Review: MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X

#5314686 Posted on: 08/01/2016 04:16 PM

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Radeon RX 480 IS A Mainstream-Line card performing almost like last generation High End GPUs.

This Generation High-End Cards from AMD are still pending. The Enthusiast class Title is Reserved for Titan like cards or are you going to call them something else.

This Flawed perception I talked about is evident. Next you will say 1060 is High-End Card 1070-1080 Enthusiast and The Titan that is coming is something Entirely different.


Much fuss over nothing.
This is where you should direct your complaints -> www.amd.com
New Titan X releases tomorrow. Meanwhile AMD has... RX 480

Does anyone really gives a F if his card is referenced as Mainstream or High-end? Ridiculous...

#5314703 Posted on: 08/01/2016 05:05 PM

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another day a new card and a good review thank you HH.
why is it when ever an AMD card is reviews some people need to jump to there battle stations ready to jump the gun
this is a good value for the money card, it performs good in it's price segment compared to competition

#5314707 Posted on: 08/01/2016 05:22 PM

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high-end
adjective
adjective: high-end

denoting the most expensive of a range of products

I´m sorry but I can´t think of these $30 buck chips mounted on cheapo pcb´s with half phone memory as high end. There are already similar cards without heat pipes at all.

#5314709 Posted on: 08/01/2016 05:28 PM

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Much fuss over nothing.
This is where you should direct your complaints -> www.amd.com
New Titan X releases tomorrow. Meanwhile AMD has... RX 480

Does anyone really gives a F if his card is referenced as Mainstream or High-end? Ridiculous...

Who cares if another Titan is releases tommorow. Its an overpriced cash grab. You can buy 5-6 of these 480's for one Titan X.

#5314744 Posted on: 08/01/2016 06:38 PM

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The Damage is done by people comparing Mainstream Hardware vs High-End One and expecting parity.
Such flawed thinking is trending all over the place and is shaping the general perception of the product.
These people and the rest trusting them don't need New CPUs and New GPUs they need new Brains!

AMD was the one marketing it as high end card, therefore people compared it to other high end cards.

Just like they said bulldozer would destroy intel.

#5314785 Posted on: 08/01/2016 07:59 PM

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Btw Hilbert the oc result for Tomb Raider is the same as the reference model. And you have different fps in the Tomb Raider test itself. 44 to 48 fps in oc. While in the test it shows 45 for stock 8gb and 47 for the gaming X.

#5314836 Posted on: 08/01/2016 09:37 PM

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Nice card. ANy idea when the enthusiast AMD card come out of the wood?

#5314842 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:06 PM

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The main point is this card has very few people in strict need of it other than the usual people upgrading. It's not going to pull any Nvidia buyers with brains.

Why would you sack your OC 970 for this? Witcher 3 runs about the same or worse when 970 has big OC. And you miss Gameworks additions which are pretty huge in Witcher 3 IMO. People are selling perfectly great 970s for 160-220 dollars atm.

And then the cooling. And the heat. There is literally no reason to go here. Might be really cool in a PS4 Neo though.

Also, this is not performing like high-end GPUs IMO. When I think high-end I think 980ti. Period. This isn't even close. It's worse in many ways than a fully OC'd 970.

A nice card for those AMD fans that have not upgraded for a while, but very hard to recommend for hardcore gamers because of all the stuff you miss with going AMD.

#5314848 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:17 PM

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The main point is this card has very few people in strict need of it other than the usual people upgrading. It's not going to pull any Nvidia buyers with brains.

Why would you sack your OC 970 for this? Witcher 3 runs about the same or worse when 970 has big OC. And you miss Gameworks additions which are pretty huge in Witcher 3 IMO. People are selling perfectly great 970s for 160-220 dollars atm.

And then the cooling. And the heat. There is literally no reason to go here. Might be really cool in a PS4 Neo though.

Also, this is not performing like high-end GPUs IMO. When I think high-end I think 980ti. Period. This isn't even close. It's worse in many ways than a fully OC'd 970.

A nice card for those AMD fans that have not upgraded for a while, but very hard to recommend for hardcore gamers because of all the stuff you miss with going AMD.

It was meant to be an upgrade from gtx6xx and 7xx users as well as older hd 7000 series from AMD. No one should replace 970 with 480 or 1060.

#5314854 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:29 PM

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No 480 is high-end, 490 = enthusiast class.

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#5314856 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:29 PM

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From one extreme to the other with settings not many would use. No AA or 8xTSSAA

Feel sorry for you HH, the AMD loyalists are turning their sites on you now.

#5314861 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:37 PM

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Mr. Hagedoorn

I don't know why you are using the wrong AA in Doom Vulkan benchmarks, but its been tested by AdoredTV that using SMAA 1TX is about 20 FPS slower than TSSAA, which Doom developer recommended for use with AMD cards.

You keep writting that Doom Vulkan is a beta API, which is clearly not true. Newly installed game come with Vulkan selected and not OpenGL. And Doom was not intended to be an OpenGL game and its clearly not anymore. You are deceiving people with benchmarks like that.

Either this is to not show the correct benchmarks, which would be dishonest, or just not knowing (which is not likely).

Also you have used old 16.7.2 AMD drivers, which are known to increase performance in RoTR by around 10***8453;. You have been testing RoTR with HBAO+ which is Nvidia technology. And Nvidia tech is known to be tailor made to make their cards work better.

Using AMDs MLAA on Warhammer is also kinda unfair to Nvidia.

Please reconsider these opinions and respond.

You know even w/o the TSSAA, it shows how AMD responds to Vulkan as in huge boost. You should really stop complaining about every small detail or setting. They are good settings to test the games on there is no huge minus to amd on HBAO+ saw that when gaming myself. And he actually used 16.7.3 according to the test setup.

If you think it is deceiving that AMD wins hard in Doom even with smaa which a lot of people actually prefer, then ok...

#5314866 Posted on: 08/01/2016 10:47 PM

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A review on Hexus of the 480 Nitro showed almost 25% gains over the reference carding in Tomb Raider using the latest drivers.

Were the Tomb Raider benchmark definitely completed with AMD Radeon Software Crimson Driver 16.7.3? The
results here only seems to show 1fps at all resolutions over the 16.7.2 results of the PowerColor Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL edition.

#5314875 Posted on: 08/01/2016 11:11 PM

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just a shame you do not test the card / chiller up to a water block
I had done it

#5314879 Posted on: 08/01/2016 11:20 PM

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No AMD fans were saying that until RX480 actually released. I recall clearly some were saying it was aiming for those GTX970 users...yep. Over-hyped by AMD users is accurate.