Sreal, good deal or is it a bust? AMD RX 480

[Shandia]

For those of us on a budget, the newest nvidia cards are way out of the ballpark. With a few projects in the works for me, I'm needing a few upgrades as far as gpus are concerned. This one grabbed my attention today.
The only slight down side I really see is the ? on DP. Would this be a viable card or is it more fodder for the nvidia crowd?

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...-14nm-polaris/

[Mumps]

You might want to review this thread for prior comments about the 480's. It is the first card in a long time that is tempting me to go grab one ASAP. It will be safe to presume the DP divisor is most likely nowhere near as crappy as nVidia would afflict their cards with.

[scole of TSBT]

According to this article http://www.gamespot.com/articles/amd.../1100-6441354/, the RX 480 will have 1/16 FP64. If SP is 5834, then DP should be 364. The stock model GTX 1070 SP/DP is 5979/187 and the GTX 1080 is 8228/257.

Here's another new article...http://lanoc.org/review/video-cards/...owall=&start=6

[John P. Myers]

That F@H benchmark is terrible. It doesn't use pure FP64 to do the test.

But anyway, still nothing official ob FP64 compute performance, but 1/16 is probably true Still 50% more than a $700 GTX 1080 has Another thing to note is FP16 runs at full speed on the RX 480 (11.7 TFLOPS). Still unknown how much Nvidia crippled their FP16 since it's rarely used (mostly for AI).

[scole of TSBT]

Be careful if you have a RX 480. Appears they can draw too much current from PCIe slot and burn it out (and possibly the mobo). See this...
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/16...ming-patch.htm

[Bryan]

OUCH!

[John P. Myers]

Be careful if you have a RX 480. Appears they can draw too much current from PCIe slot and burn it out (and possibly the mobo). See this...
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/16...ming-patch.htm

Driver comes out thursday to fix it (16.7.1)