you and the other barking dogs lost hard... and still you keep trying to stay on the losing street? while others have already apologized and accepted the facts why not change to the winners? but well, choices... i guess... some people just feel good with losing.
AMD acknowledged that there was a problem. They fixed it rather quickly and didn't try to hide it. They handled it rather well. Fanboys on the other hand seem to blame others for making up issues and they start to bring up all kinds of conspiracy theories (let alone insulting others). Unbelievable... They should just be happy and congratulate AMD for fast fix. I guess blind fanboyism (and I mean AMD zealots, not fans) is something that you can't cure with reason.
They did acknowledge the issue that is why they released a fix. Because it simply CAN be an issue. Albeit small but it does not matter, the acknowledged it and fixed it all is well.
In all my testing the power issues would only be a concern for those trying to push the rx480 into serious OC, stock voltage is 1150v I only have issues when going up to 1.3v I get throttling and power g oes up to 192w there is zero issues I have seen with multiple 480s running normal specs... only oc I'm happy with 1330/2100 this card is a beast! :banana: double the frame rate of my 280x and cost 75$ less than I spent 2 years ago.
Does it matter? It has been demonstrated to run technically over-spec, but it's also clear that it doesn't really matter as there have been no demonstratable issues caused. Regardless, AMD released a driver that shifts the extra power to the 6-pin - this is a good thing for everybody. And yeah, I'm running my RX 480 at 1330/2100 while actually undervolting to 1.125v. No downclocking or throttling, and temps max at 78C on load in 3DMark. Card is fine.
mine wont pass benchmarks and bf4 with less than 1.206v at 1330/2100 that is nice what fan speed or type of profile you using?
Can you not? If you feel you're correct and you presented facts that counteract their viewpoint, there's no need for a post like this. Y'all need to relax in here.
There is no losing. At this point, The RX480 4gb model is a significantly better bang for buck purchase than the 6gb 1060. It also performs better in DX 12 which is the future. It's DX 11 performance is also perfectly acceptable and at least on par with a 970 and sometimes with a 980.
Fan speed 3300 minimum, 5000 max (though it never gets that high, temps seem to max at 78C), Max Acoustic Limit set to 1266 (again, this only really seems to kick in during benchmark applications, never games). I'm not convinced about this. The RX 480 8GB and 6GB 1060 are identically-priced here in Japan. I love my RX 480 and don't regret the purchase - I needed a mimimum 8GB card anyway so the 1060 wasn't going to cut it, but the 1060 probably is marginally faster in many DX11 games.
what do you get in eyefinity if you use 3 montiors? i avg 30fps it seems it starts to throttle at 85 for me, but bios says 90c, does wattman override when windows starts I wonder? might get better results raising throttle in wattman to 90 and using asus gpu tweak, be nice if gpu tweak had more options only thing that works for me. Also BF1 will be directx 12 so may get better performance but what does a few fps really matter when I was getting 100fps+ in bf1 closed alpha, and really like the bf1 gameplay has some changes but overall really like the sounds and feel. only tested 1 map so far but I'm sure it will be nice. new spawn screen is fookin awesome! not hyping anything just saying it playing well on the rx480 really. some maps really brought back the good ol days of BF42 Stalingrad close combat in ruined buildings using bolt actions... I'm old I like old school combat edit: tried your settings, it passed, but I got over 1000 points less in 3DMark benchmarks, so I put it to 1.200 using gpu tweak, doing better. but wattman does do better voltage control than gpu tweak, looking forward to msi afterburner supporting rx480 will get better results I'm sure. its new so I don't care about waiting, the stock card is great as is. you should try a fixed 77% fan you may like it better. 77% fan keeps my card 79c and lower during all benchmarks and gaming. also wattman wont let me go above 1150v? gpu tweak I can go to 1.300v new test got 78c max temp with 77% fan in testing using new thermal paste it has set it on for now 24 hours and burn ins doing better might drop another degree or soo. but got this for my gf have to test it out first though > and building a water cooling setup, hopefully the block works for 490 when it comes out as well. I'm going for the upgrade after the 480 and hopefully and the kinks have been worked out with the new nextgen architecture. so far very happy with it. they gave us same performance at half the power and less money... actually compared to my r9-280x 3gb, which uses up to 250w of power, and get 70fps max on bf4 now I get 192w max power and triple the frame rate AND it cost me 75$ less than I paid for 280x. 280x was $325, RX480 was $250..... can not complain. now they are going to push it thank you amd when gaming with vsync it uses way less power only up to 100w at most usually avg is 60w.. on rx480 that is a light bulb... crazy
I actually ordered Nitro+ 480 4gb model. Checked the difference between 8gb and 4gb model in 4K gaming as in how the ram affects anything. The difference is NIL. 269€ cheapest thing I could find out of rx 480. Stock 1342mhz should be round abouts 1950mhz 1060 level in dx11.
Will be interesting to hear your thoughts. Some games like the new Doom won't allow you to max out settings with 4GB.
Don't really mind if I don't have nightmare the difference is not that huge (I don't even notice it from comparisons). And for example if there is some hyper setting like in mirrors edge the performance plummets enough that it's not worth the small visual upgrade. The card is not for me though it's for my partner and she will be gaming mostly less demanding games and Black Desert Online which should work good now. Earlier I bought her a new setup so she first got a step up from laptop with 2740QM, 540m and 8gb of ram to 6700k, hd530 and 16gb of ram (this already is way faster then the old setup) and now jump to rx 480 that I will oc some hopefully closer to 1400.
same here, got mine for my gf, she is casual gamer of warframe and bf4 when I'm screaming at hackers and need to school them she joins in. this should keep her happy and when vr headsets come down in price now, be fun to test on this rx480. looking forward to the 490 and nextgen+ but we will have to wait till they MILK the hell out of the RX460 and RX470..... she is using a HD6950 at moment, giving her rx-280x to test with then the rx480
Strange that benchmark scores would go down if it's not being throttled. Are you sure it's not? I use MSI Afterburner to display the clock speed on-screen to check it's not throttling during the benchmark (and indeed, it stays fixed at 1330MHz). It might just be the silicon lottery, of course.
yeah, I use gpuz and the gpu tweak utility for monitoring, no throtteling at all... was surprised... but 1.200 v at 1330/2100 is sweet spot for me. bf4 will crash with any less voltage after some time....
If it's not throttling and you don't mind the higher temps, then you may as well just go with the higher voltage. As I say, silicon lottery - all cards are different. I'm quite pleased with the results of the overclock. The Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark goes up from 87fps to 97fps for me.
Hm, it seems that the temperatures of the Nitro+ are not that great compared to the reference model, as well as noise. :/ *LINK DELETED*
