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large powerful expensive graphics cards are fun but they often require a similarly endowed wallet in order to afford them this can make the achieve ability of high-end gaming rather frustrating enter the rx 480 which may just be the remedy you've been looking for at the impressive price of around 200 US dollars a dose Coon masters master Casemaker five features the freeform modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade on your own make it yours at the link in the video description down below jokes about the new rx naming aside the new Polaris architecture named after what is commonly known as the North Star features AMD's new and quite capable 14 nanometer FinFET process which should be especially helpful on the power consumption side of things the fourth-generation GCN architecture in the R X 480 features 2,304 stream processors running at a boost clock of 1266 megahertz for a peak performance of up to 5.8 teraflops the default memory configurations will be 4 gigabytes of gddr5 memory running at 7 gigabits per second on the reference config and up to 8 gigabytes again of gddr5 memory but running at 8 gigabits per second on other possible variations AMD has also stated that aftermarket configs may vary but will always feature memory clocks of 7 gigabits per second at least all that memory will be running on a 256-bit memory interface with a bandwidth of 224 gigabytes per second in terms of features we now have nananananananana watt man what man ok that was lame and that almost fell but it's actually kind of cool at first it looks like just a simple overclocking utility and it can be but it also has some other cool stuff as well like per voltage point frequency offsets like the ones we recently saw toted on the nvidia 1000 series GPUs this allows you to increase the normally linear frequency offset curve specific amounts per voltage point being applied to the card this results in more control over how your card works great it also gives you a histogram of the last twenty minutes of your cards activity percentage core clock speed memory clock speed temperature and fan speed which should make it easier to identify issues we'll have more fun with wot man later when we get some aftermarket cooled cards the card features a cooler reminiscent of the awesome-looking aesthetic of the r9 nano but just more cheaply there's more plastic incorporated in the design and it in places where the Nano would have had shiny metal the for ID features glossy plastic it also features an extension beyond the slightly longer than a nano PCB in order to add some more heatsink space and incorporating the fan due to this the 6 pin PCI II connector doesn't sit at the end of the card which some people may not like overall on the outside I actually think it's a pretty attractive card for this price point if you're going for something that isn't too in-your-face at least also note that naturally there will be aftermarket cards if you don't like it for connectivity on the back there three DisplayPort outputs compatible with DP 1.3 HB r3 and DisplayPort 1.4 HD are then the HDMI port is HDMI 2.0 B for 4k 60 and HD are now for the current state of crossfire and videos SLI setup with the 1000 series and DirectX 12 was a public relations nightmare AMD is going to be handling things in a very similar way but leaning heavily on out of driver control like in explicit modes for link display adapter mode and multi display after mode not much here is changing for the vast majority of users on the AMD side in in a visible way so just check out my video on SLI for more info as much of it is crossover and it's probably going to be fine but all the features in the world aren't worth an election in North Korea if the performance isn't up to par so let's take a look at some numbers and be promised a high level of performance at a price point of just 200 dollars and they mostly delivered on that performance at 1440p was mostly on par with the GTX 970 in current titles with the RX for 80 breaking 40 fps in all of our benchmarks with the settings cranked and even blew away the 970 in hitman though that is a heavily AMD optimized title the RX 480 is even capable of playable frame rates at 4k with the settings turned down a bit to around medium now this isn't a top-end card but it wasn't designed to be the goal was to raise the bar at the $200 mark and given that the cheapest GTX 970 on the market at the time of right this review was $260 AMD has put forth an extremely compelling card for budget-conscious gamers who are looking for the quintessential Millennium Falcon of graphics cards something isn't flashy but has it where it counts especially when you consider that it matches the GTX 970 a car that was considered the sweet spot for high-end gaming until the 10 70s release a few weeks ago and for significantly less money I go even as far as to say if you don't have the cash for a GeForce 10 series and just care about Roth performance rather than aesthetics or manufacture exclusive features like Ansel or SMP or something like that there's no reason to buy GTX 970 any more now that the RX 480 is on the market the 40 was a smart move from AMD competing gains in videos 1080 would have been a little crazy shooting for the value option was smart as it fits something that people are actually asking for and beating out in videos recently price dropped cards handily in the price to performance department was a perfect target for them to shoot for considering how their funds have been trending lately hopefully the community agrees as well the K 7 xx limited edition ruby-red headphones which are featured over on mass drop at the link in the video description mass drop has actually not just that but tons of cool products that you can check out everything from camping supplies to keyboards to audio products like the k7 x-axis that I'm showing off now the concept over there is pretty simple the more people commit to buy a given product the lower the price of that totally authentic product from the manufacturer or an authorized distributor gets boom lots of people buy price goes down spec wise the headphones I'm featuring today are the same as the ones that I reviewed last year which you can check out over here with the only real difference being that this run uses red accents on the ear cups and on the headband like many drops this is a limited time at limited quantity drops so if you want a pair you're going to have to act pretty fast so check them out at the link in the video description if you're looking for a really nice open back comfortable pair of headphones if you liked this video like it if you want a shirt you can check that out in the video description down below and if you want to join the forum so you can hotly debate the hot-or-not specs of the 480 you can do that but like debated in a friendly way or something I guess if you want to see another video check up here that's our new 1070 review which is like nearly twice the price but pretty cool I don't know how I want to char this I'm gonna walk this way usually I walk that way I don't know where I'm going