AMD's Polaris-powered Radeon RX 480 will ring in at $199
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This past weekend, we spent some time in Macau learning about AMD's next-generation Polaris architecture. The vast majority of what we learned there remains under wraps for now, but the company is making one big graphics reveal today at Computex. The Radeon RX 480, AMD's first "VR Premium Ready" Polaris graphics card, will have a suggested price of $199. Here are some of its basic specs, straight from AMD:
| Radeon RX 480 | |
| GCN compute units | 36 |
| Stream processors | 2304 |
| Memory interface | 256-bit |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| GDDR5 transfer rate | 8 GT/s |
| Memory size | 4GB or 8GB |
| Peak single-precision compute performance | over 5TFLOPS |
| Board power | 150W |