AMD has just revealed the first official gaming benchmarks for its new Polaris-20 graphics card, the Radeon RX 580. AMD has put the RX 580 against the Radeon R9 380, and benchmarked five PC games.
The AMD Radeon RX 580 was able to push more than 60fps at 1440p in Battlefield 1, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, For Honor, DOOM and Resident Evil 7.
According to the benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 is almost 1.8X more powerful than the Radeon R9 380.
Cleverly enough, AMD did not include the Radeon RX 480 (or any other NVIDIA graphics card) in its official benchmarks. As we’ve already said, the Radeon 500 series is basically a rebrand of existing Polaris-based RX 400 card with higher frequencies. As such, it will be interesting to see how much faster this new GPU is compared to the Radeon RX 480.
The third-party benchmarks for the Radeon 500 series will go live later today, so stay tuned for more!
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I will Relaunch my 980 and name it 980 phantom and release it on ebay
If the competitors are milking it they wanna milk it too.
Not much better than my now 3 year old r9 290…
Yeah doesnt beat 1080 strix OC. So we’ll stick with what we’ve got lads.
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aint got a 1080 strix OC? no problem, sell some old sh*t, buy new card, profit!
Wtf benchmarking against 2gen old gpus ? No doubt they do not show their graphs with 480s on it, the difference margin is so thin.
Oh well, didn’t see it like that. You could say that’s smart. But i’ll leave the smart part to each and everyone’s interpretation of their graphs.
sigh,,,, AMD
stop teasing Vega
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ozBxUognwfEeVmo/html5
Good lord, I hate this kind of graph with a passion… Why not compare the 580 to the 480?
Oh right… Because It’s not much better than the 480 and not as noteworthy as to the 380…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTnFKwK_DaQ
It’s because it’s the same card but on the newest Finfet generation.
They’ve got a thorough review of the Sapphire RX 580 Nitro up on TechPowerUp. It only beats a reference non-overclocked GTX 1060 6GB by around 5%-7%. Overclock the 1060 like the 580 Nitro is and they will be almost equal. That 580 Nitro also uses about twice as many watts as the reference 1060. AMD is dropping the ball again on efficiency.
I did not upgrade my rig to an Rx 470 for this AMD.
Another fail from amd, sad
are you really asking why this sad rebrand is a fail ? really ? just read the comments :))
No, you’re beyond stupid if you believe a 6% performance increase deserves mention. Or if seeing official benchmarks against a 2 gen old card are not proof of that. F off
6% more powerful than a RX480 and 3% more than a GTX1060 at 1080p. 5% more at 1440p and 6% more at 4K.
So that’s it.
Well I put it because those are the actual numbers, if it is better than a 1060 the GPU is actually pretty good. And as you said to other one, AMD is doing it right since these GPUs are not targeted to RX480 owners but to those that still has a 200 or 300 series which in my opinion is quite clever.
I upgrade my GPU every 3 or even 4 years (still with a GTX970) and no need to upgrade it yet for 1080p gaming.
Why not just call it RX 480 GHz edition?
Guys, this is essentially the 480, but on a newer Finfet production technology. It allows for better clock speeds on both the memory and the core.
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You mad bruh?
tots. especially when you get likes from my haters, lol
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/87cfce7148c933b8d6f8522ca99ed02d6ff82d09dffefec6d20a4a78ff7fcacf.jpg?w=800&h=453&w=600&h=413
another sub-par card from AMD
who would’ve thunk, so this is the great Vega AMD is hyping about?
looks very average mid-tier card to me
at this point is the vega even coming out?
Plan B gtx 980-2 🙂
36 / 28 (CU difference) * 1360 / 970 (frequency difference) = 1.8
Good to see there is no architectural improvement 2 generations in. I’ll stick to my 380, thanks.
All the hate on AMD over a rebrand but when Nvidia does it it’s no big deal apparently. Maxwell / Pascal are pretty much the same tech just different nm. If it was not for the faster core / memory clocks Maxwell / Pascal GPU’s would offer the same performance in many respects.
So if you think about it Nvidia been pulling a fill in arch with Pascal since Volta had to be delayed. But look at all the 900 users who all jumped to the 1000 GTX series yet it was not a true new arch at all.
Pretty much why I still have my 970’s in SLI since to me Pascal is not impressive at all. I guess I will not be impressed until Vega hits and then Volta.
Well pascal and Maxwell are not the same but they both show similarities between each other. But the difference is that the switch from Maxwell to pascal was bigger difference then this 1070 from the 970 is a big jump 980 ti/Titan X Maxwell performance now for 350 dollars 1080 compared to the 980 was also a big jump and that showed in games and varies other programs while this is just a literal re brand of at most 5% and some games showing absolutely 1 fps difference.Hell people would have been probably fine with this if it was just advertised as a Binned RX 480 ie GHz edition or something like that for heavy duty overclockers.
Someone at NVidia is probably wondering right now why even release new GPUs when you can just do a 6% overclock and rebrand.
You know Nvidia does rebrands too right?