Ernimus Prime
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Here check this video out for liquid cooled RX 480 :thumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvhyrz5oDPo
The Radeon RX480 8GB Performance Review (Comment Thread)
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Here check this video out for liquid cooled RX 480 :thumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvhyrz5oDPo
Fudd Rucker
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Seems these things are pulling a lot of juice from the PCI-E 12v pins. A lot more than they should be. Overclocking and xfire might not be a good idea afterall.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4qfwd4/rx480_fails_pcie_specification/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4qfwd4/rx480_fails_pcie_specification/
No overclocking anymore here. After buying a PCI-E riser card and a clamp meter on my way home yesterday from vacation and logging almost 100W draw when this thing is overclocked, NO WAY I am running it on my board. I'll wait for board partner cards thank you.
zoob
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Out of curiosity have you run any of the recent NVIDIA offerings on the same riser card and recorded power draw?
How big of an engineering job would it have been to incorporate a single 8 pin as opposed to the 6? I'm sure it's not something that could be retroactively fixed on all current cards, but is it something that could relatively easily be resolved on a V 2.0 reference card?
If they haven't already been, somebody should be fired for this decision....
I've seen first hand what drawing too much current through the board can do back in my GPU farming days.
If they haven't already been, somebody should be fired for this decision....
I've seen first hand what drawing too much current through the board can do back in my GPU farming days.
Ernimus Prime
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AMD Radeon RX 400 series naming scheme explained | VideoCardz.com
If you check this article out. There will be some kind of revision on the RX cards.
If you check this article out. There will be some kind of revision on the RX cards.
So that's just like, their opinion man
None of that says anything positive to me. Maybe if you actually don't even own a gpu this would be a good choice to start? Considering only price.
Massive die shrink (2x!) and nothing to show for it. That's all I see when I read all the reviews. And performance per watt is abysmal. The 1070 consumes only 5 watts more at load (1%) and is almost twice as fast, severe WTF here?
So now AMD has to shoot themselves in the foot again on pricing just to move some of these.
Keep in mind I have been running 7970's in xfire for almost 3 years now, longer than any other gpu I've ever owned, pleased with them.
The GF 14LPP process seems to be a major problem for AMD as there is so much variation among even reviewer samples. Some cannot even hit the advertised 1266 Mhz clocks in games without increasing fan speed.
AMD RX 480 review: The best budget graphics card—but for how long? | Ars Technica
AMD is stuck with the worst foundry for their products. If Vega and Zen are built at GF 14LPP then AMD is pretty much dead. AMD better push GF to get their process problems resolved asap or they should sue GF to get out of WSA. I am wondering how Polaris would have been if it had been manufactured at TSMC 16FF+. I would think that it would have hit 1.4 Ghz clocks while keeping power well below 150w. The problem with GF is they have the worst implementation possible of Samsung 14LPP. AMD can do nothing but just cringe in revulsion. I am thinking AMD won't last long as the bleeding will continue and AMD will run out of cash.
Is it that simple? Could it also be that AMD did not have the resources to refine Polaris to the extent that Nvidia did with Pascal to achieve their clocks? I am no expert and I do not know how fabs re spin silicon, I do not know how those changes are made only that Nvidia mentioned its release of Pascal that at first Pascal came out with lower clocks and then after refinement they could optimize their chips to run faster... I would like all of this explained to me.
