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

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shikamaru317 said:

That RX 460 graph doesn't tell us much since it doesn't say what settings those games are running at. The RX 470 performance graph is pretty telling though since it says Ultra Settings. For comparison:

Game (Ultra Settings)	RX 470	RX 480
Battlefield 4	64 FPS	74 FPS
DOOM	107 FPS	100 FPS
Fallout 4	77 FPS	86 FPS
Hitman	66 FPS	79 FPS
Total War: Warhammer	66 FPS	74 FPS

I did my best to find middle of the road benchmarks for the RX 480, but some sites had even higher framerates than those I posted. The real oddball here is DOOM, I can't find a single review that has RX 480 at 107 fps, so I don't see how RX 470 could have surpassed the RX 480 unless some new drivers have released that greatly improved DOOM performance since RX 480 released, meaning that RX 480 performance is higher. Overall, though, it seems like RX 470 is about 10-17% slower than the RX 480 depending on the game, which is understandable since it costs $50 less supposedly.

That's probably DOOM running with VULKAN, the Rx480 initial benchmarks on DOOM were using OpenGL 4.3, with the VULKAN patch all mid-high level AMD cards, even old series surpassed most of the current GTX1000 Nvidia's series on that game, thanks to AsyncCompute.