RX480 seems a refurbished R9 290, it's about the same framerate in every game, just a little bit better. I think AMD is not doing a good job if they are only repeating the same products over and over, year after year. Providing only minor changes in performance or better power requirements for the same performance. Sure, it's cheap... of course it is!!! The low-mid class of nvidia (1060) equals the top class of AMD next-gen (480)? come on AMD... you can do better... you NEED to do better... I had 2 x R9 290 in crossfire, and, after several years supporting AMD with many GPU models, I recently changed to a single 1080 GTX. AMD needs to work hard to regain the lost crown.

Vega will be faster than the 1080 with its hbm. Titan will most likely he faster but that isn't an issue. My only worry is power consumption.

RX 460 for Cool and Efficient E-Sports Gaming. What is this, some kind of joke? 😀 No e-sports player would use this card.

You would be surprised how many low-budget players (or kids) wants to play CS:GO, LoL or other this type of games. This card could make their dreams alive. We'll see. ;-)

RX470!!! I'm coming for you!!!

You and me both. But I'm waiting for a Sapphire Dual-X with OC model. I know it's coming. I'm going to be playing at 1080p for the forseeable future and the 470 seems like a very good choice at a reasonable price.

I have just put in a pre-order for the RX 480 Red Devil. I can't wait till the 19th of August for it to arrive. I do see a very good position for the RX 470. I'm sure it will be quite a bit faster than the GTX 960 and fight a hard battle with the GTX 970. At $149 for the RX 470, that will be a steal!

RX480 seems a refurbished R9 290, it's about the same framerate in every game, just a little bit better. I think AMD is not doing a good job if they are only repeating the same products over and over, year after year. Providing only minor changes in performance or better power requirements for the same performance. Sure, it's cheap... of course it is!!! The low-mid class of nvidia (1060) equals the top class of AMD next-gen (480)? come on AMD... you can do better... you NEED to do better... I had 2 x R9 290 in crossfire, and, after several years supporting AMD with many GPU models, I recently changed to a single 1080 GTX. AMD needs to work hard to regain the lost crown.

It's getting 390 performance with 2/3 of the shader processors, half the rops, 2/3 of the memory bandwidth, and ad half the power consumption. This is the exact opposite of rebadging. It is also targeting a different market segment than what the 390 was targeting. All of your comparisons are invalid. The 480 is not the top AMD card for this generation.

The low-mid class of nvidia (1060) equals the top class of AMD next-gen (480)? come on AMD... you can do better... you NEED to do better...

:pc1: hmmm this was intended this way from both side lol just to remember: -the GTX1060 starting point of mid/high class compete with Radeon RX480 mid/high class -was the same in previous gen GTX960 was competing with R9 280 (despite this time red was better) nothing change 🙂 and high end is still missing in both camp

I do not understand why the hell gpu clocks are lowered, like somehow smaller chip was made using crappier materials and harder to cool...

the clock is not all the power of a chip... it depend too about the conception. remember the 1st core gen of CPU from intel wich at under 2.0ghz was performing better than the previous 3.0ghz chip NVidia with Pascal stay on the same line despite some few change while AMD introduce more and so clock is less important for them, than this new gen architecture. also lower clock with same chip permit binning and reduce cost... Sometime it permit to build big hit like the GTX950 wich is a binned 960 that do more or less the same once OC for 90 Euro less... sadly with 2g of ram 🙂

It's getting 390 performance with 2/3 of the shader processors, half the rops, 2/3 of the memory bandwidth, and ad half the power consumption. This is the exact opposite of rebadging. It is also targeting a different market segment than what the 390 was targeting. All of your comparisons are invalid. The 480 is not the top AMD card for this generation.

lurker for a while here PrMinisterGR you are normally the guy that i see the response and i am like " THANK YOU ! " finally someone said it !

Very tempting, but I still wanna keep my HD7950 for a while. I haven't even started overclocking it (besides testing its overclocking capabilities, I mean).

Well, i expected that the audience of Guru3D to be very well informed. Instead, Karnizero proves the oposite. or, he is a troll or a nvidia fanboy. really now Karnizero, how can you say that the RX480 is "top of the line from AMD" when you know that Vega is going to be that card?

Keep in mind that we're in the middle of the summer vacations (at least in the northern hemisphere), and that entails a lot of new users. Some of these users can be... less than intelligent, shall we say, at times.

RX480 seems a refurbished R9 290, it's about the same framerate in every game, just a little bit better. I think AMD is not doing a good job if they are only repeating the same products over and over, year after year. Providing only minor changes in performance or better power requirements for the same performance. Sure, it's cheap... of course it is!!! The low-mid class of nvidia (1060) equals the top class of AMD next-gen (480)? come on AMD... you can do better... you NEED to do better... I had 2 x R9 290 in crossfire, and, after several years supporting AMD with many GPU models, I recently changed to a single 1080 GTX. AMD needs to work hard to regain the lost crown.

A fanboy you are ? you are alone to think rx 480 is a " high end card " , vega will come with HBM2 and equal or " kill " gtx 1080 ...

RX 460 for Cool and Efficient E-Sports Gaming. What is this, some kind of joke? 😀 No e-sports player would use this card. Well, when a new product is released, there is at least one marketing goof that comes with it.

For sur they can , esport players are playing low resolution and low graphic settings .