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

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shikamaru317 said:

^I hope for AMD's sake that Nvidia doesn't release 1050 anytime soon. With 1060's imminent release greatly lessening the impact that RX 480 could have had, AMD will mainly be relying on the 470 and 460 to gain some marketshare. If Nvidia takes a few months to release 1050, AMD might be able to win over some marketshare with these.

470 in particular sounds great, nearly 5 tflops for $150 is amazing value. The $150 R7 370 last gen only had 2 tflops, so this is more than double the flops for the same price in just over a year. And 470 only has about 5% less flops than the 480, but of course flops only show theoretical performance, we'll need to see real world benchmarks to see just how good it is. And 460 sounds perfect for HTPC builders who want to do some light gaming on their TV in Steam Big Picture mode, with less than 75w TDP we should see single slot cards that draw all the power they need over PCIe. 

As the article says, the reference 460 won't have any power connector, taking all its power from the PCIe slot. I'd say that, if the card is a success, we'll see not only single slot variants, but also passively cooled ones.

As for the 470, I already said in my post that I'm looking forward its reviews to see how it compares to the 380X. After all, if the 480 offers (more or less) the performance of the 390, the 470 should end up being closer to 380X performance... and that's not good as that chip has the same SPs.

Of course, the 470 could end performing between the 380X and 390 chips, but that could make the 4GB 480 card pretty much useless (which may, or may not be AMD's plan from the very beginning).