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

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shikamaru317 said:

JEMC said:

Now, I have no doubts that Nvidia wouldn't mind tweaking the GTX 1060 and make it a tiny bit faster in order to make it look even better than the RX 480, but we'll have until we get proper reviews to know where the 1060 actually lands.

And we won't have to wait for long, right? After all, it's supposed to launch tomorrow.

Flops wise, 1060 is 3.85 tflops normal/4.37 tflops boost, compared to 4.6 tflops normal/4.9 tflops boost for the 980, so I agree that matching the 980 will be a challenge, even with the architectural improvements on Pascal. The good news is that factory overlocked AIB partner 1060's should match the 980, which is exactly the level of performance I was hoping to get when I upgrade next. AMD might still be able to sway me back with a 480 proce cut or a 480x/485 though, they have until November which is when I'll probably upgrade my GPU.

I heard they're only announcing 1060 tomorrow, release is on July 13th. 

We still don't know the factory card performance and you're already thinking about the performance of the custom, overclocked, cards? You think too much (and that comes from a guy that started looking for a card replacement 3 years ago...).

Also, the 480 will also get custom overclocked cards. And there's the chance of custom 480 cards costing the same as a reference 1060. And an overclocked 480 could end up being close to 980 performance, specially if they overclock the memory too as I saw one review where it was clear that the 480 was memory bandwidth limited (although I doubt they'll do it, they never overclock the memory).

Finally, I've also heard the same, but we got reviews of the 1080/1070 before launch. It wouldn't be that surprising to see the same with the 1060.