Monday, April 10th 2017
PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample Pictured With 6-pin, 8-pin Connectors
Remember that PowerColor Red Devil teaser from a few days back? While the source link is no longer available, it would seem that someone has gotten their hands on a (golden) sample, one of the two different SKUs that PowerColor is expected to launch around the RX 580. This Golden Sample edition sports a beefier, higher-performing 2.5-slot cooling solution, compared to the expected RX 580 Red Devil's 2.0-slot one. This sample, however, sports something unusual for a card with the power envelope expected from the RX 580: two auxiliary power cables, one 6-pin, as is par of the course with previous-generation RX 480 cards of which the RX 580 is a rebrand; and another, 8-pin one.
The cooling solution on this Golden Sample seems to sport a 4-heatpipe solution, with 2x 6 mm and 2x 8 mm copper heatpipes extending from the main heatsink. Despite the additional power connector, the VRM appears to be a 6-phase design, the same as reference RX 480. The different coloring in the connectors could mean some different things: that the user can choose which connector to power the card with, with increased power delivery for additional overclocking requiring the use of the 8-pin; or as an additional power source for the Red Devil Golden Sample's "OC Mode" (which appears alongside a "Silent Mode" on the BIOS switch.) No information on pricing or clock-speeds were available at time of writing.
Sources:
ETeknix, Baidu user liweizhaocc
15 Comments on PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample Pictured With 6-pin, 8-pin Connectors
So I wouldn't read much into that second connector. MSI just wants to make it looks like the GS is equipped to do more than the regular Red Devil.
Looks like you are the target audience :rolleyes:
(rhetorical question)
Worse still that i can see this selling like crazy. Pwnzor!!!1111 Dem lightz! And teh.. wuz it called, in teh back? Jeah, dat!!
On a serious note, i hope its clocks are phenomenal. Anything to disturb the waters is a plus in my book.
Seems that they went for a larger fan instead of 3 smaller, which I hope it still runs as quiet as the 480 Red Devil, that thing was amazing, couldn't hear a thing.. even with overclock.
Some people complain about the VRMs but for me, that's B.S. Even the overclocker who did the video, released another one saying that the card is totally fine for normal overclocking. Unless you want to LN2 the thing... :D
Mine ran smooth no problems what so ever for months 1400+Mhz, could push higher but wanted the cooler to be dead quiet.
The last red devil card was awful though
And then people wonder why Nvidia decided to take a heavier approach towards power usage.
Does it make sense that there would be a 8+6 pin 2.5 slot card that's basically a Polaris 10 refresh? The disassembled card does appear to be a P10 size chip. I just find it confusing.