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AMD offers a few more details on Polaris
But only a few. Here's the full story, but it's awfully padded with fluff:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/e3-sneak-peek-2016jun13.aspx
In addition to the previously announced Radeon RX 480, there is also a Radeon RX 470 and a Radeon RX 460. You could have guessed that and likely did. Prices will be in the $100-$300 range, presumably meaning $100 for the RX 460. There's no mention of a card higher than the RX 480, and if they try to sell a slightly higher clocked 8 GB version for $300, it's going to be a ridiculous card. Cue speculation that the 480 is itself a salvage part and the full chip with GDDR5X is the $300 part. Though it's perhaps more likely that the RX 470 is a salvage part of the same Polaris 10 chip as the RX 480. The release dates are this Summer, which you also could have guessed and likely did.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/e3-sneak-peek-2016jun13.aspx
In addition to the previously announced Radeon RX 480, there is also a Radeon RX 470 and a Radeon RX 460. You could have guessed that and likely did. Prices will be in the $100-$300 range, presumably meaning $100 for the RX 460. There's no mention of a card higher than the RX 480, and if they try to sell a slightly higher clocked 8 GB version for $300, it's going to be a ridiculous card. Cue speculation that the 480 is itself a salvage part and the full chip with GDDR5X is the $300 part. Though it's perhaps more likely that the RX 470 is a salvage part of the same Polaris 10 chip as the RX 480. The release dates are this Summer, which you also could have guessed and likely did.
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The sort of person who doesn't assume that of course AMD will offer working video drivers for their products on the basis that they have for the last several years is the sort of person who wouldn't believe it had any significance if AMD claimed they were starting some massive new driver program.
Obviously I'd like to pay a lot less, but what's the point if the card has serious issues with the games I want to play now or in the future?
In past..well almost a year now AMD has had better drivers than NVidia.
A lot of "AMD" problems actually came from NVidias black box software called Gameworks (it also affected older NVidia cards) since devs couldnt (werent allowed) fix/optimize anything about that. I think that that preactice from NVidia is behind us now.
Edit : Ok so 4GB version will be 200$. 8GB will be higher..
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If you take individual games, you can always find a 'winner', but overall it seems like both companies make generally great drivers for their cards - eventually. But quite honestly, if your favorite game runs well at max settings at 1080p, why do we complain about misplaced pixels and occlusion? Those things will get fixed...
Crappy drivers have been a problem for as long as we have had 3D cards, starting with the Monster 3D in the 90s. As long as game developers keep pushing the envelope, there will be problems. The driver problem is one of the things that DX12 is supposed to fix once and for all, but I'll believe it when I see it.
& oh, yeah, I will be getting the 8GB version of the 480X as long as it is below $300.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
never had any issues with drivers with my 290x's in the time that i've had them.. on release i've always been able to play everything with no issues, including titles as Witcher 3 and Fallout 4, so i don't know where you get your info that they don't have good drivers... and i've literally purchased everything to come out in the past year... i might actually have a problem.
Made the jump from Catalyst driver suite to Crimson suite with 0 issues.
Inbetween the above was a Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 *upgrade* (not fresh installation)
Computer runs smooth as butter.
I don't know what you crazy nVidia fanboys and Win10 haters are talking about.
Btw, did you hear about the nVidia beta driver that bricked bunch of 980Ti's? Yeah ... guess we'll close our eyes for thsi one ^^"
Also since we are on topic, did you know that nVidia 9xx series are incapable of running Dx12 properly due to lack of hardware Async Compute instructions? The moment when 2x200$ GPUs mop the floor with a single 600$ GPU you know shit's getting bad for one of the vendors.
Also, 4GB is perfect memory size for uncompressed FullHD gaming. You have enough memory to encode every pixel on the screen in raw data. The only question is whether this memory is fast enough. So far it seems so.
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I have the stock R9 290X (PowerColor OC, but stock cooler), which is known to overheat. It has never overheated for me. Works at 85 degrees with advertised temperature of 90. Shuts down at 95.
Do you know what I did? I actually opened my drivers control panel and allowed the fans to go full speed when its needed.
I know! Where's my nobel prize?
The drivers have gotten better since AMD took over but Nvidia still win driverwise. Heck, I installed a 5 year old laptop last week and AMD didn't even have the driver at their webbsite, I had to find it on Toshibas site instead.
It is still far better and they seems to improve so the drivers might be as good soon, but it is easier for an average user to install and update Nvidia drivers right now and that do turn some people away from AMD. You and I might be able to tweak our computers to get out as much as possible of the hardware but most people want as little as possible to do with tuning and just let the whole thing handle itself. And certain people do more harm then good when tuning things up.
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Before i bought this card i had AMD and hadnt had any problems. Now on NVidia its like a roller coaster lol
While I have run into a number of esoteric problems with AMD's drivers, I've run into similar problems with Nvidia. Most of the problems with both vendors are weird corner cases that hardly justify claiming the drivers are awful, and the one exception was on an Nvidia driver--and something that has since been fixed.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/112519/amd-geeft-benchmarks-vrij-van-rx-480-en-rx-470-en-onthult-rx-480m.html
I don't know if the slides are real or fake, but if they're fake, they're pretty good fakes. It's also likely that there is a slide deck out there by now, with the RX 480 launch only two weeks away.
The numbers show a Polaris 11 handily beating Bonaire in laptops while being much lower power. They show an RX 470 beating Pitcairn by enough that it probably also beats Tahiti and Tonga. They show an RX 480 beating Tonga by enough that it might well be competitive with Fiji.
Beware of cherry-picked benchmarks, of course. From their history, it's likely that AMD is showing benchmarks that put Polaris in a little better light than "average" review benchmarks will, but not massively so. The most notable thing to me is that they're all 1080p. Presumably AMD fixed whatever the problem was that made Fiji not do so well at lower resolutions.
That, of course, is all assuming that the slide deck is real. My best guess would be that it is, but that's a guess and it wouldn't be that shocking if it's all fake.