AMD RX 480 Hits US Stores, Supply 25x Larger Than GTX 1080 At Launch

AMD's RX 480 is now beginning to hit Usa stores. In quantities that are allegedly more than twenty times larger than GTX 1080 shipments at launch. We've reported a couple of days ago that the supply for AMD's RX 480 graphics card is "strong" co-ordinate to several of our industry sources. And that the RX 480 will exist in-stock in substantial numbers at launch.

The photo you see at the top of the article was taken by reddit user sirbeers. It's of a brand new Gigabyte RX 480 8GB shipment that has just hit a Microcenter branch in Baltimore. We've seen several RX 480 shipments make it to retailers in various parts of Asia and Europe over the past few days. Nevertheless, this is ane of the very first that nosotros have seen hit a US store.

Some retailers don't receive any release date guidelines and volition stock the cards as soon equally the shipments arrive at the door. We've seen this happen with the Radeon 300 series launch. A lucky few got to go out with their brand new 300 series card well earlier its official launch engagement. Nosotros could see a repeat of that, especially that we're seeing RX 480 shipments arriving so early before the June 29 launch date.

AMD RX 480 Shipments Hitting U.s. Stores, Supply 25x Larger Than GTX 1080 At Launch

Interestingly, yesterday a Microcenter branch in Overland Park Kansas revealed to a customer that they're receiving a shipment of 100 RX 480 cards on the 28th of June. That'due south exactly 25 times equally many GTX 1080 cards the same branch had at launch, which was only four. We called the co-operative & confirmed. We were too told that their stock of GTX 1080 cards is currently limited to one per customer due to express supply.

The RX 400 include the RX 470 and RX 460 in both viii/4GB & 4/2GB variants. How many of each of those volition be available at launch is yet unconfirmed. Nevertheless if the numbers above are anything to go by then it's safe to say that it's going to exist a lot of cards.

One thing that we've managed to confirm is that all RX 400 series cards at launch volition be reference designs. Although, custom AIB partner models will be available soon subsequently. Speaking of which, Powercolor has just launched a giveaway for a nevertheless unannounced card they're launching. The giveaway is role of a teaser involving the visitor's new "Devil" graphics card.

PowerColor-RX-480-DEVIL devil-giveaway-date
Powercolor's Devil series has always been the comapny'south highest-end single GPU offerings. They accept traditionally bore the highest clock speeds and the visitor'southward best cooling solutions. What's interesting is that the giveaway ends on July 11. Which could be a hint at when we could await to see the new Devil RX 480 graphics bill of fare come out.

As the RX 400 series launch grows nearer, we've been seeing more and more leaks surface to the web. Including gaming & 3DMark performance benchmarks, overclocking, noise, ability & thermal testing. And so stay tuned equally we bring you the latest.

AMD RX 400 Series Specifications

Graphics Card Proper noun	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Cadre	Polaris 10 XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris eleven
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Heave Clock	1266Mhz	1206Mhz	1200Mhz
Top Compute	5.83 TFLOPs	4.nine TFLOPs	ii.two TFLOPs
Retentivity	4/8 GB GDDR5	4/viii GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Memory Speed	viii GHz	half-dozen.6 GHz	7 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/due south	211 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power	150W	120W	75W
MSRP	$199 (iv GB) $239 (eight GB)	$179 (four GB)	$109 (2 GB)