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SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!
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The Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro + OC is under load with 77 degrees ( 4GB ) and 78 degrees Celsius ( 8GB ) significantly warmer than the Asus Radeon RX 480 Strix , which remains nearly ten degrees cooler with 69 degrees in OC mode . The significantly larger DirectCU cooler Asus makes itself at the temperatures thus clearly noticeable .
1.15v core 1.0v memory with a fan target of 75c at either 2000 or 2300 rpm.
Max temps from stock bios 1/2 is 75/78
if you take the time to convert this review into English then the conclusion is
either their test card 8gb was poor, or these are pre clocked to the limits of noise and voltage threshold. Higher clocks will require greater fan noise and voltage.
All those still believing it'll clock to 1500-1600 need to face reality.
1.15v core 1.0v memory with a fan target of 75c at either 2000 or 2300 rpm.
Max temps from stock bios 1/2 is 75/78
if you take the time to convert this review into English then the conclusion is
either their test card 8gb was poor, or these are pre clocked to the limits of noise and voltage threshold. Higher clocks will require greater fan noise and voltage.
All those still believing it'll clock to 1500-1600 need to face reality.
Soldato
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Just wait and see. It's been proven that given the voltage the stock chip can do over 1500mhz at 1.35v. Whether these air coolers can cope is another story but I have put 1.35v through my 290 no problem with the pcs+ cooler. I would hazard a guess my 290 would be pulling a lot more power and putting out more heat in doing so. +200mv is usually about where you want to stop on air with GCN but have seen the top end coolers push more.
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not going to happen, 1.15 v is already at 75-80c with a fairly loud fan.
For that review of that card. 1500 has not been proven on air as it's crazy voltage using 1.35v on air
With linear scaling the best you will see on air with say a cooler much better like powercolor rx480 would be 1400-1450 with luck.
Soldato
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It all depends on how it scales with extra voltage. +100mv allows me just short of a 10% clock boost. If these are similar then 1450 core should happen easy enough. Those that want to push the boat out may do better. Like always it will be a silicon lottery.
From everything I've read about the 480 in general leads me to believe that if you get one of the AIB's to 1400MHz you'd have done well.
IT'll still be a good performer at stock, just a poor overclocker and a lot closer to the limits than what AMD are used to.
IT'll still be a good performer at stock, just a poor overclocker and a lot closer to the limits than what AMD are used to.
After reading some reviews and looking at benchmarks I'm absolutely fine with this card. Only problem I have is that this good-looking cooler is just much worst in every aspect than my current vapour x trix. It's just a way under my expectations.
I belive in near future we will see something better. And as always I will blame myself for being impatient like last time when I chose vaporux instead of toxic.
I belive in near future we will see something better. And as always I will blame myself for being impatient like last time when I chose vaporux instead of toxic.
Caporegime
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Soldato
For all my negative comments about the asus cooler, it seems to be about 10 degrees cooler running than the Nitro's, and quieter. (I think we can say that 10 mhz difference is not going to make that much difference.)
Maybe i shouldn't be surprised just given the sheer surface area of Asus's cooler, and an extra fan?
Gives me a lot of hope for the powercolor devil.
Maybe i shouldn't be surprised just given the sheer surface area of Asus's cooler, and an extra fan?
Gives me a lot of hope for the powercolor devil.
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The first page of this post said there were 27 orders in the first 5 mins, I think we are out of luck. Do you remember if you ordered before that comment?
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Soldato
Really looking forward to mine and Powercolor have finally added semi passive cooling so it won't always sound like a jet, which my previous PCS didn't have...
Just hope we get oc tools out soon which allow us to easily push past 1.15v 24/7. I reckon with a bit of luck the devil may take it. I realise the stock clocks are 1330MHz but unless they've done something wrong I can't believe a cooler that size won't do a good job.
That 1700 clock video was beasty!!
It's awfully quiet in here today.
If only stock would turn up early. I'm running out of PS4 games to finish off.
I have no consoles and using a 6670.
Really hoping the Powercolor card shows up soon.
I hope so as well, this will be my first PC card, and I hope that massive cooler means cool and quiet.
Hopefully Wattman works well with the AIB cards.
Caporegime
I made a new thread about the Polaris based Radeon Pro cards which were launched:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18742244
However,if you look at the coolers it does indicate the other Polaris 10 cards will have a decent improvement in performance/watt I suspect.
The WX 7100 is basically an RX470 and is meant to have over 5TFLOPS which is close to a RX480.
The WX 5100 is bus powered and has 1792 shaders and looks to be slightly ahead in TFLOPS when compared to a R9 380X. It basically looks like a bus powered R9 380 with higher clockspeeds and double the VRAM!!
The WX 4100 is Polaris 11 based and is single slot and bus powered. It is also low profile.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18742244
However,if you look at the coolers it does indicate the other Polaris 10 cards will have a decent improvement in performance/watt I suspect.
The WX 7100 is basically an RX470 and is meant to have over 5TFLOPS which is close to a RX480.
The WX 5100 is bus powered and has 1792 shaders and looks to be slightly ahead in TFLOPS when compared to a R9 380X. It basically looks like a bus powered R9 380 with higher clockspeeds and double the VRAM!!
The WX 4100 is Polaris 11 based and is single slot and bus powered. It is also low profile.
I got my order in just under an hour after that, so almost certainly not then.
Ah well, I've got the Witcher 2 to tide me over until next week
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I've been told I am order lucky number 7 so I'll let you know if any shipping notifications come my way this week 
Caporegime
Sapphire card tested:
https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...2016-07/sapphire-radeon-rx-480-nitro-oc-test/
Overall,around 8% faster than the reference card.
https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...2016-07/sapphire-radeon-rx-480-nitro-oc-test/
Overall,around 8% faster than the reference card.
Caporegime
There not too bright these people using Anno for overclocking results, don't they know Anno is completely CPU bound? It doesn't seem so and its amazing that they don't realise this from their results.
If only stock would turn up early. I'm running out of PS4 games to finish off.
I have a very sad looking HTC Vive hanging on a hook gathering dust whilst waiting for the 480 to arrive. If it's too much longer I may just pull the trigger on a 1060 instead