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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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The main purpose is a graphics card. This graphics card can just be used for VR if you want to and it'll be decent/good/great for it.
It's like cars who are aimed at the luxury market. The main point of it is still to be a car, just to add extra luxury to it and make it good for that market.
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is there any proper benchmark for 480 yet?
Main purpose is to brong VR ready performance graphics card at affordable price.
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They might do yet.
Powercolor showed off a Polaris Waterblock with no other info.
There is no way that can be for the 480, surely not, as it's max is 150w
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As it wouldn't be in the biggest market, so not gaining them much needed marketshare, which these 480s will also do (unless Nvidia drop their 1060s before them
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There will be more info next week at AMD's PC gaming event.
13th June 2016
http://www.pcgamingshow.com/
They announced the Fury and 300 series in the event last year IIRC. Could be very interesting.
They will. It just likely wont be Polaris. I think most people expect Vega to come early 2017, so it's not far enough away to do a whole new line, calling everything 580/590 and whatnot. If there's only one Vega GPU, it will probably take the 490/490X range. If there's two Vega GPU's, I'd guess that the smaller will take the 490/490x naming, while the bigger flagship will get its own moniker ala Fury/Titan.
yea it could be a paper launch at E3, then reviews embargo lift 29th june.
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Main purpose is to serve a market that by this point is tiny compared with the 40million or so discrete GPU's sold each year?
Its also a bit worrying that AMD are saying this is a product to serve thay market for the next 3-4 years. I would have hoped for advances in the next 2 years, not the next 4.
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I'm looking forward to it. Only two weeks to wait after that to try them out.
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Will be a well spent £200.
I just hope retailers get enough stock to serve everyone who wants one asap. They will fly of the shelves at this price point.
With Vega coming so close behind Polaris, this comment only makes sense if by 3-4 years they mean one of their custom silicon design wins (PS4 Neo, X-Box One: Scorpio etc.). Those are going to be fixed for a few years. PS4 Neo and Sony spending big on VR makes the most sense. Polaris on PCs just means having an advantage porting games over.
He's trying to say the card is going to be so damn solid, you could build a house with it.
Pitcairn has been around for 4 years and is still in the currant AMD line up, so it is not unexpected for Polaris 10 to be rebranded for the next few years.
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Not just rebranded but probably built on for a while too. This is a new architecture so they won't just put it out once then abandon it. It'll spawn variants for the next few years most likely.