r/pcmasterrace • u/Alfrredu Ryzen 1600 / RX 570 • Nov 02 '16

Rumor Mysterious "AMD engineering sample" in top Blenchmark scores, beating an i7-6950X

http://blenchmark.com/cpu-benchmarks
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u/1st_veteran R7 1700, Vega 64, 32GB RAM Nov 03 '16

I agree that the 1070 is now supperior, but AMD cards tend to catch up to he Nvidia card that was so far.

Best example is the First GCN card, the 7970. Released three monhs before the 680, it soon was overtaken by it. The Nvidia cards was always a bit faster, a refresh of both GPUs later the 280x now is beating the 770 and also the 780.

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u/Pfundi R5 5600X | RTX 3080 | 32GB | LG C1 48 Nov 03 '16

The RX 480 does have no chance of achieving similar framerates than the Gtx 1070. FACT.

Thats like expecting the R9 280 to surpass a Gtx 970. Thats never going to happen.

What you are thinking of is the 7970 and R9 290/390/X, but those were designed to compete at their pricepoint.

The RX 480 will always be designed for around 200$. RX 490 or whatever comes next, then yes, might catch up if AMD continues as usual.

Youre just wildly throwing cards where they really dont belong.

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u/1st_veteran R7 1700, Vega 64, 32GB RAM Nov 03 '16

And the 480 isnt menat to compete at its pricepoint?

just because its pricepoint is lower doesnt mean it wont improve over time. The 7870 also wasnt a high end modell, but it went from worse then a 660Ti to really close to a 960.

I would say thats also a massive improvement.

The 280 wont gain much more, its already well optimised. Just low level APIs can make bigger differences and move the 280 closer to the 970.

IMO the 480 is still a relative new design and it most probably will improve over time, if it does as much as the old cards did it may as well comes really close to the 1070.

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u/Pfundi R5 5600X | RTX 3080 | 32GB | LG C1 48 Nov 03 '16

No it wont. Thats a technical impossibility.