Wednesday, June 1st 2016
Feast Your Eyes on These Official AMD Radeon RX 480 Renders
AMD put out press pictures (for now renders) of its reference-design Radeon RX 480 board. The pictures reveal a very compact reference PCB, which draws power from just a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, and which uses a 5+2 phase VRM to power the card. The ASIC package is about the size of the "Tonga," and is surrounded by 8 memory chips. Display connectors include three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0a. The blower-type reference cooler has to cope with a card with a typical board power of just 150W despite high clock speeds, and so we expect this to be a very cool and quiet card. We expect AMD to allow its add-in board (AIB) partners to come up with custom-design coolers from day one, and so the combination of this 150W card with the likes of IceQ X, VaporX, or TwinFrozr VI can only be blissful.
42 Comments on Feast Your Eyes on These Official AMD Radeon RX 480 Renders
The article says they are renders, not photographs. :p
Also, what does it matter what a reference card looks like? Their partners will make something custom anyhow.
"Nothing new or different compared to the older generations from the >>>Radeon series<<<"
That's right, AMD's going for the kill with this card, a $200, 150W card they claim will give smooth "premium" gameplay on a Vive or Rift.
It would fit just perfect for my wallet - and for 1920 * 1080 or 2560 * 1440 it would be great.
I hate trow money after Nvidia - for things I in reality don't need. (and for crippled memory).
And the other benefit would be better prices - for the costumers, as I bet that Nvidia will lower it´s prices
when it turns out that this card can perform (assuming)
I believe its called "FU" edition,...... :)
I'm waiting for the 2-Slot Passive.
Not even HDMI 2.0b?
What other degradations in quality are built into this card?
Typical of AMD to cut corners, to get high fps and low consumption but not look as good as Nvidia cards.. It's kind of their thing..
Why I went back to Green..