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
Idc about DP at all.
www.amd.com/en-gb/innovations/software-technologies/radeon-polaris
And the most important is..dont make nvidia have their monopoly....its us who loss...
And i dont understand either why you people compare it with 1080/1070, its amd themselves that says its performance is on par with 970/980, those two cards are out perform with 1080/1070
Get another day job cos you fail at trolling.
Edit: Comparing 2.0a and 2.0b, I can't find anything different...officially. Unofficially, I wouldn't be surprised if 2.0b has something to do with G-Sync.
HDMI 2.0a definitely added HDR (metadata which is transmitted through the HDMI capable and unpacked in the display).
HDMI 2.0b definitely includes HDR but I haven't found anything that says what else changed.
HDMI 2.0 will be superseded by HDMI 2.1 (hopefully will get rid of the a and b versions).
Edit: This forum post has a good guess: HDMI 2.0a added support for Phillips HDR so maybe HDMI 2.0b adds support for Dolby Vision HDR. Perhaps HDMI 2.1 makes metadata generic so they don't have to update the specification every time a manufacturer wants to create another one.
That monitor was one of the best investments I ever did. It lasted 10 years already and going strong, colors of the IPS pannel are still fantastic, brightness is great and it is perfectly uniformly lit, even with dark color and and lights closed, I don't see any stupid light leak. It does have only 60hz, but most ips today have the same 60hz and probably has some ghosting by today standards, but I don't feel it so its all good and not planning yet to change it.
HDMI 2.0a and produces inferior HDR image quality.