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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.
New lower-power GPUs that can fit in thin laptops!
Now I know which GPUs Apple won't use for their computers! Intel's integrated crap forever!
Guys, let's be real here: there's no such thing as "e-sports". Being able to rapidly twitch your finger on a mouse button isn't an athletic talent. If anything, it's probably a sign of some sort of a neurological disorder.
We shouldn't use the term "e-sports", because it doesn't describe something that's real.
Call it "gaming", because that's what it is: playing a game.
The new nVidia GPUs have quite high TDP sadly... Will these new AMD ones go as low as the GTX 750 Ti? Those were great for fanless operation.
SURELY NOT!!!!!
How good is the linux support? Has AMD finally stepped up, or is this another "skip it unless you run Windows" card?
You helped to destroy the job opportunities for web developers in Rio Grande do Sul using wordpress and a massive army of trainees. I hope for the best when all those suckers have experience on this technology, and HTML6 come to destroy everything, but ohhhh... They aren't trained programmers. (oh yeah, and word press creats a subshell environment on every browser.... hmmm)
AMD announced and produced working video drivers. The have made some really great hardware, with some really shitty drivers.
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Wrong!
The usage of "whereas" higher up is also garbage.
At the bottom of the
Your opinion of his opinion has no affect on reality.
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.
how, exactly, is someone making the same thing AMD is making now a "new rival for Intel"? when a new pitcher joins the Red Sox, he's not a "new rival" for the Yankees...
in this case, the best scenario for consumers is that this partner can be a better AMD than AMD.
The TDP/performance of the latest nVidia cards is nothing short of amazing. It is the best we've ever seen out of any company. They've been doing some serious optimization on the performance/watt front and it has payed off bigtime. Combine that with a smaller process and these are great.
If you mean total power draw... Well ya. Here's thing the with all GPUs: They introduce the big parts first, and make the smaller parts based on them. The small GPUs are just big GPUs with a lot of the units cut off. So it makes sense to first introduce the big, high end, units where you can charge a lot per unit and make up some of your fixed costs in making the new architecture (which is billions). Then you spend your time doing the engineering to make the lower power parts.
It has been this way forever pretty much. So ya, the 1080 and 1070 are high power. That's their segment. Wait for the 1060 or 1050 or 1040 which will probably be along some time later. Those will be the lower power units that do less, but use less.
It would not make sense for nVidia to develop a whole new architecture and then make their first product using it a sub $100 card for small computers, it makes sense to make the first product a $600+ behemoth that they can get big margins on.
I don't think either company is going to have any problems selling their latest graphics card offerings, considering all the notebook computers that have under-powered graphics chipsets and all the Apple products that used older chipsets with mediocre performance.
It may be true that games aren't taxing the latest card's capabilities right now -- but they're not in the same situation as CPUs, where even a budget priced processor has more power than people need for most of what they do. With graphics cards, anything with really good performance has come with a high price tag - pricing it out of the range of the mainstream user. The newer card technology is needed to push prices down, as much as anything else.