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AMD’s $200 Radeon RX 480 graphics cards make VR work on a budget

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices is launching its bid to make virtual reality gaming much more affordable today. AMD is launching its graphics chips and cards based on its new Polaris graphics architecture, including the $200 Radeon RX 480 graphics cards.

The Polaris architecture is the company’s first new graphics foundation in a few years, and it is set to take advantage of 14-nanometer FinFET manufacturing (which delivers faster, smaller and cheaper chips) in direct competition with Nvidia’s upcoming Pascal architecture. AMD expects to create a whole series of chips based on Polaris, and the ones it is describing today are the first.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.