At Computex 2016, AMD has revealed its Radeon RX Series of VR-capable graphics solutions, starting at just $199.
According to Thurrott, Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO, said in a prepared statement that the company entered 2016 with a growing momentum for AMD's technologies and a great product lineup. AMD is decided to firmly re-establish itself "as a high-performance design leader."
In this context, AMD has announced in Taipei, at Computex, its Radeon RX 480 graphics card that will come with a price tag of only $199 for the 4GB model. The RX 480 will start shipping in about a month, and it will be the cheapest graphics card capable of handling virtual reality (VR).
Raja Koduri, AMD senior vice president and chief architect, said in a prepared statement that the Radeon RX series provide graphics cards that will help turn VR into a "technology with transformational relevance to consumers." Besides the RX 480 unveiled at Computex, the Radeon RX series also comprises the RX 490 card.
AMD did not reveal yet the details about the flagship graphics card, the Radeon RX 490. However, several specialized websites published the card's rumored specs.
The Radeon RX 490 marks an entry of AMD's Polaris 10 GPU, the flagship of the Polaris family. The website wccftech.com goes in details about the features and specs of the upcoming cutting-edge RX 490, based on a SiSoft Sandra benchmark spotted online. According to the leaked specs on wccftech.com, AMD Polaris 10 powered RX 490 will come with a 256 bit bus, 8GB VRAM and 2304 GCN 4.0 cores.
Another specialized website, videocardz.com, gives people different specs. According to it, the Radeon RX 490 will come with a 4096 bit bus, 16GB HBM2 VRAM and 4096 GCN cores. The video card will work at a base clock speed of 1.2GHz and will provide a computer power of 9.830 GFLOPS.
The AMD Radeon RX 490 is expected to launch in Q4 2016. Consumers will have to wait until the official release of the new flagship graphics card in order to know which of the rumored specs prove to be true.
