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Along with Newegg jumping the gun and listing the Visiontek RX 480 a week early, we've now got a number of other listings from other RX 480 manufacturers all appearing online. From Sapphire, to XFX, to PowerColor, we can learn a little bit more about each of them in the lead up to the official release in a few days' time.
It seems like Newegg can't decide which listings it wants to leave up and which ones it wants to take down, as at the time of writing the Visiontek and XFX listings are still up. The rest appear to have been removed, but thanks to the screenshotters over at PCPer, we can still see them in all their glory.
Unfortunately none of them detail clock speeds, so we won't know whether these are all stock cards or come factory overclocked until release it seems. However we can see from their dimensions that some are likely to come with aftermarket coolers. While the XFX card measures up at 10 inches by five inches, the ASUS card is 11.8 inches by 5.4 inches and the Sapphire one is a larger 11.8 inches by 6.5 inches.
All of the pictures shown with the cards are the reference design with new stickers attached, so it seems likely that that's not the design some of these cards are using, though what the final designs are for their third party options remain to be seen.
Hopefully the large number of partner cards means that stock will be strong for the RX480 at launch. Considering performance pegs it as close to a GTX 980, but at a $200 price point, it has the potential to be a big seller.
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KitGuru Says: Are any of you planning to buy an RX 480 when it launches next week?
Most monitors, (mine,my friends and the ones I see in stores locally) have either single DVI or HDMI connections or both, it’s rare to find one with a Display port. So I don’t understand why GPU’s these days come with so many Display ports taking up room that could’ve been filled with a usable port. Get rid of DVI, fine, It’s a legacy port, but as compensation, put 2 HDMI ports to make up for it coz current monitors and definitely newer ones will make use of it. Displayport isn’t widespread enough yet to justify cramming a boatload of them into a single card. Come on.
It’s because HDMI only offers 60hz, and therefore 60fps.
DP is replacing DVI, more monitors will be using DP in the future, though if you really need to, you can buy DP to HDMI cables, and lock yourself back to 60hz.
HDMI only offers 60hz, and therefore 60fps.
DP is replacing DVI, more monitors will be using DP in the future, though if you really need to, you can buy DP to HDMI cables, and lock yourself back to 60hz.
Because display port is the best, can handle 8K, while HDMI and DVI hold back the industry. Also there are cables and adapters from displayport to anything.
I’m waiting for the RX 490 (guess that’s what it’ll be called) for Q1 next year, but i’m super stoked for this new AMD technology.
And before anyone blows a fanboy gasket, i’m currently running an i5 6600 with an Nvidia GTX970.
I’ve currently got both sides, I have my intel nvidia rig with the 6600 and the GTX970, and an AMD rig, FX8350 and R9 390.
The GTX970 runs much better in combination with the i5, but struggles with my triple screen addiction.
However the R9 390 loves the triple screens. The FX8350 is getting a bit dated now, but it can compete in gaming situations, but gets left behind on absolute processing power.
So for me, the immediate future will be my Skylake chip powering a new AMD GPU for buttery smooth AMD Freesync triple monitor goodness, then I will be watching intently at the Skylake Refresh chips, and the new AMD cpu’s which look to be aiming to compete with Devil’s Canyon i7 processors, which, if that’s the case.. Sign me up.
HDMI and DP are both bandwidth constraint. HDMI 2.0 is capable of 4k 60hz as is DP 1.3. HDMI is going through iterations that keep it virtually the same as DP. However, depending on your graphics card you’re likely sporting DP that has higher bandwidth so it will allow for higher Hz.
DP is capable of 144hz, if i’m correct.
Stupid question: if HDMI only supports 60hz, why do so many TVs say they support 100, 200, or even like 400 Hz? Do they just double the frames after receiving the signal or something? Or am I getting things confused here?
All depends on what resolution you’re using and what version of DP your graphic adapter is using and the cable you’re using with it. I’m using DP 1.3 with my 980 ti and I’m pushing 165Hz on a 2k display, however I’m limited to 144Hz on my 2k with DP1.2 on my 780.
Well if you read carefully you see that the tv refresh rate is mostly used for smoothing effects and 3d (1 image on 2 for each eyes, switching so fast that your vision can not see when the glass is black)
every monitor sold in the 2 made in the 2 last years have display port which is actually the best you can have (I don’t speak about pro stuff), so you have really old low quality monitor
display port is from 2008, it is already old
Or you could just put the R390 with the i5 6600? Am I right in thinking that you are running two systems with a weakness when you could be running one powerful system and one decent system. Why are people always so keen to throw money at a problem they dont have ; )
Frame interpolation to smooth out motion for 24/25/30Hz video. The extra processing generally introduces horrible input lag though, so disable it if you’re planning on gaming on the TV for best results.
my dell monitor has a dvi an displayport but no hdmi
The AMD system was my old rig pre-intel, but i kept the gtx 970, gave the rest to the missus and we bought the r9 390 for it.
The FX cpu will not be outdated for long time with dirextx 12 here now.