AMD’s $200 Radeon RX 480 video card gets gamers ‘VR ready’

AMD is about to come to the next-gen graphics-processing fight with something inexpensive.

The microprocessor company announced its Radeon RX 480 graphics card at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan today. This is AMD’s newest GPU, and it will take on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080. In this battle for computer-graphics supremacy, Nvidia has more horsepower, but AMD has an advantage of its own. The RX 480 sells for $200 starting June 29 and is powerful enough to fuel the virtual reality heads from Oculus and HTC. That is a third the price of the $600 1080, and nearly half the price of the $380 GTX 1070. This card is also roughly as capable as Nvidia’s $330 R9 390 from last year thanks to the company’s new Polaris chip tech.