PowerColor Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL 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, 30 cm in length. The Red Devil has Dual Bios one mode sets the Ultra OC mode, the other one Silent mode, 1330MHz Ultra / 1276Mhz Silent. Ironically enough, the OC mode is incredibly silent as well. 
  

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A small booboo on the front-side, there is a PWM fan hub hidden under the hood, but it's not hidden. So with everything in all black and red, you can see a bit of green PCB, which is not aesthetically pleasant really. 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). 


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The cooler on the PowerColor Red Devil RX 480 adopts the new fan technology called Double Blade III which increases airflow. The Double Blade III is made with triple 80mm 2-ball bearing fans, with 2pcs of 8mm and another 2pcs of 6mm nickel-plated heat pipe. You are going to spot a single 8-pin power connector that feeds the six phase design. Basically it delivers 150 Watts and then another 75 Watts is fed though the PCI-Express slot (depending on how the phase distribution is configured) In theory this means enough headroom for tweaking.

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So the backside has a nice back-plate with proper vents, however there is a supposed to be a pentagram there ... Look closely and look it up, but I think that might actually be the star of David ? A pentagram is reversed and intertwines ? Ah well, I'm no specialist in demonic stuff so do forgive me if I am wrong. 
  

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As stated monitor display outputs include one DVI, three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and one HDMI 2.0b. THat's plenty and quite lovely to see.. Overall the card design is terrific in terms of aesthetics. Nice dark looks. The card also has been fitted with a proper back-plate. And I like the bright red the card is using. It matches our mobo quite well also ;)

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