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New info/leaks for the Nvidia GTX 1070 and AMD's RX 480

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming Performance and Overclocked Results Unveiled – Power Consumption on Par With GTX 960, Cruises Past The Titan X

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-titan-x-killer/#ixzz4A3R5sBkS

The Titan X killer has arrived and from the same company who created the GM200 based graphics card. We are talking about none other than the GeForce GTX 1070 whose gaming performance results have been unveiled by technology site Cubic who have published a detailed review of the graphics card.

One thing you will notice as you navigate through the benchmarks and performance results is that the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition (the card reviewed) was faster than the GeForce GTX Titan X in almost all cases. The GeForce GTX 1070 results show that the GeForce GTX Titan X and GeForce GTX 980 Ti at their current price will soon be a thing of the past as the GTX 1070 will be able to offer much better performance at better price points ($379 US and Plus).

 

>>The original source, Cubic, has taken down the article, but the benches are at the WCCFTech article.

 

Polaris inbound: AMD teases unannounced Radeon RX 480 graphics card

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3076103/components-graphics/polaris-inbound-amd-employee-teases-radeon-480-graphics-card-on-twitter.html

This weekend, AMD held a “Polaris Tech Day” for press and analysts in Macau, judging by the Twitter feeds of top AMD executives. The timing makes sense with the annual Computex tradeshow scheduled to begin early next week, complete with an AMD livestream event that promises updates on Polaris, the cutting-edge 14nm FinFET graphics processors slated to power forthcoming Radeon graphics cards. In a tweet late Saturday evening, a Radeon employee may have given us an inadvertent glimpse of what’s in store.

The post ostensibly shows off the Lenovo Y27F, a 27-inch 1080p FreeSync display capable of pumping out 144Hz. But the system sheet next to the monitor reveals a more interesting tidbit: The Doom demo running on the display is powered by no other than the Radeon RX 480, a GPU that hasn’t officially been announced yet. (Edit: Yes, the sheet says 1440p. The game was running at a higher resolution than the monitor using AMD's Virtual Super Resolution.)

Seeing Doom running on a Radeon RX 480 and a 144Hz monitor suggests two things: First, that as been long hinted at by executives, AMD may indeed plan to attack the long-awaited new graphics generation from a more mainstream price point and letting Nvidia’s fearsome $600 GTX 1080 own the relatively niche high end. The Radeon x80 line has typically hovered around the $200 to $250 price point. And second, that it might be fast. The current-gen R9 380 barely hits 60fps in Doom at 1080p, according to TechSpot’s extensive benchmarks. Team Red’s showing it off at Polaris Tech Day on a monitor capable of cranking out more than twice that many frames—though there's nothing explicitly saying the GPU itself hits those lofty heights. It's likely just to show the card running somewhere above 60Hz in action.

 

>>Good news, but keep in mind that the RX 480 nomenclature is a bit vague. The card could be the R9 480, and be priced as the article suggests, or the 480X (which would make more sense as it would be the strongest card) and be priced a bit more.