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a long time ago in a fabrication plant

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far far away well actually it wasn't

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that far away and it was in June of 2016

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that AMD Dro drop dropped the rx480 code

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named Polaris in a wild marketing

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campaign evoking Revolution and for good

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reason the 400 series performed really well for the price although the flagship

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480 was quickly overshadowed by NVIDIA's

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1060 ha the dangers of shooting first

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but after 10 months of reloading AMD is

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finally ready to fire again with the only question being what's in the

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chamber fire power or fire poor

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the Phoenix oour is a full-sized minimalistically designed keyboard

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complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out

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at the link below come on it's okay maybe it's not

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funny but it's silly so let's get this out of the way this is still

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Polaris the same architecture AMD used for their RX 400 series if you you were

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waiting for AMD's highly anticipated Vega

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gpus then you'll be disappointed but if

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you were waiting for Polaris enhanced

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with a more mature 14 NM finfet process

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and Tighter voltage and frequency regulation translating into better power

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efficiency and higher clock speeds then

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you and all the other holdouts with R9

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285s or R9 380s should be as hell right

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about now well hold on a second here

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lonus is this just a shinier 480 why is

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this even worth a video and where is

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Vega great

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question RX 570 and 580 then presumably

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due to slumping rx480 4 gig sales AMD's

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Partners will be putting more emphasis on the top tier 8 gig version this time

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time around though that won't have much of an impact on you the consumer and

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pricing looks to be well basically the

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same with rx570 coming in $10 cheaper on

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average than the 480 that it replaces in

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other news AMD's slide deck also had

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prominent mentions of both the rx550 and RX 560 the former of which is

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brand new silicon but we don't have have those yet so all we can say for now is

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that apparently the rx550 is better than an integrated GPU at $80 and I would

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sure as hell hope so and the 560 is a

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460 but with a $10 price drop and since

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enthusiasts were running around unlocking extra compute units with BIOS

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tricks AMD went ahead and enabled those right out of the

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factory and I guess there's some software news as well as of the rx5 100

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series launch AMD's Radeon driver for every card from 7,000 series onward

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includes what they're calling Radeon chill a configurable frame limiter that

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improves thermals and power draw when enabled you can specify a minimum in

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maximum frame rate and Radeon chill will keep your game running within that

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window Esports titles for instance are designed to be easy to run and for that

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reason they're notorious for ultra high frame rates that go Way Beyond what it

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typical or even very high-end monitor would be able to display so what this

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translates to for users is lower noise

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and more consistent performance without

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adding any input leg and in some cases they claim even improving it pretty cool

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right yeah call me when it's in a notebook you guys also a bigger

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supported games list would be swell though to AMD's credit the big orts

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titles are mostly covered here all right

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then lonus enough stalling tell us how

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the RX 580 and 570 perform you guys are

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so demanding sometimes you know okay so

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we tested our shiny new cards on both our Intel test bench and our ryen AMD

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test bench along with equivalent last gen cards from both AMD and NVIDIA now

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since AMD doesn't have reference boards for the 500 series they actually sent us

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Factory overclocked cards to test so

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shout out to asusan NVIDIA Who provided us with some Factory overclocked cards

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for the green side to level the playing field somewhat before you ask by the way

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we did try overclocking these cards further but neither of them achieved a

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core overclock of more than 50 MHz over

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what they already shipped with so then as we can see in our performance testing

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obvious things are indeed obvious in

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fact we've got a measurable if not earth

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chattering performance bump over the RX 400 series direct X12 and Vulcan both

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show us a wider Improvement than directx11 thanks to those apis more

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efficient rendering pipelines that favor AMD's gcn architecture although again

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the difference isn't that massive and also of note here is the utter ly

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uninteresting differences in performance between the Cards across Intel and AMD

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CPU platforms so sorry conspiracy

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theorists but the rumors of NVIDIA's

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drivers crippling Ryzen performance

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seem to have been greatly exaggerated so the tldr then is that in

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a big surprise to no one we're looking at a

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higher clocked RX 480 and 470 for this

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release AMD chose to iterate on their

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existing Polaris architecture cards in order to address some of their short

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comings against NVIDIA's mid-range and budget lineup have they achieved that

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well as far as performance is concerned yes yes they have when it comes to power

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consumption the story does fall apart a little bit particularly with the Factory

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overclocked cards though it should be noted that we didn't use Radeon chill

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for our testing because it makes apples to Apple's comparisons go

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sour so then if you're an AMD fan

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desperately waiting to upgrade your high-end Hawaii or Fiji based GPU then

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you get to keep waiting but if you're more of a mid-range buyer who didn't mow

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enough Lawns last summer for a 47 or a

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480 then great news because you get a

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little bit more for your money this year so rock on you sexy gardening Beast

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