AMD RX 480 Already Available For Preorder, To Be In-Stock In Large Quantities At Launch Thanks To "Strong" Supply

AMD is preparing for major need on its RX 480 graphics cards come up June 29. Discussion has reached us that retailers & e-tailers accept been stocking up on RX 480 GPUs for the past week and that the supply for the RX 400 launch is "strong". Having practiced supply is of particular importance for AMD's new products to succeed. Peculiarly later on the shortages that we've seen bulldoze prices for Nvidia's GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 through the roof.

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AMD RX 480 Supply Is "Potent", To Be In-Stock In Substantial Numbers At Launch

We've seen various reports and leaks which do indicate that retailers accept been building-up their stocks of Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. The card has been bachelor for pre-guild on numerous online e-tailers from around the world. We've as well seen quite a few photos of the RX 480 shipments that diverse resellers have been receiving over the past couple of weeks.

Unfortunately the situation on the other side of the coin with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 launch is quite dim. The cheapest GTX 1080 bachelor costs $859. That's more than $150 above the MSRP that Nvidia has set for the Founder'south Edition and more $250 above the MSRP for all other GTX 1080 graphics cards.

I hope @nvidia gets their 1080 supply problems under command. LOWEST price I'm seeing is $859.

— Radeon Jason ✈️ E3 (@killyourfm) June twenty, 2022

The situation has gotten so bad that some re-tailers have began asking for the about exorbitant premiums we've seen yet.

ClDf8hBUgAMhRpy Oh don't spoil us with free aircraft ecotest! y'all're generousity knows no premises!

Nvidia'southward decision to launch its GP104 based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 cards early on with limited supply has definitely come at a cost. I that the consumers volition take to endure until the state of affairs improves and prices normalize.

RX 460, 470, 480 4GB & 8GB Will Be Available For $99, $149, $199 And $229 Respectively

AMD'south decision to build-up stock for several weeks preceding the Radeon RX 400 serial launch on June 29 should help circumvent any such shortages. At launch gamers will have the choice of 8GB & 4GB RX 480 cards , 8GB and 4GB RX 470 cards every bit well equally 2GB and 4GB RX 460 graphics cards.

However, only the reference design of each card volition be bachelor initially. Nosotros're told that custom AIB versions will be released soon afterward. And so those of y'all who like specific designs from Sapphire, MSI, Gigabyte, XFX, Asus or any other manufacturer or more often than not prefer open air coolers, you shouldn't accept to wait for too long.

AIBs are preparing a wide range of RX 480, 470 and 460 graphics cards. From $99 all the way to $300. All three RX 400 series cards will launch simultaneously on June 29. AMD'south brand new overclocking tool that we had brought news of a few days ago is also compatible with all of the 3 new cards.

In terms of performance and bang for buck, each card in the new lineup will deliver roughly twice the performance per dollar compared to the R9 300 series and the GTX 900 series. The RX 480 is poised to take on the R9 390X and GTX 980. The RX 470 will fall but beneath that at around the R9 390 and GTX 970 mark. The RX 460 will be closer to the GTX 960 and GTX 950.

As more than resellers have been receiving shipments of RX 480 graphics cards, we've been seeing more and more leaks surface to the web. Including performance benchmarks, overclocking, noise, power & thermal testing. So stay tuned every bit we bring you the latest.

AMD RX 400 Series Specifications

Graphics Card Proper name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Cadre	Polaris 10 XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris eleven
Procedure Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Heave Clock	1266Mhz	1206Mhz	1200Mhz
Peak Compute	5.83 TFLOPs	iv.9 TFLOPs	2.2 TFLOPs
Memory	iv/eight GB GDDR5	4/eight GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-scrap	128-bit
Memory Speed	8 GHz	vi.half-dozen GHz	7 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power	150W	120W	75W
MSRP	$199 (iv GB) $239 (8 GB)	$179 (4 GB)	$109 (2 GB)