Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

[Gibbo]

Again its gibberish, past Toms Hardware reviews have shown a similar thing on Nvidia cards and it was not a problem.

Cards have been drawing more than 75 Watts from the board PCIe intermittently and even continuously since X and it was never a problem.0

Overclocking those PCIe only 750TI's will draw more than 75 Watts from the PCIe continuously, way more, Toms Hardware's own results show they spend half their time pulling 85 to 100 Watts from the PICe at stock, not a problem.

Why would it be? ^^^^ It isn't.

An RX 480 spiking at 80 Watts (not 85 to 100 Watts like the 750TI but margin of error values) on the PICe is a motherboard killer? Pfft

AMD are under constant embattlement, especially when launching new products, sometimes with some degree of warrant, most of the time not even that.

This is defiantly one of those where its obvious what is going on and clear who is willing to partake in it.

Thats what we really learnt here.

Gibbo is bang on.

This, it is nothing new, cards have being drawing more than 75W for sometime.

Many motherboards even allow you to overclock the PCI-E and send more power to help the card overclock better.

Nothing new, just people trying to make un-necessary noice about a problem that has being present on many generations of VGA cards from both green and red team.

 

[Mauller]

15 079 graphics at 1410 MHz at 1150mV, 30C under water. What does 15k graphics compare to?

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,28.html

according to there;

14,300k is fury x
15,600 is titan x.

 

[humbug]

15 079 graphics at 1410 MHz at 1150mV, 30C under water. What does 15k graphics compare to?

Firestrike?

13,906 on a GTX 970 @ 1554/1950

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8573432

Actually not bad, not bad at all.

 

[SkeeterUK]

https://www.twitch.tv/buildzoid

lol this guy is modding on more capacitors to try overclock even more than 1400. Interesting approach.

 

[Sixense]

The guy if about to voltmod the thing. Block is off, is about to change capacitors for twice as big.

NInja'd -.-

 

[Davedree]

If it's such a big issue now then why didn't the same people look into current draw of the recently released r7 360 / 950 bus powered gpu's?

 

[Rroff]

The guy if about to voltmod the thing. Block is off, is about to change capacitors for twice as big.

NInja'd -.-

Amount of time he is applying heat there good chance he'll kill other parts - I usually run around 350C for that kind of thing as you want to be quick and precise.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

If it's such a big issue now then why didn't the same people look into current draw of the recently released r7 360 / 950 bus powered gpu's?

Never mind that, remember the 6990? It vastly exceeding the socket power draw as well, and this was on what is now considered a junker old motherboard. Things have been running for years.

Same for all the Fermi based cards.

My old man is still running a GTX 580 off a SFF 500W PSU in the M-ITX Silverstone Sugo 05 chassis. No issues at all rendering in Solidworks.

 

[Scougar]

https://www.twitch.tv/buildzoid

lol this guy is modding on more capacitors to try overclock even more than 1400. Interesting approach.

Cool, thanks for that. Watching him burn himself now....

 

[humbug]

I'll say this about those guys who claim to have damaged AMD motherboards from their RX 480's

My FX 83## would run at 5Ghz but with an enormous amount of heat and sound glitches on a top of the range 8+2 all solid state 125c Jap Caps Digital VRM Asus Sabertooth.

I know exactly whats happened to those cheap and cheerful 4+1 VRM boards with those FX-83## overclocked to 4.5Ghz+ and it has #### all to do with the GPU.

 

[Troezar]

If these AIB cards can reliably do 15k they could be very interesting.

 

[sqwerty]

If these AIB cards can reliably do 15k they could be very interesting.

If Kyle wasn't telling porkies we could be looking at 16k+

Wednesday at 12:07 PM #21

Kyle_Bennett
HardOCP Chef Editor
Staff Member


AIB partners are reporting to me this morning that with extremely good custom air coolers the 480 GPUs are seeing from 1480MHz to 1600MHz clocks, but tell me it is a "lottery draw" on GPUs.

 

[fs123]

15 079 graphics at 1410 MHz at 1150mV, 30C under water. What does 15k graphics compare to?

That is fantastic for just 1410MHz. If the sapphire nitro can do a bit more then it's a no brainer.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

It does look like this card could be saved by aftermarket cooling solutions and overclocking.

 

[Mr Latte]

 

[Scougar]

Slightly confused...Apparently the 6 pin is wired for much more than actually needed, so 8pin will potentially make no improvement.....

 

[Mauller]

Slightly confused...Apparently the 6 pin is wired for much more than actually needed, so 8pin will potentially make no improvement.....

even though a lot of 6 pin connectors from a psu are wired with 3 12v lines, 2 are normally only used for 75 watt. i always thoughts it was daft.

 

[Scougar]

Wonder why it is so hard to push these cards so high. Trying to stop myself from running out and getting one, before the AIB versions come out.

 

[Mauller]

Wonder why it is so hard to push these cards so high. Trying to stop myself from running out and getting one, before the AIB versions come out.

havent you seen the sapphire nitro? is already up for pre order on the site.

 

[maltrabob]

Slightly confused...Apparently the 6 pin is wired for much more than actually needed, so 8pin will potentially make no improvement.....

Was just thinking about it. I was reading that there is really no difference between the two except for the two extra ground lines on 8pin connector. But then I was reading something different stating that the 6pin only has two 12 volt input lines plus one unused line as standard as opposed to three 12 volt input lines on 8pin (allowing it for 40 more Watts to be added). To make things even more confusing, non-standard 6pin can, however, also have three 12 input lines active making it no different to a standard 8pin. Go figure...

http://www.overclock.net/a/gpu-and-cpu-power-connections