By Kevin Lee
AMD is hoping to capture the minds and hearts of all gamers by introducing a new line of Polaris graphics cards that focuses on affordability on top of performance.
First announced at Computex 2016, AMD has finally pulled the wraps off its new flagship Radeon RX 480. The GPU is based on AMD’s smaller and more efficient 14nm FinFET process. The company promises it deliver over five teraflops of performance for premium VR gaming experiences and only eats up 150-watts at most.
The graphics card also comes with 36 compute units on-board and DisplayPort 1.4 to push HDR experiences.
And with the Radeon RX 480 priced at $199 for the 4GB GDDR5 model, AMD will effectively have the most affordable VR-ready graphics card on the market. The 8GB model isn’t too much of an extra expense either, priced at a slightly higher $239.
That said, the RX 480 isn’t the most powerful card we’ve seen yet and it sticks to the tried and true GDDR5 video memory. The Nvidia GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 easily trump it in raw power, but as AMD has shown before you can outpace Nvidia’s new flagship with …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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