SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card Tear Down Surfaces - PCB and Polaris 10 GPU Pictured Up Close

The RX 480 is all set for its launch on the 29th of June and nosotros have an in-depth tear down of the carte du jour and the chip thanks to our colleagues over at PC Online (via VideoCardZ). The tear down is that of the Sapphire RX 480 and is peradventure bound by a slightly different set of NDA considering we haven't seen any benchmarks posted a of yet. There had been rumors that AMD might be accelerating the launch to the 24th, only and then far, reports from Nordic Hardware and etc indicate that the NDA is however set at the 29th of June 2022.

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Sapphire RX 480 graphics card gets detailed tear-down

The RX 480 is the side by side generation AMD Radeon graphics card rocking the 14nm FinFET based Polaris x chip. Housing a total of 2304 stream processors based on the GCN 4.0 compages this performance efficiency and value monster volition retail for the base price of $199 for the 4GB model. Featuring a blower style cooling solution strongly reminiscent of the Fermi series from Nvidia, the RX 480 will take a TDP of only 150W and a unmarried 6-pin connector.

The Polaris ten GPU can also be seen in all its glory in the picture, which is the larger brother of the 2 pronged Polaris family unit from RTG, AMD. We can likewise run across the vi retention chips surround the GPU likewise as the power circuitry on the side. The blower style cooling solution should easily be capable of handling the 150W TDP of the chip not to mention the relatively tame stock clocks (for a FinFET chip) of ~1266 Mhz. The board number can besides be seen about the PCI-Due east connector and reveals the internal classification of "D00".

With a manufacturer suggested retail price of just $199 the RX 480 aims to be the male monarch of the hill when information technology comes to the value proposition. It would permit AMD to non only under-cutting the superior performance of the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 in terms of sheer performance per dollar, but would also likely increase AMD's market share – reaching a segment of the market that Nvidia did not achieve out to. These are the gamers and professionals which want in on the VR experience and with headsets like the Rift and Vive already breaking the bank, will non want a very expensive GPU on superlative of that.

AMD's strategy could prove to be constructive in a state of affairs where the user is already spending $599 to $799 (and even higher up) and wants to limit the full expense of shifting to VR. The GTX 970 can (at the fourth dimension of writing) be establish on Amazon for $309. A $199 priced RX 480 would be $100 cheaper and significantly faster. The new graphics card volition have VR certifications from both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – not to mention the added bonus of DX12 Asynchronous Compute back up. The card (and the reviews of the same( volition exist landing by tardily June (the NDA lifts on the 29th to exist exact).

AMD Radeon RX 400 Series Lineup

Graphics Menu Name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris 10 XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Die Size	TBD	TBD	TBD
Transistors	TBD	TBD	TBD
Stream Processors	2304 SPs	2048 SPs?	1024 SPs
Clock Frequency	1266 MHz	TBD	TBD
Compute Operation	5.5 TFLOPs	~5 TFLOPs	~ii TFLOPs
VRAM	four/8 GB GDDR5	4/viii GB GDDR5	2/four GB GDDR5
Motorbus Interface	256-bit	256-fleck	128-bit
Memory Speed	viii GHz	7 GHz	7 GHz?
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/due south	224 GB/due south	112 GB/southward
TDP	150W	110W
Launch Appointment	June 2022	June 2022	June 2022
Launch Price	$199 US (4 GB) $239 US+ (8 GB)	$149 US? (four GB) $179 US+? (8 GB)	$99 United states of america (ii GB) $129 US+? (4 GB)