Radeon RX480 4GB can be flashed to 8GB version.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:05

Gregster said:
Well if they do successfully flash, then no I won't be happy. I have flashed many different BIOS's on cards through the years, so something I am always happy to do.

Lol Gregster happy to pay near £700 for the GTX 980 replacement, but £60 over a 4GB RX480 is too much

pmsl

shankly1985 · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:12

Boomstick777 said:
Lol Gregster happy to pay near £700 for the GTX 980 replacement, but £60 over a 4GB RX480 is too much pmsl

LMAO this is so true. Titanx £900, 1080 5/600, mad over maybe paying extra 60 pounds lol
How did it feel paying how much extra over 980ti on the Titanx? 300 quid more? :eek:

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:14

Boomstick777 said:
Lol Gregster happy to pay near £700 for the GTX 980 replacement, but £60 over a 4GB RX480 is too much pmsl

I am always up for saving a few squid.

LoadsaMoney · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:16

FredFlint said:
On the PCPerspective video, they said AMD only made one reference PCB design so they could get through validation faster. That’s why the 4GB and 8GB cards are the same.

or they couldn't afford to make 2 :eek:

Boomstick777 said:
Lol Gregster happy to pay near £700 for the GTX 980 replacement, but £60 over a 4GB RX480 is too much pmsl

lol

Darujhistan · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:16

Boomstick777 said:
Lol Gregster happy to pay near £700 for the GTX 980 replacement, but £60 over a 4GB RX480 is too much pmsl

He only bought one to put on his YT channel in the first place.

chaparral · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:18

Gregster said:
I am always up for saving a few squid.

I really think your the wrong person to come out with a comment like that in the GPU forum....

With your past list of GPU's

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:19

Darujhistan said:
He only bought one to put on his YT channel in the first place.

The RX 480 would be a good upgrade choice for your 380 in truth.

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:20

chaparral said:
I really think your the wrong person to come out with that comment in the GPU forum....
With your past list of GPU's

Come on man, 60 quid is a good amount for going out for a few beers lol. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Darujhistan · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:23

Gregster said:
The RX 480 would be a good upgrade choice for your 380 in truth.

It might be if I wanted or needed an upgrade.

chaparral · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:24

Gregster said:
Come on man, 60 quid is a good amount for going out for a few beers lol. Who wouldn't want to do that?

I need more then a few beers to get over the amount I spent in the last month on a Asus 34",GTX 1080,G900, few hundred on games etc :
( and now looking at upgrading CPU, motherboard, Ram, Mechanical Keyboard etc :eek:

)

Griffildur · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:25

Gregster said:
Come on man, 60 quid is a good amount for going out for a few beers lol. Who wouldn't want to do that?

pfft, you just dropped a few notches in my eyes .... who cares about a few beers when you can buy yet another GPU?

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:27

Darujhistan said:
It might be if I wanted or needed an upgrade.

That's the thing with buying and using cards, you get to see where the performance is at and it helps others see if it is a worthwhile upgrade and as I buy my own hardware, I can be completely unbiased with it. Sure I buy my GPUs to game with and my Youtube channel and it is something I really enjoy and most people seem to enjoy my vids, so win for me and a win for the viewer

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:32

chaparral said:
I need more then a few beers to get over the amount I spent in the last month on a Asus 34",GTX 1080,G900, few hundred on games etc :
( and now looking at upgrading CPU, motherboard, Ram, Mechanical Keyboard etc )

I hear that brother. I built a new system as well and that chewed through all of my savings, so any penny saved now is a result. Mind you, I am glad I did the upgrade and really pleased with this 6850K, Asus X99-A II and Avexir 3000Mhz ram. Even the cooler (H115i) has really impressed me and it runs silent, which coming from a custom loop was nice.

Griffildur said:
pfft, you just dropped a few notches in my eyes .... who cares about a few beers when you can buy yet another GPU?

I am in catch 22 pal, I see how much my hardware costs and I need much beer to soften the blow

bru · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:33

Lol at you lot, having a pop at Gregster, for wanting to be able to get extra performance for free, I can only assume that none of you run anything overclocked, or have ever flashed a bios to get more functionality out of a piece of hardware. :rolleyes:

D.P. · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:38

Griffildur said:
this makes no sense even from a production point of view.

Surely it would cost more to put that memory on every card which would cut the profit on the 4 gb cards. Since you've already paid the production cost then no one really cares if you flash the bios or not and use the 8 GB there. it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Would be good to know if anyone with a 4 gb version can flash it to 8.

Rushed to production, not enough time to get a 4gb PCB validated.

Griffildur · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:47

bru said:
Lol at you lot, having a pop at Gregster, for wanting to be able to get extra performance for free, I can only assume that none of you run anything overclocked, or have ever flashed a bios to get more functionality out of a piece of hardware.

it's all in good fun mate, don't take it too seriously, he clearly isn't!

shankly1985 · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:49

Griffildur said:
it's all in good fun mate, don't take it too seriously, he clearly isn't!

This...

Gregster · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:51

bru said:
Lol at you lot, having a pop at Gregster, for wanting to be able to get extra performance for free, I can only assume that none of you run anything overclocked, or have ever flashed a bios to get more functionality out of a piece of hardware.

All good Bru and I took it as tongue in cheek. Anyone not wanting to save 60 quid needs their head testing lol and regardless of what it is. A Gigabyte G1 gaming for £609 or a Gigabyte G1 Gaming for £669, I wouldn't buy the latter lol and neither would they.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:53

Griffildur said:
it's all in good fun mate, don't take it too seriously, he clearly isn't!

^^

Looking forward to testing out this 4GB card, if I can unlock the other 4GB even better. This RX480 will end up in my boys PC and I'm about to clear out a load of GPU's.

MM bargains inbound

Gregster said:
All good Bru and I took it as tongue in cheek. Anyone not wanting to save 60 quid needs their head testing lol and regardless of what it is. A Gigabyte G1 gaming for £609 or a Gigabyte G1 Gaming for £669, I wouldn't buy the latter lol and neither would they.

Haha, someone worried about £60 for the 8GB version over the 4GB but spends ££££££ on every high end Nvidia card might also need their head testing?!

Have you tried your RX480 yet? Do you like the card?

mark42 · 3 Jul 2016 at 12:54

fs123 said:
What I don't understand here is why would AMD even put the 4 extra chips on the 4GB card. Surely a waste of chips if you are selling it as 4GB.

The 480 has a 256-bit memory bus. Each GDDR5 chip provides 32 bits, so they need 8 of them.