AMD "Polaris" Officially revealed, RX 480 brings VR to the masses for just 200$

[OWGKID]

So AMD revealed the new RX 480 GPU 9 PM CDT (US central daylight time yesterday) which costs 200$ ??? and crushes the GTX 1080 in CrossFire.
! No longer available

Specs:

• 4 or 8 GB GDDR5
• 14 nm FINFet archictecture
• >5 TFLOPS of compute power
• 36 Compute units
• 256 Gb/s bandwidth on a 256 bit memory bus
• Power consumption: 150 W
• VR and AMD FreeSync compatible
• DisplayPort version 1.3/1.4 HDR supported

PCWorld article

[Art Blade]

 ???

[PZ]

Sounds like it is too good to be true!  :o

[OWGKID]

Yes, the price baffles me  ???? Maybe I should upgrade my PC wth two of theese >:D

[PZ]

Maybe they just forgot to add an additional zero on that price tag

[Binnatics]

We will see. If it is true, or close to true, prices on nVidia cards will also drop ;)

[OWGKID]

Yes, Nvidia decided to release the high-end cards first.

[OWGKID]

Looks like the 8GB version will cost 29$ more