By Zak Storey
Introduction and specification
AMD’s new Radeon RX 480 graphics card pivots around one goal: bringing high-end gaming and the virtual reality experience to a wider selection of PC enthusiasts and gamers.
And with over 40 VR headsets slowly making their way to market – including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – we’re pretty convinced this card and others like it will play a huge factor in the graphical arms race that’s about to ensue.
After all, virtual reality will only become a success if games developers and publishers feel confident funding titles that can sell to a wide audience, one that needs to be far greater than VR currently has.
Virtually capable
Does the RX 480 make that more likely to happen? Well, yes. For now, it’s easily over the minimum spec for virtual reality. It performs well at 2,560 x 1440 pixel-resolution and astronomically at 1,920 x 1080, and we may see its pricing fall should Nvidia release its rumored GTX 1060 card.
Nvidia manufactures its new Pascal-based GTX 1070 and 1080 cards on a16nm FinFET process, whereas AMD’s first sub-22nm offering uses 14nm. That’s right – AMD’s first offering to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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