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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carex - Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - link
where is 970 in the Battlefield 4 bench?fxv300 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Got mine yesterday and installed it.Tried it using Astra 28.2 Freesat transmission 4K @ 50 Fps
https://youtu.be/4r8lUJGZT84
you can see all the sensors and gpu power usage.
All good so far
Oxford Guy - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
"The $199 price tag means that AMD can’t implement any exotic cooling or noise reduction technologies, though strictly speaking it doesn’t need them"1) Dual fan open air coolers are hardly "exotic".
2) It does need them. 50 dB is awful.
k3rast4se - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
I've created at petition regarding the lack of review on anandtech.com. Basically we are just asking for an explanation on the situation as there might be genuine reason for this. Please support this!https://twitter.com/k3rast4se/status/7525464697317...
SaolDan - Thursday, July 14, 2016 - link
You must be joking. Ryan or any of the other writers dont owe you any explations at all. Get a life dude.isik - Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - link
www.egemenweb.com thankscarex - Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - link
what cheating seriously 970 completely removed from the Battlefield 4 bench against 480 and they didnt test the vulkan at all must have been paid by nvidiamikato - Friday, July 29, 2016 - link
Radeon HD 6950 (unlocked to mostly 6970) here. I think it may be a good time for an upgrade finally :) The price is right!Olegendary - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
Sorry for out of topic comment but need your help, would anyone suggest the radeon RX 480 but for CPUs. RxX 480 seems to be a candy for that price but i don't know any cpu which is powerful and cheap (well 200$ isn't cheap but u know what i mean) thanks