XFX Radeon RX 480 Production Line Photos

Bleib

2016-06-20 15:04

I hope to be able to change the cooler to one of my Arctic Cooling GPU coolers.. S1 plus or something. Slap on a low RPM fan and it should work wonderfully even as it is overclocked.

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Bleib

2016-06-20 15:06

Well, yes 14nm GloFo is much more Power efficient than 28nm HPP. Values they provided are actually crazy better for leakage. But that's still 150W. And 1st law of thermodynamics still applies. (Simply: Energy does not cease to exist or is not made. It can only be transformed into other type/transferred to other place.) And GPUs are actually turning electricity into transistor switching and that into heat. (technically logical transistor in GPU causes micro short circuit at every state change) So even with much smaller leakage (additional waste on top of normal operation) on 14nm, what's eaten by GPU is put out as heat.

Rumors say the card uses about 110w during most games.

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Denial

2016-06-20 16:36

I am looking photo and i am thinking how much those workers earn per day? i mean just look equipment, it's pathetic, here you see how badly AMD needs money i wonder does Nvidia packing department looks same? 😛uke2:

It's XFX... And it's pretty standard for a production line.

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TBPH

2016-06-20 17:02

I look at nVidia's premium grade (premium priced) vapor chamber cooling for GTX 1070 which happens to have 150W TDP too. And on 76°C GTX 1070 reaches (Measured by HH). And now I wonder how is this tiny thingy going to cope with same 150W. GTX 1070 is around 50% bigger GPU in size, that's 50% larger contact area to transfer heat. One has to ask if AMD's 14nm GPUs are made to run at 90°C+ or if AMD coolers are just maquettes (dummies) sprinkled with magic.

The TDP isn't 150W.

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Reddoguk

2016-06-20 19:39

lol, you see Intel's cleaner than life factories that are reported as being cleaner than a hospital and then you see XfX's production line which looks worse than a bomb torn country. Talk about cheap, that product line is attached to a bicycle and some poor man is probably in the background somewhere peddling his heart out ^^

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PrMinisterGR

2016-06-20 20:12

This is the packaging line, not the production line. Amazing to get comments from people that have never even been close to anything resembling production (of anything) in their lives.

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Darkest

2016-06-20 20:16

There's a few people in this thread that need to learn the difference between packaging and production.

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Denial

2016-06-20 20:27

From the article:

Check it out, a bunch of Radeon RX 480 graphics cards from XFX have been photographed during a production run at the end of the stage close to packaging.

I'm not really sure why the terminology even matters when the card is at that level of assembly. But I guess if everyone wants to argue semantics, or whether or not people have to have first hand experience on a chinese production/packaging line to comment on a tech forum, then so be it.

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Prince Valiant

2016-06-20 20:35

The max power is 150w, I imagine the GPU is closer to 125-135w, maybe even lower. That and Nvidia's premium cooler is garbage. All the AIB 1070 cooled stuff operates at like 70c or lower. I doubt AMD is going to have a problem cooling it.

I'm interested to see if they've made any changes to the ref. cooler since they drastically improved their CPU coolers (making them more than recycle bin fodder).

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cyclone3d

2016-06-20 20:56

Is it just me or do the fins on that heatsink look like they are going the wrong way to even work on that card? Look at the outline of the GPU on the copper on the heatsink. Then look at how the heatsink and fins are oriented as well as the mounting lugs. Are we even sure that that heatsink goes to that card?

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Fox2232

2016-06-20 21:01

Is it just me or do the fins on that heatsink look like they are going the wrong way to even work on that card? Look at the outline of the GPU on the copper on the heatsink. Then look at how the heatsink and fins are oriented as well as the mounting lugs. Are we even sure that that heatsink goes to that card?

It's just you having trouble to imagine simple 180° flip and 90° rotation.

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Dch48

2016-06-20 22:19

The heck with XFX. I wanna see what Sapphire comes up with.

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XenthorX

2016-06-20 22:29

Seriously, if it's oc-ed at 1328Mhz retail, it's a freaking great product. How many Tflops with this overclock?

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Ryu5uzaku

2016-06-20 22:31

Seriously, if it's oc-ed at 1328Mhz retail, it's a freaking great product. How many Tflops with this overclock?

6.1 tflops for that. If it goes to 1500 like some claim it will be roughly 7tflops.

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cyclone3d

2016-06-20 22:40

It's just you having trouble to imagine simple 180° flip and 90° rotation.

Yep, that was it... I verified by drawing it on a sticky note. Fail of the day for me.:bang: That being said. I am betting that the 480 runs quite cool. The heatsink looks to be smaller overall than the stock cooler for an FX 8320e (95w TDP). I am guessing very low leakage and/or a lot of power headroom over what the card actually pulls at stock clocks.

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Anarion

2016-06-20 22:40

Teraflops don't tell the whole story though, especially cross manufacturer. If you compare between same architecture then yeah, it tells something. Just realised that GTX 970 can do ~5 teraflops at 1,5 GHz, ~5,3 teraflops at 1,6 GHz. At stock boost (which almost always is much higher in every card) GTX 970 can do ~3,9 teraflops.

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vase

2016-06-20 22:53

of course the picture is from a production line. some people think assembling a graphics card requires an isolated environment like silicon chip manufacturing. this is not a CPU/GPU lab... this happened at intel/amd/nvidia/samsung way before. standard production line @ gigabyte: https://snag.gy/cCoerG.jpg the packaging section is just a part of the whole production line. does a dirty garage full of oil stains mean you can't tune/mod a high end shiny ferrari in there? nope...

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