Thursday, July 21st 2016

PowerColor Announces the Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL

TUL Corporation, a leading and innovative manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, has released a brand new video card in PowerColor Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5. It is based on AMD's latest GCN 4 architecture designed for GloFo 14nm FinFET that delivers premium VR capability, increased level of performance, smooth VR, seamless support for next-gen gaming monitors, and CPU-free game streaming or recording. Furthermore, the model also supports AMD's newest technologies such as Direct 12 and Vulkan, FreeSync, and Liquid VR.

PowerColor Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5 utilizes 8GB of GDDR5 memory with 2304 stream processors, ships with 1330MHz core clock speed, and has 2000MHz memory clock speed which is connected via a new high speed 256-bit memory interface. The 6+1 multi-phases board design enhances the power efficiency and stability, and also enables ultimate performance in overclocking mode with BIOS switch. In order to achieve better thermal solution in both ultra overclocking and silent overclocking mode, PowerColor Red Devil RX 480 adopts the newest fan technology called Double Blade III which increases airflows and prevents dust deposition on fans. 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 for the best heat dissipation.
In creating one solid card with all components, the Red Devil also includes a backplate as well as having the PCB locked in a thermal module using the method of spring screws to pin through the rivets. The backplate and the copper based thermal module hold the GPU for not only balancing the pressure of the whole board but also for avoiding the damage done to the GPU and other components if dropped.
Available from the 29th of July, 2016, the Red Devil RX 480 will be priced at USD $269.

For more information, visit the product page.
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34 Comments on PowerColor Announces the Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL

#26
Kaleid
480 8GB for me, mainly because I need freesync and we still need AMD around. If it wasn't for the 480 the 1060 would have cost quite a lot more..
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#28
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
SteevoThen run right out and stand in line for the 1060s to be available..... make sure to take lots of Nvidia reading material about how great it will be, take lots of water and food, and make sure to have a toilet close by for when you finally are so full of "it" that you don't explode and die before you are able to run back when you finally have one to tell us how great it is.


Meanwhile, 480's are available, sure some are priced stupid by sellers trying to gouge.. but no worse than Fanboy Editions.
They are readily avaliable where I live. A quick look at one retailer shows they habe close to 200 units in stock, with several hundred more coming next week. No RX 480 in stock.
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#29
geon2k2
LucidStrikeThere have been reports of performance increases from undervolted RX 480s:

"Being able to get a small performance boost while lowering the power consumption and heat levels was pretty nice and it’s something you might want to try out if you happen to have an AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card. It’s easy to geek out and enjoy seeing performance go up in benchmarks while seeing double digit Wattage drops at the wall!"

Read more at www.legitreviews.com/amd-radeon-rx-480-undervolting-performance_183699#jAjfmvBUaE0eR0si.99
That's interesting read. This means the Polaris will benefit greatly from a beefier cooler, which will allow higher clocks without throttling and the Red Devil from Powercolor certainly has such a cooler.
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#31
deu
R-T-BThat's really ironic coming from your account, honestly.
I consider myself as and old dude here on the site; I've been reading everything the last 5-6 years or so, its just within the last year an overwheelmingly amount of BS have poured all over this forum (It used to be friendly and people went just winging their comments and could elaborate they actual claims instead of spewing the usual "NVIDIA=masterrace AMD=supersh**! F***yea111". You can see that half the people posting just throws accusations that they think is popular or just troll (because they are straight-up wrong and have no source or argument behind it. +You can clearly see that I do not troll so I dont think its ironic. I want to discuss hardware with actual arguments and people who either know what they talk about or with people who are willing to admit that they dont know everything.
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#32
R-T-B
I don't know, we have some really smart posters here as of late. It's the one-post/low-post wonders that seem to be the worst fanboys.
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#33
deu
R-T-BI don't know, we have some really smart posters here as of late. It's the one-post/low-post wonders that seem to be the worst fanboys.
I just like to discuss with likeminded that have different perspectives so I can learn something! I know alot, but im pretty sure I can find people here that know tons about stuff that i didnt even knew. Then novice hardware entusiasts can ask / learn or come with their argument. Utopia! :D
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#34
R-T-B
Fair enough. I hope for utopia too... but you know how that goes... :D
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