Amd rx 480 breaks the market for 200 euros

The day we had anticipated at Computex arrived, the AMD graphics cards based on Polaris have been shown in society for the first time and the big star was the RX 480, where we could already know what its performance and other technical details of this new one will be. graph that promises to break the market for its low price.

AMD presented at Computex its new graphics based on Polaris

AMD surprised everyone with the RX 480, not for its performance since this graphics card does not compete with the new Pascal-based Nvidia (GTX 1080/1070) proposals that have already been released a few days ago, but for the price that stands at 200 euros.

The performance of the AMD RX 480 is between a GTX 980 and an R9 390X, for that price it would be unrivaled since a GTX 980 can be obtained today for a price that is around 450 to 500 euros. During the presentation of the card, AMD also demonstrated that two RX 480 in CrossFire outperform the GTX 1080 costing two thirds, until we have no benchmarks from the press we will not be able to corroborate if this really will be so.

Two CrossFire RX 480s outperform the GTX 1080

The Polaris-based RX 480 has a new manufacturing process of 14 nanomilimeters FinFET, thanks to this AMD has managed to consume 150W of this card and only need a 6-pin connector to feed from the source, this is a great advance compared With the R9 390X it needs three times more power to function. This level of consumption would place it at the same level as the GTX 1070, which has slightly higher performance but the Nvidia option would cost almost double.

RX 480 Reference Model

What AMD has done is get ahead of Nvidia with a graphics card that will assault the mid-high range market, this will surely force Nvidia to quickly launch the GTX 1060 because with this performance and a price of 200 euros, the RX 480 does not has a rival.

AMD will make this chart available on June 29.