwell nobody really cared about power consumption. ATX case + 140mm fans make power consumption mostly irrelevant.
You're just salty because I call you out on your nonsense. The card is superior to the GTX 970 in every way. Cheaper price, faster & more memory, better performance, particularly under DX12, similar power use, has ACEs. It is a superior GTX 970 for $200. Maybe $30 - $50 more if you want more than double the memory of the GTX 970.Why are you just leaving this here? Are you just trying to show us how random and pointless your posts can really get?
Why is this card getting negative points for cooling when the GTX 1080 is thermally throttled and got a perfect score? This makes a bit more noise than the GTX 1080 but keeps the card cooler yet you are only docking AMD points. Same thing for overclocking, Nvidia reference cards couldn't even overclock due to heat issues.
Steve, the author, stated the reason he gave the GTX 1080 a perfect score was because it was the best price/performance at the time. What about the RX 480? It is the best price/performance right now.
I'd argue the leap Freesync makes without requiring an expensive, marked up proprietary controller in the monitor outweighs the slight better performance or perceived improvement of quality that comes with G-Sync. For the Mainstream consumer the free-to-use and higher adopted option makes more sense even if there's a small trade off in quality.Its not tribalism its quality control.
Nvidia has alot of R&D into Gsync and it was being rolled out as AMD was still in its infancy trying to catchup with FreeSync.
While its common for Nvidia to be a few steps ahead, this was them making sure if people bought Gsync cards and monitors, they are getting the quality they expect.
FreeSync didn't perform as well in tests either, last I saw them compared.
FALSE; maybe you're too young to remember but.....
Do you know how many people got Radeon 5870's instead of Geforce 480's for this exact reason?
That was a long freaking time ago, way before Maxwell was probably even on NV's road-map.
Its not tribalism its quality control.
Nvidia has alot of R&D into Gsync and it was being rolled out as AMD was still in its infancy trying to catchup with FreeSync.
While its common for Nvidia to be a few steps ahead, this was them making sure if people bought Gsync cards and monitors, they are getting the quality they expect.
FreeSync didn't perform as well in tests either, last I saw them compared.
You can rate the products what ever you like on your own site.85/100 my ***
You can rate the products what ever you like on your own site.
You sound like a newbie.You're just salty because I call you out on your nonsense. The card is superior to the GTX 970 in every way. Cheaper price, faster & more memory, better performance, particularly under DX12, similar power use, has ACEs. It is a superior GTX 970 for $200. Maybe $30 - $50 more if you want more than double the memory of the GTX 970.