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

Managed to distract the boy with Minecraft so got mine set up

Put the target temp up to 80, increased power target to 20, maxed the fan speed.

Played 30 min Witcher 3 at 1080p all max except no hair works and foliage distance on high and it kept 60fps with no throttling and much quieter than my old msi 280x

Temp got up to 80 (haven't tried to under volt yet) but it really was quiet. My case is an aerocol deep silence and the air flow isn't great

Build quality of the card is great and I found the button to disable leds easily

Giz
 
Erasmuz said:
I ordered mine on the 25th. I'll post here when I receive notice so others who have ordered before/after me have an idea of timings :)

I'm not going to bother the team at OCUK, I can wait, after all it's just a toy :) It certainly feels like time stands still when you've placed a pre-order though. It's a bit like being a small boy again the night before Christmas!
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Lol forgot to put quote on my answer.Just read a message from OCUK telling me i am around 170th'ish in the que , so thats not too bad .Yep boys and their toys , i hope ill receive mine soon :D
 
'Good news, we just started private beta-testing of MSI Afterburner 4.3.0 with AMD Polaris 10 support. We'll be polishing betas of AB and RTSS during August, probably there will be some public beta during this time. And final release of 4.3.0 is scheduled on September. '

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=404400&page=8&highlight=dx12

I think they are including DX12 OSD support too. It should be possible to change the voltages using AB I think. He got an RX 480 this week so is working on it in private beta's.
 
Well early review of the Powercolor saying 9.5dba quieter and with slightly lower temps, slightly lower clocks though so marginally behind performance wise however 9.5dba quieter is huge.

Saw the design, wider card than reference but they haven't used any of that space for the heatsink. Narrow heatsink + bigger fans which overhang the heatsink so a lot of that airflow from the bigger fan doesn't pass through the heatsink. 10dba quieter on their respective OC bios setting, 6dba quieter on the quiet mode bios.

The Devil crazy long though but for the same price if you can fit it in the case seems like a no brainer.

I don't mind how either card look, but just seeing such a silly waste of space and poor overall design put me off it instantly. Will probably turn out Sapphire got all the best cores and with voltage unlocked all overclock better since I went Powercolor. I just can't understand it, why did they even go for a wider pcb than Powercolor and reference.... then not use any of that space at all. bigger fans to pass air next to and not over the heatsink.

The sapphire with everything the same except the heatsink much wider and filling most of the space under the shroud would have been a great card.

EDIT:- Another good metric in terms of advertising what a card can do vs Nvidia is, Sapphire OC mode is 3.5dba louder than reference 1060, the Devil is 6dba quieter. Actually compubase has done the percentage in terms of sound level accurately. Compared to the Devil the reference 1060 is 52% louder and the Sapphire Nitro is 93% louder, 10dba is 10 times the power output which equates to 3.1x or so louder to the human ear.
 
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comparing an aib 480 v reference 1060 card for noise really lol..what were they thinking?

I'm glad the nitro is finally here for you guys that have been waiting so long..now get gaming on that card :)
 
fastboy said:
comparing an aib 480 v reference 1060 card for noise really lol..what were they thinking?

I'm glad the nitro is finally here for you guys that have been waiting so long..now get gaming on that card :)
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They compared loads of cards, including 1060 AIB and last gen reference/AIB. I picked those numbers out as the reference 1060 is deemed as a good card, because it is. It is also however more expensive with it's FE pricing and is effectively a Nvidia custom cooled card. The entire idea of custom cooled/reference is reference is cheaper/basic and custom has a more expensive cooler, when you charge $50 more for the 'reference' and it has a $50 more expensive cooler than other normal reference cards at the price point it's not really reference(in the traditional sense of it's usage.. cheapest/worst cooled one you'll get).
 
yep the reference card makes no sense when there are cheaper aib's,that goes for both sides..and no its not a custom cooled card because its more expensive lol.

how does the noise compare to the aib 1060's?

the daughters pc is going to need an upgrade soon and not sure what to get her yet,the 1060 I have is really quiet as the fans don't come on until 50c but she has a freesync monitor...
 
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Zhuni said:
Yeah I'm surprised there's such a lack of clean cards. It's like all the novelty racing car gaming chairs.
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For me I don't care what the card looks like, so by that token it can be plain and boring or pink with genitalia all over it, performance/noise is all I care about.

Though from what I can see if you want a clean slick looking card the XFX is easily the least garish and far more sensible than the Sapphire IMHO.
 
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