Dreaming or not we all knew its not gonna happen, not at that price difference. Vega will do that though, probably even beat the crap out of 1070.

This, Sure the 970 was a bit more expensive for the ~same performance, but that was almost 2 YEARS AGO. The only advantage of the RX 480 is the vram and possible better performance in future DX12 games. And the argument that you can get 2xRX480s and beat a single 1080 is not the best, as very few games are actually proper optimized for multi-gpu nowadays (I recently gave up on 2x970s for single-gpu). Not to mention the heat and power draw... I guess it's a good bang for buck (the 8GB, not the 4GB), and custom models will likely be better, but also more expensive. I'm still waiting on AMD's high-end line, because the RX480 8GB is definitely mid-range performance no matter the PR talk (you can't call a 970/980 high end either at this point).

Thank God Hilbert mentioned that there might be a problem for owners of previous generations. I tried to point to that fact, but AMD fans just tried to point how wrong I am. For me - I got everything I anticipated - boring product, which I still believe is a cock up from AMD (they wished to position it as a high-end, but ended up moving it to mid-range price wise, because it didn't deliver).

we are not talking about games where mgpu doesnt work in dx12. of course games that dont support explicit multiadapter wont have any CFX/SLI scaling... whats so special about that? obviously explcit mgpu isnt implemented in dx12 in this game yet. crossfire/SLI isnt enabled at application level in most dx12 titles. developers are happy to offer at least base dx12 functionality, like running the game with the API in first place before they start to work on extra functionality like explicit multi-adapter. the only one who showcase it are the aots-devs same for hitman (no cfx/SLI in dx12, only in dx11) but then when you look at that picture and see 71fps vs 110,9fps perfect cfx scaling like in cod3 would mean 140fps... substract 30fps just for fun and you are on 110fps... it's a pretty simple general statement: if a game has good cfx/sli/multi-gpu/explicit multiadapter scaling then two non-OC RX480 for 400-500$ will reach or beat one non-OC GTX 1080 for 700-800$

Replacing a 970? The difference in performance is minimal at best. I'm not sure about this card, it tries to get into the middle segment but the price point is way off. What remains to be seen is how the after market cards will perform. For example, there seems to be a Twin Frozr version in the works.

great review hh! Its a great card! At a great value! Sorry, but some people here just say without think. Say that this card is to compete if the 970 do not know read numbers. 970 is dead! The best price in us market that is the most cheap is usd 350????!!!!! Any more questions??? This card is to compete with 980 that the best price is around usd 400!?!?! Think that this card and its drivers are too much new, it will increase too much performance in a few time with updates. Its 8gb full dx12 support! At usd 240?!?! This card is with any doubts the best buy performance x price at the globe! Great job amd. Sorry nvidia fanboys, cry more and say less .....

Nice review. The performance is so 2014. Asus 8GB costs 293,90€ here, available in four days. Well that's underwhelming.

They are in stock at newegg,com at $199 US dollars for the 4GB version and $239 US Dollars for the 8GB versions , awesome price !