AMD today announced the specifications of its upcoming Radeon RX 480 video card that should offer the performance of $500 cards while they are sold at less than half of that. The card is the first using AMD's new Polaris chip. To be more specifically, the RX 480 uses a Polaris 10 chip. This chip is from the 14 nm Ellesmere architecture and manufactured by GlobalFoundries.
This chip has 36 Compute Unites and 2,304 shader units. AMD claims the card should have single-precision floating point performance of more than 5 Teraflops. The Radeon RX 480 will feature either 4GB or 8GB GDDR5 memory connected through a 256-bit memory bus and has a bandwidth of 256GB/s. The GPU has a clockspeed of 1266 Mhz.
AMD specifies a TDP of 150 watt and also announced that Polaris features a Displayport 1.3/1.4 compatible monitor connector, HDMI 2.0a and also supports HDR.
The card is also marketed as the first video card that should make Virtual Reality available for a large audience.
The first cards based on the Radeon FX 480 will become available on the 29th of June this year, on that day also the full specs of the Radeon RX 480 will be disclosed. The 4GB version will likely have a MSRP of $199, while the 8GB version of the Radeon FX 480 should be sold at $229.
