Sapphire released some photos of their Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro edition, first things first, it has an 8-pin power connector. The card comes with an in-house PCB design and latest generation Nitro cooler with two 90mm spinners.
The fans can actually be removed to clean. As stated the card has an 8-pin power connector positioned at the rear side of the card and here it comes, has RGB LED lighting configurable by a button on the rear side. The dual-BIOS card is expected to run 1317 MHz on the max boost frequency. It comes with a back-plate and currently listed for 249 GBO, which is 20 bucks over reference.
People are saying "only" 51Mhz over reference? Well, the reference R9 290 was 900 Mhz Core, the Sapphire Tri-X was at ... 957 Mhz core. Yes, % comparison its less, but we will have to wait and see how OC affects power consumption on the AIB models. If it goes to the moon with 100 more Mhz, the AIB vendors will keep the clocks more moderate.
People are saying "only" 51Mhz over reference? Well, the reference R9 290 was 900 Mhz Core, the Sapphire Tri-X was at ... 957 Mhz core. Yes, % comparison its less, but we will have to wait and see how OC affects power consumption on the AIB models. If it goes to the moon with 100 more Mhz, the AIB vendors will keep the clocks more moderate.
That would actually be great news! The Stock VRM is awesome, just wired up "badly". With an 8pin on this card, we can assume that issue is now fixed so the VRM will be a great one.
Why have this thread though? We have known what the card will look like and have seen these pics for at least a week now, probably closer to 2 weeks. I got my hopes up thinking this was a review
EDIT: oh yep, the article date was indeed the beginning of last week. So ya, kinda old news for a thread.
My issue with non-reference cards is that no one seems to be able to get non-reference clocks correct. More often than not, on both AMD and NVIDIA partners regularly push out cards with incorrect clock/voltage tables for the middling power states. They work fine at heavy load, but intermediate loads often produce issues.
It's so bad on many non-reference AMD parts that I'm forced to flash down to reference clocks, then do all my OCing in software that can force constant voltages.
Anyway, I am optimistic about a non-reference PCB on the RX 480. The baked in clock speeds don't really matter, but a VRM that draws less current from the slot and more from the PCI-E power connector is likely to be very useful.
That would actually be great news! The Stock VRM is awesome, just wired up "badly". With an 8pin on this card, we can assume that issue is now fixed so the VRM will be a great one.
Why have this thread though? We have known what the card will look like and have seen these pics for at least a week now, probably closer to 2 weeks. I got my hopes up thinking this was a review
EDIT: oh yep, the article date was indeed the beginning of last week. So ya, kinda old news for a thread.
Yep I totaly agree about the stock VRM, it's actualy really good, I was asking for VRM fotos because I saw the MSI Gaming X RX 480 has 4 phases >.> that sux.
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