Those RX480/570 are being sold at about 50 Euros around here, on the second hand market. Even with 4GB of vRAM they still run a lot of newer games in 1080p. The rumor is that AMD will focus on this level of performance cards(mid level) in the future, dropping the high end stuff that would have tried to fight Nvidia.
Still have it after using it for around 3 years now :) (Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 4GB). Will be switching to friend's 1070 at end of this year so i guess it's time how "good" Pascal is for myself.
It was an amazing card for its time. Correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe the 4 GB version “only” ran at 7Gbps, while the 8 GB ran 8 Gbps. Minor detail. Overall, a great video as always!
Still rocking RX480 ROG Only thing i want to mention - every new driver after Adrenalin 2020 21.10.2 hard crashes after 5-15 minutes of gaming but with that one stable driver i have no problems at all But thi is my personal expirience
i do have an rx480 gigabyte g1 gaming card that i was using until late last year when i scored a brand new sapphire pulse rx6600 for $200 shipped on ebay after the gpu mining went bust.
Nexus Tech : sadly this cards achilies heal is the 32 ROP-s....that in conjunction with the GPU frequency is what determines the actual usable linear speed in DX 11 API developed game engines (which in 99 % still all are today in 2023). If you look at the R9 390(X) 8GB which has 64 ROP-s with lower GPU/memory clocks, but wider 512-bit memory bandwidht, it performs faster and better than the RX 480 8GB and 580 8GB in quite some games. If the RX 480/580 had 64 ROP-s and 88 TMU-s (instead of 144), it would be even faster in todays games.
I had an RX470 8GB with dual BIOS support, so I reflashed one of the BIOS' Witt the RX480 instance. The performance that I got from this graphics card got me through 5 years of gaming. Sadly just under 2 years ago it gave up the ghost, maybe that second BIOS was a bit much for the GPU? 😅 Great card though, the high level of VRAM still would make it usable today as you've noted, just gotta get a couple of MOSFETs replaced and it might work 😅
480 was priced at 300euro for a long time, here in nordic countries. The older amd cards were avaible for 180 euro and 980 was at 220-240euro. When the 1060 launched it was actully cheaper than the 480. Msrp is and always have been a big fat lie, so glad that many people realised this during the recent "mining crisis". Polaris 10, ie 480 and 580 became as cheap as the 980 when 580 was out a couple of months old, but before that u should have gotten a hawaii card or maxwell card.
Amazing card in my eyes. ive just replaced my reference Rx 480 with an Rx5700xt. The only flaw I found was that awful blower fan. Luckily enough its easy to watercool with cooler master AIO's.
I never liked Polaris myself as it was only a mid-tier card at best. Old high-end cards were faster and with a little undervolting, didn't consume THAT much more power.
the downside is that it doesn't have DX12_1 support, when the strong point of this gpu is DX12. other than that from 2016 -> 2023 7 years of use. and you can sell it at half the price and get DX12_2 gpu instead. 2024 will be hard on this gpu. DX12_1 and DX12_2 games will launch. plus UE5 is really popular for games. Keeping this GPU after 7 years of use is not smart in my opinion RX 6600 XT 8GB is 200 RX 7600 8GB is 250 RX 6700 XT 12GB is 300 etc the new gpus have DX12_2 support, AV1 support. and will have longer driver support. game dev will not optimize their game for this gpu anymore.
It's quite evident why starfield runs so bad compared to cp77. CP77 has higher fidelity but skimps out on distant details while SF has worse overall graphics but has higher distant detail. I have a nitro+ rx 480 and it served me really well.
The launch price for the RX480 was way too high for it be even considered "value" in any way or form. $230 was way too much when there were places selling GTX1060 for $150 or less. I got a GTX1060 for as low as $125 for a spare machine. AMD is no savior it has long joined the dark side as the me-too scalper. If they really want to be delivering value to the gamers they should be pricing the 7800xt at $400 and adjust their whole line up based on that.
You mean they should have named their lineup correctly, where the 7900xt should be the 7800xt, and the 7800xt should be the 7700xt at $400. But we all know AMD doesn’t actually *want* people to buy their gpus anyways.
The RX 480 was a mediocre card even when it launched i remember hardcore Amd fans saying it was going to beat the GTX 1080 lmao i also forgot that this was the same card that had PCI Express power limit violations as well
The RX 480 was such a disappointing launch, imo. In their showcase benchmarks they advertised that 2x 480 could beat a GTX 1080. Imo, the 480/580/590 was a start and continuation of AMD laziness and banking on crypto miners to buy their gpus. Since the 480 was so similar in performance to the 290/390, AMD essentially kept releasing the same GPU for 5ish years. Even at the time, the GTX970 was a better buy instead of the 4gb RX480.
Those RX480/570 are being sold at about 50 Euros around here, on the second hand market. Even with 4GB of vRAM they still run a lot of newer games in 1080p. The rumor is that AMD will focus on this level of performance cards(mid level) in the future, dropping the high end stuff that would have tried to fight Nvidia.
Still have it after using it for around 3 years now :) (Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 4GB). Will be switching to friend's 1070 at end of this year so i guess it's time how "good" Pascal is for myself.
It was an amazing card for its time.
Correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe the 4 GB version “only” ran at 7Gbps, while the 8 GB ran 8 Gbps. Minor detail. Overall, a great video as always!
Still rocking RX480 ROG
Only thing i want to mention - every new driver after Adrenalin 2020 21.10.2 hard crashes after 5-15 minutes of gaming but with that one stable driver i have no problems at all
But thi is my personal expirience
i do have an rx480 gigabyte g1 gaming card that i was using until late last year when i scored a brand new sapphire pulse rx6600 for $200 shipped on ebay after the gpu mining went bust.
Imagine this guy switching to my ASRock RX 6900 XT OC Formula ! 🤣 He will get over-civilized from the very 1st frame !
Still using it today and playing starfield without any issue, I love this card because of low power consumption.
Last March I needed a cheap GPU and found a stock rx 480 8gb for $50. I couldn't have been happier!
Nexus Tech : sadly this cards achilies heal is the 32 ROP-s....that in conjunction with the GPU frequency is what determines the actual usable linear speed in DX 11 API developed game engines (which in 99 % still all are today in 2023). If you look at the R9 390(X) 8GB which has 64 ROP-s with lower GPU/memory clocks, but wider 512-bit memory bandwidht, it performs faster and better than the RX 480 8GB and 580 8GB in quite some games.
If the RX 480/580 had 64 ROP-s and 88 TMU-s (instead of 144), it would be even faster in todays games.
As a linux gamer. AMD is where it has been at for the last 5-7 years at least.
I had an RX470 8GB with dual BIOS support, so I reflashed one of the BIOS' Witt the RX480 instance. The performance that I got from this graphics card got me through 5 years of gaming. Sadly just under 2 years ago it gave up the ghost, maybe that second BIOS was a bit much for the GPU? 😅 Great card though, the high level of VRAM still would make it usable today as you've noted, just gotta get a couple of MOSFETs replaced and it might work 😅
Back in 2016 electric prices were so cheap. The power consumption didnt matter at all.
480 was priced at 300euro for a long time, here in nordic countries. The older amd cards were avaible for 180 euro and 980 was at 220-240euro. When the 1060 launched it was actully cheaper than the 480. Msrp is and always have been a big fat lie, so glad that many people realised this during the recent "mining crisis".
Polaris 10, ie 480 and 580 became as cheap as the 980 when 580 was out a couple of months old, but before that u should have gotten a hawaii card or maxwell card.
Amazing card in my eyes. ive just replaced my reference Rx 480 with an Rx5700xt. The only flaw I found was that awful blower fan. Luckily enough its easy to watercool with cooler master AIO's.
GTX 1060 VS RX 570 VS RX 480?
I never liked Polaris myself as it was only a mid-tier card at best. Old high-end cards were faster and with a little undervolting, didn't consume THAT much more power.
cud it be compared with Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
the downside is that it doesn't have DX12_1 support, when the strong point of this gpu is DX12.
other than that from 2016 -> 2023 7 years of use.
and you can sell it at half the price and get DX12_2 gpu instead.
2024 will be hard on this gpu.
DX12_1 and DX12_2 games will launch. plus UE5 is really popular for games.
Keeping this GPU after 7 years of use is not smart in my opinion
RX 6600 XT 8GB is 200
RX 7600 8GB is 250
RX 6700 XT 12GB is 300
etc
the new gpus have DX12_2 support, AV1 support. and will have longer driver support.
game dev will not optimize their game for this gpu anymore.
AMD promised native vp9 decoding. It never arrived.
Yeah, they pulled an Intel Skylake with that.
It's clear the card is doing some acceleration for VP9, but it's shader based, not entire VCE based
It's quite evident why starfield runs so bad compared to cp77. CP77 has higher fidelity but skimps out on distant details while SF has worse overall graphics but has higher distant detail. I have a nitro+ rx 480 and it served me really well.
The launch price for the RX480 was way too high for it be even considered "value" in any way or form. $230 was way too much when there were places selling GTX1060 for $150 or less. I got a GTX1060 for as low as $125 for a spare machine. AMD is no savior it has long joined the dark side as the me-too scalper. If they really want to be delivering value to the gamers they should be pricing the 7800xt at $400 and adjust their whole line up based on that.
You mean they should have named their lineup correctly, where the 7900xt should be the 7800xt, and the 7800xt should be the 7700xt at $400. But we all know AMD doesn’t actually *want* people to buy their gpus anyways.
Mine was like 200 but $170 after msrp.. Mid range cards nowadays go for like 500 bucks
The RX 480 was a mediocre card even when it launched i remember hardcore Amd fans saying it was going to beat the GTX 1080 lmao i also forgot that this was the same card that had PCI Express power limit violations as well
The RX 480 was such a disappointing launch, imo. In their showcase benchmarks they advertised that 2x 480 could beat a GTX 1080.
Imo, the 480/580/590 was a start and continuation of AMD laziness and banking on crypto miners to buy their gpus. Since the 480 was so similar in performance to the 290/390, AMD essentially kept releasing the same GPU for 5ish years.
Even at the time, the GTX970 was a better buy instead of the 4gb RX480.
470 570 480 580 8GB is a better buy then
Ahh yes the GTX3.5GB
You're forgetting that 290X was 550$ in 2013 and not accounting for inflation, RX 480 4 GB was 200$ 3 years later, being uArches newer
And no, GTX 970 was NEVER a better buy than 480 4 GB, lmao.
No. The rx 580 was.