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Anime Schoolgirl posted:It is not early for shipping manifests to be read and leaked, though, which is what is happening for some stores. And what's the conclusion from those?
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:There were at least 20 for sale And my point is that the actual release should have had ~4 weeks of product piling up. Either the CEO of Nvidia lied at an official press event (Hello Securities Fraud, nice to meet you), or these cards have been in production for ~60 days.
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Xae posted:And my point is that the actual release should have had ~4 weeks of product piling up. :| https://denebleo.sec.gov/TCRExternal/disclaimer.xhtml
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It'll be interesting if that's why Nvidia is so quickly launching the 1060, they're getting a large enough amount of defects that they can still recover a majority of the wafer by lasering them into 2 GPC/1280CC parts, at least you'll still see something on a return instead of just wasted silicon. If I were Nvidia, I'd actually softlock these early 1060s and let people unlock individual clusters for additional performance to better be able to sway people to the 1060 over the RX480. On the RX480, I want to see someone properly downclock to 850 and undervolt to a good level of stability and see what the power consumption is. If perf/watt skyrocket then I guess the rumors about validating above 850Mhz are true and AMD's hand has been forced and they're pushing the RX480 way beyond what they wanted or was envisioned. Instead of a 1.3Ghz 110W part, they're stuck with a 1266Mhz 160W part. If this is really a tragedy at the fab level, then it's Bulldozeresque, just hope it doesn't take AMD 4 years to fix it with an Excavatoresque release. Again, if it's not down to the µarch, AMD just needs to let the 400 series die , fix the fab level poo poo, and get a refreshed 500 series up mid-late 2017 (launch RX590 and RX580 mid 2017, finish the refresh and launch the RX570, 565, 560, and 550 in October 2017). This is still recoverable, and it's unlikely Nvidia will be transitioning away from the 1000 series with enough alacrity for a fix to Polaris to not make sense. This doesn't prevent the current release from being a dumpster fire.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:53
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In case it wasn't clear, I'm arguing that the yields are poo poo. Not that he lied.
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I'm gonna wait for the power thing to be addressed but I am tempted to make a little box to play games on my TV with this. I've an old Samsung LCD that's just 1080p so I may get to play games at good settings again.
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Xae posted:In case it wasn't clear, I'm arguing that the yields are poo poo. Not that he lied. Sorry threads moving quick lol
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Phlegmish posted:And what's the conclusion from those?
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Does 20 1070s per Micro Center per week that have been already backordered sound like a lot to you, or Best Buys each having maybe a 1080 and some 1070s this month? How did they mess up this much. They're really lucky the 480 doesn't live up to the hype.
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Admiral Ray posted:I'm gonna wait for the power thing to be addressed but I am tempted to make a little box to play games on my TV with this. I've an old Samsung LCD that's just 1080p so I may get to play games at good settings again.  Phlegmish posted:How did they mess up this much. They're really lucky the 480 doesn't live up to the hype.
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Jun 29, 2016 19:00
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FaustianQ posted:It'll be interesting if that's why Nvidia is so quickly launching the 1060, they're getting a large enough amount of defects that they can still recover a majority of the wafer by lasering them into 2 GPC/1280CC parts, at least you'll still see something on a return instead of just wasted silicon. If I were Nvidia, I'd actually softlock these early 1060s and let people unlock individual clusters for additional performance to better be able to sway people to the 1060 over the RX480. mods please rename this guy RX480, he's overheating
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Jun 29, 2016 19:00
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Xae posted:The "Launch Event" for the 1070 and 1080 was May 6th. And they had said it was already being produced. And you know this how, again? Anecdotes? I'd love to see an actual number of units sold since launch on the 1080/1070 but that seems like the type of thing that never ever ever gets released.
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Jun 29, 2016 19:01
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Does 20 1070s per Micro Center per week that have been already backordered sound like a lot to you, or Best Buys each having maybe a 1080 and some 1070s this month?
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Jun 29, 2016 19:03
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So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price. I'm coming from a 7870 so maybe I'm easy to appease.
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:For reference/comparison back when they launched the 58xx AMD claimed to have 10's of thousands of cards made within 2 quarters of launch and availability was still poor for around half a year later which pissed lots of people off at the time. MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price.
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Man, the AMD info coming out...  repiv posted:Just realised it uses more power than the 1070 across the board So many reasons to be happy I bought a GTX 1070, thanks AMD? fozzy fosbourne posted:I feel like people are realizing that forcing things into 4k this console generation would be a mistake. It seems to be brought up less and less in the marketing. I can sorta understand getting one of the big 4k monitors and basically running it as a 2x2 of 1080 monitors for a lot of multitasking but I still can't imagine wanting to game like that. 4K ultrawides? Sure I'm looking forward to trying that if it's affordable in a decade when the 13xx series GPUs are out, running 32+ GB of RAM and paired with dozen+ core CPUs and probably 128GB of system RAM. I love the jump from 1080/1200p to 1440p but 4k is more detail than most people could reasonably want or need even when sitting up close. Anime Schoolgirl posted:I hope you got it at 400 bucks or lower else you got had Paying the extra $30 to get my 1070 last week and not a month from now was worth it no question.
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MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price. It would be fairly OK, if not for the power usage numbers. If those don't bother you, and you can get it for the announced price, it's a great card. The problem of it just being "OK" is that NVIDIA can throw their excess 970 stock at it with discounts while the RX 480 price remains above MSRP.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I love the jump from 1080/1200p to 1440p but 4k is more detail than most people could reasonably want or need even when sitting up close. At normal monitor ranges, anything below ~300dpi isn't enough. Above that, you can argue all you want, but until we get to that point, hahaha no. e: MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price.  Looks fine to me 
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If anything the RX480 is perfect for those with Freesync monitors. It's nice to have a 970 class alternative in that regard.
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xthetenth posted:The 1070 being a big ol crop chip should help balance that out vs only whole die 480s, no? My understanding is that the RX480 isn't a full die either - it's 2304 cores enabled on a 2560 core die, just like Hawaii Pro vs XT.
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Just try a MacBook retina next to a regular 1080p laptop and try to read the text on a webpage.
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Pixels are amazing, always not enough (although they aren't necessarily the best way to trade performance for IQ).PerrineClostermann posted:Man, some of this "sky is falling" nonsense is having me question whether or not we're on /g/ right now... MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price. It does a very good job of hitting a solid price/performance point. It does not do a good job of having a cooler worth a drat kr overclocking, hopefully partner boards fix that and it'll be a good product. The reason everyone's super mad is because it's using a ton of watts to do it which means that all the people who put too much money into their computer (most of the thread) are really worried that they won't be able to fit much performance into 300W for a top end card. FaustianQ posted:It'll be interesting if that's why Nvidia is so quickly launching the 1060, they're getting a large enough amount of defects that they can still recover a majority of the wafer by lasering them into 2 GPC/1280CC parts, at least you'll still see something on a return instead of just wasted silicon. If I were Nvidia, I'd actually softlock these early 1060s and let people unlock individual clusters for additional performance to better be able to sway people to the 1060 over the RX480. We may see with the 470, they're saying in the AMA that's targeting efficiency a bit more. Who knows though. xthetenth fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price. It's a very solid price/performance card at stock, but the card pretty much shits itself with any sort of overclock. Power consumption in general is very concerning since it looks like under heavy load the card can pull more than the 150w its rated for, which can cause stability issues. Tomshardware has reported the card goes past the PCI-E limits for voltage, I believe they saw as much as 100w out the PCI-E slot, when the max is supposed to be 75w, at stock.
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I know this discussion was happening several pages back (thanks AMD), but I appear to have spectacular self-control compared to some people in this thread. I'm waiting for the 1170, though it's fun hearing my non-technology inclined brother wonder why I'm already planning an upgrade. (I just built my PC 2mo back.)
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MrBond posted:So wait, is the general consensus that the RX480 is a stinker? On the surface it seems reasonable for the price. LogicalFallacy posted:I'm waiting for the 1170, though it's fun hearing my non-technology inclined brother wonder why I'm already planning an upgrade. (I just built my PC 2mo back.) PC LOAD LETTER fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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xthetenth posted:The reason everyone's super mad is because it's using a ton of watts to do it which means that all the people who put too much money into their computer (most of the thread) are really worried that they won't be able to fit much performance into 300W for a top end card. It's bad because no room upwards for vendor A means no price pressure for vendor B, which leads to even more "too much money into their computer". Raaah.
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What is AMD's most powerful card at the moment anyway? I never really hear them get talked about in that regard, Fury X or something? I have no idea what its relative performance is to that of the GTX 1000 series cards and that's probably not a good sign. My 7870's still going fairly strong at 1080p, so I guess I have no need to upgrade GPU right now (lol need) but I do want a monitor upgrade and the whole G-sync/FreeSync thing makes it really frustrating since I don't want to be locked into a specific company. Bring on the 1060 benchmarks I guess.
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Skuto posted:It's bad because no room upwards for vendor A means no price pressure for vendor B, which leads to even more "too much money into their computer". Raaah.
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sout posted:What is AMD's most powerful card at the moment anyway? I never really hear them get talked about in that regard, Fury X or something?
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They're not even making cards based on Big Pascal apparently, GP100 is just not going to make it to the market as a graphics unit. GP102, if videocardz isn't bullshitting us (odds are "much better than wccftech") is speculated to have more CUDA cores than GP100 but lose practically all of the FP64 poo poo nobody but Chris Roberts' Star Citizen cares about
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I for one, will look forward to a full RX480 in laptops, where it looks like a comparative rockstar and maybe where it was supposed to be in the first place?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I for one, will look forward to a full RX480 in laptops, where it looks like a comparative rockstar and maybe where it was supposed to be in the first place? 15" rMBP update, maybe?
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Paul MaudDib posted:My understanding is that the RX480 isn't a full die either - it's 2304 cores enabled on a 2560 core die, just like Hawaii Pro vs XT. RX480 is full die - AMD said Polaris 10 is 36 CUs, and 36*64=2304. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10424/a-bit-more-on-amds-polaris-gpus-36-16-cus Anime Schoolgirl posted:GP102, if videocardz isn't bullshitting us (odds are "much better than wccftech") is speculated to have more CUDA cores than GP100 but lose practically all of the FP64 poo poo nobody but Chris Roberts' Star Citizen cares about Not even Star Citizen is stupid enough to do FP64 on the GPU, they're using FP64 coordinates CPU-side and converting to camera-relative FP32 for rendering. repiv fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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So I really only follow Graphics card stuff casually, with everything dropping about the new AMD card can someone give me the low down? Is it better than Nvidia's offering?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I for one, will look forward to a full RX480 in laptops, where it looks like a comparative rockstar and maybe where it was supposed to be in the first place? Hopefully in July they announce those laptops. I remember reading that they'd have them floating about during the back to school sales. It's what's making me look at the Gigabyte Aero 14 a bit side-eyed rather than full of wonder.
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Knifegrab posted:So I really only follow Graphics card stuff casually, with everything dropping about the new AMD card can someone give me the low down? Is it better than Nvidia's offering?  do you buttvolt? do you have a bad PSU? do you care about being out of PCIe spec and have answered no to the first 3 questions? its ok, it's a sidegrade to the 390 and 970
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eggyolk posted:If anything the RX480 is perfect for those with Freesync monitors. It's nice to have a 970 class alternative in that regard. I have a 21:9 FreeSync monitor and a non-ref 290x, everything is great. I was going to get an RX 480 because I'm big into saving even small amounts of wattage (I jumped on Skylake for the same reason), but jeez, the non-spec PCI-e wattage pull is horrifying. It's like, my 290x is still getting over $200 on eBay, and I'm not sure getting the RX 480 for the same price would even be a sidegrade with that lovely-rear end cooler and everything. Mayyyyybe undervolting it could get the whole thing down to a noise/watts level below the 290x and still match it's performance? Edit: Hey, if I have a really nice PSU, like the EVGA P2 650w, and a Z170 motherboard, is the out-of-spec PCI thing a non-issue? Are there any implications for the card pins or motherboard trying to suck that many amps? Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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