AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB review

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Overall the card can ooze out roughly 5.8 TFLOPS in single precision performance (based on AMD claims / measurements). The card has a TDP (peak power consumption) ranked at 150 Watts. The model tested is dual-slot based, 24 cm in length.

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The 14nm FinFET+ process based Radeon RX 480 will perform at 5.8 TFLOPS. With its 150 TDP it'll have 36 CUs x 64 shader processors per CU = 2304 Shader processors). As you can see, AMD changed the Radeon font a little. Also, the RX in Radeon RX 480 is a bit of a change in the naming. RX is the product series (GPU) and then the 4 is the revision and 80 is the model number.
 

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You are going to spot a single 6-pin power connector that feeds the six phase design. Basically it delivers 75 Watts and then another 75 Watts is fed though the PCi-Express slot. In theory this means very little headroom for tweaking as the card already sits at a max TDP of 150 Watts. We'll surely check that out as well of course. We expect board partners to add more wide configurations by perhaps adding a second 6-pin connector or maybe simply replacing it with an 8-pin connector. Please note that the reference configurations for the Radeon RX 480 are 4GB of 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory and 8GB of 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory. The AMD-built boards that are shipping in volume will feature one of those two configurations. 


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Monitor display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and one HDMI 2.0b. There are traces on the PCB for a DVI connector, AIB custom-design cards could (should) implement it.
 

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Overall the card design is terrific in terms of aesthetics. Nice dark looks. We expect board partners who use the reference design to add a back-plate though.

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