Leaked benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 480 hits minimum VR spec for $199

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There are leacked benchmarks of the 480 against heavily overclocked 970 and 380X

 

First Radeon RX 480 gaming benchmarks hit the web

http://videocardz.com/61512/first-radeon-rx-480-gaming-benchmarks-hit-the-web

Polish magazine called CD-Action shares some information about RX 480 performance in three games, Metro Light Light Redux, Witcher 3 and World of Tanks.

 

Those results are a bit disappointing... if true. Because there's a little extra bit of info from that leaked review:

According to the review, 5% overclocking causes severe artifacts in 3DMark, while 7% overclock causes system to freeze. Not a word about drivers uses though.

Let's think about that for a second: we know that the card has a boost clock of 1266MHz, and a 5% increase would put that to 1330MHz. If that's the limit without having troubles, how can XFX launch a reference card with a factory overclock (meaning, guaranteed to work) to 1328MHz? It doesn't make sense.