AMD shows the AMD Polaris Radeon RX 480 videocard that beats the GTX 980
AMD seems to be getting ready for the launch of the Radeon RX 480 as the CrossFire results of the cards performing in 3DMark FireStrike benchmarks have been revealed to really beat the GTX 1080.
When AMD initially unveiled their Radeon RX 480, they have shown that it could beat the NVIDIA GTX 1080 in a CrossFire setup for under $500 instead of the 1080's $700 price. The benchmark used was the Ashes of the Singularity DX12 game which became controversial because of slight differences in the image quality.
Synthetic benchmarks have often been used to gauge and estimate how powerful a video card is. The higher the scores, the more likely they'll perform better in games but they are not exactly entirely accurate considering that there are many factors for video games.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 CrossFire setup scored 81 percent more than just the single card on 3DMark FireStrike benchmarks, Videocardz has learned. It also scored one percent higher than the single GTX 1080 card.
Under the Ultra preset, the Polaris 10 cards scored 4990 which is a tiny bit less than the 4998 from NVIDIA's Pascal card. However, the new AMD card scored 22721 in the Performance preset compared to the 1080's 21828.
Besides the impressive benchmark scores, the card has also been found to hit high frequency clocks when overclocked. The AMD Radeon RX 480 was capable of hitting 1.5GHz for the core clock on just stock air cooling, WCCFTech reported.
If the Polaris 10 card is able to go further than the GTX 1080 in terms of overclocking, the CrossFire setups could be more powerful than ever. However, the overclocks were observed in the "Beast Mode" cards that are priced at $299 which come factory overclocked just like custom AIB cards. Unfortunately, there haven't been any performance benchmarks and comparisons yet regarding the overclocked cards from AMD.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 cards seem to hold much potential for budget PC gamers looking for performance up to par with the GTX 1080. In addition, the 1.5GHz overclocks of the Polaris 10 card could also mean that it can beat the GTX 980 or come close with the GTX 1070 from NVIDIA.
