Radeon 480: Hype Aftermath

heh still using hd4890's lol

We got 390/390x performance for 390 money, It was a die shrink generation jump and with a generation leap it's the norm to expect the performance level of one card to be available on the card sat below that one in the charts so a 780 was matched by a 970 or a 290x should of been matched a 380x but AMD failed to deliver that with the 200 to 300 range, Then this gen leap was as Nvidia showed good for a 2 level jump thanks to the added die shrink so from Nvidia we got 980ti performance from the 1070 level card, In comparison we only got the one and to top it off both firms are screwing us on pricing so with the 480x you pay as much as a 390 cost meaning we're not really getting anything extra out of the new gen or the die shrink. Nvidia prices are disgusting but at least they can still argue that with the 1070 you get 500 dollar performance (980ti) from a 400 dollar card.

I honestly don't get why you use Shadowplay.
Something about its interface just-horrifies me.
Also, it refuses to connect to my Twitch for some reason so I can't stream with it like I planned to so I'm stuck using OBS for literally everything.

Moving on, if I was to upgrade from my Nvidia Geforce GTX 750Ti and wanted a more powerful card that offers less power consumption (I don't care about price because I am still going to wait before upgrading, I want this pc to be at least 4 years old before I switch out hardware....excluding ram which I'll probably need more than 8 of once I start playing modern games or with fancy editing software or music creation.)

So is now a good time/price to buy RX 480 4GB for 1050p("1080p") gaming. Could get after market version for about 220€. (EU)

I got 2 ASUS Strix OC 480's and am a happy fat cat.

200 bucks where? most of these msrp prices are off like 100 to 150 bucks

i laugh at "poor" people who want to cheap out on graphic horse power and still want VR. its like VR should not even be in your vocabulary dude. i'm "poor" and so i dont even look beyond 1080p, i know my place.

the RX 480 costs 310€ in my country

So which one you think it would age better, rx 480 or gtx 1060?

my friend we don't care about temps and wattage we care about pure performance per buck and this at the time is the best future proof choice at the moment out there so don't speak no sense

For the people who consider buying this. Go for the XFX Rx480 GTR 8Gb black edition

how can you record anything with shadowplay i use it too bıt it only records games for me?!?

I don't think it was overhyped. I've never used it tho

I just came here to see all the ppl who board the hype train and crashed hard

ReLive is here to save us

Thank God the prices are coming down....I was just thinking that maybe I should leave gaming and stick to anime. Seriously, idk if it's genuine or just lazy, shitty optimization (games have become quite lazy...) but games these days are just insane on the system requirements. Look at sf5....that thing can't easily run on a potato for instance but it doesn't look too good either. Guilty Gear Xrd on the other hand can run on a potato and looks gorgeous. It's like games spend too much time making rocks look realistic and then putting them in the most drab, boring, uninteresting environments which lead to ridiculous system requirements for game worlds that...you...kinda don't really want to spend time in.

Honest arguments against RX480. It was a major fail. GTX 780, GTX 1060, GTX 970 all three are cheaper and better. AMD realised nothing with Polaris so far.

AMD has made ReLive, like shadowplay exept some say its better

Well, now it's much better with the new drivers.

Waiting for the 490s.

Amd promises a lot but delivers little. Deja vu.

i like how my apu and r7370 WHERE FUCKING BETTER THE MY RX 480

Oi, now that AMD has released the ReLive app, which is essentially AMD's Shadowplay, and with multiple re-reviews coming in with the RX 480 beating out the 1060 in DX11 and 12, how about you eat your words? :D

Playing currently on Nvidia 9600GT 512 MB... Planning to buy a new pc with one of those 480's, pretty cool GPU I guess, especially after that old peace.

where i live even the 470 is more expensive than 200$

Relive

And there was much rejoicing.









yaaaaaaay

Shadowplay Master Race.



JK but it has no competitor right now, all paid, complicated, cause lag or combinations of these, I doubt AMD gonna get something as good.

PS: I know it has been renamed to 'Share' but it still has all of the traits of Shadowplay and more (That overlay is SWEET).

minute of silence for me : i still have a HD 5450

With the new drivers it out performs the GTX 1060, wish there was a 490 though. Vega please...

not sure about disapointment bit tbh.. bought my red devil for 260 pounds week or so after it came out. vrmark hits 161fps avg on highest settings.. or high.. maybe there`s something i missed in there. disapointed? works as promised.

7950->280->380->gtx 1050?

Love my 480. Cheap and lets me play DOOM 2016 on Ultra with only a few really odd frame-drops I still can't figure out the cause to. I did upgrade from a 69 hundred series card so I did see huge improvements.

... Or maybe cryptocurrency miners will gobble up all the cards and prices will skyrocket

Well as we know miners have ruined all that you just said and well stop making money so we can play games damnit!

In my country this card is .5 the price of a 1070, I am taking about the 8gb version.

the 480-580 poops on the old 390's 290's

1 year later and they are more expensive then they were at launch

And then the miners...

One year later it's solid there is not a single game that has come out that i can't do 1080p on plus 4k on older games like assassin's creed brotherhood and saints row 60fps it's a very good starter card and my first AMD card I'm satisfied but will be getting a GTX 1070 when i have the money

200 dollarsssss

This Graphix Card for just 200$
Me getting cancer infront of the screen cuz i bought the card during the Graphic Card crisis in 2017 for about >340$

the background music sounds a lot like that of diablo 2

I use a nvidia 640 am I peasant

I like amd cards, except for their emulation performance, with opengl, they suck compared to nvidia.

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The drivers for the 480/580 have aged well.

Mine lasted till May.

Was a fine little fellow.

remember when "mid-range" was less than $300?

Looking back in 2025 to Polaris and Ellesmere they gave it one more willy and mostly failed. the sales were recouped by pioneer age of Crypto mining to sweep under the rug. But Nvidias Pascal mistake turned into PR win basically shunned AMD no matter how good of a value it was. Then RDNA Navi came. undercooked,, broken and nvidia manage to get away with early adopters to RTX tech, even if useles. managed to solidify Nvidia as the ''Quality relevant brand'' and radeon as ''dont buy'' brand. the consequences of lack of marketshare followed. even with crypto winter and AI boom letting nvidia get greedy. people kept buying green because of the damage done