SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!

[bigSadFace]

My XFX GTR has an ASIC of 68.3% & this is clocked to 1338 Mhz...

Tried going any higher?

 

[docsonic]

Not yet.

 

[FoxEye]

Any of you guys undervolted your 480s (esp 4GB) for less fan noise?

I'm not really interested in pushing up the clocks, but I'd love to know if these cards can be made whisper quiet at stock clocks.

 

[Temujin]

Those who actually have their cards: How are your temps looking for various use cases with the card: e.g. idle, browsing/watching video, low impact and high impact gaming? Really need to decide whether i am going to go for one of these or go to the dark side and get a 1060.

For reference I have a radiator that looks much like a HIS 7950 currently.

 

[Yutang13]

My XFX GTR has an ASIC of 68.3% & this is clocked to 1338 Mhz...

Wow, that's low. I've got a nice 81.2%

What's the highest that's ever been seen on a card? Is 100% even possible??

 

[Leaffy]

Do you fancy pushing an OC on there and posting your results. On the verge of buying my second card.

Its odd, stable overclocks are giving me lower scores, i'll spend some time messing with the voltages see what I get

Ran Time Spy,

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/291587

 

[Yutang13]

Its odd, stable overclocks are giving me lower scores, i'll spend some time messing with the voltages see what I get

Ran Time Spy,

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/291587

Wow, that's nice, tying with the 980 sli +4790k sample system.

 

[Roob65]

Delivered today and plumbed in. Nice easy install. Plus I got Haribo!

 

[Gowingnator]

My ASIC quality is 75.3%...

 

[humbug]

My ASIC quality is 75.3%...

Thats pretty good.

 

[JDHansen]

Any of you guys undervolted your 480s (esp 4GB) for less fan noise?

I'm not really interested in pushing up the clocks, but I'd love to know if these cards can be made whisper quiet at stock clocks.

I undervolted my Nitro+ 8GB and got it down to 1125 at 1342Mhz. 1120 was unstable at 1342Mhz. i didn't keep it running at 1125 tho because Timespy score dropped around 100 points so i have the card running at 1130. it's not hugely quieter, but it'll keep 75C in the games i play at around 1600rpm to 1700rpm. the firestrike stress time does make it get hotter then that, and the fan hits the max i set of 2000rpm keeping it at 79C

 

[redfang87]

So I've got my card and installed it but strangely my post screen has gone spazzy , it gets past that and loads into windows no and seems OK

https://i.imgsafe.org/4a822ba963.jpg

Also gaming evolved app says it's not supported for auto driver updates

Any ideas ?

 

[Gowingnator]

Anyone else notice fans not working? Thought it sounded too quiet to be true...

I'm using cables that are rooted to PSU, 8PIN to 6 + 2 pin....

And when I restart/turn on PC, fans turn on fine, as soon as it's about to load into Windows log in screen, fans stop....

Any ideas?

Or am I right in thinking, fans don't start up until they hit a certain temp?

 

[JoeF1]

Just done firestrike and got 10920.

This is on stock with a i5 running at 4.6ghz (Brought my OC down). http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/14195489

First benchmark i have done. How is this looking? This is on the demo mind.

Also first time AMD, so looking around the settings. Is there anything i need to make sure is turned on etc?

Thanks for any pointers

 

[HarryBizzle]

I have to say this card puts into perspective how flawed the whole reviews process around cards is these days. Unless a card runs everything at 80fps and at Ultra settings it seems no one is happy to say that a card is suitable for a given resolution. The thought of testing cards at medium settings is anathema to many, it seems.

I've been using this at 1440p and can happily say it's a very capable card at that resolution for anyone who's not obsessed with having all settings turned up to a million.

I've hardly had to turn down the settings at all to get 60fps in everything I've thrown at it so far.

 

[Gowingnator]

Problem solved, they start up when it hits about 55 degrees!

 

[JDHansen]

Anyone else notice fans not working? Thought it sounded too quiet to be true...

I'm using cables that are rooted to PSU, 8PIN to 6 + 2 pin....

And when I restart/turn on PC, fans turn on fine, as soon as it's about to load into Windows log in screen, fans stop....

Any ideas?

Or am I right in thinking, fans don't start up until they hit a certain temp?

For me they have a very long ramp up time, and they take forever to descrease RPM.

The fans turn off at idle.

I believe i remember hearing sapphire ed mention that they smoothed out the ramp up and down of the fans to make it less of an imidiate change in speed or something. I feel it's a bit too slow on the ramp up, it should be faster.

if the fans are not spinning up at all, i don't know. reinstalled drivers from scratch?

EDIT

just read your later post, nevermind XP

 

[HarryBizzle]

I've noticed while the fans take ages to drop in speed, if you hit "reset" in Wattman they change speed dramatically or just stop immediately.

Very odd. I wish Sapphire would hurry up with Trixx as Wattman is rubbish.

 

[Tracy E]

Card arrived Monday 8GB Nitro+ OC Just got around to fitting last night (looks )
ASIC quality 65.6 is this good or bad? I'm


I've had loads of random crashes/freezes and other problems I'll have to ask a
few questions out of this thread.









Oh! where's my Haribo

 

[benjii]

Card arrived Monday 8GB Nitro+ OC Just got around to fitting last night (looks )
ASIC quality 65.6 is this good or bad? I'm

It means your card requires higher voltage to stay at it's rated speed. Which is bad if you want to push a high overclock as it gives you less room to work with.