Official RX 480 AIB thread.

Nice clean shroud on the nitro. I hope they keep the rugged electronics of the reference tho.
 
The Mac said:
yeah, that was a wtftech leak, take it with a grain of salt.
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I will give WCCFTech one thing... they keep all the rumors (and sometimes even actual news) in a centralized place for me to read when I feel like it.

What I really hate about them is their **** amateur writers. I really hope none of those kids are college graduates! Downright painful to read half the time.
 
http://wccftech.com/powercolor-rx-4...g-massive-cooler-high-overclocking-potential/

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Just read that the R490 is a dual R480 chip card...

http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-490-dual-gpu/


The RX 490 is a dual GPU graphics card

All of these things indicate to us that we are looking at a dual GPU solution, probably one based on a full version of Polaris 10. The only other alternative was that the C99 variant is Vega 10 but there are some gaping holes in that theory that in my opinion put it at negligible probability: 1) Vega 10 by recent reports is too early in the development stage to have made it out to the FOC testing phase. In fact, if I were to offer some proof: the C99 board passed RRA certification on 8th April 2016 which was way before AMD celebrated the Vega 10 GPU development milestone! 2) The nomenclature indicates to a Polaris card.

So we know for a fact that the C99 board has yet to be accounted for. We know that its value is equal to roughly double of the RX 480. We know that the nomenclature indicates a Polaris GPU yet Polaris 10 is the full fat chip (meaning there isn’t a more powerful Polaris variant out there) and finally, that it passed RRA certification way before Vega 10 was anywhere near completion. In fact, the only way the RX 490 ends up being a Vega 10 GPU is if it arrives next year (which would mean that the C99 board will be called something else), which doesn’t make a lot of sense considering its (RX 490) listing has popped up in AMD partner AIB sites as well.
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Question tho do the dual chip on one board cards get around the crossfire issues generally? Im thinking the 295x2 and radeon pro duo that are often seen in tests as top of the charts...
 
I hope AMD is not counting on such a card to compete with the likes of the 1080. AMD tried this in the past it didn't go so well.
 
I flat out don't believe the 490 is a dual GPU! Flat out don't believe it. I think that one is pure bullshit. That would make very little sense, when they have Vega coming out in a few months. And making a dual GPU out of their small chip... It just seems ridiculous, the whole idea.
 
Nagorak said:
I flat out don't believe the 490 is a dual GPU! Flat out don't believe it. I think that one is pure bullshit. That would make very little sense, when they have Vega coming out in a few months. And making a dual GPU out of their small chip... It just seems ridiculous, the whole idea.
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Seriously, I know right? I don't see the point of making a dual GPU....there may be more CUs behind the Polaris architecture because I know it could be more than just 2304 SPs. The 14nm has much denser transistors compared to 16nm. I don't know what to say.
 
I think its a good chance the 490 is indeed a dual chip. Small chips have better yields so using 2 instead of one big one from lower yields makes some economic sense. Microsoft also is reportedly going to take over crossfire/sli duties in dx 12. Making it pretty much seemless and trouble free for devs and even capable of running sli between the 2 brands.

IIRC its part of its massive xbox to pc update scheme. Trying to corner the gaming market. Buy one game play it on both pc and xbox.

Scary thought. But what if it works. And work well I mean. AMD may be betting the bank on it.
 
Has AMD ever actually come out and stated in a press release or anything that Vega would actually be moved forward??? All that has ever been released is rumor after rumor after rumor. The original source was a rumor started on 3DCentre and everyone took it as an actual release announcement...

AMD may very well bring out a 490x2 card instead that would just be a 300watt Dual GPU RX480. Still its Crossfire on a single board and we all know where MultiGPU is currently headed....:bleh:
 
Hypothetical question: Can a dual GPU card have a pre-processing controller on the card that would NOT require CF game support?

Remember that, dating back from the SGI Reality Engine days, ATI has IMMENSE
multi gpu experience...

Reality engines had 32 GPUs on one board and it was all managed at the hardware level...
 
Hapatingjaky said:
Has AMD ever actually come out and stated in a press release or anything that Vega would actually be moved forward??? All that has ever been released is rumor after rumor after rumor. The original source was a rumor started on 3DCentre and everyone took it as an actual release announcement...

AMD may very well bring out a 490x2 card instead that would just be a 300watt Dual GPU RX480. Still its Crossfire on a single board and we all know where MultiGPU is currently headed....:bleh:
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Yeah the latest rumors are that Vega is indeed not coming until Q1 2017. I've been defending AMD, but while I do feel that Polaris is a decent GPU, if they really have nothing on the high end until 2017 then that is pretty bad. Granted the high end parts might not be huge sellers, but they're effectively ceding the entire enthusiast segment to Nvidia for the better part of a year.

There's also an absolutely massive gap between the RX 480 and presumably where their high end chips are going to be, which I also find a bit confounding. It seems like they should have had another chip to fill that gap. Either that, or bring the price of the Fury down to fill it. It seems to me that Polaris 10 should really have targeted Fiji level performance, with it then being cut down to the midrange. Polaris where it stands now doesn't make much sense without Vega coming out soon after-- maybe poor HBM2 yields screwed them over again?

Dual GPU just seems retarded to me, as support for multi-GPU setups seems very spotty.

MasterGoa said:
Hypothetical question: Can a dual GPU card have a pre-processing controller on the card that would NOT require CF game support?

Remember that, dating back from the SGI Reality Engine days, ATI has IMMENSE
multi gpu experience...

Reality engines had 32 GPUs on one board and it was all managed at the hardware level...
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You'd think there would be some way to do it, but years of it not happening on the part of AMD and Nvidia makes me think that it cannot be done.
 
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