AMD Radeon RX 480: June 29th for $199

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35 points·bryanlarsen··9 comments

The big deal about this card can be summed up thusly: "AMD is planning on heavily promoting the VR aspects of the RX 480, as it brings the necessary performance down from a 250W, $300+ card to a 150W, $200 card."

So the card is more accessible from a financial standpoint and the 100W decrease in power draw means that it both reduces the overall cost of a new build in addition to its own lower cost by requiring a less beefy power supply and makes it a viable option in a greater array of existing desktops without needing to also upgrade the current power supply.

If AMD released decent Linux drivers I might consider it over an Nvidia card, but as things stand now they're useless in a Linux box, and useless in a Windows box (but that's just because it's windows)

>useless in a Windows box (but that's just because it's windows)

Care to expand on that? You do realize that Windows dominates the gaming market, right? (and don't respond with anything involving mobile please).

It was just a cheap jab at Windows, cuz everybody likes to slam Windows! Agreed, Windows dominates gaming market.

My interest is in machine learning, so I would like to see decent Linux drivers and more work on the OpenCL environment.

Technically, iOS dominates the gaming market :)

What did I say about mentioning mobile games? :D

Your point is kind of invalid, most users of AMD GPU's are gamers and gamers run Windows

The open-source AMD drivers on my AMD APU work perfectly (albeit it is not new nor is it high-end), what problems are you having?

They are not that bad, I have an APU laptop and they work flawlessly so far. However, owning an Nvidia rig, the nvidia drivers are much much better.

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