Radeon RX480: Polaris release on June 29 for 200 US dollars

Nvidia shows Pascal and AMD countered with Polaris. While the Geforce 1080 and also the Geforce 1070 (the latter at least pricey) with a new Pascal architecture clean up the high-end market for graphics cards, the hopes rested long on AMD’s Polaris platform. The wait has now come to an end: It starts a hot fight for users who want to upgrade their PC before and during the summer of 2017. AMD has revealed the first details on the Radeon RX480 at the Computex trade fair in Taipei. This could happen in performance regions of a Geforce 1070 – and should cost only about half.


In sequence: The Radeon RX480 will start on June 29th. The price is to be 199 USD. In the United States, the amount is likely to be just over 200 euros due to the conversion and taxation. The AMD chip is manufactured in the 14 nanometer FinFET process and accommodates 36 computing units, which have a total of 2,304 shaders available. The card comes next to 8 GB also with 4 GB GDDR5 RAM, which are connected as with the Geforce 1070 with 256 Bit. Transfer rates are the same at 256 GB per second. Just like the Nvidia counterpart, the AMD card should provide enough performance for virtual reality spectacles.


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The computing power of the AMD RX 480 should be more than 5 teraflops. In the probably about twice as expensive Geforce 1070 the performance is estimated with 6.3 Teraflops. The Nvidia card achieves this with 1,920 shaders, the chip is manufactured by the 16 nanometer method. While the Geforce clocks with 1.506 MHz normal and with 1.683 MHz in boost mode, there is a test in the database of 3D Mark manufacturer Futuremark with a suitable AMD graphics card, which has a clock of 1.266 MHz, like golem.de Is shown. By the comparatively low clock and the finer chip manufacturing AMD, with the new Polaris processor as well as Nvidia with the Geforce 1070 to a power consumption of 150 watts to come. There are no pictures of the map


AMD fans and price-conscious gamers can look forward to it, but it's still too early for a blind buy. The Radeon RX480 is a so-called paper launch. Both AMD itself and board partners have presented neither reference nor custom designs. Previous benchmarks from AMD indicate that the RX480 in the SLI network a single GTX 1080 scarcely beats. That would be the face of the probable total price of two times 200 euros versus around 700 euros for a GTX 1080 a real announcement. More certainty will bring further tests. We will keep you posted.