AMD Radeon “Polaris” R9 480X and R9 480 in performance test

In the next few days, Nvidia’s architecture Pascal will enter the market. First out is the Geforce GTX 1080, which will soon be followed by the GTX 1070. AMD is not on the lazy side but counters during the summer with the architecture Polaris, where a smaller and a larger circuit is expected to occupy the middle class and the upper entry-level segment.

Now the graphics site Videocardz publishes performance figures for the larger one, Polaris 10, which is expected to be the Radeon R9 480X and R9 480. The model designations for the duo are 67DF: C7 and 67DF: C4, respectively, which are the respective graphics card identification loops in AMD’s drivers and which have been seen on several occasions. in leaks.

The results in 3DMark 11 show that the first performs a bit above the Geforce GTX 980 for the Radeon R9 480X (67DF: C7), which, however, lands just below the R9 Fury. The second graphics card Radeon R9 480 (67DF: C4) takes a reassuring lead over the GTX 970, but does not quite reach all the way to match the R9 390X.

Other details that appear are that both have a clock frequency of 1,266 MHz and 8 GB GDDR5 of 2,000 MHz (8,000 MHz efficient) for Radeon R9 480X and an effective frequency of 7,700 MHz for R9 480, which with a 256-bit memory bus provides a bandwidth of 256 and 246.4 GB / s respectively. The number of stream processors for the two is expected to be 2,560 and 2,304 respectively.

It is worth mentioning that none of the models comes close to the Geforce GTX 1080 nor the GTX Titan X, which the upcoming GTX 1070 is expected to go around. However, AMD has previously made it clear that they will invest in the middle class with Polaris, a price segment Nvidia has so far left untouched with Pascal. It can also be early drivers that haunt, something the numbers for the R9 480X in Crossfire suggest.

The launch of AMD Polaris for consumers is expected to take place in June, shortly after a press event in Macao and the technology fair Computex 2016.