how many are affected? find me the number. we are talking about 16watt over the specs, 16 ffs.
If even one person was affected by the reckless overspecced wattage draw of the RX 480 simply because AMD didn't want to put a proper power source onto the card for PR reasons, then it is one too many. Science Studio has a video review posted on Youtube showing that the RX 480 isn't even playable with certain motherboards simply becasue it is WAY over spec. Gamers Nexus showed the card pulling 192W during testing. Don't link a chart showing calculated TDP and stand back and point saying THERE! This is the most ludicrous move in GPU history and it serves AMD right to have it blow up in their faces for doing it. Some cards do in fact go over spec, particularly when OC'd, the difference of course being that they pull that extra wattage through the 6 or 8 pin connector and not the PCIe slot. If you have a good power supply, it doesn't affect you. BUT with the RX 480, this is not the case and it's a problem that exists at the hardware level because of the way the phases are laid out. It's actually pulling more from hte PCIe slot than it is from the 6 pin connector.
Now, lets go back to the Gamers Nexus observed wattage pull when OC'd, 192W from a 150W power supply with MORE THAN HALF of that coming through the PCIe slot. That's a 128% jump over spec. That's like trying to pull 32 amps from a 25 amp wall socket. You could burn your house down if there were no fail-safes. Even a nonOC'd card will pull 86W from the PCIe slot, or 15% more than max. These aren't guidelines, they are absolute limits.
The RX 480 is the ONLY GPU in history to average more than 75W from the PCIe slot at stock clocks. The only way to prevent it is to limit wattage to 150W, really less becasue it pulls more from the PCIe slot than the 6 pin connector, so lets say 145W. That would require a 14.4% under-clock of the card. A card that already is 15% less powerful than a GTX 1060 which will be able to AT LEAST OC another 20%. So, now we're talking about a GTX 1060 that will be around 50% more powerful than a reference RX 480 and 25% more powerful than an OC'd AIB 480 for about $250. Being released at the same time as the AIB cards which will most likely cost $300.
This was a MUST WIN for AMD, but instead it became worst case scenario.
.......you dare mock us? At least get your facts right!!!!! It take a GeForce GTX logo, and Racing Stripes you barbarian!
