This happened! AMD announced the company's first graphics card from the new family of Polaris - we are talking about the model Radeon RX 480, which breaks the opinion of the average price segment. The premiere of the new card should happen as early as this month.
A new generation of graphics processors manufactured by technology 14 nm FinFET, and in addition, It uses a new version of the GCN architecture (Graphics Core Next). As a result,, through the use of lower process and additional improvements engineers "red", we can even count on a 2.8-fold increase in energy efficiency compared to the previous generation models.
Radeon RX 480 It based on the base GPU Polaris 10 of 36 computing units (WITH) - having regard to the existing building cores based on GCN architecture, be suspected, that in total they have 2304 stream processors and 144 texture units (each block consists of CU 64 units SP and 4 blocks TMU). Besides, on board were 4 or 8 GB GDDR5 256-bit, wherein the bandwidth is 256 Gb / s (as many, and that in a competitive model GeForce GTX 1070).
| Model | Radeon R9 380X | Radeon R9 390 | Radeon RX 480 |
| Technology | 28 нм – GCN 1.2 | 28 нм – GCN 1.1 | 14-нм FinFET – GCN 1.3 |
| Graphic | Antigua XT | Grenada Pro | Polaris 10* |
| Core Frequency | 970 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1266 MHz * |
| Processing power | 4 TeraFLOPS | 5,1 TeraFLOPS | 5 TeraFLOPS |
| video memory | 4 ГБ GDDR5 256-bit | 8 ГБ GDDR5 512-bit | 4/8 ГБ GDDR5 256-bit |
| Memory clock frequency | 5700 MHz | 6000 MHz | 8000 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 182,4 GB / sec | 384 GB / sec | 256 GB / sec |
| Nutrition | 190 AT (2x 6-pin) | 275 AT (6+8-pin) | 150 AT (6-pin) |
| cost of (opening day) | $229 | $329 | $199 (4 GB) |
| *An informal specification | |||
About the performance of the new card is not yet known too much, However, manufacturer boasted, the tandem Radeon RX 480 ahead in games in DirectX mode 12 topovuyu map rival - GeForce GTX model 1080.
Images of the standard version Radeon RX 480
Bibliography 480-TCA was equipped with a 2-slot cooling turbine, которая значительно выступает за плату. On the bar brought three outputs HDMI and one DisplayPort 1.4, and additional power sums only one 6-pin connector (Power consumption is estimated at 150 AT). Premiere Radeon RX 480 took 29 June .
A source: AMD, TechPowerUp, Overclockers