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AMD Confirms RX 480 At $199 USD, Other APU & Polaris Announcements

May 16th seems to be the date some more info on Vega, Navi and Zen+ will surface.
Let's see if anything juicy comes up.
[doublepost=1494198675][/doublepost]Vega C1 Firestrike score leaked.
 
May 16th is AMD Financial Analyst Day. There may be a hint about upcoming tech from AMD, but nothing concrete.
 
koyoot said:
In the benchmarks on previous pages, like the link to a film from Hardware Unboxed there was comparison between RX 480 and GTX 1060 from last year, and this year. At start RX 480 was 12% slower than GTX 1060. Right now it is 1%. So pretty in line with the numbers from Hardware Canucks review.

Even if Nvidia is gaining performance, AMD is gaining even more. So it is on par right now with GTX 1060 on average.

I will repeat the question: How long till RX 480 will be faster than GTX 1060? And we are talking about GPUs that were sold at 160$ and 250$ price points.

Software matures, and there is still a lot to be exposed from AMD hardware.
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While you are spinning this data in a positive manner, there's also a negative view of all of this:
  • AMD has worse performance on day one, and it might take a year before their drivers mature to the point where they are close to unlocking the full potential of the GPU. By then, there are probably faster GPUs available for the same price.
  • AMD can barely stay competitive with a GPU that has something like 30% more raw horsepower.
  • AMD can barely stay competitive while drawing 50% more power than their competition.
Naturally drivers mature as time goes on, and as new games push the limits of what the DirectX API and the GPUs can handle. I would probably bet that NVIDIA considers the 1060 to be done and has been focusing on things like the 1080 Ti and Volta. If AMD released a driver that made the RX 480 beat the 1060 by 30%, I would probably bet that there would be renewed focus on that end of the spectrum. As it stands, AMD is losing money and NVIDIA is making a lot of money from their consumer GPUs.

Fake edit: Yes I know there are synthetic compute benchmarks where AMD wins because they have more raw TFLOPs (or more likely that the algorithm was tuned to run well on their architecture), but as we've been pointing out repeatedly, there are similar synthetic compute benchmarks where NVIDIA wins.
 
ManuelGomes said:
Low quantities on Vega launch, I guess it would be expected.
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Almost every new chip has low quantities at launch.

Volta will likely be announced this week, and most likely only limited quantities of very expensive high performance chips for a few months. (In part because the Summit and Sierra supercomputers will need tens of thousands of GPUs.)
 
AidenShaw said:
Almost every new chip has low quantities at launch.

Volta will likely be announced this week, and most likely only limited quantities of very expensive high performance chips for a few months. (In part because the Summit and Sierra supercomputers will need tens of thousands of GPUs.)
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It depends on how many they stockpile before launch.

There was no Ryzen CPU shortage, but of motherboards.
 
cube said:
It depends on how many they stockpile before launch.

There was no Ryzen CPU shortage, but of motherboards.
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"stockpile before launch" is a way to put huge amounts of money where it generates no return.

Much better to launch early, and spin any initial supply shortages as "huge demand" for the product. Not that any phone manufacturer would actually do that. :rolleyes:
 
It looks like one should not buy any current card with less than 4GiB VRAM:


Except that RX 550 is still not cheap enough.
 
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The RX 460 4GiB also seems too expensive, even if it can sometimes beat the 1050, as you can find some of these for less.
 
Stacc said:
If true those are some severely cut parts. GTX 1070 is roughly half the performance of the 1080 Ti which could mean that cut Vega has half the chip disabled.
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I do not see in this leak anything apart from prices, and release dates(theoretically).

He did not said anything about names for the GPUs, which at this point of time, when the release is so imminent - should be already decided. So there are two possibilities.

Either he does not know a clue about the GPUs, or he did not wanted to say anything relative about the GPUs, apart from least important, and keep hype train going... at steady rate.
 
cube said:
More precisely, it could be Vega 11.
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Could be, but it seems unlikely. There have been basically no rumors about number of compute units, die size, performance, etc. This makes me think only Vega 10 is coming out in the near future.

koyoot said:
I do not see in this leak anything apart from prices, and release dates(theoretically).
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The rumor quotes performance targets for each part.

koyoot said:
He did not said anything about names for the GPUs, which at this point of time, when the release is so imminent - should be already decided. So there are two possibilities.
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Not necessarily. Marketing could still be decided at this point. It just means retail boxes aren't be printed yet.

Also, those are terrible names. Just use numbers so its clear to consumers the performance tiers.
 
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