Monday, July 18th 2016
XFX Radeon RX 480 Double Dissipation Pictured
Here are some of the first detailed pictures of XFX Radeon RX 480 Double Dissipation graphics card. The card combines a custom-design PCB with a meaty custom cooling solution by the company, to support factory-overclocked speeds and overclocking headroom further still. The cooling solution, from which the card derives its name, features two aluminium fin-stacks, to which heat drawn from a copper base is conveyed by four 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes, and ventilated by a pair of 90 mm spinners.
These fans can be detached from the cooler without needing any tools, and without even having to detach the cooler shroud. A back-plate finishes off the cooling solution. The PCB draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, and uses a 6-phase VRM with high-end International Rectifier DirectFETs to condition it for the GPU. The card features factory-overclocked speeds in excess of 1300 MHz. The card features 8 GB of memory. Display outputs include a DVI connector, besides three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0b. XFX could launch the card later this week.
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VideoCardz, QuasarZone
These fans can be detached from the cooler without needing any tools, and without even having to detach the cooler shroud. A back-plate finishes off the cooling solution. The PCB draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, and uses a 6-phase VRM with high-end International Rectifier DirectFETs to condition it for the GPU. The card features factory-overclocked speeds in excess of 1300 MHz. The card features 8 GB of memory. Display outputs include a DVI connector, besides three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0b. XFX could launch the card later this week.
69 Comments on XFX Radeon RX 480 Double Dissipation Pictured
Also Sapphire mentioned that it would be easier to deal with RMA if your fan(s) is broken (they just need to send the replacement fan(s), no need to send the card back).
The fan design though, is pretty awesome. Being able to remove them for easy cleaning (Or heck RMA) if a pretty useful feature. Well at least useful in my book.
I am not as fond of the shroud as much but being able to take that off and use my MK-13 fan bracket would be pretty cool as looks like there be less crap stuck tot he heatsink due to the fans being fixed to shroud.
Other from that i do hope they put a lifetime warranty on it, not in the market for a 480 due to obvious reasons, i am looking forward to next year were i be more in the market for some thing.