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hey guys this is Austin say hello to the new Radeon our X 480 I've got to give a big shout out to AMD for not only sponsoring this video but also for inviting me out to Macau for tech day this year the star of the show is the new rx 480 it's $200 this promises serious performance for the price but it represents an interesting shift now the GPUs are ready to take advantage of smaller process nodes AMD is opted to focus on mid-range cards in the 100 to 200 price point one of the ways they're doing that is with VR but we knew that this holodeck like experience was on its way the minute the GPU got powerful enough to be able to render you know fully immersive realistic scenes the RX 480 is fully certified to work with both the oculus rift and HTC vive which significantly brings the cost down on building a PC that can handle virtual reality so one of the things about virtual reality that's actually really important is keeping a steady framerate so when you're in the virtual world this is all I can see right now I look down I see my fake body this is giant space station and it's immersive and something that is super easy to break the immersion is that the performance is not up to par but the cool thing is this is a completely identical experience to playing on a five six seven dollar graphics card there's more to the 480 than just VR though the GPU is capable of recording gameplay at up to 4k without hurting your performance unlike before where you would take a small but sometimes noticeable hit this also applies to streaming with programs like OBS and it also can help put 4k at up to 120 frames per second or even up to a 5k display using a single cable while usually reference cards aren't as popular as more extreme coolers I think the RX for ID looks pretty solid it has a dimpled finish up front with a single surprisingly quiet fan toward the back with the TDP of 150 watts it only needs a single 6 pin PCI II power cable and around back you'll find three DisplayPort 1.4 ready ports along with a single HDMI 2.0 to pump out some serious pixels it also supports HDR displays which are hard to appreciate on a youtube video but if you have a newer high-end TV it makes a noticeable difference you can also put two together in crossfire which is becoming more interesting with DirectX 12 multi adapter and they also had an Rx 480 setup a tech day with the razor core connected to the razor blade stealth / Thunderbolt 3 battlefront was totally playable of course the biggest question is how does the 480 actually perform launched there are four and a GU bite versions I have the reference model with eight gigs of memory but there will be non reference models available a little later in the year I did all my testing inside the neutron 3.0 which is an upcoming $750 build with the 480 along with the core i5 6500 you guys can check out the full video for the rest of the specs the first benchmark is the 3d mark firestrike test which gives us a solid baseline to start with considering the GTX 970 is $100 more expensive it's nearly at I where the $330 r9 390 is able to pull out a small lead getting into an actual game we have Grand Theft Auto 5 which can still be fairly taxing when you turn the resolution up running on ultra settings the RX 480 is right behind the 390 and narrowly outperforms the still powerful 970 Middle Earth shadow of mordor is another solid title that the 480 does well in still edging out the GTX 970 while delivering just under 60 frames per second at 1440p moving over to a DirectX 12 game and ashes of the singularity this plays well to AMD's dx12 strength with the 480 pulling away especially when you compare to the 285 which really struggles here it's pretty clear that the 480 has absolutely no problem with 1080p Ultra gaming and even 1440p is totally playable but how about 4k it's actually sort of doable I tested the cards on 4k Ultra settings and while only shadow of mordor is even close to being playable if you turn down the settings you can make it work the thing is this is a $200 graphics card it wasn't long ago that 1080p at this price point was all you could hope for but the RX 4 ad can easily handle 1440p and beyond along with Virtual Reality speaking of Andy was cool enough to hook me up with an extra 480 to give away to you guys all you do is make sure you're subscribed to the channel and leave a comment down below and I will pick a winner in one month so what do you guys think about the RX 480 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one