Radeon RX 480 8GB reference review

moab600

2016-06-29 15:41

Hmm not that impressive the price wont be 240 or 200$, in here its more than 300$, but the card still good makes 970 and 980 not so relevant

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GeniusPr0

2016-06-29 15:54

Did you have xfire setup before btw? 😀 I just remember that nick of yours. Well if I am spending lets say max 300€ 1070 can't be the better deal. I would need that extra 159€ still.

I had Sapphire Tri-X 290 OC UEFI in CFX, with 480s pre-ordered. Then I saw the crappy temps and crappy clocking on the 27th. Decided that I would not want these cards, and the AIB versions would be overpriced. 1070 is the way to go...

#5297132

riot83

2016-06-29 15:55

So...319 Euro here in Finland for the reference. That's quite sad, I picked up my 970 for 360 euro year and a half ago. About the same performance for almost same money 2 years later. Sad. And WTF is up with the powerdraw? Up there with the 1080 with 50% perf...

#5297135

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2016-06-29 15:56

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmHsrcZWYAAQY3K.jpg

#5297137

Andrew LB

2016-06-29 15:58

2nd 😛 lol Edit: both guru3d and techpowerup have some server issues. But from what i saw so far up to stock Fury perf. Just like that 3dmark11 gpu score leak.

Its slower than stock fury in just about every benchmark except 3dmark11 p-score.

#5297138

Stormyandcold

2016-06-29 15:59

Congratulations on a well priced card AMD!

#5297139

H83

2016-06-29 16:00

Very interesting card if the retail prices are what they´re supposed to be. Performs better than my 970 and shines in DX12 games. Too bad it overclocks like crap. Perfect for the mainstream market. Also it seems that Nvidia´s cards continue to perform worse than AMD in DX12 and also continue to drop their performance as the resolution increases compared to AMD... I could be wrong but i think that Nvidia needs to cut the prices of the 1070 and 1080 to better compete against the 480. Great review as always!

#5297142

Andrew LB

2016-06-29 16:01

very nice review. i like the very wide game choice this time! and the 3dmark oc graph 200-250$ for a card that settles around 980, Nano, Fury, 390X 400-500$ for it in crossfire that beats single GTX1080 by far i cant stop laughing at all the people who tried to badtalk this card. (and still try to) http://i.makeagif.com/media/10-02-2015/xShB_5.gif

Umm.... two RX 480's in Crossfire don't even come close to a single GTX 1070 overall. Read: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/ "At just $398, about the same price as the cheapest GeForce GTX 1070 you can find, or $478 for a pair of 8 GB cards like we have, the Radeon RX 480 CrossFire is not a viable solution, if you plan to buy two cards upfront. When averaged over all our games it is consistently slower than a single GeForce GTX 1070 at all the resolutions that matter - 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. Instead of buying two cards upfront, you're much better off putting your monies into a single GTX 1070, not just for better performance but also to dodge the spectre of application multi-GPU support, which continues to haunt both SLI and CrossFire. "

#5297143

mtrai

2016-06-29 16:01

I am seeing reports that the 4 gig version actually has 8 gigs of vram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSL8jq1wzw

#5297146

GeniusPr0

2016-06-29 16:04

Umm.... two RX 480's in Crossfire don't even come close to a single GTX 1070 overall. Read: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/ "At just $398, about the same price as the cheapest GeForce GTX 1070 you can find, or $478 for a pair of 8 GB cards like we have, the Radeon RX 480 CrossFire is not a viable solution, if you plan to buy two cards upfront. When averaged over all our games it is consistently slower than a single GeForce GTX 1070 at all the resolutions that matter - 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. Instead of buying two cards upfront, you're much better off putting your monies into a single GTX 1070, not just for better performance but also to dodge the spectre of application multi-GPU support, which continues to haunt both SLI and CrossFire. "

Ideal scaling: http://i.imgur.com/c3BVdM5.png

#5297149

FranciscoCL

2016-06-29 16:05

Nice review, lots of game benchmarks. I was expecting a little less power comsumption, but it's not bad in that deparment, anyway. For the price is a great FHD game card.

#5297150

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2016-06-29 16:06

Its €269 now here , not at the same shop i posted before though lol

#5297151

Undying

2016-06-29 16:07

And people were dreaming of a single 480 almost hitting those 1070 speeds with oc lol.

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.

#5297155

-Tj-

2016-06-29 16:11

I apologize for linking tpu before. :)

#5297159

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2016-06-29 16:12

Ideal scaling: http://i.imgur.com/c3BVdM5.png

Not so much in DX12 https://s32.postimg.org/ryq7jpkl1/image.png https://s32.postimg.org/ryq7jpkl1/image.png

#5297164

Ryu5uzaku

2016-06-29 16:14

I had Sapphire Tri-X 290 OC UEFI in CFX, with 480s pre-ordered. Then I saw the crappy temps and crappy clocking on the 27th. Decided that I would not want these cards, and the AIB versions would be overpriced. 1070 is the way to go...

I am waiting for something more powerful then 1070 myself. I had xfire sold my other card tho. 480's would never be replacing my 290x card. Even if they overclocked to 1600 on aib. I don't think even if Vega 11 was twice as fast as one polaris that it would draw double the wattage. Fury X does not draw double compared to 380 but it does draw 50% more for quite a bit more performance also. Now if vega 10 drew 50% more then a RX 480 it would still be 255 so they should bring it down a lot. Closer to 200 would be decent enough.

#5297168

GeniusPr0

2016-06-29 16:19

I am waiting for something more powerful then 1070 myself. I had xfire sold my other card tho. 480's would never be replacing my 290x card. Even if they overclocked to 1600 on aib.

That's pretty much the way to go. Looks like the wattage is really high when overclocking. Not looking good... Those AIB 1600Mhz GPUs will likely take up 200W+. I really hate giving nVIDIA my money, but I don't have much of an option if I need the performance.

#5297176

Undying

2016-06-29 16:26

I can tell you right now, what will be the problem with Vega: driver. Unless a lot of games are switching to dx12 until Vega.

Deus EX HR, Battlefield 1, Star Citizen update, few more Hitman episodes will be avaible before Vega hits. We'll also see how much Polaris drivers will improve in couple of months.

#5297178

Solfaur

2016-06-29 16:27

So...319 Euro here in Finland for the reference. That's quite sad, I picked up my 970 for 360 euro year and a half ago. About the same performance for almost same money 2 years later. Sad. And WTF is up with the powerdraw? Up there with the 1080 with 50% perf...

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).

#5297183

Kohlendioxidus

2016-06-29 16:31

https://geizhals.eu/?cat=gra16_512&xf=1440_RX+480 8GB 264€ in UK, 278€ in Germany i dont have ANY problems with a rather old 270X cfx so why would there be problems with 480 cfx. if people cant configure their stuff properly. not my problem.

219 EUR in Germany now, the price is A BLAST!