>In games, the Radeon RX 480 exceeds 150 Watt thermal design power and PCIe specification. On average, we have 156 watts measured at games, in Furmark the card even pulls at reduced clock 169 watts. Extremely problematic is the fact that the Radeon RX 480 draws up to 88 watts from motherboard slot, although specifications only allow 75 watts. This may in some motherboards cause instability. Since AMD card already operates above the standard, far above the limit, it is not advised to perform overclocking experiments with the reference design, which has only one additional 6-pin connector. Here one can only hope that AMD’s partners offer boards with standards-compliant layout and sufficient power supply.
wait for custom cards if you are so anal about this non-issue
Evan Morgan
Fuck off back to your daycare board manchild.
Get out
Daniel Perry
That's from single PCI-E slot?
Isn't that really bad for your mobo?
Carter Foster
>using a loop to measure electrical shit
kill urself
Aiden Price
WTF how does this makes me manchild you literal nigger?
RX480 is DAMAGING YOUR FUCKING MOTHERBOARD DUE TO NOT FOLLOWING PCI-E STANDARDS
Christian Williams
>this non-issue Only a true shill would call an actual fire hazard a "non-issue".
Thomas Jenkins
>We skipped long-term overclocking and overvolting tests, since the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption through the PCIe slot jumped to an average of 100W, peaking at 200W. We just didn’t want to do that to our test platform. yikes
Dylan Nguyen
fuck off n/v/idiot
The RX480 is the savior of PC gaming and VR.
Go back to Sup Forums
Camden Kelly
I have a pair of reference 290 ex bitcoin miners. I enjoy setting the target temp to 60 and the max fan speed to 95% and firing up unigine Valley. Vroom Vroom baby
Parker Watson
you're not supposed to draw that much power from the 24 pin, it will literally melt.
Parker Harris
>1) The RX 480 has passed PCIe compliance testing with PCI-SIG. This is not just our internal testing. I think that should be made very clear. Obviously there are a few GPUs exhibiting anomalous behavior, and we've been in touch with these reviewers for a few days to better understand their test configurations to see how this could be possible.
>2) Update #2 made by the OP is confused. There is a difference between ASIC power, which is what ONLY THE GPU CONSUMES (110W), and total graphics power (TGP), which is what the entire graphics card uses (150W). There has been no change in the spec, so I would ask that incorrect information stop being disseminated as "fact."
>We will have more on this topic soon as we investigate, but it's worth reminding people that only a very small number of hundreds of RX 480 reviews worldwide encountered this issue. Clearly that makes it aberrant, rather than the rule, and we're working to get that number down to zero.
Asher Powell
Yeah man, we have real manly discussions to get back too, such as " Why aren't you using linux as a desktop OS' And 'Which distro of linux is the least shitty' and 'Why do girls run away when I want to explain why linux is the best everyday OS"
Yeah man, we need more space for those amazing threads.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Easton Butler
So how much this sucks for a person that has single PCI-E slot
Elijah Edwards
>We're a hardware review site but we decided to not look further into this potential issue. We'll still report it and let all kinds of bullshit rumors emerge.
Jackson Adams
>RX480 is DAMAGING YOUR FUCKING MOTHERBOARD DUE TO NOT FOLLOWING PCI-E STANDARDS
Like the entire Nvidia 9 series did and was never an issue?
Are you retarded?
Cameron Morales
In your wet dreams faggot
John Reed
[citation needed]
Andrew White
How do they manage to fuck up like this?
Aren't they supposed to have an extremely high-grade group of engineers who test stuff like this before releasing the damn card?
Lincoln Gomez
I'm scared now D: what will happen to us???
Owen Anderson
I can't tell, troll, asshole, shill, or butthurt idiot justifying his purchase.
Look I love AMD and have usually gone with them since my first rig, an AM386SX, but they made some completely needless mistakes with their review cards. Wouldn't you want the card that you release first to have the stablest voltage, the beefiest cooler, the best binned silicon? Why marr your product with great silicon but inadequate supplemental power and a shitty cooler?
Carter Fisher
it is but amdcucks will defend it still
Thomas Nelson
>Can't counter argument >More ad hominem and blind brand loyalty
Joseph Foster
Holy fucking damaged parts and housfires
t-thanks RX480
Benjamin Russell
name one 9 series card that violates the spec
Jordan Perry
>Rumors
"Huh, I've jumped up and down on this glass bridge twice and its shown signs of cracking already! But to stop now would mean that the danger of this activity is only a rumor"
Benjamin Davis
>3 (you)s
Nice, still I was hoping for more ;_;
Landon Perez
It was only the asus 970 or something like that
Ethan Rodriguez
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Dominic Taylor
Like any faggot buying a 480 can afford an $800 VR HMD. Rofl wow AMD shills are fucking retarded.
Isaiah Morris
kek
Jaxon Flores
buttravaged AMDrone
Chase Cox
The competition would be the 1060, which is supposedly coming out in a week
Eli Allen
yesterday: > Nvidia is finished, rx480 best gpu ever lmao
today > Amd is finished, rx480 worst gpu ever
so... which one is true Sup Forums? AMDead or Nshit?
Christian Rivera
test
Bentley Perez
Nvidia tentative FUD #6,213x10^120
omg I swear AMD is doing stuff. and it's bad. hmmkay
Leo Mitchell
Literally the worst GPU ever made.
Benjamin White
test2
Adam Foster
oh right, now we should wait. what happened to amd are waitfags?
Alexander Reed
The TL;DR for the RX480:
It's pretty good for $200 bucks.
Josiah Anderson
So I can now replace every single part in my system because I bought a cheap 199$ chinese assembled gpu ?
Awesome. Do not even think about Crossfire.
Nicholas Cook
I just want to thank my NvidiaBros on Sup Forums for stopping me from making a stupid decision of buying a rx480.
Isaac Anderson
The card is fine for the price. Everyone is overreacting.
Alexander Russell
You need to take a break from Sup Forums for a little bit
Anthony Bell
Currently, its AMDone, but maybe after 3rd party boards or the 1060 is utter shit.
Luis White
Your mobo is a piece of shit if it won't handle 8 additional watts
This image was clearly edited. Look at the white border.
Luis Hill
960 Strix.
But that was specifically ASUS. The other 960 cards didn't pound the PCIe slot without lube, to my knowledge.
Dylan Cooper
what happened to last night's FUD that LOL AMD CANTO WIN AGAINST A SIXU QUINTLLION YEARS OLD 970 GUISE.
which, as I've said, wasn't even the target prime competitor for its class. NOw we should wait till nvidia launches a card with lower bandwidth and that will cannibalize it's entire SKU below the 1070 for 150 dollars? yeah, right. keep waiting.
I just got here, son. You are probably mad at another AMDrone other than myself. All the twists and spins you've been plotting today must've taken a toll on you.
Jordan Bailey
I'm not sure why you're so dead set on comparing cards from different price brackets AND different generations. Where is your logic?
Charles Richardson
He curiously recommends it, also.
Dominic Parker
>Nvidiots with their goy blinders completely ignore this
Brody Cooper
iT was nvidia's logic not even 10 hours ago. I've been saying for as long as I remember that this release should be going against nvidia's x60 sku's.
Now you guys who've been spinning this narrative. yesterday it was the prime target (becuase some faulty leaks were leading to the belief that the Rx480 wouldn't be able to compete against the 970 {or more precisely a 6quintillion years old card from nvidia} and now it roflstomped it everybody is rushing to push that it's irrelevant narrative.
Chase Collins
apex kek
Noah Peterson
my motherboard is crying just by looking at this shit
Tyler Howard
FECES
Caleb Young
hope you already sold your AMD stocks
damn....
Camden Ross
its shit its nothing near what it was hyped for it doesnt oc its over heating it is weaker than gtx 970 and in europe atm it's as expensive as gtx970 pointless utterly pointless and i was waiting for it for a long time too bad, now im waiting for gtx1060 to replace my r9 380 instead i guess.
Eli Scott
Only retards would buy anything from nvidia @ $300 price point. There is no point buying the 9xx series anymore, they will fall beyond the radeon cards about ~10-15% in the coming 3 years. Also the rx480 rocks at dx12 and vulkan, these api-s are the future.
Austin Morales
>buying a budget card every year
Friend.....
James Murphy
a metric for benchmarking which has never been used before in any review that I've read.
It suddenly makes sense to showcase it, and leave all of the other cards in comparison without the same specific testing.
Carson Rodriguez
Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it hasn't been used before.
Hint: it has.
Wyatt Young
>amd user here guise. >gonna switch to glorious Nvidia and leave this disgusting trash [that literally makes me butt hurt so very very much every time I find myself in need of uttering its name aloud because of my job] behind.
I just wanted a nice, uneventful launch and some nice video cards
But instead it's turned into a shitshow, the 480 sucks, it's slower than a 970, it violates pcie spec, it overheats
It's just a disaster...
Dylan Taylor
>hitman what next ashes of singularity? its same as 50% more fps on nvidia!* *with hair works and invisible rock tessellation on
amd flopped this it... again and there is no denying it
with is sad beacause i was counting on rx480 a lot
Brayden Gonzalez
vega will save us
Joseph Wilson
AMD has a counter for hidden tesselation now.
Jayden Thompson
Wait for the next generation.
Brayden Bailey
nvidia fags on sucide watch
Carter Rogers
>Who will replace my motherboard ?
Nobody, because your a shill and the second paragraph of your own article refutes your claim:
>Excessive load from PCIe slot is not limited, because it’s within safe reserves. In the worst case scenario the motherboard would switch off. However with our Asus Z170-Deluxe in the test system, the Radeon RX 480 ran smoothly, and also with our MSI Z97 Gaming 3 there were no abnormalities ...
Leo Miller
Unless you have a shitty cheap mobo this isn't going to matter. Also, let's not forget that these are reference models you fucking brand-loyal shit heads. It's a fucking $200 card. Stop pretending it's designed to compete with 1070s and 1080s
Ryan Collins
>oc when card is already pushing spec that's like taking a high stress performance engine and slapping a turbo on it. of course it will blow up.
Jackson Murphy
>materialism the board
Bentley Rogers
it's exactly the poorfags who buy budget motherboards without supplemental pcie power that needs to worry about this. aka the entire 480 market.
Jace King
depending on the game it can compete with the 1070 kek
Benjamin Nelson
But it will have to compete with the 1060, I'd rather spend ~$50 more and get a decent card out of it rather than this mediocre shitshow with no overclocking capabilities whatsoever. >brand-loyal shit heads Pot, meet kettle.
Jason Russell
Fuck that nigga. I'm getting a god damn 1050 when it comes out. AMD are over. My 7870 has served me well, but now that it's dying it's time to switch to Nvidia.
Jeremiah Robinson
buy high sell low as they say i made mistake i rushed and got 380 instead of 970 or 390 and it turns out i need something more powerful
what makes you think i hate r9 380? its good card way better than gtx 960 if i got 960 i would be in even more hurry to replace it. 380 is just insufficient for me i like having 60fps in games and 380 doesnt provide that if i bought 390 i probably wouldnt think about replacing it yet ,same for 970.
Jonathan Hernandez
You supposed to read the entire article and not single paragraphs Rajit. Other than that it still doesnt follow PCI-SGI standard.
Daniel Butler
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Matthew Murphy
The funniest thing is that the retarded AMDumbs are saying that the stock speeds aren't the be all and end all, it's already drawing 164 watts on average without an Overclock, you're literally asking for a fried mobo if you do OC. I think it's built into the card that it will shit itself at a 1.5% overclock in order to stop the card from frying the system.
Luke Gutierrez
>970 performance >200 bucks This card has single handedly pushed what used to be 300-350 dollar performance down to a 200 usd price point.
It's doing what it set out to do. Let's see how 1050/1060 are doing, which is the natural competitor for this segment.
All in all, it's pretty meh. Which is to be expected
