Monday, June 20th 2016
XFX Radeon RX 480 Pictured on its Production Line
Here's a sight for sore eyes, a stream of Radeon RX 480 graphics cards by XFX are making their way down the production line to packaging. The picture reveals that XFX could top up the reference-design RX 480 board with a back-plate, to make it even more marketable. To give you an idea of just how cool the 14 nm "Ellesmere" chip runs, with the cooler shroud taken apart, you'll find that the GPU is cooled by just a chunky, monolithic aluminium heatsink with a copper core, and not an elaborate aluminium fin-stack/channel setup with heat-pipes crisscrossing it. A base-plate cools the memory and VRM. In related news, ChipHell scored a GPU-Z screenshot of the XFX Radeon RX 480, confirming its stream processor count of 2,304 and GPU clocks of 1328 MHz, with the memory ticking at 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective).
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28 Comments on XFX Radeon RX 480 Pictured on its Production Line
If standard boost is 1266, 1500 is 18.5% OC.
Mm, on second thought, that's the same 18.5% as 1766 => 2050 for 1080, so not better.
No update so far means w1z didn't get a card so far. hopefully he will do the update today-tommorowSink on the left is just upside-down, and sits on the core. On the left there's a part of a unified black sink that shits on the entire PCB's components like memory chips.
Heatsink looks small, power consumption must be very low. Its interesting that it has a hole in the backplate to increase airflow.