Radeon RX 480 turns 10 years old - Polaris never dies This…
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Radeon RX 480 turns 10 years old - Polaris never dies
This is just a small appreciation post for one of the best midrange cards of all time, at least IMO, the good, now 10 years old (June 29th 2016) 'RX 480' - yes boys, Polaris never dies.
At just $239, this was delivering twice the PS4 power, allowing gamers to game comfortably at 1080p/60 FPS, which was pretty much the Average Joe's standard back then.
It was also armed with 8GB of vRAM, without any concerns of longevity.
Speaking of longevity, it also packed next-gen I/O and good DirectX 12/Vulkan performance.
The only reason why this wasn't even more successful was the GTX 1060 6GB, which came a couple of weeks later for a similar price, generally slightly better performance and better efficiency, plus the 'nVIDIA GeForce' mindshare - basically, AMD got faced with one of the best nVIDIA cards of all time value-wise, I'd say the 2nd best one after the legendary 8800 GT - Pepperidge Farm remembers.
To be fair, the cryptocurrency boom also didn't help us the gamers, in the way that it was a very efficient and thus desired 'farmer' - well, together with its overclocked brother, the 580, that came in April 2017, that is.
#hardware #technology
This is just a small appreciation post for one of the best midrange cards of all time, at least IMO, the good, now 10 years old (June 29th 2016) 'RX 480' - yes boys, Polaris never dies.
At just $239, this was delivering twice the PS4 power, allowing gamers to game comfortably at 1080p/60 FPS, which was pretty much the Average Joe's standard back then.
It was also armed with 8GB of vRAM, without any concerns of longevity.
Speaking of longevity, it also packed next-gen I/O and good DirectX 12/Vulkan performance.
The only reason why this wasn't even more successful was the GTX 1060 6GB, which came a couple of weeks later for a similar price, generally slightly better performance and better efficiency, plus the 'nVIDIA GeForce' mindshare - basically, AMD got faced with one of the best nVIDIA cards of all time value-wise, I'd say the 2nd best one after the legendary 8800 GT - Pepperidge Farm remembers.
To be fair, the cryptocurrency boom also didn't help us the gamers, in the way that it was a very efficient and thus desired 'farmer' - well, together with its overclocked brother, the 580, that came in April 2017, that is.
#hardware #technology
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