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PoweColor RedDevil RX480 vs ASUS ROG Strix RX480

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#1 ·
Guys I am about to upgrade my GPU and I have decided, after many years to return back to the red side. I am currently between the PowerColor RedDevil and the ASUS ROG Strix. I would like to know, based on personal experiences which of the two is the best.

Price wise the PowerColor is cheaper and I have seen quite a lot of reviews commenting on good it is, but based on past experiences ASUS is also a pretty solid choice.

What's your take on them.
 
#4 ·
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Originally Posted by KortexGR View Post

I have found both of them at around 300 euros - give or take.

I am more concerned about the quality and the overclocking margin of each of one.
Quality wise, I'd trust ASUS and Sapphire over PowerColor. As for overclocking, wouldn't know, its going to depend more on the silicon rather than the card I think.
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by KortexGR View Post

Guys I am about to upgrade my GPU and I have decided, after many years to return back to the red side. I am currently between the PowerColor RedDevil and the ASUS ROG Strix. I would like to know, based on personal experiences which of the two is the best.

Price wise the PowerColor is cheaper and I have seen quite a lot of reviews commenting on good it is, but based on past experiences ASUS is also a pretty solid choice.

What's your take on them.
If you are looking to just buy an RX 480 and run it a stock speeds then any RX 480 you buy should be fine, however if you are looking for a solidly built card, with a good cooling system and a high quality VRM that gives you a chance of getting the best overclock you can, then there are really only four cards worth getting in my view and they are: The ASUS Strix, the XFX GTR, the Sapphire Nitro +, or the MSI Gaming X.
 
#7 ·
Stay away from PowerColor. I have the Red Devil RX480 and it's a poor overclocker. If you plan on overclocking, go with the Strix over the Red Devil trust me.

The PowerColor runs great @ stock speed and that's about it. Try overclocking it, and it just pisses in it's pants. The Strix is the better choice.
 
#9 ·
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That's really interesting. Reviews seem to refer to the PowerColor as being quite good at that.
I can attest that the Red Devil has a poor power delivery section, aside that it has 6+1 power phase, but voltages do not help the overclocks. Infact it hurts it and makes overclocking this card a sad venture. I'm sure the cards in those reviews are binned. Noway does my particular card even get near those clock speeds in those reviews, and it's not temp issues as my card idles @ 34c and loaded temps don't exceed 74-76c.
 
#10 ·
I see. Well that's really good. Any other RX related experiences? I've been reading reviews in the past days for the ASUS and so on where they almost always pit it against the GTX1060 but I'm still confused. Some of them give an advantage to the AMD board whereas some other to the NVidia.

I would like an honest to god run down on how it's like to have this board. As said before I am in the brink of migrating over to the red field so some experiences would be nice.
 
#12 ·
Actually the fans on my card are pretty good. After swapping out tims, my card's loaded temps are on the 70-ish side. Aggressive fan curve set in MSI AB I can barely hear them unless they ramp up to the 80% area.
 
#13 ·
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Originally Posted by Nebulous View Post

Actually the fans on my card are pretty good. After swapping out tims, my card's loaded temps are on the 70-ish side. Aggressive fan curve set in MSI AB I can barely hear them unless they ramp up to the 80% area.
They can't be any louder than the nitro fans lol those get jet engine loud above 65%
 
#16 ·
The PowerColor RedDevil RX 480 to this day is still THE WORST CARD ANYONE CAN GET.... its CHEAP FOR A REASON, hey at least it looks cool!

Great Info between the two:

1: PowerColor RX 480 ($240 Micro Center)


2: Asus RX 480 Strix ($279 Frys + $20 mail in rebate)

Now I own the 480 Strix, and well its a beast...!! Tried overclocking the card so far:

Stock:
1310 core, 2000 mem

Overclocked:
1500 core, 2050 mem
(Can go higher on the memory..
but don't have the balls to go higher)

RX 480 Strix hands down..
 
#17 ·
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Originally Posted by JP2012 View Post

The PowerColor RedDevil RX 480 to this day is still THE WORST CARD ANYONE CAN GET.... its CHEAP FOR A REASON, hey at least it looks cool!

Great Info between the two:

1: PowerColor RX 480 ($240 Micro Center)


2: Asus RX 480 Strix ($279 Frys + $20 mail in rebate)

Now I own the 480 Strix, and well its a beast...!! Tried overclocking the card so far:

Stock:
1310 core, 2000 mem

Overclocked:
1500 core, 2050 mem
(Can go higher on the memory..
but don't have the balls to go higher)

RX 480 Strix hands down..
You're not even seeing the fill benefit of that 1500mhz when not pushing the ram too. The 480 likes more bandwidth, especially at 1500mhz go for at least 2100mhz ram if not more. IDK why you're scared to ram oc
 
#18 ·
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Originally Posted by Echoa View Post

You're not even seeing the fill benefit of that 1500mhz when not pushing the ram too. The 480 likes more bandwidth, especially at 1500mhz go for at least 2100mhz ram if not more. IDK why you're scared to ram oc
Even when overclocked I still wouldn't see any differences since I'm CPU bottlenecked...
 
#19 ·
I have been kicking around the idea of replacing my old Powercolor 290X LCS card with one of these 480's, but after looking at some head to head reviews the 480 wouldn't be much of an upgrade to the 290x and more of a side grade for something new and nothing more. It does draw less power, but I'm not in this for power savings.

I would like to stay with AMD and hoping Vega is worth waiting for, but if not the GTX 1070 would be the path to take.
 
#22 ·
My Red Devil is set to 1400MHz on the core. I have left the ram alone for now. I tried pushing the ram, but it will need more voltage for it and it doesn't have that option in Sapphire Trix. I have the power limit set to +50, and +108Mv. If I knew that I could run Wattman and Trix at the same time, I would as Wattman does give the option to push more volts through the memory. I did have to set a manual fan curve as it was funny opening it up and it was just a straight line! At least the card doesn't break 75c ever.
 
#24 ·
84% ASIC on my powercolor rx 480.
got 2149mhz mem without errors popping up.
-45 undervolt and 1325mhz on the core. can easily push further but after restarting my pc countless times over a crappy cpu, i dnt wanna bother with the core clock.

this was on a 4gb version too. 1266core and 1750mem stock.
must say powercolor is great, best price, great memory chips.
the stock fan curve is ******ed though. lets the card get to 80C before spinning the fan, by then it hits 85 and starts to throtle. so stupid.. that's a driver issue though isn't it
with a custom fan curve though i don't even hear it anymore.
 
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