XFX Radeon RX 480 Pictured on its Production Line

[btarunr]

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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[ZoneDymo]

So many on the conveyor belt, can....can I haz one pls? :3

 

[SetsunaFZero]

hmmm with a better air cooler and custom board this card could maybe push 1.5GHz

 

[medi01]

hmmm with a better air cooler and custom board this card could maybe push 1.5GHz

I wish so... but how do you know?
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.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

Il grab 2 please XD.

 

[PowerPC]

Is that big old heat sink on the left for VRM? And the chip is exposed? Sorry, I never seen one of these blower coolers opened before. Can anyone also briefly explain the pros and cons of blower vs. extractor coolers?

 

[dj-electric]

Outdated GPU-Z. hmmm...

No update so far means w1z didn't get a card so far. hopefully he will do the update today-tommorow

Is that big old heat sink on the left for VRM? And the chip is exposed? Sorry, I never seen one of these blower coolers opened before. Can anyone also briefly explain the pros and cons of blower vs. extractor coolers?

Sink 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.

 

[sergionography]

Is that big old heat sink on the left for VRM? And the chip is exposed? Sorry, I never seen one of these blower coolers opened before. Can anyone also briefly explain the pros and cons of blower vs. extractor coolers?

Blower coolers usually are louder (but not always) but their main purpose is to push the heat out of the case from the rear directly, while extractor coolers are usually bigger and more effective for overclocking but basically require a case with good cooling to remove the heat from the case itself because the heat dissipated from the heatsink isnt pushed out of an exhaust like the blower coolers, rather its dissipated inside thr case. which one is better depends on your need/case your using. Most gamers obviously go for extractor cooled models because they have aftermarket cases that accommodate for it

 

[SetsunaFZero]

I wish so... but how do you know?
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.

I just hope the card OC's like the 79XX series that would be awesome

 

[Air]

Great to see that AMD's design will be on shelves! Looks nice, very classy. It always saddens me when both AMD and Nvidia have great reference designs that are left aside in favor of AIB's terrible designs.

Heatsink looks small, power consumption must be very low. Its interesting that it has a hole in the backplate to increase airflow.

 

[Octavean]

I'm thinking maybe I might want to buy one of these. Not really sure though. Initially I was thinking GTX 1070 or maybe GTX 1060. I don't really want to spend the ~$379 on the GTX 1070 and the FU or rather founders edition will assure the price will be even higher then that for a while,....

 

[RejZoR]

Great to see that AMD's design will be on shelves! Looks nice, very classy. It always saddens me when both AMD and Nvidia have great reference designs that are left aside in favor of AIB's terrible designs.

Heatsink looks small, power consumption must be very low. Its interesting that it has a hole in the backplate to increase airflow.

That intake hole from the other side is cool for CrossfireX configurations, so the GPU sandwiched with main intake next to the bottom card gets more air. I wonder why can't they make blower style fan that has intake from the side of the card (side menaing where power connectors are located in the front of the card). So you could sandwich them together in SLi/Crossfire without affecting cooling at all.

 

[Air]

That intake hole from the other side is cool for CrossfireX configurations, so the GPU sandwiched with main intake next to the bottom card gets more air. I wonder why can't they make blower style fan that has intake from the side of the card (side menaing where power connectors are located in the front of the card). So you could sandwich them together in SLi/Crossfire without affecting cooling at all.

On centrifugal fans the intake is axial, and exaust is radial, through the "sides". So you cant make the sides an intake. If you open a hole in there it would be another exaust.

 

[ShurikN]

Dear god the heatsink is a miniature... Imagine what a Nitro or Tri-X can achieve.

 

[G33k2Fr34k]

Clocking the RX480 at 1328MHz is quite achievable without any voltage changes from what wccftech reported a couple of days ago. Also, at 1328MHz the RX480 should slightly ouperform the R9 Fury out of the box, which is quite a feat. There is one thing I'm concerned about: noise. I would like to keep my PC as quite as it is now. AMD's stock coolers aren't known for their quietness.

 

[jaggerwild]

there releasing there own over volting/clocking soft ware, Geek2fr34k. I'd like to volunteer to test a few for them . This is quiet a battle that is shaping up for Green/Red as it is rumored they will bring back the X2 video card's(flash backs to 3870 X2) so the GPU price wars begin again.

 

[RejZoR]

On centrifugal fans the intake is axial, and exaust is radial, through the "sides". So you cant make the sides an intake. If you open a hole in there it would be another exaust.

I know how centrifugal fans work. But what about designing it for intake to be from the side and exhaust as well? Sort of how some water pumps work. Fan blades would have to be changed so it would suck air from the side, not from the center.

 

[Totally]

I know how centrifugal fans work. But what about designing it for intake to be from the side and exhaust as well? Sort of how some water pumps work. Fan blades would have to be changed so it would suck air from the side, not from the center.

I don't think that method would work to move air efficiently and just end up with a lot of pack pressure, stifling flow. It works for water because density will roughly stay the same with changes in pressure/temperature with air the changes are more exaggerated.

 

[RejZoR]

At high rotation speeds, air becomes as thick as liquid so to speak.

 

[ZoneDymo]

At high rotation speeds, air becomes as thick as liquid so to speak.

You can just say "at high speeds"

 

[Totally]

At high rotation speeds, air becomes as thick as liquid so to speak.

Along with a great deal of noise that no one wants.

 

[crijave]

vuelve la turbina a las placa de video se ve linda la placa yo la quiero probar ,con un conector solo la temperatura debe ser minima a comparación de las ultimas placas que precisan tres cooler para enfriamiento

 

[Mr McC]

vuelve la turbina a las placa de video se ve linda la placa yo la quiero probar ,con un conector solo la temperatura debe ser minima a comparación de las ultimas placas que precisan tres cooler para enfriamiento

the turbine returns to video cards, seems like a lovely card, I want to try it, with a single connector the temperature must be much lower than recent cards that need three fans to stay cool - tpu, unofficial translation services

 

[jaggerwild]

Along with a great deal of noise that no one wants.

if it over clocks well who cares about noise!!!!!!!!! This aint touchy felly site for douche bags or even Tomshardware.com, I care 100% about clock speeds 0% about noise.

 

[Jism]

Dear god the heatsink is a miniature... Imagine what a Nitro or Tri-X can achieve.

It does'nt need to be bigger since it's having an 150W TDP.