good value better than the asus dual which has been £9 cheaper and its worth the extra money with no quality control issues and has rgb and a back plate. With doom.
Features:
- Powered by Radeon RX480
- Stylish metal back plate
- LED power indicators
- 6+2 Power phase
- 1x 8-Pin power connector
- Integrated with 4gb GDDR5 256bit memory
- WINDFORCE 2X with Blade Fan Design
- Support up to 8K display @60Hz (requires 2*DP1.3 connectors)
- 16.8M Customizable Color RGB Lighting
They have sorted out the heat problem with a bios upgrade.
chris19992
22 Mar 17#19
This is a good deal but (there's always a but) with the 580 due within the next 2 months, this 480 is a hard sell, especially if the 8GB 580 does indeed come in at rumoured prices of £180 and with lower power and heat as well.
rav4cas
20 Mar 17#9
The 8gb Gigabyte model is £80+ more, or a ASUS 8GB for £30 more.
I know, been runing it now just for over a year swaped/oc'd from e8500, just for day to day basics was no point doing new build. Done some little up's for old timer nd its good to go another decade :smile:
minmanas
21 Mar 17#16
Well im with u about overkilling with 480, was thinking not less then 470 or 1050ti. I need mainly for 1080p so lover then that its like wast of money. Had 460 on my mind but would be waste aswell :smiley: will see :smiley:
forevermacin
21 Mar 17#15
You might want to watch the you tube channel jays two cents review of this card. As I remember the card didn't review to well. Just trying to help others out here.
I'd expect this will look very similar to what the 3xx series did. If not a bit more disappointing.
It's a real shame they are calling it "Polaris 20, 21" etc and a '5xx' when it's really nothing of the sort (From rumors, albeit).
People seem to be up in arms against Intel doing small incremental updates, but here comes AMD with a small incremental update... ;-)
minmanas
20 Mar 17#3
Soon will pair something new with my old timer Q9550 :smile:
sergiup to minmanas
20 Mar 17#11
I only replaced mine about a month or two ago, stunning chip given it's about ten years old!
BigDiscovery to minmanas
20 Mar 17#12
I tried Xeon equivalent E5440 with GTX 1050 (non Ti card), and E5440 would bottleneck the card in Fallout 4. The Witcher 3, GTA V and so on. So RX 480 is total overkill. IMO GTX 750TI, RX460, maybe GTX 950 is best to pair with that CPU.
Cool chip though, cheapest on ebay at the moment - £35, I recently bought i5 3470 for £50, lol.
laweffect
20 Mar 17#10
The 480 seemed to rise again after a flurry of deals over the past few weeks. Nice to see one (a decent one) at the sub £160 mark again. Hot.
utopiangames
20 Mar 17#8
Heat from me, got the Asus dual 4gb for £150 with doom in a recent deal and no problems apart from not being able to get freesync working with doom :P
thetwistedblue
20 Mar 17#7
Interesting, thanks
mrbaba
20 Mar 17#5
A good price, but I think I'll be holding out for an 8GB model.
It's getting tough to call whether the new RX 580 or an outgoing 480 is the way to go.
Gkains to mrbaba
20 Mar 172#6
Well, RX 580 is mostly a rebrand but rumours point to it getting a process respin: still 14nm FinFET but going from LPE to LPP.
Source: https://www.computerbase.de/2017-03/radeon-rx-500-polaris-20-21-12/
LPP is meant to be 'up to ten percent more performance' according to Samsung http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/foundry/process-technology/14nm/
But what that means for RX 580 is unknown. That CB story only goes on about 4% more Boost clocks, so either GF's version of Samsung's 14 FF LPP is not as good, or AMD are going to lower the TPU (possible meaning more overclocking potential for users).
rav4cas
20 Mar 17#4
Ordered one yesterday. Being delivered tomorrow. Just been emailed the free code for Doom 2016 which is part of the deal.
powerbrick
20 Mar 17#2
All retailers seem to offloading the 480's as the refresh versions are out shortly.
Turner855
20 Mar 172#1
You've put the specs down for 8gb and 4gb. This is the 4gb. If it was the 8gb I'd have bought! ☹️
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Opening post
Features:
- Powered by Radeon RX480
- Stylish metal back plate
- LED power indicators
- 6+2 Power phase
- 1x 8-Pin power connector
- Integrated with 4gb GDDR5 256bit memory
- WINDFORCE 2X with Blade Fan Design
- Support up to 8K display @60Hz (requires 2*DP1.3 connectors)
- 16.8M Customizable Color RGB Lighting
Specification:
- GPU: Polaris
- Stream Processors: 2304
- Core Speed:1290MHz
- Memory Speed: 7000Mhz
- Memory interface: 256-Bit
- Memory capacity: 4096MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 350W or greater PSU required
- 175W TDP
- Power Connectors: 1x 8-pin required
- Display Outputs: 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 3yr
Latest comments (20)
Never mind, found it https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-radeon-rx-480-dual-oc-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40v-as.html
It's a real shame they are calling it "Polaris 20, 21" etc and a '5xx' when it's really nothing of the sort (From rumors, albeit).
People seem to be up in arms against Intel doing small incremental updates, but here comes AMD with a small incremental update... ;-)
Cool chip though, cheapest on ebay at the moment - £35, I recently bought i5 3470 for £50, lol.
It's getting tough to call whether the new RX 580 or an outgoing 480 is the way to go.
Source: https://www.computerbase.de/2017-03/radeon-rx-500-polaris-20-21-12/
LPP is meant to be 'up to ten percent more performance' according to Samsung
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/foundry/process-technology/14nm/
But what that means for RX 580 is unknown. That CB story only goes on about 4% more Boost clocks, so either GF's version of Samsung's 14 FF LPP is not as good, or AMD are going to lower the TPU (possible meaning more overclocking potential for users).