Review: Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 GAMING 8GB

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/15/2016 01:57 PM | source: | 11 comment(s)

Gigabyte released a Radeon RX 480 of their own, the G1 GAMING model comes armed with 8GB graphics memory, and we review it. This WindForce 2X cooled mainstream graphics card series will allow you to play your games in both the Full HD 1080P range as well as in WQHD (2560x1440). And all that at a very attractive price.

Read the full review here.

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Glottiz
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#5335026 Posted on: 09/15/2016 12:47 PM

Only 1 degree difference between reference and custom cooler? Extremely disappointing.

Reference 82C.
Custom cooler 81C.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5335031 Posted on: 09/15/2016 12:58 PM

Only 1 degree difference between reference and custom cooler? Extremely disappointing.

Reference 82C.
Custom cooler 81C.

Yet 5 DBa more silent ... that is the difference in-between audible and silent.

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#5335035 Posted on: 09/15/2016 01:12 PM

Nice looking card. Very quiet, though I would like to see better cooling. Thank HH!

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#5335045 Posted on: 09/15/2016 01:28 PM

"Once the card reaches its maximum temperature threshold of 80 Degrees or another limiter, it will start throttling on the boost frequency as well as voltages and fan RPM."

Quiet or not reaching those 81 Degrees will enable the above quote extracted from the review. Most people will have their card in a case reaching higher temps than the 81 Degrees in the review (my opinion, correct me if I'm wrong).

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#5335056 Posted on: 09/15/2016 02:23 PM

still cant decide which card should I get gigabyte sapphire or msi, probably I will get gigabyte because of 3 year warranty :3eyes:

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#5335062 Posted on: 09/15/2016 02:45 PM

still cant decide which card should I get gigabyte sapphire or msi, probably I will get gigabyte because of 3 year warranty :3eyes:

MSI also have 3 year warranty.

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#5335071 Posted on: 09/15/2016 03:02 PM

still cant decide which card should I get gigabyte sapphire or msi, probably I will get gigabyte because of 3 year warranty :3eyes:

From all the review I see, MSI gets it right with this card. Not the highest clock (from box) but lowest temp (by far), come close by Strix Oc from Asus but Asus get highest price tag in my country.

Gigabyte and nitro+ has high temp which a little bit disappoint. But build quility of Nitro+ is top notch and great looking card imo.

Red devil one is good too but mediocre all around (long card with 3 fan cant keep up with 2 fan from MSI)

For me 480 custom card is rank up like this.
1. MSI Gaming X
2,3. Asus Strix OC = Sapphire Nitro+
4. Powercolor Red Devil
5. Gigabyte G.Gaming

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#5335096 Posted on: 09/15/2016 04:18 PM

Hey Hilbert, will you be able to get a sample of Sapphire's Nitro+ card? Really want to see how they fair up against the other cards you have reviewed/tested.

Thanks

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#5336283 Posted on: 09/19/2016 06:37 AM

theres already a bios update. they should test their amd gpus before release. my r9 380 g1 gaming took a couple of bios updates to work properly.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5956#bios

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#5340538 Posted on: 10/01/2016 10:16 AM

I realized 1 thing:

You have benchmarks up against the GTX 1060, without explaining which variant you are showing benches for. Sadly the versions are not just different on VRAM, but also their CUDA count is also different.

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#5343037 Posted on: 10/07/2016 09:37 PM

Among custom RX480 I'd place XFX GTR as first, excellent overall cooling (also on phases) and quiet. MSI, at least in my country, is priced higher and does not offer much more.
Gigabyte lately is not doing so well with cooling, also on Nvidia cards and often has coil whine problems. Asus too not so good. Powercolor RX480 Devil has overall a good cooling but way too big and not so quiet (there is a video on youtube where Powercolor Devil is compared with XFX GTR and XFX wins in everything).
If I had to buy a RX480, I'd go XFX...

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