AMD's $199 RX 480 Is Even More Impressive When Overclocked
With the Radeon RX 480 and the RX 400 series in general AMD wants every user to be able to extract even more value out of their RX 400 series graphics card. Beyond what they'd normally get straight out of the box. The key to achieve this is to make overclocking more accessible, more convenient and more valuable. This is where AMD's new overclocking tool will play an instrumental role in supercharging the bang behind every buck.
We've detailed sometime ago that AMD's new RX 400 series featured more sophisticated boost function and on-chip and voltage regulation hardware. The new tool takes full advantage of that to make overclocking easier, more straightforward and deliver better results. AMD's new overclocking tool will include an assortment of features, including voltage control.
That's right, this is the very first time any GPU maker has done this. In fact this move goes entirely in the opposite direction that we've seen Nvidia take in recent years with its Greenlight program. Which significantly limited the control AIBs and users had over voltage adjustments.
AMD already offers an in-house overclocking solution in the form of its OverDrive utility found in Radeon Settings - AMD's relatively new graphics control panel - and the Catalyst Control Center before that. However, the new tool substantially builds on OverDrive's functionality. The tool's host of features will include everything from performance monitoring, fan and clock profiles to voltage control and a few more unique features that we'll detail in a future article.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Is Readily Capable Of ~1.4Ghz And Can Hit 1.5Ghz+ On Air
Now let's talk more about what the RX 480 can do in terms of overclocking. Most AIB RX 480 graphics cards and the reference designed RX 480 will be capable of ~1.4Ghz boost clocks after some very basic overclocking. The cards can be pushed beyond that with some voltage adjustments. The 6+8 pin "Beast Mode" RX 480 cards that we had talked about two days ago will come with pretty hefty factory overclocks right out of the box and some will be able to hit 1.5Ghz+.
Now, all of these are just numbers. So to put it all into perspective, an overclocked RX 480 will actually perform within striking distance of AMD's current R9 Fury X flagship. At less than one third of the cost. If that's not a good enough point to end on, I don't know what is.
I bet the AIBs will have no problem with breaking from that measly $199 pricepoint, if this pushes up there into Fury X / 980Ti territory. I guess the question is how well the stock board will do compared to an AIB, with all the additional power capacity they can add.
Hmm... I'm starting to believe we won't see Vega this year at all.
I bet the AIBs will have no problem with breaking from that measly $199 pricepoint, if this pushes up there into Fury X / 980Ti territory. I guess the question is how well the stock board will do compared to an AIB, with all the additional power capacity they can add.
Hmm... I'm starting to believe we won't see Vega this year at all.
The leaked benchmarks have this around a 390x at stock clock at 1250mhz odd (cant remember the exact clock)
1500mhz is around a 15% overclock.
Fury X / TI is around 30% faster then a 390x
Assuming the 390x perf and 1500mhz is accurate it should fall short by 15%... but then you can overclock the FuryX/980ti anyway (FuryX overclock only squeezes 8-9% whereas the TI will squeeze 20%+)
Yeah, on reflection there's too much WCCF in this thread. Color me skeptical. This will be a fine card for the AIBs and maybe we'll see some interesting LN2 scores, but let's not make this launch something it's not.
The leaked benchmarks have this around a 390x at stock clock at 1250mhz odd (cant remember the exact clock)
1500mhz is around a 15% overclock.
Fury X / TI is around 30% faster then a 390x
Assuming the 390x perf and 1500mhz is accurate it should fall short by 15%... but then you can overclock the FuryX/980ti anyway (FuryX overclock only squeezes 8-9% whereas the TI will squeeze 20%+)
Yeah, on reflection there's too much WCCF in this thread. Color me skeptical. This will be a fine card for the AIBs and maybe we'll see some interesting LN2 scores, but let's not make this launch something it's not.
The leaked benchmarks have this around a 390x at stock clock at 1250mhz odd (cant remember the exact clock)
1500mhz is around a 15% overclock.
Fury X / TI is around 30% faster then a 390x
Assuming the 390x perf and 1500mhz is accurate it should fall short by 15%... but then you can overclock the FuryX/980ti anyway (FuryX overclock only squeezes 8-9% whereas the TI will squeeze 20%+)
Last night I was thinking about this myself, basically 14nm also allows the same clockspeed improvements as 16nm:
So I was thinking, compared to the Fury X they went from 1050 MHz to 1266MHz with the RX480 and gained a 20% increase in clockspeed.
Which leaves another 20% increase leftover for overclocking which brings us to 1520MHz
This means potentially, that the rumor about the $300 Polaris card as fast as a 980 Ti is just a non-reference custom board partner RX480 that has factory overclocks that put it basically at Fury X levels, and then after overclocked 980 Ti levels.
If this all pans out to be true, without a doubt I will be getting a RX480.
Last night I was thinking about this myself, basically 14nm also allows the same clockspeed improvements as 16nm:
So I was thinking, compared to the Fury X they went from 1050 MHz to 1266MHz with the RX480 and gained a 20% increase in clockspeed.
Which leaves another 20% increase leftover for overclocking which brings us to 1520MHz
This means potentially, that the rumor about the $300 Polaris card as fast as a 980 Ti is just a non-reference custom board partner RX480 that has factory overclocks that put it basically at Fury X levels, and then after overclocked 980 Ti levels.
If this all pans out to be true, without a doubt I will be getting a RX480.
I was originally going to note that there is probably another 10% leftover in there, because of that, which puts us exactly at 1646MHz (OC Titan X levels?)
I was originally going to note that there is probably another 10% leftover in there, because of that, which puts us exactly at 1646MHz (OC Titan X levels?)
So at 1625Mhz (Guessing this could be an achievable overclock) I could see this inbetween the 980 and 980 ti, and around the Fury. So thats some pretty good company for whatever it costs at sub $299.
So at 1625Mhz (Guessing this could be an achievable overclock) I could see this inbetween the 980 and 980 ti, and around the Fury. So thats some pretty good company for whatever it costs at sub $299.
AMD has always scaled better with overclocks in relation to MHz increases. Where they see large gains with even small MHz increases. Meaning at 1500MHz it will easily already be at 980 Ti levels.
The leaked benchmarks have this around a 390x at stock clock at 1250mhz odd (cant remember the exact clock)
1500mhz is around a 15% overclock.
Fury X / TI is around 30% faster then a 390x
Assuming the 390x perf and 1500mhz is accurate it should fall short by 15%... but then you can overclock the FuryX/980ti anyway (FuryX overclock only squeezes 8-9% whereas the TI will squeeze 20%+)
While Radeon Technologies Group was conceptualizing Polaris, they kept their ear to the ground and learned what their community wanted right now, but also what their community desired 2 years from now. Hook says this resulted in five key takeaways:
1: Prestige. "They wanted the prestige of a $700 graphics card, but they didn't want to have to pay for it," Hook begins.
2: VR that just works. "They wanted the ability to have a great VR experience today or two years from now without worrying about upgrading power supplies and digging into their PC. They wanted to buy a headset at some point and just have it work."
3: Respect their investment. "They wanted us to pay respect to the dollars they were giving us and do things in the architecture or transistors or APIs or ASync Compute, that provided a measure of 'futureproofness.' They wanted to be reassured that even if they're only spending $200 they'd feel secure in their investment for a couple years."
4: More overclocking control. "We brainstormed what kind of voltage control could be given to them to create a better experience.
5: Better drivers. "We feel we've made a great first step there, and we're only going to be putting a heavier foot on the gas this year and next year to make those drivers better and better."
If 1.5Ghz just add a close 40% score and u can get almost 4k FSU.
Now... Its not just 980 ti lvl, we are talking about titan x lvl
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