The second-rung Polaris examined. The AMD Radeon RX 480 came into town in late June laden with the promise of an excellent bang for buck. It's taken a while for partners to get hold of the Polaris 10 GPU, though the stock situation is now becoming slightly better. Our pick of the initial RX 480 bunch is the £200 Sapphire Nitro 4GB. It's a card that offers a solid experience at a 1440p resolution in the latest games.

AMD made no secret that it planned to distill the Polaris architecture down to even more agreeable price points. The first prong of this strategy is to release the RX 470 at a lower price point for those that can't quite justify the $200 price tag of its bigger brother.