AMD officially launches the Radeon RX 480
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Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:29

AMD officially launches the Radeon RX 480


Starts the rebellion with US $199 Polaris card

AMD has officially launched its first graphics card based on the new Polaris GPU architecture and 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, the Radeon RX 480.

Powercolor teases new Radeon RX 480 Devil graphics card
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Coming in week of July 11th

Powercolor has announced a new competition which is also a teaser for the new Devil series graphics card, the Radeon RX 480 Devil.

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 goes full-monty
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Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:32

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 goes full-monty


Ellesmere XT GPU shown in full details

Just less than a week away from the official NDA date for the Radeon RX 480, we have a set of pictures which show Sapphire's reference Radeon RX 480 in full details.

AMD RX 470 4GB to have US $149 MSRP
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Thursday, 23 June 2016 14:46

AMD RX 470 4GB to have US $149 MSRP


8GB version priced at US $179

With its agressive pricing move on the Radeon RX 480, AMD has no choice but to continue the same thing with the lower positioned Radeon RX 470, which should end up with a US $149 MSRP for the 4GB version.

Couple of Radeon RX 480 graphics cards pictured
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XFX, Sapphire and Powercolor

It appears that there will be plenty of reference RX 480 graphics cards at launch as we now have pictures from three different AMD AIB partners.

AMD Radeon RX 480 3DMark 11 performance shows up
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Scores P14461 in 3DMark 11

AMD Radeon RX 480 3DMark 11 benchmark score has been spotted online and it appears that it should pack quite a punch for its price.

AMD also rolls out new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1 drivers
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst support and couple of fixes

Following the launch of EA's new Mirror's Edge Catalyst game, AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1 drivers, which, in addition to optimizations for a couple of games, also bring a couple of bug fixes.

AMD’s Macau, China event NDA gets lifted June 29th
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Information from Macau, China briefing arrives just before start of Q3

Over the past few days, a handful of staff writers, editors, analysts and industry professionals were fortunate enough to receive invitations to AMD’s 3-day Polaris event in Macau, China, including our very own editor-in-chief. The event is scheduled to take place between May 26th and May 29th, with a Polaris Tech Day that just took place behind a non-disclosure agreement for the press.

Alleged AMD Polaris 10 benchmarks show up
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016 14:17

Alleged AMD Polaris 10 benchmarks show up


Close to Radeon R9 Fury

AMD should officialy unveil its first Polaris GPU architecture based graphics card at Computex 2016 but now we have first alleged 3DMark performance figures for both Polaris 10 graphics cards.

AMD releases Radeon 16.5.2.1 hotfix drivers
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Boost Doom performance on some Radeon card

AMD has released its new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 hotfix drivers which brings Doom performance improvements on some AMD Radeon graphics cards.