The card is part of AMD's strategy to "dramatically accelerate VR adoption" and grow the market. It will be the first card to use a Polaris architecture-based processor. According to AMD, the company noted from the results of a survey that high costs represented the highest barrier to VR adoption.
The Radeon RX 480 specifications are:
| TFLOPS | >5 |
| CUs | 36 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s |
| Data Rate (Effective) | 8 Gbps |
| Memory Size | 4/8 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bit-rate | 256-bit |
| Power | 150 W |
| VR Premium | Yes |
| AMD FreeSync | Yes |
| Display Port | 1.4/1.4 HDR |
The announcement notes that AMD intends for Polaris architecture-based cards to bring VR-ready desktops and notebooks to market over the next ten years.
Three months ago AMD revealed the "most powerful graphics card in the world"--the $1500 Radeon Pro Duo, aimed at VR developers. While the price point is a far cry from the $199 Radeon RX 480, the card signifies AMD's heavy investment in virtual reality.
More recently, competitor Nvidia released the GeForce GTX 1070, a $379 GPU which the company claims is more powerful than the $1,000 GeForce GTX Titan X. We tested the graphics card in our recent review;
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