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I don't have a website source for this.... However, I did get an email from AMD regarding the stuff they talked about at Computex. And this was one part of that email:

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AMD announces the world’s most affordable solution for premium PC VR experiences - Radeon™ RX 480 starting at just $199

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The Radeon™ RX Series will deliver the world’s most affordable solution for premium PC VR experiences, including a model that is both HTC Vive™-Ready and Oculus™ Rift™ compatible.

 

Available on June 29th at a stunning starting price of just $199, the Radeon™ RX 480 will deliver VR capability common in $500 GPUs.

 

For more information on Polaris architecture-based Radeon™ RX Series graphics cards available later this month, visit AMD.com to sign-up for Notify Me.

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AMD announces the world’s most affordable solution for premium PC VR experiences - Radeon™ RX 480 starting at just $199

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The Radeon™ RX Series will deliver the world’s most affordable solution for premium PC VR experiences, including a model that is both HTC Vive™-Ready and Oculus™ Rift™ compatible.

 

Available on June 29th at a stunning starting price of just $199, the Radeon™ RX 480 will deliver VR capability common in $500 GPUs.

 

For more information on Polaris architecture-based Radeon™ RX Series graphics cards available later this month, visit AMD.com to sign-up for Notify Me.

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Available on June 29th at a stunning starting price of just $199, the Radeon™ RX 480 will deliver VR capability common in $500 GPUs.

Yup, that says that the rx 480 will deliver VR capability common in 500 dollar GPUs. what are the current 500 dollar GPUs? The gtx 980 and the r9 nano. Of course, this could possibly be an exaggeration, since AMD could have either used Ashes of the Singularity for their results (and in ashes the 980 performs a little lower than the r9 390) or perhaps Polaris has some extra VR features that make it a lot more powerful in VR (like the 1080). However, I doubt that they did it with Ashes, since then Polaris would be lower than the 390 in performance and we are all pretty sure the 480 is better than the 390. This means that either the 480 is about as powerful as the nano or it is very good at VR, both of which are good for us. I personally doubt it will reach all the way up to the nano, but if it is between the 390x and the nano (so around the 980) that would be great! I'm hoping the 480 does turn out to be around the 390x or even a little more powerful than that. That could perhaps even give the 1070 a little competition, as dual 480s would be just a little more than the 1070 and if a 480 is around a 390x it would very likely perform considerably better.

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This...... isn't "news".

People have been talking about this since the press conference....

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AMD is like "ayy GPU market, let me fuck yo shit up fam"

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until they show a benchmark with something other than AOTS there is no way of really knowing how well it performs in regular games

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It may be optimized for VR, making it as powerful in that use case as a gtx 980 or r9 nano, but can it stand up against those $500 GPUs for regular gaming? IMO, probably not, but we shall see... If it does, then AMD will have accomplished something pretty great.

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3 hours ago, DevilishBooster said:

This...... isn't "news".

People have been talking about this since the press conference....

 

2 hours ago, ONOTech said:

This has been known for a while.


I'd rather not take what they say wholeheartedly though. They also released benchmarks showcasing the Fury X allegedly beating the 980 Ti a few days before release. Wasn't the case when the card dropped. 

 

Just wait for benchmarks as all.

Really? I personally didn't hear them give any real hints as to to what a single 480's performance is like, but I could be wrong (correct me if wrong). As far as I know, this is the first hint amd has given as to the approximate single card performance of the 480

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3 hours ago, raphidy said:

It`s always VR, VR,with RX480, yet, they benched aots.

I could be mistaken, but it could be because the GTX 1080 would have destroyed the RX 480 since it has all of those VR optimizations.

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12 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

Yeah, it was stated here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-prices-3-d-cards-to-spur-virtual-reality-market-1464725394

"AMD said its new Radeon RX cards, certified for use in VR by HTC and Oculus VR, deliver performance equivalent to that of $500 graphics cards used for VR."

 

I guess they 'officially made it official' it then. Lol. I'll hold them to it.

Ah. I couldn't have seen it either since I'm not subscribed to WSJ :P 

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I like AMD but remember, they only showed DX12 benchmark (as far as I know)

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10 hours ago, Enderman said:

until they show a benchmark with something other than AOTS there is no way of really knowing how well it performs in regular games

AotS is the only relevant example of DX12, the only game you could infer future performance tiering from in the current market since it's the only game natively developed for DX12. All other "DX12" games incorporated DX12 support only to  their engine midway during development and aren't using the API like AotS is.

 

So your enitre statement is ridiculous. Why should they show benchmarks of DX11 games, which are about to seize to matter anyway?

 

AMD has been more prepared for DX12 than Nvidia is even as far back as 7950/7970, that's their biggest strength and it does make sense to use it for all it's worth.

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30 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

AotS is the only relevant example of DX12, the only game you could infer future performance tiering from in the current market since it's the only game natively developed for DX12. All other "DX12" games incorporated DX12 support only to  their engine midway during development and aren't using the API like AotS is.

 

So your enitre statement is ridiculous. Why should they show benchmarks of DX11 games, which are about to seize to matter anyway?

 

AMD has been more prepared for DX12 than Nvidia is even as far back as 7950/7970, that's their biggest strength and it does make sense to use it for all it's worth.

he has to bring up DX11, because that is the only place where nvidia is unquestionably doing better on the top end.

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34 minutes ago, Prysin said:

he has to bring up DX11, because that is the only place where nvidia is unquestionably doing better on the top end.

Yeah but who cares about something that is going obsolete?

 

If your product is better for the future but worse for the past, why should YOU want to focus YOUR marketing on the past? Makes zero sense.

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And we should as consumers focus on what gets us better performance for our money.

Directx 12 and Vulkan is far superior, and we should be worried of the possibility that Nvidia might not be directly supporting the changes that comes with these new API's. 

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50 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

Yeah but who cares about something that is going obsolete?

 

If your product is better for the future but worse for the past, why should YOU want to focus YOUR marketing on the past? Makes zero sense.

Cuz he has to "make nvidia great again"

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5 minutes ago, Prysin said:

Cuz he has to "make nvidia great again"

Im dead, he just said that.

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14 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Yup, that says that the rx 480 will deliver VR capability common in 500 dollar GPUs. what are the current 500 dollar GPUs? The gtx 980 and the r9 nano.

You seem to have forgotten about the R9 Fury, which also costs $500.

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I mean, if they say $200 dollar VR, it kinda has to be as good as an R9 Nano doesn't it? That'd be false advertisement.

 

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But the card is slower than my 290x in AOTS 1440p Extreme and it only cost $250 over a year ago.

 

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24 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

But the card is slower than my 290x in AOTS 1440p Extreme and it only cost $250 over a year ago.

 

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Perhaps, but we're talking early drivers, we're talking cheaper, we're talking much lower power consumption.

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29 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

But the card is slower than my 290x in AOTS 1440p Extreme and it only cost $250 over a year ago.

Doesn't show what clocks it's running, plus driver optimization might not be finalized.

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