Custom PC UK  |  September 2016
AMD Radeon RX480 AMD has finally wrestled itself out of the 28nm dungeon, presenting the first fruits of its 14nm FinFET experiments. The new Polaris architecture has now been unleashed and, surprisingly, it isn’t designed to compete with Nvidia’s new flagship Pascal chips. Instead, the RX480 aims to bring VR gaming to the masses, while hitting the circa-£200 sweet spot with decent 2,560 x 1,440 and 1,920 x 1,080 gaming performance. Only a few people can afford to spend over £400 on a GPU, so why not bring out the large-volume card first? The new GPU sports 2,304 stream processors, an 1120MHz base clock and up to 8GB of 8GHz (effective) GDDR5 memory. It’s a pretty serious spec and, unlike AMD’s recent GPUs, it promises power-efficient operation thanks to its smaller transistors.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Custom PC UK September 2016.