But hold that thought, let's find out what the RX 480 is really like.ĪMD's new board lacks the visual theatrics of Nvidia's fancy-pants new Geforce cards The caveat to all that involves the relatively modest clockspeeds – modest compared to Nvidia's latest GPUs, at least.
Polaris is the first big GPU to come out of that partnership and it's being produced on a pretty cutting-edge 14nm process (down from 28nm for AMD previous graphics chips), so it's a relief to see that AMD and GloFo managed to get the thing out the door. So, yes, I do have an answer to the 4GB versus 8GB conundrum.Īll I'll add re the new RX 480's technical gubbins is that, for my money, the most interesting element is that it exists at all given AMD has ditched its long-time manufacturing partner TSMC and shacked up with Global Foundaries. The RX 480 is available in both 4GB and 8GB versions - much like the RX 580. That said, one detail I do need to deal with involves graphics memory. Or there's a handy table comparison table here that puts the new GPU into technical context. You can read my earlier post on the RX 480's original announcement here for that. So how does it perform? Forget the benchmarks, let's give the new RX 480 a good old grope.Īs before, I'm not going to get bogged down with the speeds and feeds. That said, until we've taken a closer look at said RX 580 to find out just how much better it is, you can get a pretty good idea of what it's like by reading my original thoughts on the RX 480.
That's largely because it's now been replaced by the newer RX 580, which shares the same GPU / chipset / thingy as the RX 480, but comes with a slightly higher clock speed, allowing it to run just a teeny bit faster compared to its 480 predecessor.
Despite its close competitor, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, being alive and well and readily available to buy, the RX 480 has all but disappeared from online retailers - unless you want to pay massively over the odds for one, of course. AMD's pixel pumping Radeon RX 480 is slightly old hat now.
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