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    What is a cheapo GPU that fits in microatx case that will run emulators up to ps1/dolphin?

    Dolphin has a DX12 (beta) renderer. Anyway, the upcoming 460 will probably be your best bet. The 1050 might also work, I have no idea if it'll be released soon though.
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    [DSoG]Report: Total War: WARHAMMER runs 27% slower in DX12 on NVIDIA’s hardware

    lol what? People are getting huge performance gains (nvidia also, but less than AMD), and you don't get what it's bringing to the table? compare this: or this: to this: The 1080 went from 57 FPS to >92.4 FPS. The Fury X went from 54 FPS to 92 FPS. The 390 went from 44 FPS to 74 FPS. The...
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    [DSoG]Report: Total War: WARHAMMER runs 27% slower in DX12 on NVIDIA’s hardware

    Total War WARHAMMER DX12: PC graphics performance benchmark review
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    First gaming benchmarks up

    To be clearer, at 1080p the 480 beats the 970 at both perf/watt and perf (as shown by my images, they are all about 1080p). [h] only compares the 480 and 970 at 1440p, and I was talking about 1080p, which IMO is more important for a ~200$ card. However, even at 1440p (according to [h]), the 970...
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    First gaming benchmarks up

    You need to decide. Is it an illusion or not? You're claiming that it's an illusion but then giving a reason for it. If the last part is true, then AMD cards really do have longevity, you just claim that the starting drivers aren't that good. It doesn't change the fact that they have longevity...
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    RX 480 post mortem - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    Talking about the ugly: AMD Radeon RX 480 im Test (Seite 12) Looks like they undervolted the card using wattman. The undervolt reduced watt usage by 33, reduced noise by 3.5db and they also gained 5% in performance. If every card can do such an undervolt (i.e. stay stable) AMD really dropped...
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    First gaming benchmarks up

    Are you joking? Significantly better? The 480 is beating the 970 in both perf/watt and perf. In addition, according to HC the 480 beats the 970 by a wide margin (27%) on DX12 games (@1080p) source: The Radeon RX480 8GB Performance Review - Page 24 This is only going to be more...
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    Asus teases aftermarket RX480

    If we really see these 1500 oc versions, they might end up with worse perf/watt than the nano
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Go over the thread and see what I mainly talked about. The main thing that I criticized was the claim that Polaris 10 was supposed to be a GP104 competitor. I don't think that Polaris 10 was ever supposed to be a high-end card (read: Radeon 490). The 480 does not have high-end characteristics...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Hats off to Kyle, it looks like you were right about the heat and power usage. I still don't think that this card was intended for stock 980ti performance, as it has 32 rops and it shows in 1440p+, but there is no doubt that perf/watt is much worse than what everyone expected. Not sure if its...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    A 390x is also a side grade from the 390, especially @ 1080p
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    GTX 1060 makes its appearance

    3GB isn't enough for 1080p. I hope that they only release a 6+ version (or 4+). If it is a 1280 shaders part, it looks like it'll basically match a 290 IMO. Looking at the previous 960 card, the 980 is ~88% faster than the 960 at 1080p according to TPU (1080 benchmarks). To match the 480...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    I believe that if the 1060 was actually close and performant, nvidia would've already crashed the AMD party - but they still have today and maybe tomorrow. They also don't want to hurt their 1070 sales, so if the 1060 is surprisingly good and ~Fury performance they're in a difficult position...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    He explicitly stated the Founders Edition. The 15% is decent, but definitely not "crazy". Some users here think that anything under 15% is junk and that basically any card should overclock at least 15%. I agree that 2000mhz is impressive, but that is not the discussion here. Who cares? "Crazy"...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    It can be basic and also great. It depends on how it performs not on what you think you deserve. If in two days we find out that it's loud and throttles - by all means you can complain about how the cooler is crap. Maybe it'll just end up good but not great, that liar Raja!
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    Again, this is a mainstream cooler. Let's wait for benchmarks. If it's cheap but works, then that's great and it is great quality cooling. You're not entitled to any OCability, and nobody promised anything about overclocking. This isn't even close to "an overclocker's dream". Seriously, this...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    Some people here are hilarious. Nvidia are taking an extra 100$ for a mediocre cooler on the 600$ card (or 70$ (?) on the 1070), and yet people here are bashing AMD for their coolers on 200$/230$ cards, without even seeing any benchmarks. Yes these cards are cheap, and I assume that the cooler...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    So what? Rx 480 is a 200$-230$ card, not a 500$+ card. As long as the card is quiet, not a furnace, and not throttling - it's doing its job. That's it. Maybe the reference 480 are made to hold their prescribed clocks, but indeed better cooling/more power is needed for better clocks? Maybe AMD...
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    PCGH - RX 480 fails at 1400MHz

    Why? Why at least 15%? Why not 10%? or 20%? Why is 15% the magic number? Seriously, ref cards should provide good performance with good noise characteristics. That's it. We don't even know why OC fails.
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    Anandtech says the same thing: AMD Unveils GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Polaris Comes Vega
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    AMD are saying that they have two Vega lineups, Vega 10 and Vega 11 (which, confusingly, if I understand correctly this time 10 is small Vega and 11 is big Vega). That fills your holes better. Small Vega against GP104 and Big Vega against the Ti/Titan. AMD GPU roadmap reveals HBM2-powered Vega...
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    Your calculation is wrong. the 1070 is not 75% of the 1080. It has 75% amount of the shaders and texture units, yes. However, they also have the same amount of ROPs, they both have a 256bit memory bus, and they also both have the video encoder/decoder. I assume that there are also other things...
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    I disagree. The card is just too small, and I just don't agree that Polaris 10 would have been the first die ever to fill the 3 slots of 490,480,470. There is no room for such a card in the lineup given Vega 10 and Vega 11. P11 would be entry-level (and compared to the 950), but suddenly P10...
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    The 480 are not for sale yet, but the latest rumors put the MSRP at 230$, not 240$. Also, can you give me a link to any 1070 which is under 400$? According to NowInStock the cheapest 1070 is currently 420$.
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    No, it is not hard. However, it is a mistake. Polaris is not mentioned in the slide or in the quote.Do we even know if Polaris has a memory controller which supports HBM? Regarding "premium graphics" - they're still calling it "VR premium" whatever that marketing speak means. We'll wait for...
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    AMD Radeon RX 480 Supplies at Launch

    Ars are just plain wrong. Please show me where AMD stated that Polaris will use HBM? It is just the assumption of the writer, unless the quote is incomplete? Please show me where Koduri's comments show this? He explicitly states Mainstream and perf/watt. He even mentions that they were not...
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    Forbes article on the new AMD Radeon mindset

    There are two Vega chips, 10 and 11. The difference between Polaris 10 and 11 is quite large, so I assume that the same is true for Vega. Supposedly AMD could deliver a 1080Ti and 1080 from big Vega and 1070 from small Vega (or any other combination) which would be similar to the 480/470...
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    Latest 480 (4GB) leak shows OC beating FURY X (Proven FAKE)

    Yep, Fury X beating the 980ti (although, it is beating (by ~2%) the _stock_ 980ti today at 4k according to TPU, but obviously getting killed by OC 980ti) or rumors of 2.5 ghz 1080. These leaks just generate more traffic for chiphell or videocardz or whatever.
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    Forbes article on the new AMD Radeon mindset

    There were already 690$ AIB 980ti cards beating the stock 980ti by 20%. It would've been very naive to believe that a huge node jump 1080 would result in only 10% over the stock 980ti, or that nvidia would position their 1080 lower than previous AIB 980ti cards. Indeed at stock, the 1080 is just...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    That comparison is wrong. The 980 replaced the 780ti, and the 780ti replaced the 780. Today we have the 1080->980ti->980. Accordingly, the 960 should have been as fast as 780 for your comparison to hold, not the 680. However the 780 is 34% faster than the 960 (released jan 2015) according to...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    LOL, I like how you're complaining about heat and also saying how you would happily buy the FE editions, without feeling any contradiction. I also believe this is the third time at least you've written the same complaint in this thread. We get it. FYI my r9 390 gets to ~67C on full load...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Oh, I Just wanted to make it clear that if AMD thought that the 1080 would have Titan X performance, or specifically less than 20% better than 980ti - they were morons. I agree that the AMD clock speeds are not as impressive as Pascal clocks. I really hope that it's not Global Foundries fault...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Anything less than 20% over a 980ti would have been disappointing. They could have released a new 980ti v2 and automatically gain 15% better performance than the Titan X. I'm not saying that the clocks are not impressive (they are, although the IPC is not as good as Maxwell), but the fact...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    AMD would have to be idiots to think that the 1080 would be around a Titan X in performance. After market 980Ti were already around 15-20% better than a Titan X. Not surprisingly the 1080 at stock is around 5-10% faster than these. Anything less would have been a dissapointment for nvidia with...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Kyle's article doesn't make sense in light of the die size of Polaris. I'm not saying that Polaris has met the everything it was meant for, but it wasn't supposed to be a GP104 competitor. I believe that the prices were originally meant to be higher, towards 250$-300$ however nvidia launched...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Looks like a solid release. 980/fury performance for 200$ sounds great (pending reviews). Not exciting, but encouraging for AMD. 960/380 and older generation owners have an easy upgrade path for good 1080p gaming. Polaris was never meant to battle with GP104 and the die size difference makes it...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Preview @ [H]

    I saw an interesting review by hardwareunboxed. Given the nature of boost clocks and the thermal throttling behavior of the 1070/1080 line they conducted all benchmarks after a 20 minute warmup period. This should probably be more indicative of real world performance after 5-10 minutes of...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Preview @ [H]

    Exactly. That's why I couldn't understand why [h] said "We thought Maxwell was a great overclocker, but then came Pascal.", which IMO implies that Pascal are better overclockers than Maxwell. Maxwell (980ti at least) is a better overclocker than the 1070, and indeed 980ti OC > 1070FE OC. Even...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Preview @ [H]

    Unless I'm missing something, the 980ti OC gains have been much higher than the 1080FE/1070FE ones? For example the Zotac AMP! extreme or the xtremegaming 980ti, which beats the stock 980ti by 20% and the Titan X by 17%? (and this is without additional OC of the model). Regardless of the...
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    AMD should come up with an nvidia shield type device for tvs

    Is it a problem with the Hardware or with the Valve/Steam implementation?
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