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hey tech fans our care once again on TECA tomorrow now you guys know that yesterday AMD had a giant launch over in mcallen i want to say very special thanks to Roy Taylor from AMD for inviting me to that bent unfortunately we were just so busy with back-to-back launches and stuff and my move this is my last month here that we weren't able to attend now I guess so this launch happened and it wasn't exactly as zen as everybody thought it was going to be but there were some new products that were watching the biggest one that's on the table is a twenty-dollar video card called the new RX 480 that's right now the RX 480 is going to be a very very price card obviously at two hundred dollars and for what they're saying the performance levels this is going to be a card that people who don't have a lot of money are definitely want to get their hands on now the facts about it though are a little bit kind of weird because like usual AMD's bringing something new to the table and something old and going a little bit backwards with this launch because the 480 is kind of a mixture of new and old now the way everything's coming out where everything looks it hasn't been totally official yet but it's looking like the chip that's inside the RX brady is definitely the polaris tension because the polaris 11 chip is a much smaller chip and it's geared for laptop so that's probably not in now inside this are going to be 2304 stream processors so that's quite a powerful car for the price level that it's at it's also going to have 8 gigabytes of gddr5 or four gigabytes of gddr5 depending on what model you're getting for the standard 4 gigabyte are exploring it's going to have four gigabytes of gddr5 and only five teraflops full power now a good thing is though is that this you know technology actually in a way is even farther than invidious because nvidia they brought their car down to the 16 nanometer few that FinFET process but now AM he's taking it to the 14 nanometer FinFET process so that's even smaller and so that right there gives a AMD a little bit of room to play around with for future stuff that's coming out now going back to gddr5 oh it's kind of weird because I would've thought okay well they at least really use gddr5 X memory to try to you know pick up the pace and make it as fast as possible but no they've taken kind of a step backwards but at least we're not seeing any rebranding whatsoever at least this time the Polaris 10 is a new chip so we're not seeing a rebranded card over and over again out there so I know people like the kicking md how I say oh it's a rebranded sorry ramble this time it's definitely not a rebrand now the card sits though in a kind of weird position in everything because the 480 isn't supposed to like blow away everything on the market this is not Zen and this is not the biggest player its chipset or the bullet you know biggest card by these guys yet this is kind of the very entry-level car on the AMD sided thing that's supposed to sit between a 390 out of 39 TX and if we're talking about nvidia side of things between the 970 and 980 so it's not anything to compete with the new 1080 from nvidia it's not meant to be and obviously at a price tag of two hundred dollars you know two hundred dollars being what it is I don't think it's really meant to compete at anything it's gonna be costing you know a four or five hundred our car not at all and that's a very very sweet spot for the people over at AMD now I know a lot of people out there were like waiting for all these bigger cards more cpus and there were a few things that were talked about at the event but the really big news about everything was the RX 480 what more can I say now great thing also about it is is you guys who solved the 1070 and the 1080 cards that we saw from Nvidia they had a single 8 and power connector and everybody said hey you know he could have probably got away with using the a6 been one and they could have done that but for the overclocking purposes they just went ahead and use a tape and power connector now the rumors are speculating that this new card from a and B is only going to have a single six pin power connector for as 150 watt you know power consumption also this is based off their latest gcn four-point-oh technology I believe some linear cards are like 11.2 well this is jumped up to 4 so all in all its new technology for AMD across the board for this brand new GPU so if you're out there and you're wondering hey what's going on what's about maybe somehow you missed the event i know i didn't get to miss the event i mean i missed it i didn't you get to actually watch it on TV yesterday because I was so busy working and doing stuff trying to keep with everything else I didn't even get to watch the entire launch and I do all my studies this morning so that's it folks brand new RX 480 entry-level price is going to be two hundred dollars 2304 of the stream processors like i said 150 watts of power really good stuff right i think so you'll also be able to obviously use these things in crossfire mode and build yourself up a bigger system depending on how many cards you want to use we were able to get our hands on foreign a nose for another bill that we're doing so it's going to be like a head-to-head you know battle between green team and the red team and the VR bill and that's another thing they're really pushing they're saying that this core ed can handle all the Triple A game titles and it'll handle VR so pretty much if you're person out there you're looking for that 1080 you're looking for for for TP and you want a car that's very low price and it's still going to be efficient I think that the RX 40 is going to be a really kick-ass car it's coming to market at jun 29th so be looking for it I'm obvious you're gonna have cards here to test be you guys so we'll see what the real numbers are then until then I'm our you've been watching TECA tomorrow and see you