RX480: Viable in 1440P?

MasterGoa

MasterGoa

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Hey guys, after having a great run with a Samsung 2443T, after 8 years,
I think it's time to upgrade.

I do not plan on going 4K, however 2560x1440 would be awesome.

The benches with RX480 are encouraging. But I believe most are in 1080P.

So, doing well with a 7870OC which I further OC by 100/100mhz,
will switching to an RX480 and 1440P be equivalent? (2GB mem)

Thoughts?
 
If it matches (as suggested) a 390X or Fury Pro it should do well at 1440P. I would definitely make sure you get the 8GB version though.
 
It may struggle to keep you at 60FPS in some games, but if you don't set everything to ultra, it will probably be doable. I'm just basing this off the leaks that suggest it's going after the GTX970/980 market.
 
What means "well" for you mastergoa...

There are a couple of "wells" depending on the perspective...
Let's analyze a couple that comes to my mind and others may add more...
1st "well" that i usual had until yesterday:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1070/6.html

just scroll through the games benchies and just focus on 1080p for performance between 390x and fury (this is the rx480 position)...You will see that NOW in date 11/06/2016 the majority of games can sustain 60fps at 1080p or around this value...Ask youself do you want 60fps constant ?

2nd "well" is ... 60FPS at 1080p and a bit future proof ...
Things here gets intersting...THere are some new games and of course Crysis 3 that can't sustain 60fps in 1080p and with time there will be less game sthat can maintain 60fps in 1080p unless the DX12 may bring really huge stuff to the table...

3rd "well" If 1080p can't be runned fully then 1440p there are less games that can be runned around 60fps...The question is are you alright with 40fps or 50fps or 30fps ? Varying ...

4th "well" ... people get a fancy tn with .... 144hz or 120hz ... what you do then ? 1080p games that can sustain 144 or 120 fps get substatially slim ...

and as a matter of fact the route for 1080p and a bit of futureproofing and a bit of stability around 60fps is ... gtx 1070 as you will see in the review

OR ... seduce KAC to send you a 980TI for free ... :D

:heart:

As much as i love what AMD want to create for my usual 3 years cycle i have to go one notch above...My 1080p gameplay will actually get more demanding in the comming years...I love high-ending at 1080p ...

HD6950 quantum jump to 1070 gtx
 
MasterGoa said:
Hey guys, after having a great run with a Samsung 2443T, after 8 years,
I think it's time to upgrade.

I do not plan on going 4K, however 2560x1440 would be awesome.

The benches with RX480 are encouraging. But I believe most are in 1080P.

So, doing well with a 7870OC which I further OC by 100/100mhz,
will switching to an RX480 and 1440P be equivalent? (2GB mem)

Thoughts?
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If you go 1440p go either FreeSync or Gsync. The difference in smoothness is extraordinary, at least for me. I would say 40fps with FreeSync is smoother then 55fps without. It has to be seen, the FreeSync Demo (need a FreeSync monitor) shows exactly the benefits or differences. This will allow a longer usefulness of a video card.

That said, I don't think the 480 will be a long term card at 1440p but should work well now (should wait for the real reviews though). The 1070 should do well at 1440p but I am not liking the DX12 benchmarks which look weak or not really gain anything over DX11.

Now I can't believe the 480 is the only card being released, I expect a 490 or 485 fully enabled Polaris - that is what I recommend (depending upon benchmarks still) for 1440p with a FreeSync Monitor.

A 1070 and a G-Sync 1440p monitor while costing more would be pretty awesome.
 
MasterGoa said:
Hey guys, after having a great run with a Samsung 2443T, after 8 years,
I think it's time to upgrade.

I do not plan on going 4K, however 2560x1440 would be awesome.

The benches with RX480 are encouraging. But I believe most are in 1080P.

So, doing well with a 7870OC which I further OC by 100/100mhz,
will switching to an RX480 and 1440P be equivalent? (2GB mem)

Thoughts?
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Based on most average current benchmarks the Radeon RX480 essentially destroyed the R9 390 GPU not just by getting within striking distance but running far cooler and less wattage hungry...most likely very quiet too.

As far as a difference between a 7870 OC edition? Dude the RX480 should be at least over three times as powerful...maybe 3.5 or four times.

Just remember most benchmarks are also running overclocked intel i7s with highest speed DDR4 to get maxed out framerates.

You don't really need to overclock but having maxed out ram is good...that way your system can run cool when not running 3d engines or applications.
 
Well...now it clicked again ...
Is possible the RX480 to have around same performance in DX12 titles as 1070 but lower performance in DX11 .... That's will be imensely intersting ...
 
badsykes said:
Well...now it clicked again ...
Is possible the RX480 to have around same performance in DX12 titles as 1070 but lower performance in DX11 .... That's will be imensely intersting ...
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If that is the case then Nvidia is in trouble. You may see that the more efficient 480 may not gain as much as the less efficient GCN hardware of the past in DX12. Fiji has 4096 shaders and really I bet you need to use those Asics and async shaders to really use all of those 4096 shaders effectively. Waiting for the benchmarks and reviews is taking way too long.
 
I don't think the 480 can be anywhere near a Fury's performance. It wouldn't make sense to price it that low if that were the case. I know AMD wants to regain market share, but that would just be ridiculous. It would have to be priced at least around $300 if it was going to challenge the Fury.

It absolutely should replace the 390, if not 390X. Honestly, it's impressive to me that Hawaii, hot and power hungry as it may be, still stacks up so well this many years post release. But a new node is here, and its time in the sun should be coming to an end.
 
noko said:
If that is the case then Nvidia is in trouble. You may see that the more efficient 480 may not gain as much as the less efficient GCN hardware of the past in DX12. Fiji has 4096 shaders and really I bet you need to use those Asics and async shaders to really use all of those 4096 shaders effectively. Waiting for the benchmarks and reviews is taking way too long.
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So MR. Noko ... i do feel possible that is actually could happening in some form or another...

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_1070_gaming_x_review,13.html

From a point of view the difference is BIG between 1070 and Fury X in DX 12 tomb raider BUT if you look at the drop when from 1080p to the next tiers you see the 1070 have a much bigger drop in performance...

1070
1080p have 113fps and 1440p has dropped to 76

Fury X
1080p was 68fps and dropped in 1440p to only 49fps

When we talk about 3840x we see the performance is almost equalized in DX12

39fps for 1070 and 28 FUry x

This is just a mere 11 fps ...

I am not saying is playable but just pointing the trend...The drops in performance for Fury series are just lower...The numbers (59fps) initially from where you substract are low for Fury X

So comming back to our sheep or sheep we have an RX480 with a new GCN architecture version tweaked here and there ... What this means ? .... Expect surprises in DX12


And...
Nagorak: DX12 is a change of paradigm and point of transition with paradoxal stuff and some old structures will fall completly...Also i remember that razor1 said that Rx480 may actually hit the 980ti performance in some benchies .... Well do you smell where ?

Nvidia is the "old" structure and AMD new card will be a beggining of the new structure...But you have to look at the patterns and not absolute numbers ...You may say that the rx480 is the drop in the ocean and the waves will get bigger as the AMD will role out his own cards this year and the next...Called Vega or full Polaris or whatever...
The thing is the 1070 it will still be maybe the card that can high-end the 1080p at 60fps until the rest of AMD bunch will be released...
 
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I'm considering just getting a 480 for 1440p to sidegrade from the 970 so that i have 8gb of ram, and then getting volta or vega when that's out since that's the "true" next gen.
 
Yeah I am really hoping the 480 is a beast overclocker. If we get boards from the manufacturers with more power and awesome coolers I am really hoping we see good overclocking headroom. My 290 isn't doing awful at all right now, hell in 1080 it still runs everything pretty much maxed, but it's getting long in the tooth in 1440 barely able to run most modern games with maxed out settings in that res.

Again if a 480 with a hefty OC can really crank the FPS out with 8 gigs of ram at a solid price point I will be very happy.
 
HyperNovae said:
Yeah I am really hoping the 480 is a beast overclocker. If we get boards from the manufacturers with more power and awesome coolers I am really hoping we see good overclocking headroom. My 290 isn't doing awful at all right now, hell in 1080 it still runs everything pretty much maxed, but it's getting long in the tooth in 1440 barely able to run most modern games with maxed out settings in that res.

Again if a 480 with a hefty OC can really crank the FPS out with 8 gigs of ram at a solid price point I will be very happy.
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I like the fact is that RX 470 is now hit R9 290 level....if it can o/c well and can surpass R9 290 and could par with R9 290X or slightly faster than R9 290X, then imagine what can RX 480 do. lol
 
I am pretty hyped right now. Let's hope AMD delivers. Would be a shocker. If they do this will revolutionize gaming.
 
I think it's weird if the 480 can overclock that much that, AMD wouldn't release an officially clocked higher version as the 490. Maybe it requires pushing the chip past its sweet spot, and they are afraid to get tarred as hot and inefficient again? But if they just let their board partners sell the overclocked version then it's not officially on them?
 
HyperNovae said:
I am pretty hyped right now. Let's hope AMD delivers. Would be a shocker. If they do this will revolutionize gaming.
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AMD already did revolutionize PC gaming with Mantle with Vulkan and DX12 using Mantles codebase.

Console all made with amd hardware.

470 lock down 1080p gaming.
480 locks down 1440p gaming.
Vega locks down 4k in october.

The rest has no value.

Looks good for AMD with Zen coming out soon also. :D
 
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