In an above recent post, I noted AMD shares were climbing based partly on an improved perception of the business plan.

Now, they are dropping. The price did go up substantially. That triggered the sell off by profit takers (Traders).

As I noted above: Trading (buying and selling in the short term based on market indicators) is okay. But, not Investing (holding for the long term).

Just posting this for completeness. If I talk about "up", I must talk about "down" to be even handed.

Everyone's stock took a dive yesterday.

At this moment, Newegg is showing RX-480 by six manufacturers. Not for pre-order. Rather for "auto notification" when they are in stock. I signed up -- but, buying will wait until we have "hard test data".

A consideration: All 6 currently showing are reference and have 3 x DisplayPort and 1 x HDMI port -- so one's monitor(s) need to support that (or buy an adapter).

AIB Cooling Solutions wont be out on the 29th, dont remember where I saw it,

However 95-100w Full Load in stress tests and a SHORT PCB completely covered w/ heatsink and shroud w/ fan extended over the edge, i doubt cooling will be a problem on the stock cards.

It does look like I'm gonna need to get at least 2 DP -> MiniDP adapters ($7 each...) for my Monitors
(io have 1 DP->DVI-D, and like 8 MiniDP->DVI-D Active Adapters + a Bunch of MiniDP->HDMI ones I tried w/ the Rift)

As None of the AIB Photos of their custom boards show a variance away from the 3 Full Display Port connections.

Taking a page from Apple's Macintosh playbook, I see...

Newegg has a 4GB Sapphire reference card listed (not for sale yet) -- along with 7 other make/models.

Rumor is that some stores are ALREADY have them "in the house". Some have not signed papers prohibiting sale prior to 29th. So, some cards may be available before June 29, the rumor monger speculates.

ive physically unloaded at least 2 palets of them.

Sites are leaking Software slides of the new OC tool from RTG.

At the moment I write this, Newegg has 37 Nvidia 1080 and 1070 listed -- 0 1080 models and only 1 1070 model in stock.

Today's rumor is that Nvidia will release the 1060 a month earlier and at lower prices than planned to compete with RX-480. It will be interesting to see actual 1060 availability in the first month.

Tomorrow, the RX-480 speculation/rumor-mongering ends, presumably. It will be interesting to see actual RX-480 availability. That is: Will this be an RX-480 "semi-paper launch" (like Nvidia's) or a real launch. Anyhow, I'm ready to "grab one" -- unless the reviews "say otherwise".

Competition is good

1060 can launch today, and no one will see one till september

Tomorrow is gonna be fun

My GTX1080 arrived last Friday......its beautiful

Some RX480 reviews ready for print tomorrow are already getting leaked;

http://wccftech.com/radeon-rx-480-gaming-performance-review-leaked/

Man congrats on the 1080, was it worth it?

From that leaked review, it looks like RX480 = GTX970 and not GTX980 as some suggested.

Looks like a combination of all the leaks and no actual content of their own.

Agree. The 1080 is the new-era, fastest single card on the market. And, it will remain the fastest for at least a few months

Tomorrow, the RX-480 will be new-era also. Remains to be seen how fast.

Enjoy the 1080

3 hours to go.. :-)

Hmm the initial ones that have popped up on sale have been at $249 and even $284:

http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/rx480/

Yup. Its late on the 28th as I write. Going to bed.

So far, the prices are "higher than rumored" ($239 plus shipping) to "ridiculous" ($375 from third party re-seller). Most cards are "listed", but not yet on sale.

The one 4GB version that was listed previously has been "taken down". That should have been the $199 version.

So far, no good. Hopefully, I will awaken to better news.

Well, I know that I paid a premium and UK prices don't really align with the dollar equivalent but It's obviously a top card......I paid £579 for the Inno3D iChill X3 version and pre-ordered it on 28th May. The date kept getting pushed back as it was originally due on 10th June. It's obviously a beast of a card.....whisper quiet and I'd 'patiently' waited since the back end of last year for it. The plan was always to give my 970 to my son and upgrade in preparation for my Oculus VR which arrived a week before the GPU so timing was good. I was so tempted to splash out for the 980ti in the run up to the Pascal release out of sheer impatience.

I'm still testing the waters and playing with the Oculus but in comparison to my old 970 which struggled to keep its head above the water in Project CARS at max settings at 1440p, the frame rate would sit around 40-60 but the deal breaker was when things got busy such as when it rained or at the start of a race with loads of cars on the track it stuttered and the fps dropped so low it forced me to drop settings. The 1080 cuts through it like a knife through butter and maintains 100fps with everything at 'ultra'. At 1440p that's overkill but for the Oculus the high frame rate is essential and it's something else for the immersion.

In terms of bang for buck it's always going to be hard to justify however as the fastest single card and currently the only one that will get close to the 90fps in most games for the Oculus until multi-GPU is supported and can drive each eye-piece it's worth the asking price (for me). I'm very interested in AMD's offerings starting with the RX480 as I'm hoping it provides the much needed competition and starts driving Nvidia's silly prices down. I guess that in the future my upgrade path will be a second GTX1080 if the scaling turns out to be good and the price is reduced unless the 1080Ti or AMD Navi smashes performance into a completely different level in which case I'd have to suck humble pie and remortgage my house!

0600hrs here in the UK and the RX480 info is still not published yet.

In Doom and Fallout 4 at 1440P at ULTRA settings (games of interest to me), looking at the entire timeline plot (averages can be misleading) of FPS vs Time on one site, RX-480 is equivalent to R9-390 and barely exceeds GTX 980.

The RX-480 tends to win at points where framerate drops to lowest levels (where FPS becomes most important). Framerates in roughly 40 - 50 range (more than enough for me at 1440P ULTRA).

That's what the rumors have been predicting (in my reading of the rumors). So far, so good on the test reports (in my reading of them -- others may have a different opinion).