ASUS RX 480 STRIX OC 8 GB

W1zzard · Jul 21, 2016

The ASUS RX 480 STRIX OC is the first custom design variant of the RX 480 we are reviewing. It comes with the same cooler as the STRIX GTX 1080, which ensures excellent temperatures. ASUS has also improved the power capability of their card since it comes with an 8-pin power connector.

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ZeppMan217 · Jul 21, 2016

DX12, Vulkan - that's what I wanna see.

And holy shit, it's burning even with a custom cooler!?

Agentbb007 · Jul 21, 2016

The Battlefield 4 & Assassin's Creed: Syndicate performance on the RX 480 is atrocious.

ShurikN · Jul 21, 2016

At 1920x1080 the performance uplift of the ASUS STRIX is 3%, not a whole lot. This makes the card 10% slower than GTX 1060, 5% faster than GTX 970.

Reference 1060 is 7% faster than reference 480. How is an even faster 480 slower on average?

Also I expected a bit more from custom design.

Ungari · Jul 21, 2016

I believe it will cost more than $260 just because it's ASUS.

jabbadap · Jul 21, 2016

No dual bios? Or am I blind. :confused:

Hopefully that fan curve is more silent on retail versions(Or did asus send you a retail version W1z).

Ungari said:
I believe it will cost more than $260 just because it's ASUS.

Heh, gtx 1060 strix cost here 390€, I would be surprised if this cost anything lower than 350€...

ShurikN · Jul 21, 2016

Also I find it strange that the reference, as we know it, was throttling and never ran at the given boost speed. So this card which should be stable at 1300+ should be a bit faster than reference. Unless this card is throttling as well?

rhythmeister · Jul 21, 2016

I'm glad I've just ordered a GTX 1060 at this rate! Hopefully the drivers for these RX 480s mature nicely and eek out much better performance to close the gap on the nGreedia card.

the54thvoid · Jul 21, 2016

Ungari said:
I believe it will cost more than $260 just because it's ASUS.

Yeah, the Nvidia Asus cards are preposterously priced given the clocks across Pascal are pretty much the same. Asus are the Nvidia of AIB's :rolleyes:

The Sapphire OC will be a better option I think.

W1zzard · Jul 21, 2016

jabbadap said:
Or did asus send you a retail version W1z

Looks like retail to me.

ZeppMan217 said:
And holy shit, it's burning even with a custom cooler!?

Yes, burning at 68°C. My house is on fire!

ShurikN · Jul 21, 2016

rhythmeister said:
I'm glad I've just ordered a GTX 1060 at this rate! Hopefully the drivers for these RX 480s mature nicely and eek out much better performance to close the gap on the nGreedia card.

If they are greedy, why buy their card :laugh:

jabbadap · Jul 21, 2016

W1zzard said:
Looks like retail to me.

Uhh silly me :slap:

, you did show pictures of that retail package in the review...

sutyi · Jul 21, 2016

Welp, noisy fans are a no go for me.

W1zzard do you have a Sapphire RX 480 NITRO+ in the labs maybe? :rolleyes:

TRWOV · Jul 21, 2016

Underwhelming clocks. I've seen youtube videos with custom cooled RX 480 clocking at >1.4Ghz... GPU lottery I guess :/

I guess I should just go and grab another reference 480 while they are available. If the AIB designs aren't getting out more performance I will just go for the cheapest one. AMD reference boards are top notch anyway.

I have a bunch of GPU coolers lying around. It'll be nice to put them to use again.

Malabooga · Jul 21, 2016

GTX1060 review

1080p
RX480 93%
GTX1060 100%
R9 Fury 103%

RX480 Asus Strix review

1080p
RX480 97%
RX480 Asus 100%
R9 Fury 109%
GTX1060 111 %

you migth want to recheck your performance summary

Also in what mode was the card tested since it has silent/gaming/OC modes

Mtom · Jul 21, 2016

Somethings fishy with the review.

Same games as in the GTX1060 review, same Nvidia driver, same FPS numbers.
In the GTX1060 review the Nvidia card is faster than the ref 480 by 7.5% at 1080p
In this test the Nvidia card is faster than the Strix 480 by 11%

Which one is faulty????

ZeppMan217 · Jul 21, 2016

W1zzard said:
Yes, burning at 68°C. My house is on fire!

With 3 fans and 40 decibels! It can't be just the cooler, right?

Rahmat Sofyan · Jul 21, 2016

Yeah something odd..
performance summary at 2160p

RX480 96%
RX480 Strixx 100%
GTX1060FE 105%

in other review

RX480 96%
GTX1060FE 100%

suddenly RX480 9% slower than GTX1060FE?

how it come?different drivers or any new game or software for the test?

or what?

GC_PaNzerFIN · Jul 21, 2016

Wow total failure in the fan profile. 6dBA noisier than GTX 1080 Strix (which btw is not too quiet either)? :rolleyes:

Mtom · Jul 21, 2016

ZeppMan217 said:
With 3 fans and 40 decibels! It can't be just the cooler, right?

Asus...charging extra for lazy works

Rahmat Sofyan said:
Yeah something odd..
performance summary at 2160p

RX480 96%
RX480 Strixx 100%
GTX1060FE 105%

in other review

RX480 96%
GTX1060FE 100%

suddenly RX480 9% slower than GTX1060FE?

how it come?different drivers or any new game or software for the test?

or what?

Nope, i've checked, the NV driver is the same, the games are the same, the FPS numbers are the same, they just somehow miscalculated the summary.

W1zzard · Jul 21, 2016

Malabooga said:
you migth want to recheck your performance summary

Mtom said:
Which one is faulty????

Rahmat Sofyan said:
performance summary at 2160p

I had to remove the World of Warcraft benchmarks, they prepatched to the next expansion which changes a lot of graphics settings related stuff, so new benchmark data is invalid.

marios15 · Jul 21, 2016

Malabooga said:
GTX1060 review

1080p
RX480 93%
GTX1060 100%
R9 Fury 103%

RX480 Asus Strix review

1080p
RX480 97%
RX480 Asus 100%
R9 Fury 109%
GTX1060 111 %

W1z probably made some error in calculation(i hope)

Malabooga said:
Also in what mode was the card tested since it has silent/gaming/OC modes

^Yeah i couldn't find any details either

W1zzard · Jul 21, 2016

Malabooga said:
Also in what mode was the card tested since it has silent/gaming/OC modes

Default mode out of the box, which is gaming

FlanK3r · Jul 21, 2016

its tsrange...No DX12/Vulcan titles. Who paid for it ,-)? No seriously. Need DX12 games also and I cant believe much with GPU scaling, if I compare another review with stock RX 480 card vs OC GPU memory only and increase in %...There is something wrong.

http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.ph...39615-amd-radeon-rx-480-im-test.html?start=25

birdie · Jul 21, 2016

the RX 480 STRIX uses 177 W during gaming, which is 10 W more than GTX 1080

So, AiB cards are not a magic bullet for burning GloFo chips. Darn.

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