When it comes to GPU releases, we at PC Perspective take things up a level in the kind of content we produce as well as the amount of information we provide to the community. Part of that commitment is our drive to bring in the very best people from around the industry to talk directly to the consumers, providing interesting and honest views on where their technology is going.
With the pending release of the Radeon RX 480 based on AMD's latest Polaris architecture on Wednesday, June 29th, I am excited to announce that Raja Koduri, SVP and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group will be joining us in studio to talk about the RX 480 and AMD's plans moving forward.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
There is much to discuss. AMD and the RTG have promised that the RX 480 will be a revolutionary product, improving on performance per watt and performance per dollar in a way that no other AMD architecture has done. And the drive to include dramatically more gamers in the rising world of VR gaming will be an impressive feat as well, if they can pull it off. Topics like architectural improvements, asynchronous compute, multi-GPU and more are on the docket. You definitely won't want to miss it.
Radeon RX 480 Live Stream with Raja Koduri and Ryan Shrout
10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET – June 29th
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The event will take place Wednesday, June 29th at 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT at https://www.pcper.com/live. There you’ll be able to catch the live video stream as well as use our chat room to interact with the audience, asking questions for me and Raja to answer live.
Raja is one of the more open and honest people in this highly competitive landscape and every time we have had the ability to do an interview he has provided insightful, and sometimes very new, information.
As a price for hosting AMD in the offices, we demanded a sacrifice: in the form of hardware to giveaway to our viewers! We'll have at least two Radeon RX 480s to giveaway during the live stream but I am pushing to get a bump in that count; we'll see if I am persuasive enough. All you have to do to win on the 29th is watch the live stream!
Some Radeon RX 480s will be up for grabs!!
If you have questions, please leave them in the comments below and we'll look through them just before the start of the live stream. Of course you'll be able to tweet us questions @pcper and we'll be keeping an eye on the IRC chat as well for more inquiries. What do you want to know and hear from Raja or me?
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Since the AMD Fury GPU cards
Since the AMD Fury GPU cards and today with the RX 480, I haven’t seen OEM partners doing much to improve or change the style and design of the cards.
1- Are the partners restricted per their AMD agreement to modify the cards to their own IP needs?
2- Are the cards locked down by design where it’s not possible to re-engineer them any further?
For example, look at the products by SAPPHIRE and XFX.
From the original design of the cards, they’ve added 3 fans and that’s about it. But the liquid cooling models is generally the same, except maybe a better cooling fan.
If you look at the earlier cards, you see PCB redesigns, heatsink redesigns, and other neat features.
The Fury X and Nano were both
The Fury X and Nano were both specifically reference-only. As I understand it, the AIBs weren’t allowed to make custom designs of those two cards.
The vanilla Fury, however, the AIBs were given free reign. Sapphire’s Tri-X Fury used a reference Fury X PCB design, as did XFX’s Fury cards, both the water and air cooled. But Sapphire’s Nitro version of the Fury was a custom PCB; Asus’ Fury Strix was a custom PCB; Gigabyte’s Windforce Fury was a custom PCB.
Outside of the Fury X watercooler and the Nano air cooler, there hasn’t really been an AMD reference-cooled card since the 200’s, as far as I know. I remember seeing pictures of the 300 series reference cooler but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a reference-cooled 300 for sale anywhere.
I’m not sure why Fury X and Nano were restricted by AMD to reference-only boards and coolers. I suppose it’s possible that AMD considered them special, being outside their standard lineup pattern, and wanted that reference look and design associated with it.
I don’t think there’s any reason to believe there will only be reference RX 400 cards. Every other generation of cards has had custom PCBs, including the R9-300s. These will too, they’ll just release a bit later than the reference cards, like past generations.
Fury X and Nano (and, I guess, the Pro Duo, if we want to include it) are statistical outliers, in this case.
Thanks for the info 🙂
A
Thanks for the info 🙂
A little more info at the event would be nice too.
So far, the Fury and Nano appears to be AMD’s best cards.
If the OEM partner could have approval to improve them to their needs, it could become a most valuable product. Then again, perhaps AMD has other plans for Vega that might be their new jewel.
1- Roughly how many engineers
1- Roughly how many engineers have worked on the new RX cards?
2- How many of them enjoy gaming? How many of them enjoy VR?
3- Will there be a collectors edition card in the future that has all the engineers’ name on the shroud or PCB?
Side Comment:
When you’re aiming for space, data can get corrupted or lost, but most material will stay intact. Imagine picking up a lost AMD product in space 50 years or even a century from now 😉
Although odds aren’t in our favour due to density and other phenomena, possibilities do exist and can become true. We do have satellites…
1) How long until custom
1) How long until custom designs are expected to be out?
2) Is the tessellation performance further improved from Tonga or did it stay on the same level?
is there going to be a under
is there going to be a under 75 watt part in this new RX line? all of the R series GPUs under 75 w that are available are just rehashes of models that came before.
I am asking this question because OEM’s base systems are using like 240 w power supplies, IE my new Dell 3650 that i am using a hd 6570 on. It would be cool to put something modern in it for light gaming. The gtx 750 ti is the best bet right now but if AMD has a new under 75w part coming i would rather give AMD my money.
If it’s AMD you’re after,
If it’s AMD you’re after, you’ll be looking at the RX-460.
“Beyond the RX 480, AMD has also announced the RX 470 and RX 460. Little is known about the 470, but they mentioned that the 460 will have a <75W TDP. This is interesting because the PCIe bus provides 75W of power. This implies that it will not require any external power, and thus could be a cheap and powerful (in terms of esports titles) addition to an existing desktop.”
Source
I am really loving all of
I am really loving all of these Tech industry people that PCPer is getting to come in and do reviews/chats/etc.
I am very interested to see
I am very interested to see if the RX 480 will have supply issues or not. Obviously the GTX 1080 and 1070 have been constantly sold out since their releases. This has caused retail prices to be significantly higher than the MSRP quoted by nVidia.
Why is everybody ok with increased prices because of availability? When Microsoft or Sony release a new console, and they say the price is $500 it doesn’t matter if its sold out, retail locations still charge $500. The Wii was constantly sold out for months when it released but if a retailer had stock they were charging MSRP.
Has AMD ever considered trying to cap the prices on their GPUs or create some sort of incentive for retailers to charge MSRP? I think if a company says they are going to charge $200 or $380 for a product then that should be the price available to consumers.
If people want to buy a card and try to resell it for more that is their right. I feel like it is misleading to advertise a price with no expectation that a card will sell for that price on release.
1st:
In case RX 460 & RX 470
1st:
In case RX 460 & RX 470 won’t be released today.
Mr. Raja: Where are them?!?
2nd:
RTG’s goal was VR for everyone under $200/$300, it seems that cheapest prices are only in USA. What’s your opinion that if RX480 sells for over $300 outside USA, can you still consider that you have accomplished your goals.
You’ve mentioned that the RX
You’ve mentioned that the RX 480 WILL deliver $500 US performance. Since the R9 390x is below this, can we expect Fury (non x) performance? Also will this card sit at 5.5 or 5.83 Tflops?
My question for Raja:
I’m a
My question for Raja:
I’m a writer for a South African tech/gaming website.
AMD invited some high-level journalists from websites across the globe to Macau to learn about the RX 480 and the Polaris architecture in general.
However, the amount of information you divulged to journalists attending that press conference, compared to the amount of info I learned about the card in the Tuesday briefing last week, is orders of magnitude higher.
Why did AMD choose to approach certain sites with more information about Polaris and give them a better understanding of the RX 480 and Polaris’ capabilities, and give other sites less information?
Why choose this disjointed approach, especially if most of the sites will be reviewing the RX 480 during the launch window, and some will arrive at their conclusions and judgements of the card without knowing the full picture you showed to press at Macau?
I hope you can address this for me. I’m still looking forward to reviewing the RX 480 in the near future.
Will the RX 460 support
Will the RX 460 support native HEVC / h265 encode and decode?
Are there any low profile
Are there any low profile enthusiast GPUs coming? I’m a big fan of low profile designs but feel left out by whats on offer.
Are the crossfire multi gpu
Are the crossfire multi gpu improvements going to trickle down to older gpu’s, specifically R9 290/390?
Twitch is down!!!
Twitch is down!!!
Question:
Earlier this year
Question:
Earlier this year on initial announcement of Polaris, you had discussed the concept of HDR in games. There are standards in video such as HDR10 or Dolby Vision for Video. Is there such a standard for Video Games? If there is one, are there any existing AMD video cards and monitors which support it?
Thanks
Questions:
1. What is AMD’s
Questions:
1. What is AMD’s answer to nVidia’s simultaneous multi-projection? Does not it invalidate your CF strategy in VR?
2. Why AMD cards have consistently lower geometry and texture throughput (especially fp16) vs. competing nVidia chips? (see e.g. http://techreport.com/review/30328/amd-radeon-rx-480-graphics-card-reviewed/5 ) Would not devoting more die area to these units benefit gaming performance more than SPs?
Could we see shorter length
Could we see shorter length RX 480 cards? It looks like the reference cooler is quite a big longer than the PCB. Can we expect to see non-reference cards with shorter coolers that could more easily fit into a small form factor system?
So far no RX 470 or RX 480
So far no RX 470 or RX 480 4GB for sale in North America.
Also TH reported that the RX 480 BREAKS the pcie spec by drawing 83w vs the maximum of 75w.
Is AMD planning a board recall ?
Will AMD replace motherboard that breaks when used with a RX 480 ?
How about power delivery noise affecting on board audio ?
The GPU seem to have more to give. but the cooling & power delivery is limiting the card. (800mhz in furmark, even so the silicon can run at +1.4ghz )
So, will we see a 300w polaris 10 card with liquid cooling so it can run at 1.4+ghz without throttling ?
nevermind
nevermind
Ryan, I’m very glad that you
Ryan, I’m very glad that you discussed pc vs console. This was a discussion much needed! The current generation of consoles is really good value for money and the next ones seem to be even better if they manage 1080p60 or incorporate freesync into the next consoles.
It is a great GPU specially
It is a great GPU specially price.