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[Robin Brimalm]

Well, this card is interesting. Very interesting and I’m really interested in what will come next from AMD and Polaris. I wanna know how they will counter and compete with GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. This card though, is not it. We know from what they have said so far that there will be two versions of this card. One with 4 GB memory and one with 8 and that the 4 GB version will be $200. We have been told that it has a compute power of approx. 5 teraflop. Thats like a 980. The 1070 does 6.5 teraflops so that could be beaten by a RX480 crossfire setup however the 1070 has 8 GB of Vram.

So you would think for 1080p gaming (where more than 4 GB of Vram is rarely used), surely two RX480s would be the most affordable setup with basically the same price as a 1070? No, I know from personal experience that a lot of games still to this day lack multi-GPU support (Crossfire, SLI) or do it very poorly with many times less than 30% scaling. Battlefield 4 is a good example. With SLI turned off i land at around 45-50 average fps at 4K in ultra. With SLI on, its about 65-70. That’s SLI scaling for ya.

A test in Ashes of the Singularity has 0% credibility to me. I can not recommend buying two of these cards. One, sure. That will give you ok fps in most 1080p games, just like a 980. If you want something affordable and more powerful than a 980, and can wait, i would see what Polaris has to offer next.

Just to clarify, this is not an Nvidia fanboy post or RX480 rant. This is a post saying one strong card is a better choice than two weak ones.