Howdy, gorgeous. IT's no surprise that AMD's Radeon RX 480 will hit the streets on June 29, delivery VR-ready performance to the masses for the low, low Mary Leontyne Pric of just $200. That sort of performance leap is possible because the RX 480's the first graphics card supported some AMD's raw-butt 14nm "Polesta" GPU, which represents atwo generation study jump on forward over the 28nm GPUs recovered in nowadays's cards.
While we can't enter upon inside information about carrying into action results or embargo dates oranything, PCWorld's acceptable an primaeval sample for testing, and the interest about the card is fresh enough that we idea we'd do a small visual preview of the RX 480 out front of our full recapitulation. AMD gave us the thumbs high to indicate the intact out of the card, so let's take a look.
Radeon RX 480 stats
Fooled you! Before we dig intoo far, here's a look at the technical school specs AMD has already released publicly for the Radeon RX 480.
Best look
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Nonpareil affair immediately jumps out at you glancing at the Radeon RX 480: Patc $200 graphics cards tend to cut corners in the aesthetics department, AMD went elegant with the RX 480. The 9.5-edge in card's looks mirror the attractive finish of the much higher priced Radeon Fury X ($630 happening Amazon) and Radeon Nano ($500 connected Amazon).
Blow
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A closer look at the Radeon RX 480's blower-style fan. Blower-flair fans are common on character reference graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia.
Ports!
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Here's a view the Radeon RX 480's port option: A trio of DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 connectors and a single HDMI 2.0b embrasure. The card also supports nasal dynamic range picture, just like Nvidia's GTX 1070 ($450 connected Amazon) and GTX 1080 ($700 on Newegg).
AMD ditched DVI connections years ago, but fear not DVI fans: You can often detect custom Radeon boards aside AMD's ironware partners (like VisionTek, Sapphire, and Asus) that impart the functionality back in.
Power!
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The side of the Radeon RX 480 features the new-wait Radeon logo, along with a single 6-pin power connector old to draw the card's 150 watt TDP.
Debris in the luggage compartment
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The rear of the card is, well, the fanny of the card.
Rump
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Here's the rear of the Radeon RX 480, which doesn't boast a be-adding backplate. Bank bill how short the actualised PCB is; the last 1.5-inches of the card is harmonious tank.
Next-up
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A complimentary close-up for you graphics card game nerds out there.
Almost a Nano
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Present's the Radeon RX 480 (top) lined rising adjacent to a Radeon R9 Nano, with an iPhone SE tossed in at that place for good measure. (And by that, I mean more scale reference.) We'ray looking at the backside to drive home just how short the RX 480's PCB really is. It's only an inch or so longer than the mITX Radeon Nano—and the RX 480 uses a traditional GDDR5 memory board chip array, rather than the Nano's space-saving (and comprehensive fast) utmost-bandwidth memory.
Not-quite competitors
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Arsenic you tin can see the RX 480 is slightly shorter overall than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070. Steady though we're showing these side-by-side since the RX 480 is AMD's number 1 graphics card based on next-gen 14nm "Polaris" GPU technical school and the GTX 1070 is break of Nvidia's initial 16nm "Pascal" GPU salvo, they aren't really competitors. The RX 480 is aimed at a mainstream-friendly $200 price compass point, while the GTX 1070 brings Titan X-esque performance down to the $380 dismantle.
Backside redux
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The GTX 1070 Founders Edition features a full-length PCB, unlike the RX 480's shortened board.
That's it for now. To breakthrough out how the Radeon RX 480 performs below the hood, tune certain our full survey on… oh wait, I can't talk about that. AMD's first Polaris-based graphics card is scheduled to hitting the streets on June 29, though. Symmetric cheaper Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards have been revealed likewise—though AMD's given no indication whatsoever of when to expect their establish.
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