Amd rx 480 and its performance in rv [virtual reality]

Today the AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card is officially launched and in addition to our own analysis here in Professional Review there will also be a multitude of results on the Internet to consult but what about the RX 480 and virtual reality? Is AMD's graphics card ready for this technology?

AMD RX 480 Launches Worldwide Today

The people of Wccftech have wanted to check through the SteamVR test if this graphics card is powerful enough to use it in VR games, the results are visible. AMD RX 480 achieves a score of 6.8 with the setting in high, an optimal result, reaching 7 points if we apply an overclock.

Even though the score of 6.8 makes it an alternative to VR, it is far from the 8.1 points of the GTX 980 but above the GTX 970 that gets 6.5 points.

Results on SteamVR

The most surprising point of the analysis made is when a graph is made about the Price / Performance offered by the RX 480 based on the test with SteamVR. The new AMD graphics card achieves 0.34 frames per dollar, much higher than other graphics such as the GTX 1070 that gets 0.24 frames per dollar or the R9 390 with 0.21 frames per dollar, so the RX 480 is the best option in This aspect, there is no graphics card that offers more performance for a minimum price of 219 euros.

We recommend reading the Virtual Reality PC 2016 configuration.

Results in Price / Performance, RX 480 is undoubtedly the best

This war for Price / Performance will surely have a very interesting chapter when Nvidia finally releases the GTX 1060, which should rival this AMD option.