AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards (gamespot.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via GameSpot: At E3 2016, AMD has announced the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460. They will join the RX 480 in the company's Polaris family. Both GPUs will be VR-capable, whereas the RX 480 is made for 1440p gaming. AMD says the RX 470 will focus on delivering a "refined, power-efficient HD gaming" experience, and that the RX 460 will offer a "cool and efficient solution for the ultimate e-sports gaming experience." The RX 480 will be priced starting at $200 for the 4GB variant, with the other two cards most likely priced lower. The company did also announce that the chips are extremely thin, offering a very low Z-height, and will fit into thin and light gaming notebooks. They support a wide variety of features that include DX12, HDR, HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, and H.265 encoding/decoding. AMD claims the RX 480 card outperforms $500 graphics cards in VR. The RX 470 and RX 460 have yet to have official release dates. However, the RX 480 is scheduled to launch on June 29. In April, AMD announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a brand-new rival for Intel.

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Re:Low TDP?

[hairyfeet]

Its 24nm FinFET so power should be quite low, in fact AMD has been talking up how its the lowest power mainstream gaming cards they have ever created.

The problem both AMD and Nvidia are gonna have is that games have hit the wall and its getting harder and harder to push the graphics without hitting the 100 million price tag. Sure there is VR but it still is looking like its gonna be a small niche at best, just like 3D before it, and 1080P appears to be the standard everybody is sticking with which their cards from a generation or 2 back have no issues with. Hell even the middle of the road cards have plenty of power for 1080P, my R9 280 has no trouble giving me 60 FPS plus on my flight games even with the graphics cranked so high it looks like a scene from Red Tails.

Its the same problem Intel and AMD are seeing on the CPU front, even the gamers have no reason to replace their FX-8s and i5s because games just haven't kept up and very VERY few can slam these monster chips we have enough that an upgrade would get you more than a few FPS which just doesn't make sense financially.