VR gaming capable graphics card at US $199
During its Computex 2016 event last night, AMD has unveiled the 10th generation Radeon graphics card lineup starting with the US $199 priced Polaris-based Radeon RX 480.
The 10th generation explains the sudden name change to Radeon RX 480, and according to the revealed specifications, we are looking at a graphics card that offers over 5 TFLOPS of single-precision computing performance, 36 CUs, 4GB or 8GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit memory interface and a TDP of 150W, leaving it with a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.
According to the report from Videocardz.com, AMD RX 480 is confirmed to be the earlier spotted Polaris 67DF:C7 device ID graphics card, which means that the GPU clock should be around 1266MHz and it is actually based on Polaris 10 (Ellesmere XT) GPU with 2304 Stream Processors. The 4/8GB of GDDR5 memory should end up clocked at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective), leaving it with a same 256GB/s memory bandwidth as the Geforce GTX 1070.
It is still not clear if RX 480 is based on a fully-enabled GPU or we will see the RX 480X in future with 2560 Stream Processors.
Judging from the revealed picture of a reference Radeon RX 480, AMD did not change that much as you still get a dual-slot blower-style cooler with a plate covering the most of the graphics card. AMD also changed the Radeon logo slightly.
AMD was quite keen to note that the RX 480 is actually VR Ready Premium graphics card and certified for both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
The rest of the specifications include single HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 1.4 outputs as well as support for AMD FreeSync, full HEVC and HDR ready support.
Performance-wise, the rumors suggest that the new AMD Radeon RX 480 should end up between the Geforce GTX 970 and the GTX 980, leaving Nvidia a lot of room to counter it with the upcoming Pascal-based Geforce GTX 1060 graphics card.
The biggest surprise was certainly the announced US $199 price tag. While this is probably the price of a 4GB graphics card, the 8GB version should not be far ahead, probably priced somewhere between US $229 and and US $249. Of course, these are exc. tax prices so expect it to be priced a bit higher on retail/e-tail shelves, especially in Europe.
Most sites are still under Polaris NDA but the earlier report suggest that the Radeon RX 480 should launch on 29th of June.
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The 10th generation explains the sudden name change to Radeon RX 480, and according to the revealed specifications, we are looking at a graphics card that offers over 5 TFLOPS of single-precision computing performance, 36 CUs, 4GB or 8GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit memory interface and a TDP of 150W, leaving it with a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.
According to the report from Videocardz.com, AMD RX 480 is confirmed to be the earlier spotted Polaris 67DF:C7 device ID graphics card, which means that the GPU clock should be around 1266MHz and it is actually based on Polaris 10 (Ellesmere XT) GPU with 2304 Stream Processors. The 4/8GB of GDDR5 memory should end up clocked at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective), leaving it with a same 256GB/s memory bandwidth as the Geforce GTX 1070.
It is still not clear if RX 480 is based on a fully-enabled GPU or we will see the RX 480X in future with 2560 Stream Processors.
Judging from the revealed picture of a reference Radeon RX 480, AMD did not change that much as you still get a dual-slot blower-style cooler with a plate covering the most of the graphics card. AMD also changed the Radeon logo slightly.
AMD was quite keen to note that the RX 480 is actually VR Ready Premium graphics card and certified for both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
The rest of the specifications include single HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 1.4 outputs as well as support for AMD FreeSync, full HEVC and HDR ready support.
Performance-wise, the rumors suggest that the new AMD Radeon RX 480 should end up between the Geforce GTX 970 and the GTX 980, leaving Nvidia a lot of room to counter it with the upcoming Pascal-based Geforce GTX 1060 graphics card.
The biggest surprise was certainly the announced US $199 price tag. While this is probably the price of a 4GB graphics card, the 8GB version should not be far ahead, probably priced somewhere between US $229 and and US $249. Of course, these are exc. tax prices so expect it to be priced a bit higher on retail/e-tail shelves, especially in Europe.
Most sites are still under Polaris NDA but the earlier report suggest that the Radeon RX 480 should launch on 29th of June.
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News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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