MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X review
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Loophole35
Still a little disappointed in the performance of the RX 480 overclocked. At least this one has the thermals under control.
Bleib
MSI really seems to have done well with the sound levels (same with 1070), sadly I don't see these cards anywhere in Finland.
Devilhunter12
Very sad that it has less OC, and less efficient.
That is why never over hype product.
Loophole35
AMD didn't over hype this product as much as the Fiji at least. The AMD users however were predicting 1070 performance or more with 1600Mhz OC on air.
It's getting to the point the overly faithful AMD base are hurting the brand.
Turanis
Nice review,thanks. 🙂
And yeah you need to test in Vulkan without AA or TSSAA 8x for Async Compute.Or you can do without AA in every DX 12 games,for testing purpose only.
A really good implementation of RX 480 from MSI.
The drivers will be better and better with newer games,and the performance will be much higher.
Prediction for 1600 MHz on air?Who says that,some users or click-bite sites?
Official I dont see coming from Amd.
Anarion
Yep, the AMD zealots did surprisingly large amount of damage.
It's nice to see that MSI's cooler works just as well with RX 480 than on GTX 1060/1070/1080. Their cooler performs excellently.
sverek
Let's not look into past. Yes, AMD messed up 480 promotion big time.
Still its not a bad card, and MSI X series deliver 480 with temperature and noises at bay.
Embra
Thank you HH. 🙂
Loophole35
Read my post again. I said, "The AMD users however were predicting 1070 performance or more with 1600Mhz OC on air."
I'm not going to name names as I'm not trying to start a flame war. Just pointing out that some AMD users are doing more to hurt AMD than help.
waltc3
Great review with the following observation:
AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB and 8GB (high-end performance)
AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB and 8GB (mainstream performance)
AMD Radeon RX 460 2GB/4GB (entry level)
This should be edited to this:
AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB and 8GB (mainstream performance)
AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB and 8GB (value performance)
AMD Radeon RX 460 2GB/4GB (entry level)
AMD has yet to release its high-end performance card for this gen.
DeadlyBGShadow
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!
JonasBeckman
I'd agree although if one only counts Polaris then Polaris 10 would be the "high-end" model with the 480 and then the mid-end 470 with Polaris 11 as the lower-end 460 (And below?) model.
However as AMD has put it I believe Polaris was to be some mainstream GPU series (And also aggressively priced.) and then Vega the enthusiast model surpassing the current Fury X, I keep forgetting what it's architecture was called, Fiji?
Not really sure if Vega 10 or Vega 11 will be first, Vega 11 is the bigger one whereas for Polaris that numbering is reversed for some reason, although Vega 10 could end up being the regular GPU with 11 possibly ending up as some multi-GPU model which I think there were rumors on but eh there's no details besides some few possible specifications of Vega 10 currently available as the GPU's aren't expected until early 2017 at least, unless AMD somehow rushes them for release in Autumn depending on I guess GPU chip quality from that manufacturing process and also availability of HBM2 VRAM which I believe both of these GPU's use, although I'm not 100% certain on that either.
(With VRAM amount possibly ending up around 16 GB for the full HBM2 config? 4x 4 GB stacks with 4x 1 GB per stack?)
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
No 480 is high-end, 490 = enthusiast class.
AlmondMan
As it should be. It's not like these cards are cheap, Geforce Cards are just hideously expensive.
DeadlyBGShadow
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.
If you are regarding them from Value perspective that still don't change there placement as mainstream product.
Noisiv
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 :3eyes:
Does anyone really gives a F if his card is referenced as Mainstream or High-end? Ridiculous...
MainFrame Alpha
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 :3eyes:
this is a good value for the money card, it performs good in it's price segment compared to competition 🤓
Monchis
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.
Undying
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.
Agent-A01
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.
