Amazon?

So the RX 480 is essentially




Dx11 performance is nb but dx12 is where it really shines

Yeah, but it's pricy. :|

Edit: Oh great, it's scalpers lol xD

Captain_Yuri said: So the RX 480 is essentially Dx11 performance is nb but dx12 is where it really shines

The 480 is basically on par with the 970 & 390, but at 100 $/€ less.

Also, the decision to go with only 32 ROPs has a negative effect at 1440p and higher resolutions.

Never, ever, buy a piece of electronics at launch. Between scalpers and stores selling them at a higher price because of the high demmand, it's always better to wait at least a couple weeks.

^Gotta wait for it then.

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.

I posted this on the other 480 thread: AMD has explained the new naming scheme of their cards, including a little surprise

AMD Radeon RX 400 series naming scheme explained

http://videocardz.com/61721/amd-radeon-rx-400-series-naming-scheme-explained

Let’s start with the RX. There are two subseries in Radeon 400 stack, the RX 400 and 400. The RX parts will offer >1.5 TFLOps performance and at least 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Those cards that do not offer such performance will not use the RX prefix.

AMD confirmed they will be using XX5 revisions, which basically means we might be seeing faster variants released after time, when yields are better, leakage was minimized, or AMD simply decided to release higher-clocked version. A good example would be Radeon HD 7970 and 7970 GHz Edition (being 2nd revision). Hopefully this will also mean less rebrands.

Will we get an RX 485 in 6 months with better power consumption and/or higher clocks?

The news, just one big post

1-Drivers

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.2 is now available for download

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-radeon-software-crimson-edition-16-6-2-now-available-download/

AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.2 adds official support for the newly released Radeon RX 480 GPU. In addition, this driver brings a Crossfire profile for World of Tanks, and fixes a number of issues.

>>Download them from here.

2-Gaming News

BIOSHOCK: THE COLLECTION HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED, COMING ON SEPTEMBER 13TH

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/bioshock-collection-officially-announced-coming-september-13th/

2K Games has announced that the BioShock: The Collection will be released on September 13th. 2K Games and Blind Squirrel Games have remastered the games for current-gen platforms, and you can view the debut trailer for BioShock: The Collection below.

>>Important part of the article: It’s also worth noting that if you already own BioShock 1, BioShock 2, and/or Minerva’s Den, you’ll get the upgraded versions free.

RHYTHM-ACTION GAME THUMPER IS COMING IN OCTOBER

http://www.pcgamer.com/rhythm-action-game-thumper-is-coming-in-october/

The “rhythm violence” game Thumper, which Phil described last year as “a simulated panic attack” (but in a good way), will be out on October 13. Developer Marc Flury also announced plans for a limited-release collector's edition that's being created in conjunction with iam8bit.

SYSTEM SHOCK – DEMO LACKS EXTENSIVE OPTIMIZATIONS, SWITCH TO UNREAL ENGINE COULD HAPPEN

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/system-shock-demo-lacks-extensive-optimizations-engine-change-sounds-possible/

Neogaf’s member ‘MaxOfS2D’ (who is currently working on the remastered version of System Shock) has just revealed some new interesting information about it. According to MaxOfS2D, the demo lacked extensive optimizations as it was developed by a small team of 4 core people and one programmer. Moreover, MaxOfS2D claimed that an engine switch to Unreal Engine may actually happen.

FOUR MASS EFFECT NOVELS WILL LEAD INTO THE STORY OF ANDROMEDA

http://www.pcgamer.com/four-mass-effect-novels-will-lead-into-the-story-of-andromeda/

Among the few things we know about Mass Effect: Andromeda is that it will take place a long time after the cataclysmic conclusion of Mass Effect 3, and be set in an entirely different galaxy. Helping to bridge that yawning narrative chasm will be four novels published by Titan Books, the first of which is scheduled to come out in just a couple of months.

SCORN – FIRST-PERSON HORROR GAME GETS NEW BEAUTIFUL SCREENSHOTS

http://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/scorn-first-person-horror-game-gets-new-beautiful-screenshots/

Ebb Software has released today a new set of beautiful screenshots for SCORN. SCORN is described as an uncomfortable creep through an oozing world of organic otherworldly horror that will be coming to the PC in 2017.

KILLING TIME AT LIGHTSPEED IS A SOCIAL MEDIA TEXT ADVENTURE IN SPACE

http://www.pcgamer.com/killing-time-at-lightspeed-is-a-social-media-text-adventure-in-space/

Time dilation is a regularly visited theme in science fiction. If you’ve seen Interstellar, or read Joe Haldeman’s Forever War, you’ll know that it refers to the passage of time in space travel being slower than it is on Earth. In Forever War, for example, people go to war for a couple of Earth years, but during the time spent en route to other planets, many decades pass.

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER – FIRST MAJOR UPDATE RELEASED, ADDS DX12 BETA SUPPORT

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/total-war-warhammer-first-major-update-released-adds-dx12-beta-support/

Creative Assembly has released the first major update for Total War: WARHAMMER. This update comes with one hell of bug fixes, balance tweaks to all races, a number of technical improvements and beta support for DX12. This update is 2GB in size and will be auto-downloaded from Steam. You can find its complete – and huge – changelog here, and a portion of it below.

WINDOWS 10 ANNIVERSARY UPDATE COMING AUGUST, XBOX PLAY ANYWHERE INCLUDED

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-anniversary-update-coming-august-xbox-play-anywhere-included/

Windows 10's Anniversary Update will arrive on August 2, bringing with it a host of gaming features. Chief among them is Xbox Play Anywhere, the initiative that'll let you play any Microsoft Studios game on both Xbox and PC, complete with saves and achievements.

Looks like i'm going to order three OCZ Trion 150 series SSD 960GB instead.

GPU is the last one, then my new build will be finished between August - September.