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shikamaru317 said:
JEMC said:

I'd wait for reviews, to be honest.

Yes, those figures are impressive, but... are they legit? The use of SSAA or FXAA (developed by Nvidia) instead of other anti aliasing solutions have an impact in performance that can, in turn, make things look better or worse than they are. And then there are other graphical settings that aren't mentioned and that can have an impact on performance too.

For example, I've looked at Guru3D's and TechPowerUp's RX 480 reviews, which also feature the 960, and their results with many of the listed games is quite different.

As I've said, I'd wait for reviews.

Yeah, you're right, something is definitely off there. I just went back and rewatched Digital Foundry's RX 480 benchmarks, and they're definietely higher than this charts suggests. The charts says 52.6 fps for The Division, DF says 54.7 with the same settings. The charts says 47.9 fps for Witcher 3, DF says 61.2. The chart says 41.5 fps for RotTR, DF says 61.1 (different AA method though). The chart seems to be using AA methods that favor Nvidia cards. But, there is one oddity there, Witcher 3, there is only 1 in-game AA method available, yet there is a massive 13 fps difference between the chart and Digital Foundry testing. I'm not sure what the culprit is here, maybe Nvidia turned on their Game Works features on RX 480 even though they're not meant to be ran on AMD hardware?

I haven't seen tessellation tests on the 480, but that has been AMD's Achilles heel in the last gens. Turn Hairworks on and you'll see the red cards doing poorly.



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I think the 1060 will always beat the 480 in dx11 but in dx12, I doubt it will do that good as the benchmarks suggest so #Waiting4Benches



                  

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Really want to see the reviews now haha.



Maybe it's a 4 Gb card? It only says "480" after all.



Teeqoz said:
Maybe it's a 4 Gb card? It only says "480" after all.

I'm not sure the difference between the 4gb rx480 and the 8gb rx480 would really have an impact in terms of that comparison chart, having more vram doesn't generally give a boost to fps afaik, it just lets you do more STUFF (bigger textures etc).



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Teeqoz said:
Maybe it's a 4 Gb card? It only says "480" after all.

That's a very likely possibility.

But then there's the 960, that also performs slower than it should.



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Barkley said:
Teeqoz said:
Maybe it's a 4 Gb card? It only says "480" after all.

I'm not sure the difference between the 4gb rx480 and the 8gb rx480 would really have an impact in terms of that comparison chart, having more vram doesn't generally give a boost to fps afaik, it just lets you do more STUFF (bigger textures etc).

The 480 4GB also have slower memory, rated at 7Gbps instead of the 8Gbps of their big brother. That limits the bandwidth of the card and affects the performance in some games, as this article shows: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2503-amd-rx-480-4gb-vs-8gb-benchmark-is-it-worth-it



Please excuse my bad English.

Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB

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JEMC said:
Barkley said:

I'm not sure the difference between the 4gb rx480 and the 8gb rx480 would really have an impact in terms of that comparison chart, having more vram doesn't generally give a boost to fps afaik, it just lets you do more STUFF (bigger textures etc).

The 480 4GB also have slower memory, rated at 7Gbps instead of the 8Gbps of their big brother. That limits the bandwidth of the card and affects the performance in some games, as this article shows: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2503-amd-rx-480-4gb-vs-8gb-benchmark-is-it-worth-it

Oh interesting, so all that i've been hearing about unlocking the rx480 4gb to 8gb, it'd still be 7Gbps memory anyway? So they're not essentially the same card as I've been seen thrown around online.

Thought it was a bit strange that Nvidia would sell essentially the same card at a lower price and just hide what it can do, though locking an 8gb card you've manufactured to 4gb is weird in the first place.



Barkley said:
Teeqoz said:
Maybe it's a 4 Gb card? It only says "480" after all.

I'm not sure the difference between the 4gb rx480 and the 8gb rx480 would really have an impact in terms of that comparison chart, having more vram doesn't generally give a boost to fps afaik, it just lets you do more STUFF (bigger textures etc).

If you fill up the VRAM it can drastically reduce performance. This happened with the 2Gb 960 in some games iirc.



Teeqoz said:
Barkley said:

I'm not sure the difference between the 4gb rx480 and the 8gb rx480 would really have an impact in terms of that comparison chart, having more vram doesn't generally give a boost to fps afaik, it just lets you do more STUFF (bigger textures etc).

If you fill up the VRAM it can drastically reduce performance. This happened with the 2Gb 960 in some games iirc.

Yeah you get awful stuttering when the VRAM fills up but I don't think those games would fill up more than 4gb at those settings.