ASUS went all out with the design of the ROG STRIX RX 480 O8G GAMING card, almost nothing on this card remains a stock part from cooling to power regulation. It ships with a GPU clocked at 1310MHz in GAMING mode and 1330MHz in OC mode, [H]ard|OCP reached a stable 1410MHz GPU and 8.8GHz VRAM when manually overclocking. The card does come at a premium, roughly $50 more than a stock card which makes it more expensive than NVIDIA's GTX 1060. The bump in frequency helps narrow the performance gap between the two cards, but it doesn't make this RX 480 a clear winner. Check out the full review to see how it performs in the games which matter to you.
"We put the ASUS ROG STRIX RX 480 O8G GAMING video card through the wringer to find out how well this video card performs and overclocks against a highly overclocked MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X video card. Check out the highest overclock and fastest performance we’ve ever achieved to date with and AMD Radeon RX 480."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- PowerColor Devil Box Redux Review @ OCC
- XFX RX 480 XXX GTR Review @ OCC
- 2016 End-of-Year Open-Source Radeon Benchmarks With Linux 4.9, Mesa 13.1-dev On Many Different GPUs @ Phoronix
- Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8 GB @ techPowerUp
They are at each other, the
They are at each other, the Nvidia and AMD folks, But “to see how it performs in the games which matter to you” may vary as the entire Graphics API ecosystem is and will be converting over to Vulkan/DX12. So sure if you are DX11 gaming mostly then stay there but those that have AMD’s GCN based GPUs will mostly be getting some extra life from the newer graphics APIs.
And once again the folks that are trying to compare the RX 480 mainstream to the GTX 1080 flagship(Costs way more $$$$) are not doing any good. Let’s continue to benchmark AMD’s GCN based products back to at least GCN 1.1/2nd generation once Vega arrives. That will give plenty of older GCN SKU owners something to look forward to with only GCN 1.0 not getting as much gaming support while the newer GCN generations up to and including VEGA will have extended lives with more improvements to be had as the Vulkan/DX12 APIs come into their own.
Really those wishing to avoid discussing any DX12/Vulkan Graphics API managed multi-GPU adaptor advances with respect to any future multi-GPU scaling improvements when using GCN, or Pascal, based SKUs! They are going to be very surprised at some of those older GCN SKUs that can be had for even lower cost that will scale well with the entire gaming industry putting its R&D dollars behind the new graphics APIs! Let’s look at some dual RX 480, and RX 470, benchmarks over the next few years and see what the newer gaming engines will be able to get for better multi-GPU scaling managed by the games/gaming engines under Vulkan’s/DX12’s Explicit Multi-Adaptor over the next few years!
CF/SLI is on its way out over the next few years as the DX12/Vulkan API and Gaming Engine managed multi-GPU management features supplant the old driver based CF/SLI Limited ways of using multi-GPUs.
Here is one more title(1) that is giving RX 480, and very likely RX 470, uesrs some more reasons to be happy! Progress is going to continue it can not be stopped and let’s ask some Maxwell/Pascal owners the same questions as each month passes as more improvments from Vulkan and DX12 come online. Some of AMD’s older GCN SKUs are starting to look better against the Nvidia GTX 970’s/other older GTX SKUs also with respect to DX12 and Vulkan.
(1)
“Tom Clancy’s “The Division” Gets DirectX 12 Update, RX 480 Beats GTX 1060 by 16%”
https://www.techpowerup.com/228800/tom-clancys-the-division-gets-directx-12-update-rx-480-beats-gtx-1060-by-16
I just went with a $299 Fury
I just went with a $299 Fury X, arriving tomorrow.
(This will go in a FX-8320 (1.2v 4.2ghz), $139, system until Ryzen arrives)
What this review show is hopeful for pure AMD gamers:
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-12/the-division-dx12-benchmark/
Fury X:
53.1 fps fx-8370
53.6 fps I7-6700k
GTX 1080
61.4 fps fx-8370
64.2 fps i7-6700k
side note: It seem that some GPU limited games get next to nothing from super high IPC CPUs. (Well this is what next gen console are all about, many core, very low ipc.. what developers optimize for)
So in this game my $440 FX + FuryX is only 20% slower then a $1024 i7-6700k + gtx 1080 at 1400p. I can live with that…
side note: I was able to get a Rx 480 4gb (the 8gb model) for $199 during the release day. This undervolted to <1v !!! even during furmark the stock core clock would never drop. (reference cooler in july, no noise issues)
AMD is not the Ferrari of the PC world, but price/performance ratio is very hard to beat.
To be honest, if it was the same price the I7-6700k / GTX 1080 setup would be my choice.
With the Fury X and RX 480
With the Fury X and RX 480 keep benchmarking them as time passes. That DX12/Vulkan API and game/gaming engine managed multi-GPU adaptor is going to give plenty of improved gaming scores for you. Also remember that more of the non graphics gaming compute that is currently done on the CPU will be shifted over to being done on AMD’s GCN GPUs. So that FX-8320 will not be as much of a CPU limitation on some future titles. So that Fury X and RX 480 will be usable together for Graphics and Compute under Vulkan’s/DX12’s explicit GPU multi-adaptor graphics and compute APIs.
There is going to be a gaming engine arms race under DX12’s/Vulkan’s API Managed Multi-GPU adaptor to get some in the gaming engine ability to throw graphics and compute workloads at all the graphics adapters plugged into a PC, no matter the make or model of GPU!
Those benchmarks are steadily going to get better for GCN GPUs above GCN 1.0 and even more so for Polaris and Vega(New Micro-Architecture) SKUs. Ryzen and Vega are what I’m waiting for in the laptop APU SKUs that are expected later in 2017. The RX 480 has 5.83 T-Flops of SP FP compute and 2 RX 480’s have as much SP FP compute as a Titan X(Pascal), and future DX12/Vulkan games/gaming engines will be able to get that that compute for gaming.
Nvidia is behind the curve on that async compute fully in its GPUs hardware and Volta better fix that or Nvidia will lose more market share!