What you mean by cooler?

50W at 7870 performance is gooding.

The bigger Polaris concerns me though.

I read something something about tech journalist signing NDA at AMD Polaris event today that they can release informations about Polaris on 29 June? So expect June/July availability if no postpone.

Need to wait for KentangEmas confirmation.

I can finally feel good I sold my R9 290 for the starting price of Polaris.

Although not much difference in performance, RX 480 should sell like hot cakes as its more than capable to handle 1080p which is the most common resolution.

Noticed that the actual PCB is shorter than the cooler. Another Nano like GPU maybe?

Well on the plus side, its a 6-pin connector, not 8 pin like the 1070's. My take is that the Radeons will cap at 150W but the GeForces will sip a minimum of 150W.

Also I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the AIBs for nVidia will sell Pascal with 8+6pin as it looks like the GeForces seem to throttle a lot and not able to sustain its boost clocks for long gaming sessions. This means that the AIB GeForces wont be sitting at 150~180W as the Founder Edition cards.

Polaris on the other hand, I believe wont throttle as much.

n i fking just WC my 290  now load <60C. dayuum freaking nice compare to 83C (tri-x) in SF V

By the time rx480 hits the market, green camp already pushing 1060 to negate the advantage of rx480. To me, timing is important... if amd floods 480 to market way before the nvidia, nvidia has no choice but to lower 1070 price to counter this.

just single gpu. not sure why my trix able to went up to 80C+ when its 100% utilize, tried reapply tim and etc still that range.
previously its <75C before i dismantle to clean it but weird 

i just make my whole rig goes under water and get an used EK block for my r290 since i don't game that much and only eye Vega/Volta for my next upgrade.