The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
by Ryan Smith on June 29, 2016 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance, Continued
While AMD’s launch drivers for the RX 480 have by and large been stable, the one outlier here has been Grand Theft Auto V. In the current drivers there is an issue that appears to affect the game’s built-in benchmark on GCN 1.1 and later cards, causing stuttering, reduced performance, and in the case of the 380X, complete crashes. AMD has told me that they’ve discovered the issue as well and will be issuing a fixed driver, but it was not ready in time for the review.
Continuing our look at gaming performance, it’s becoming increasingly clear that RX 480 trends closely to the last generation Radeon R9 390 and the GeForce GTX 970. Given their architectural similarity, in a lot of ways this is a repeat of 390 vs 970 in general; the two cards are sometimes equal, and sometimes far apart. But in the end, on average, they are close together on our 2016 benchmark suite.
For mainstream video card users, this means that last year’s enthusiast-level performance has come down to mainstream prices.
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Badelhas - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
No Virtual Reality benchmarks? This doesn't sound like AnandTech. That's the main reason I am interested in gpu's nowadays. What a disappointment...T1beriu - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
As you can read in the headline, this was a PREVIEW.Ryan Smith - Friday, July 1, 2016 - link
The VR benchmarking situation is currently poor. I'll have something for the full review, but we don't have any good VR benchmarks like we do standard displays. VR Mark and VRScore should be released soon.IntoGraphics - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
Any MXGP2 players here?What are your thoughts about RX 480 8GB playing MXGP2 at 1440p@60fps?
Recommended GPUs are GTX 970 and R9 390. But this video shows a GTX 970 in-game already at 100% at 1080p with maxed out settings.
I'm assembling an X99 based PC. i7-6800K, 32GB 3200MHz DDR4.
IntoGraphics - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
Link to the vid : https://youtu.be/e8y3IR-7YIUD. Lister - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
You're "into graphics", yet instead of going for a "mid-end CPU/mid-end GPU" combo, you would rather go for "high-end CPU/Low-end GPU"? If e.g., you went instead with an i5/1070, you would probably be able to down-sample from 3K to 1440p and still have a locked 60FPS.fanofanand - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
He is trying to get "followers" for his youtube channel. Don't even click the link or you will drive up his view count, which will only encourage him to spam comments with more links to his video.D. Lister - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
No worries, I never click on random forum links, unless it is porn, lol. Just kidding.IntoGraphics - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
Are the reference RX 480 cards going up to other reference cards in this comparison?Or were some or all of their competitors equipped with aftermarket coolers and factory overclock?
What was compared here?
sparrowkhx - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link
AMD hype again, 2 RX 480s probably beat a single 1070 while consuming twice the power and ultimately being a similar cost... They definitely aren't going to beat a 1080 and I'm even more glad that I purchased an EVGA 1070 FTW for 429.Additionally, I haven't been on Anandtech since the 1080 preview, seriously what is the deal with all these previews and missing reviews? I'm more interested in reading the reviews than random articles and other places are actually doing full reviews not previews.