The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.

harney · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:21

RavenXXX2 said:
14 days to cancel/return is still there.

Its has to be there its a consumer law

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:23

z10m said:
You can force it to run at constant clock speed and voltage on every P State using watman.

AMDMatt said:
You can disable Power Efficiency or use Wattman.

Noticed that when I load Radeon Wattman I have no options to change anything, it just shows a graph thing that monitors temps, usage etc. How do I bring up the options to change things?

Cleeecooo · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:32

Can I get some opinions on whether it's worth upgrading from a 7970?

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:33

Found that turning off power Efficienty in Global setting gives me max clocks during gaming and temps are good too.

Very very impressed with this card so far, a lot of power for very little money. £180 for this is a steal.

I'm so impressed that I'm gonna use this in my main PC and pass along my GTX 1080

MM bargains inbound soon

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:34

Cleeecooo said:
Can I get some opinions on whether it's worth upgrading from a 7970?

Absolutely, it's a lil beast. I got the 4GB model, it's so cheap for the performance you are getting. Do it !

Cleeecooo · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:37

Boomstick777 said:
Absolutely, it's a lil beast. I got the 4GB model, it's so cheap for the performance you are getting. Do it !

Very tempting! Just weighing up whether to go for a more powerful single card as X-Plane can't take advantage of SLI/X-Fire

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:39

Cleeecooo said:
Very tempting! Just weighing up whether to go for a more powerful single card as X-Plane can't take advantage of SLI/X-Fire

I've tried em all. I honestly wouldn't bother, RX480 is the sweet spot. Go for the 4GB model as well. At the current price there is nothing better bang for buck.

schneeb · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Boomstick777 said:
Getting some GPU down clocking in Planetary Annihilation, goes down as low as 500Mhz. Weird because games like Crysis 3 don't down-clock. Is there a way to stop down-clocking?

What are your fan settings? You will need to up the maximum to stop it hitting 85+ degrees and throttling, you also probably need to up the power target.

I currently run this:

Which will hover around 80 as intended, forza apex test:

*edit* not sure on img rules? Just change to hyperlinks if its a problem!

Cleeecooo · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:44

Boomstick777 said:
I've tried em all. I honestly wouldn't bother, RX480 is the sweet spot. Go for the 4GB model as well. At the current price there is nothing better bang for buck.

Have you had any issues with thermals? Looking at Anandtech it doesn't seem to be as impressive as promised on heat and power compared to the 970.

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:50

schneeb said:
What are your fan settings? You will need to up the maximum to stop it hitting 85+ degrees and throttling, you also probably need to up the power target.

I currently run this:

Which will hover around 80 as intended, forza apex test:

*edit* not sure on img rules? Just change to hyperlinks if its a problem!

I don't have those options, just a monitoring graph. Weird...

Cleeecooo said:
Have you had any issues with thermals? Looking at Anandtech it doesn't seem to be as impressive as promised on heat and power compared to the 970.

Temps are fine, Been testing with Crysis 3 and Planetary Annihilation and temps are good ~75c I imagine there isn't much room on the stock cooler for overclocking temp wise, unless you pump up the fan speed. I'm running at stock, it's all good.

Cleeecooo · 5 Jul 2016 at 14:53

Boomstick777 said:
Temps are fine, Been testing with Crysis 3 and Planetary Annihilation and temps are good ~75c I imagine there isn't much room on the stock cooler for overclocking temp wise, unless you pump up the fan speed. I'm running at stock, it's all good.

Thanks for your opinion

I'm probably going to see what the 1060 brings. Either way, I'll probably be slapping a waterblock on the card!

bayo000 · 5 Jul 2016 at 15:15

karik666 said:
Yes the 480 is worth getting,but buy a custom cooled card like the sapphire nitro,rather than the ref card.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking. Thanks

Mauller · 5 Jul 2016 at 15:20

Boomstick777 said:
I don't have those options, just a monitoring graph. Weird...

Temps are fine, Been testing with Crysis 3 and Planetary Annihilation and temps are good ~75c I imagine there isn't much room on the stock cooler for overclocking temp wise, unless you pump up the fan speed. I'm running at stock, it's all good.

Some people have been getting 1300-1350 with a nice undervolt of 1.090V. You can also lower the volts on the ram at the same time which helps.

Some people getting 0.650-0.800 stable at stock frequency.

Davedree · 5 Jul 2016 at 15:39

Mauller said:
Some people have been getting 1300-1350 with a nice undervolt of 1.090V. You can also lower the volts on the ram at the same time which helps.

Some people getting 0.650-0.800 stable at stock frequency.

Exactly same behaviour as my old 7950 when undervolting.
Stock 925 boost 1.18v and 0% power limit throttled to 800mhz.
Or my profiles of 1175 and 20% at 1.18v or 800mhz at 0.850v, 925mhz at 0.900v.

It barely used 100watts at 925mhz.

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 18:02

Got mine under custom water AIO now. Temps are so good, 32c - 35c Crysis 3 stress testing.

IDLE 28c (with dual monitors)
LOAD 32C - 35C

Mauller · 5 Jul 2016 at 18:05

Boomstick777 said:
Got mine under custom water AIO now. Temps are so good, 32c - 35c Crysis 3 stress testing.

IDLE 28c (with dual monitors)
LOAD 32C - 35C

should be able to drop the volts or increase the clocks at those temps.

gilljoy · 5 Jul 2016 at 18:08

So guys I'm thinking of upgrading my 7970ghz to a 480 ( well that or a 1070)

Would my 3770k be a bottleneck? And has anyone tried it out in Total war warhammer?

schneeb · 5 Jul 2016 at 18:30

Boomstick777 said:
I don't have those options, just a monitoring graph. Weird...

did you maximise the window?? else i'd reinstall your drivers

Cleeecooo · 5 Jul 2016 at 18:56

Boomstick777 said:
Got mine under custom water AIO now. Temps are so good, 32c - 35c Crysis 3 stress testing.

IDLE 28c (with dual monitors)
LOAD 32C - 35C

Universal GPU only block I assume?

Boomstick777 · 5 Jul 2016 at 19:09

Cleeecooo said:
Universal GPU only block I assume?

Antec Kuhler 920 with custom Dwood bracket. Got fan cooling for VRM etc.

Running really nice and cool and silent