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

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JRPGfan said:

shikamaru317 said:
^So it's an RX 480 and a PCI express based SSD in one card? That's kind of cool, especially useful for Mini-ITX builds which are space limited.

Your not getting it.

Its not for saveing space.... its instead of haveing 4gb or 8gb card,.... you have 1,000 gb (1tb) memory in the form of a SSD.

That's not entirely true. Yes, it has 1TB of memory from those M.2 SSDs, but because they come from a PCIe bus the max memory bandwidth of that card is between 4-5 GB/s, while your typical GPU with GDDR5 like a RX 480 has 256 GB/s.

Yes, you have more memory, but it's incredibly slower compared to the 4/8GB of your GPU, making that card and memory configuration useless for gaming.

 

That said, maybe this is an early prototype of what will come with Navi. Remember the slide?

"Nexgen memory"

A combination of SSD+HBM2.0?