Wednesday, June 1st 2016

Feast Your Eyes on These Official AMD Radeon RX 480 Renders

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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.

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42 Comments on Feast Your Eyes on These Official AMD Radeon RX 480 Renders

#26
Xzibit
D007HDMI 2.0a? Really?
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..
So you have no problem with "Green" being DP 1.2 certified only and DP 1.3/1.4 ready? "Green" could have gotten certification for DP 1.2a/1.2b or 1.3.
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#27
ZoneDymo
XzibitSo you have no problem with "Green" being DP 1.2 certified only and DP 1.3/1.4 ready? "Green" could have gotten certification for DP 1.2a/1.2b or 1.3.
come on man, he is making fun of Nvidia fanboys
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#28
D007
XzibitSo you have no problem with "Green" being DP 1.2 certified only and DP 1.3/1.4 ready? "Green" could have gotten certification for DP 1.2a/1.2b or 1.3.
Actually I play on a 50" 4k TV. So I use HDMI. It matters to me what it supports.
Idc about DP at all.
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#29
Effting
Thats one beautiful card! For $199 no doubt I'll be getting at least one. Maybe two, since for $400 it will for sure blow the GTX1070 away.
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#31
jaggerwild
It looks so tinny, almost a slap in the face!
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#32
Mr McC
On paper, this is of much more interest to me than either the 1070 or the 1080. Really love the compact size and austere aesthetics and I can only hope that the end product lives up to expectations once it hits the shelves. Whilst perhaps a bit premature, well done AMD.
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#33
rein_psiko4
I dont understand why people are so pessimistic on amd, let us not judge on this one yet. Give them a chance..they've learn their mistakes...
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
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#34
RustyKats
So sad that shillers and trolls don't even know basics, trying to fud AMD for supporting the best HDMI standard and the best DP standard...

Get another day job cos you fail at trolling.
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#35
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
rvalencia2.0b is the inferior version... LOL,

From www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-demonstrates-2016jan04.aspx
Jan 2016, AMD claims HDMI 2.0a support.


From www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/3968/uhd-2015-confusion-continues

www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_2_0/
HDMI 2.0b, which is backwards compatible with earlier versions of the HDMI specification, is the most recent update of the HDMI specification. It also enables key enhancements to support market requirements for enhancing the consumer video and audio experience.
2.0a only adds HDR.

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.
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#37
Mr McC
rvalenciaFYI, I deleted my post i.e. something wrong with www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/3968/uhd-2015-confusion-continues
So you are unclear about what hdmi specifications actually denote, but still decided to cast aspersion on AMD for employing what you affirmed to be the inferior version on its new cards, is that what you mean when you say that something is wrong with the link that you referenced?
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#38
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
That image has been in circulation for some time. I think "level a" means HDMI 2.0 with high speed cables where "level b" means HDMI 2.0 with normal cables. It has nothing to do with HDMI 2.0a and HDMI 2.0b because the HDMI 2.0 standard is 18 Gb/s.

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:
As far as I can tell, HDMI 2.0b enables dynamic metadata for HDR10 a la Dolby Vision. Searching around I only saw that difference.
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.
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#39
geon2k2
TheLostSwedeThank you AMD for dropping the DVI port, let's move forwards, not backwards.
I still sit on a DVI :cry:
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.
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#40
ZoneDymo
geon2k2I still sit on a DVI :cry:
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.
im sure adapters can hold you over for a while longer ;)
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#41
Mr McC
geon2k2I still sit on a DVI :cry:
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.
ZoneDymoim sure adapters can hold you over for a while longer ;)
www.amazon.com/dp/B00104D9XK/?tag=tec06d-20
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#42
dwade
HDMI 2.0b adds dynamic metadata to further imitate Dolby Vision (the best version of HDR only a handful of OLED and LCD TVs support).

HDMI 2.0a and produces inferior HDR image quality.
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