Leaked GTX 1060 benchmarks show it cleans RX 480’s clock
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Spoilers

I had a small wager sitting on the fact that when the RX 480 was released that there would be a mysterious leak of benchmarks that proved that Nvidia’s Pascal-based GTX 1060 was much better even when it had not been released.

AMD promises emergency driver update by Thursday
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Sorting out RX 480's shocking power problem

AMD has promised that it will roll out a driver update will will sort out the power issues with the RX 480 by Thursday.

Some Radeon RX 480 4GB can be unlocked to 8GB
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With a simple BIOS flash

It appears that some reference retail/e-tail Radeon RX 480 4GB graphics cards are actually shipping with 8GB of VRAM that can be unlocked using a simple BIOS flash.

Sapphire's RX 480 Nitro+ OC pictured in details
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Final clocks to be confirmed 

Sapphire's Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ OC is the first Radeon RX 480 graphics card that has been pictured in full details, showing the fully custom PCB, dual-slot cooler and a few neat features, like LED lights.

AMD Polaris 10 has no disabled CUs
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 05 July 2016 13:56

AMD Polaris 10 has no disabled CUs


RX 480 has everything fully enabled

AMD Polaris 10 Senior Product Manager Evan Groenke has denied that the Polaris 10 has disabled Compute Units (CUs) and the RX 480 comes fully enabled with 2304 Stream Processors.

AMD rolls out new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.2 drivers
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Support for RX 480 and some new features 

Following the official launch of the Radeon RX 480 graphics card, AMD has released its new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.2 Beta drivers, which bring support for the new RX 480 but also adds a few new features, including the new overclocking AMD WattMan utility.

XFX has three different RX 480 graphics cards
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All with reference blower-style cooler

Apparently, XFX was quite keen to launch the new Radeon RX 480 graphics card as the company has no less than three different versions, all with the same reference blower-style cooler, two factory-overclocked with 8GB of RAM and the RX 480 4GB Core Edition.

AMD officially launches the Radeon RX 480
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:29

AMD officially launches the Radeon RX 480


Starts the rebellion with US $199 Polaris card

AMD has officially launched its first graphics card based on the new Polaris GPU architecture and 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, the Radeon RX 480.

RX 480 graphics cards listed briefly on Amazon.co.uk
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“temporarily out of stock”

Amazon UK has a pair of XFX RX 480 Radeon graphics cards for sale but listed them as "temporarily out of stock" before taking the advert down. They didn't even give us time to get a screen shot.

Powercolor teases new Radeon RX 480 Devil graphics card
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Coming in week of July 11th

Powercolor has announced a new competition which is also a teaser for the new Devil series graphics card, the Radeon RX 480 Devil.