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The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.
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You can not beat a good Asus Rampage motherboard that loves lots of extra wattage.
Kaap you putting yours under water? i am interested to see how they perfom, i know your usually thorough in your testing
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Hi Kaap, congrats on your cards, just wondering why you didn't wait for custom cards? The stock cooler on these is supposed to be bad and only has 6 pin connector?
[quote="Gregster, post: 29714367"]Same card ordered as Stulid and looking forward to testing it on Friday. Bit jealous of you guys with yours already :([/QUOTE]
And, the same question to you actually. Why not wait until a custom board comes up? I know it's for a review, but, you waited for a custom 1080. Isn't only fair you wait for a custom 480 as well?
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It's here!
Have a look at my post on the 1st page for bench results.
For the games I play it will run them maxed out with decent fps.
So if you're happy with high you should have no probs.
Hope this helps.
Do you like yours? And what had you before the 480?
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Not sure why people are saying this thing is loud.
It kept full boost at 1266MHz, max was 81C and fan speed was max 827RPM.
This is in a Bitfenix Phenom MATX case as well.
It kept full boost at 1266MHz, max was 81C and fan speed was max 827RPM.
This is in a Bitfenix Phenom MATX case as well.
Quick observations, coming from a HIS 7950 boost...
It is roughly 50% quicker across firestrike, valley, heaven and old tomb raider.
This is at 1200p, with 16.6.2 drivers on both.
Hotter at load (80C, 7950 was 60C).
Quieter at load, although 7950 was pretty quiet anyway.
Accounting for inflation it costs about what I paid for the 7950 new I think.
All in all not so bad, I usually wait until I can get 100% improvement for same money, but got the itch.
Now to have a go with this WattMan thing.
It is roughly 50% quicker across firestrike, valley, heaven and old tomb raider.
This is at 1200p, with 16.6.2 drivers on both.
Hotter at load (80C, 7950 was 60C).
Quieter at load, although 7950 was pretty quiet anyway.
Accounting for inflation it costs about what I paid for the 7950 new I think.
All in all not so bad, I usually wait until I can get 100% improvement for same money, but got the itch.
Now to have a go with this WattMan thing.
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You sure it's 827?
As the lowest I can set is 1040.
I don't know, must be GPU-Z thats reading it wrong then.
No it's reading it right, WattMan says the same, I just leave it on auto.
Mine shows as 1792 in WattMan and also in gpu-z when running tomb raider bench.
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What versions of the card do you both have? 4GB or 8GB? Could be bios differences between the different models.
Sapphire 8GB
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Must just be the games, fans running at 1379 RPM now playing Quantum Break. It's still really quiet though.
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Yes, it definitely is. As has been said , higher resolution textures cost virtually nothing in terms of performance and can make quite a difference to the visuals.
Also, the 8GB card uses faster memory and has slightly more memory bandwidth.
With 50% power limit I can run a 6% overclock of 1340 OK
I tried 9% (1380) but got a crash.
Had set fan to max rpm of 4500. When it gets up to that it sounds like a hair-dryer.
Temp was 88C.
This is just running the tomb raider bench for now.
Not amazing.
I tried 9% (1380) but got a crash.
Had set fan to max rpm of 4500. When it gets up to that it sounds like a hair-dryer.
Temp was 88C.
This is just running the tomb raider bench for now.
Not amazing.