| fatslob-:O said: Bad news aside from the RX 480's reviews ...
It still gets trounced by the competitors older parts in terms of geometry performance and that's not where Polaris should be considering AMD's huge advertisement of improved geometry throughput ... There's also a huge regression in perf/mm^2 which makes me think that they would have had better performance if they ported a cut down Fiji to 14nm instead of making Polaris 10 ... |
As I wrote in another thread, I have the sensation that AMD in its reference implementation could have rushed some parts of firmware and drivers, to avoid being again behind schedule, they looked so confident about performance and power consumption and they also have a reputation of slowly but steadily improvin the SW part of their products. Anyhow, inflated launch street prices apart, it looks like AMD managed to deliver again good value for money in the mid-range. It won't shake the market as the hype let us expect, but I'm mnoderately satisfied and expect Polaris performances and power consumption to improve with time and better firmware and drivers, and improved third party implementations compared to AMD reference one.
