AMD shows the AOTS benchmarks of the Radeon RX 480 vs the GTX 1080, which is expected to be beat by the upcoming Radeon RX 490. (Photo : YouTube / TechnoWin)
AMD has recently revealed their $200 Radeon RX 480 powered by Polaris that was shown to beat the NVIDIA GTX 1080 with two cards in the AOTS benchmark.
While the two AMD Radeon RX 480 have beaten the single GTX 1080 with several frame rates and a cheaper overall price, there are some fans suspicious of the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark image quality. When both of the images were shown side by side, there are several differences that can be seen in terms of the quality.
AMD was quick to dismiss any speculation that their benchmark was run at a lower quality. The company's Technical Marketing head Robert Hallock answered several Reddit questions to address the elephant in the room.
Hallock said that both the Radeon RX 480 Polaris and the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Pascal GPU benchmarks were run using the "Crazy" settings at 1080p resolution and even with the 8x MSAA activated, TweakTown has learned.
The explanation given about the image quality difference is because of AOTS's procedural generation that is based on a randomized seed. Each time the benchmark is run, the looks will be different from the last one.
AMD's new Radeon RX 480 card has no exact TFLOP count but the company did say it has more than five teraflops, Engadget reported. In contrast, the GGTX 1080 has nine TFLOPS while the cheaper $380 GTX 1070 spurts out more than six.
With the $200 price tag, the Polaris GPU seems to be an interesting choice for budget-conscious PC gamers. It has more power than the GTX 980 and other previous Radeon cards.
NVIDIA's counter product would probably be the GTX 1060 but it has not surfaced yet. Several reports have claimed that its performance would be somewhere between the GTX 970 and the GTX 980 with a price that could be lower than the Polaris 11 card.
AMD is set to officially ship and roll out the RX 480 Polaris video card by June 29 for $200. PC users themselves would finally be able to run AOTS benchmarks themselves to find out whether it can really take on the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070.
