Leaked benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 480 hits minimum VR spec for $199

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The following is not about the RX 480 but its smaller siblings: the RX 470 & 460.

AMD Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 Reference Cards Pictured

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AMD will be launching more Polaris cards in a couple of weeks which will be aimed at the mainstream market. These will include the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 which will feature a starting price of $149 US and $99 US respectively.

AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics Card

The AMD Radeon RX 470 features the same Polaris 10 GPU featured on the RX 480. The only difference is that it is a bit cut down which means it houses lower amount of compute units. The graphics chip on the RX 470 has a total of 32 compute units which total to 2048 stream processors. These processors are clocked at 1206 MHz and feature 5.0 TFLOPs of compute performance. The rated TDP for the Radeon RX 470 at stock clocks is 110W that makes it 40W lower than the full Polaris 10 chip.

The Radeon RX 470 is targeted at the sub-$150 market hence it is only offered in 4 GB GDDR5 variants. The card features the same 256-bit bus but the memory is clocked at a lower speed of 7.00 GHz (effective) which outputs 224 GB/s bandwidth. This is enough to feed the card. The card requires a single 6-Pin power connector to boot and features a reference cooler and PCB design which is very similar to the Radeon RX 480.

AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics Card

The AMD Polaris 11 GPU will be featured inside the Radeon RX 460 graphics card which is a $100 US product aimed at the esports market where MOBA titles are very popular. The Polaris 11 GPU features 16 CUs which means it has 1024 stream processors. This chip is capable of delivering more than 2 TFLOPs of compute (FP32) performance. The card will be available with 2 GB GDDR5 memory, featuring a 128-bit memory bus interface.

The card will feature a TDP of less than 75W which means it will be powered via the PCI-Express bus and won’t need an external power connector. The card features a really small PCB and has a cooler design similar to the Radeon R9 Nano which looks compact and premium for a $99 card. The graphics card will launch close to August.

 

The RX 470 benches will be interesting to see because the R9 380X, with a Tonga/GCN 1.2 design, also features 2048 SPs, so a direct comparison between both cards will show us the architectural improvements from one gen to the other.