AMD RX 480 Custom Cards Can Hit 1.4-1.6Ghz AIBs Report - Asus Announces RX 480 Strix & MSI RX 480 Gaming Leaks Out

The AMD Radeon RX 480 has only come up out and news near custom variants of it has already hit the web. Asus hast only published a press release announcing its Strix RX 480 Gaming graphics card. The company did not reveal much but promised more details soon. The card features a 3 fan cooling blueprint and customizable RGB lighting.

The Asus Strix RX 480 Gaming besides feautres 2 PCIe power connectors rather than a single 6-pin similar the reference design. The card will undoubtedly feature higher clock speeds than the reference blueprint correct out of the box. And with better ability delivery and cooling information technology should besides overclock considerably improve.
MSI is too reportedly working on an RX 480 Gaming graphics carte du jour that'll be coming out before long. The visitor did non announce anything official however. However an image of a cherry-red MSI RX 480 Gaming graphics card has already leaked out earlier today.

Custom AMD RX 480 Graphics Cards Can Clock To 1480Mhz-1600Mhz Add together-In-Board Partners Report

Kyle Bennet, editor at HardOCP.com revealed earlier today that AMD'south add-in-board partners -- AIBs - report that RX 480 graphics cards with "extremely skilful air coolers" are hit anywhere from 1480mhz to 1600mhz depending on the silicon lottery. Which is 17% to 26% higher than the stock clock speed of 1266Mhz on the reference RX 480 design.

Kyle Bennet :
AIB partners are reporting to me this morning that with extremely proficient custom air coolers the 480 GPUs are seeing from 1480MHz to 1600MHz clocks, but tell me it is a "lottery draw" on GPUs.

Reviews for the reference design RX 480 just went live a couple of hours ago. Testing effectually the carte du jour'due south overclocking revealed that the extremely limited power commitment is the likely culprit behind its modest overclocking capabilities. With only a single 6-pivot ability connector the card's ability commitment is limited to a maximum of 150W. 75W from the PCIe slot and 75W from the 6-pin PCIe power connector.

The reference RX 480 draws an average of fourscore watts from the PCIe 6-pivot connector. That's already 5 watts over the limit at stock clock speeds. Leaving absolutely no room for whatsoever serious overclocking. An consequence that AIB partners are addressing directly with their custom RX 480 designs with the addition of more than power connectors. This is very likely why AMD'due south AIB partners are reporting clock speeds of upwards to 1.6Ghz are actually achievable. As then much of the GPU'due south overclocking potential just tin can't be tapped with the reference design.

And then if y'all're looking at the RX 480 cards that are out right at present don't be tempted just nevertheless. At least if you're interested in higher clock speeds and enjoy overclocking or if you lot're merely looking for better cooling solutions on the RX 480 you will definitely want to hold out for the custom AIB designs.

ASUS ROG Press Release

The next-generation graphics card from AMD Radeon starts with the RX 480. You can certainly expect ROG Strix to join the political party. ROG Strix RX 480 will exist featuring the new Polaris ten XT at the core based on a new 14nm FinFET fabrication node (previously 28nm) to bring y'all a new level of operation with less estrus. The GPU (grahics processing unit) is paired with 8GB of GDDR5 video retention operating at 8GHz on the 256-bit retentivity bus.

The new GPU armed with DirectCU III cooling will upshot in a faster and quieter graphics card. The black metal shroud and backplate with new Aura RGB lighting can surely match nearly any organisation. GPU Tweak Ii will provide eay 1-click overclocking while a professional person way is however available for advanced users, with XSplit Gamecaster to stream or tape gameplay.

A defended HDMI 2.0b port is bachelor for VR, and AMD FreeSync will make certain you're getting smooth gaming when using supported gaming monitors such as MG248Q, MG28UQ or MG24UQ.

More details to come so stay tuned!

AMD RX 400 Serial Specifications

Graphics Card Name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris 10 XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris eleven
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Heave Clock	1266Mhz	1206Mhz	1200Mhz
Top Compute	five.83 TFLOPs	4.9 TFLOPs	2.ii TFLOPs
Memory	four/8 GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR5	2/four GB GDDR5
Retentiveness Interface	256-bit	256-bit	128-chip
Memory Speed	viii GHz	half dozen.6 GHz	7 GHz
Retentivity Bandwidth	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	112 GB/due south
Power	150W	120W	75W
MSRP	$199 (4 GB) $239 (8 GB)	$179 (four GB)	$109 (2 GB)