Amd has beaten nvidia pascal with polaris

Analysts think the new AMD Radeon RX is going to have a much bigger impact on the market than Nvidia's GeForce Pascal.

AMD would win the battle to Nvidia in the new generation of graphics cards

MKM analyst Ian Ing thinks that the new generation of AMD Polaris graphics cards will be a tremendous success for the company thanks to offering very good performance at really competitive prices, to the point that the Radeon RX 480 will be fully compatible with virtual reality with a price of only $ 199. It was a wise move for Sunnyvale's to focus on the mid-range at the time of the arrival of their new generation of cards.

Despite the fact that its arrival to the market will take place later than the Nvidia options, the availability of the Radeon RX will be much higher thanks to a less risky architecture, remember that the Radeon RX 480 uses GDDR5 memory compared to the GDDR5X of the GeForce GTX 1080. Availability will not be a problem as it happened in the previous generation with the AMD Fiji GPU and its latest generation HBM memory.

AMD Radeon RX 480 features

The Radeon RX 480 mounts an Ellesmere (Polaris 10) GPU manufactured in 14nm consisting of a total of 36 Compute Units totaling 2, 304 stream processors at a frequency of 1, 200 MHz. The GPU is accompanied by 4 GB or 8 GB, since there will be two versions, of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface and a bandwidth of 256 GB / s. All this with a TDP of only 150W that allows the reference model to work with a single 6-pin power connector. The Radeon RX 480 features DisplayPort 1.3 video outputs with HDR support.

Speaking of its performance, the Radeon RX 480 offers features that fall between the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980, so two crossfire units are capable of outperforming the GeForce GTX 1080 under DirectX 12.

The Radeon RX 480 will arrive with a starting price of only $ 199, making it the cheapest option prepared for virtual reality. According to Raja Koduri, there are 1.43 billion computers in the world and only 1% meet the requirements of virtual reality, while 84% assemble graphics cards at a cost between 100 and 300 dollars. With these numbers we understand that the RX 480 is targeting the segment with the highest sales volume on the market.

We believe it is still too early to predict AMD's success over Nvidia, but no one doubts the tremendous value of offering a card with the performance of a GeForce GTX 980 for just $ 199.

Source: fudzilla