AMD Radeon RX 480 review: Redefining what's possible with a $200 graphics card
The $200 Radeon RX 480 is the first graphics card built around AMD's 14nm Polaris GPU, and it changes the game.
By Brad Chacos
Senior Editor, PCWorld | PT
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- Meet Polaris and the Radeon RX 480
- Using WattMan for overclocking
- Support for VR, DirectX 12 and Vulkan
- Testing the RX 480 in 6 benchmarks
- RX 480 power draw
- RX 480 heat generation
- Stacking up against Nvidia GPUs
- Radeon RX 480: the bottom line
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This game scales well across the board, and the RX 480 beats the EVGA 970 FTW across the board. At 1080p resolution, however, everything from the GTX 970 on up bunches together, with AMD’s $200 card delivering essentially the same frame rates as the GTX 980 and Radeon 390X. Performance gaps widen a bit at 1440p, though. And the competing $200 graphics cards never once came close to hanging with the RX 480.
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