AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card With Polaris 10 Leaked - 5.5 TFLOPs Compute, 8 GB GDDR5 Memory, Competes Against NVIDIA GM204

UPDATE: According to Wall Street Journal, we could be looking at an incredible price to performance value on the new Polaris cards. The website quotes the price of AMD's new graphics card at $199 U.s. which sounds very good. The site besides mentions that AMD would be launching these cards at the end of June which confirms the NDA elevator engagement of 29th June equally previously reported.

The specifications of AMD's Polaris 10 based Radeon RX 480 graphics carte du jour have been leaked ahead of today's annunciation. According to the leaked information, the AMD Radeon RX 480 will feature higher performance per watt efficiency compared to all other GCN graphics carte. AMD is also pitting the card against the GeForce 900 series Maxwell parts such as the GTX 980 which means they are going to battle NVIDIA in the mainstream market.

AMD's Radeon RX 480 Graphics Menu has been leaked and information technology's specifications have been confirmed. (Image Credits: Videocardz)

AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Menu Confirmed - 5.5 TFLOPs Compute, Powered by a Single 6-Pin Connector

The AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics carte will exist unveiled past AMD in under 10 hours at their live Computex press conference. The leaked specifications however give united states a preview of what to look from the upcoming Polaris graphics card. Starting time of all, nosotros are looking at a graphics card whose sole purpose is to deliver premium AAA and VR gaming at 1440P resolution. This graphics carte du jour will be available at a very nice price bespeak around $199 US as the slide points out.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics menu specifications include the principal Polaris 10 scrap which delivers 5.five TFLOP compute performance. AMD has deployed viii GB of GDDR5 memory on the graphics card that operates along a 256-bit omnibus interface. We believe that AMD would be using the college viii GB/s memory chips on this lath that take been bachelor for a while.

AMD Radeon RX 480 Polaris 10 graphics card was demoed a few days dorsum at Polaris Tech Day.

Some key features of the Radeon RX 480 graphics card include it's low ability lath design which is rated at sub-150W. AMD really suggests this every bit the primary characteristic of their Radeon RX 480 graphics carte du jour compared to NVIDIA'south GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards. We are also looking at full DirectX 12 compatibility on the new Polaris architecture that features Asynchronous shaders.

AMD cards will also deploy DisplayPort 1.4 adequacy, Full HEVC support and volition be HDR Ready. Nearly of these features are not available on the NVIDIA GeForce 900 serial parts just they are available on NVIDIA's latest Pascal generation of GPUs. According to the contempo leaks, NVIDIA has a more upkeep oriented GeForce 10 series graphics card that may hit the marketplace before long plenty.

AMD Points Polaris x at NVIDIA's GM204 - Ready To Take on The Mainstream Market

Information technology's clearly seen that AMD is pointing their guns at NVIDIA's GM204 based graphics carte. The reason for this is that NVIDIA hasn't yet launched a sub $300 US graphics card and AMD on the other hand don't have a chip to compete against the GP104 GPU. And so in a way, NVIDIA and AMD are aiming at totally different markets this time. AMD is betting on the mainstream and entry level market with their Polaris graphics bill of fare while GP104 GPU is aiming the high-cease stuff with prices beyond $350 The states and up to $600 The states.

AMD Polaris ten has previously been demoed running Hitman in DirectX 12 at 1440P resolution.

AMD's strategy is plain and simple. They want to take dorsum a chunk of market share by offer performance ameliorate than both 970 and 980 at insanely low prices. Their new graphics bill of fare will be capable of delivering the all-time performance in games beyond the usual 1080p resolution. AMD cards volition be targeting the 1440P display resolution. They volition practice so while requiring a single PCI-east connector. This suggests that AMD cards accept TDP of under 150W while NVIDIA GP104 has TDPs starting at 150W with the GTX 1070 and going upwardly to 180W on the GTX 1080.

It'south really interesting to come across these specifications of AMD's Polaris 10 carte and the way its competes confronting the GeForce 900 series cards. We can't expect to hear more near the AMD Polaris graphics cards from AMD itself in few hours.

AMD Radeon RX 480 "Preliminary" Specifications:

WCCF	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon R9 380X	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
GPU	Polaris 10 XT	Tonga XT	Polaris x Pro	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	28nm	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Compute Units	36	32	TBA	TBA
GCN Generation	GCN 4.0	GCN 3.0	GCN four.0	GCN 4.0
Stream Processors	TBA	2048	TBA	TBA
Clock Speed	TBA	970Mhz	TBA	TBA
Performance	> 5 TFLOPS	four.0 TFLOPS	TBA	TBA
Retention Bus	256-bit	256-scrap	TBA	TBA
Memory	iv/8GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	TBA	TBA
TDP	150W	190W	TBA
Toll	$199	$229	TBA	TBA