Brings impressive performance for US $199
AMD has now officially launched its first Polaris GPU architecture based graphics card, the Radeon RX 480, "starting a rebellion" and offering impressive performance for its price.
Based on Polaris 10 GPU made on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, the Radeon RX 480 packs 36 compute units for a total of 2304 Stream Processors, has 144 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The base GPU clock of the RX 480 is set at 1120MHz while the Boost takes the GPU up to 1266MHz. These specifications will provide 5.2-5.8 TFLOPs of compute performance.
The RX 480 will be available with 4GB or 8GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective). Paired up with a 256-bit memory interface, this adds up to a total memory bandwidth of 256GB/s.
The TDP of the RX 480 is set at 150W and it features a standard dual-slot blower-style cooler, at least in its reference design form. It also comes with HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 1.4 ports.
The official MSRP for the Radeon RX 480 is set at US $199+VAT for the 4GB version and US $239+VAT for the 8GB version. The custom versions should come later in July and should end up with a slightly higher price tag.
AMD also launched the new Radeon WattMan overclocking software, but unfortunately, the Radeon RX 480 comes with rather limited overclocking results due to bad reference cooler, which simply can't cope with the GPU.
There are plenty of published reviews around and most agree on the same thing, the Radeon RX 480 provides exceptional performance for its price but suffers from a bad case of lousy reference cooler, which not only does not keep the GPU well cooled, hitting temperatures of around 80 degrees Celsius under load, but it is also one of the loudest reference coolers up to date.
The average performance puts the new Radeon RX 480 somewhere in the Radeon R9 390/390X range and should be a decent competition to Nvidia's GTX 970 graphics card. Of course, Nvidia's latest Pascal-based GTX 1080/1070 are significantly faster but we are not talking about the same market segment either.
In case you have been wondering, the Radeon RX 480 is already available in Europe as well and priced at €269 for the 8GB reference version.
Source: AMD.com.
Based on Polaris 10 GPU made on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, the Radeon RX 480 packs 36 compute units for a total of 2304 Stream Processors, has 144 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The base GPU clock of the RX 480 is set at 1120MHz while the Boost takes the GPU up to 1266MHz. These specifications will provide 5.2-5.8 TFLOPs of compute performance.
The RX 480 will be available with 4GB or 8GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective). Paired up with a 256-bit memory interface, this adds up to a total memory bandwidth of 256GB/s.
The TDP of the RX 480 is set at 150W and it features a standard dual-slot blower-style cooler, at least in its reference design form. It also comes with HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 1.4 ports.
The official MSRP for the Radeon RX 480 is set at US $199+VAT for the 4GB version and US $239+VAT for the 8GB version. The custom versions should come later in July and should end up with a slightly higher price tag.
AMD also launched the new Radeon WattMan overclocking software, but unfortunately, the Radeon RX 480 comes with rather limited overclocking results due to bad reference cooler, which simply can't cope with the GPU.
There are plenty of published reviews around and most agree on the same thing, the Radeon RX 480 provides exceptional performance for its price but suffers from a bad case of lousy reference cooler, which not only does not keep the GPU well cooled, hitting temperatures of around 80 degrees Celsius under load, but it is also one of the loudest reference coolers up to date.
The average performance puts the new Radeon RX 480 somewhere in the Radeon R9 390/390X range and should be a decent competition to Nvidia's GTX 970 graphics card. Of course, Nvidia's latest Pascal-based GTX 1080/1070 are significantly faster but we are not talking about the same market segment either.
In case you have been wondering, the Radeon RX 480 is already available in Europe as well and priced at €269 for the 8GB reference version.
Source: AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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