ASUS RX 480 STRIX OC 8 GB

[KainXS]

after seeing this I kinda wish I just went out and bought a reference 480 instead of waiting for AIB if they will overclock the same, I might just do that if I can get a 4GB card and flash it to 8GB.

 

[Mtom]

after seeing this I kinda wish I just went out and bought a reference 480 instead of waiting for AIB if they will overclock the same, I might just do that if I can get a 4GB card and flash it to 8GB.

In all fairness, in the reviews the OC numbers are all much lower what you can pull off at home. On the 390/390X cards they usually listed 50-80MHZ OC, when in reality you could easily OC them a good 150MHZ.

 

[rtwjunkie]

its tsrange...No DX12/Vulcan titles

So, which widely used mainstream DX12 titles do you want him to use? Hitman, which is as far as I've read, full of DX12 problems. The backwards patched RotTR? That's not terribly well-optimized either, is it? Maybe AoTS?

On the Vulkan side, up until a couple weeks ago the only title available under that was The Talos Principle. A great game, but surely not appealing to the masses. We have Doom now, and I'm sure at some point W1z will be including that.

Really, we do not have an abundance of titles in either API, a year after release. That's the reality. Reviews should reflect that, don't you think?

 

[Ungari]

No Vulkan and DX12 tests again?
I call Bravo Sierra!

 

[-The_Mask-]

Default mode out of the box, which is gaming

Overclocking should give you a lot more performance. I guess you didn't change the max power consumption in the BIOS right?

 

[Ungari]

Default mode out of the box, which is gaming

Please not again.
The "Gaming" Mode is not showing the performance that anyone would want to buy this card, show the OC preset benchmarks and stop making this look so bad.

 

[W1zzard]

Please not again.
The "Gaming" Mode is not showing the performance that anyone would want to buy this card, show the OC preset benchmarks and stop making this look so bad.

Troll has been banned. You seem to be only here to post negative comments, so post them somewhere else. Constructive criticism is welcome.

 

[Maranak]

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.

But without WoD the gap between the 1060 and 480 should be smaller and not bigger. There is definitely something wrong with the performance summary.

 

[W1zzard]

The relative OC is smaller because the ASUS card is overclocked out of the box.

Ref at 1335 / 2250 gets 77.0 FPS.
ASUS at 1355 / 2250 gets 79.0 FPS.

Looks right to me.

 

[W1zzard]

But without WoD the gap between the 1060 and 480 should be smaller and not bigger. There is definitely something wrong with the performance summary.

Yup, looking into that right now

 

[Malabooga]

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.

But WoW was game that greatly favors NVidia cards but performance for reference 1060 vs reference 480 has grown from 7,5% to 14,4% without WoW?

edit

Yup, looking into that right now

ah yes, thanks

 

[sutyi]

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

No AIB board design will do wonders for a GPU's power draw. The only thing that might keep power usage down is a custom cooler with much better higher cooling capacity, and only if said GPU is built on a crap node with lots of thermal leakage.

 

[Maranak]

Yup, looking into that right now

Thank you.

 

[the54thvoid]

Overclocking should give you a lot more performance. I guess you didn't change the max power consumption in the BIOS right?

No it shouldn't. Overclocking is not a magic wand that makes all cards go twice as fast. Remember Fury X? What about the Pascal clock ceiling common to all GTX1080's? The 'nm' sizes are having an impact on headroom as both AMD and Nvidia seek to control voltage.

Also - standard to all of his reviews, @W1zzard does not over volt or alter bios settings to overclock - just the simplest slider approach to keep it all even, for Nvidia and AMD.

 

[marios15]

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.

In WoW the rx480 was WAAAY slower than 1060, so by removing that game, it would have brought them closer
If performance summary is average of all games and unless they're weighted differently, then you have something off, for example:

Sample 1(1060)

Game X: 10 fps
Game Y: 8 fps
Game Z: 12 fps
10 +8 + 12 = 30
30 / 3 = 10fps average

Sample 2(480)

Game X: 7 fps
Game Y: 12 fps
Game Z: 8 fps
7 + 12 + 8 = 27fps
27 / 3 = 9fps average

Sample 1 is 100%, so sample 2 is 90%

Removing Game X from both:

Sample 1(1060)
Game Y: 8 fps
Game Z: 12 fps
8 + 12 = 20
20 / 2 = 10fps average

Sample 2(480)
Game Y: 12 fps
Game Z: 8 fps
12 + 8 = 20
20 / 2 = 10fps average

Sample 1 is 100%, so sample 2 is 100% too

 

[ShurikN]

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.

WoW was always a highly NV favoring game. 1060 has 22% more fps @ 1080p. If you remove it, that should favor AMD card at the performance summary, and thus have a deficit of less than 7%

EDIT

I see that its being look into. Thanks


On a side note. I cannot believe 3 fans cant keep this thing cool and quiet. I'm guessing Asus fucked up somewhere. If its good enough for 1080 than it should be good enough for this.

 

[W1zzard]

In WoW the rx480 was WAAAY slower than 1060, so by removing that game, it would have brought them closer
If performance summary is average of all games and unless they're weighted differently, then you have something off

Looking into that right now

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I added up the FPS at 1080P for both cards and came up with the following:
1.)Asus RX480 1110.6 FPS
2.)FE GTX1060 1173.3 FPS

That would make the FE GTX1060 5.65% faster.

Also if you look at the TPU and computerbase.de images of the cooler,it looks the same as the GTX1080 one Asus use and it only really two heatpipes make decent contact out of the 5. The other two make periphery contact,so it looks a bit of a bodge job by Asus!

 

[ShurikN]

Also if you look at the TPU and computerbase.de images of the cooler,it looks the same as the GTX1080 one Asus use and it only really two heatpipes make decent contact out of the 5. The other two make periphery contact,so it looks a bit of a bodge job by Asus!

Nice find

So the Nitro it is

And unlike other Asus BS, this cant be fixed with a bios/driver update.

 

[truth teller]

letting asus in charge of releasing a good custom graphics card

oh cmon...

 

[Fragment]

is this with stable clocks out of the box? or did you have to increase the power level for stable stock clocks?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Also if you look at the TPU and computerbase.de images of the cooler,it looks the same as the GTX1080 one Asus use and it only really two heatpipes make decent contact out of the 5. The other two make periphery contact,so it looks a bit of a bodge job by Asus!

I'm waiting to see what magic Saphire and XFX can work. Surely they can do a better job.

 

[ShurikN]

I'm waiting to see what magic Saphire and XFX can work. Surely they can do a better job.

The two of us could do a better job.

 

[-The_Mask-]

No it shouldn't.

Yes it should....

Clock frequentie is dynamic, 1120 MHz is the base clock of this card and 1310MHz is the max boost clock. But it only stays at 1310MHz if power consumption doesn't passes the maximum set in the BIOS. The same applies with overclocking, if you push the card to 1400MHz but the power limiter doesn't allow more current you don't get more performance because the GPU frequentie just goes down when you put a heavy load on the card.

That's what you see here, W1zzard didn't change the power limiter in the BIOS so the performance gain with overclocking is rather small.

 

[W1zzard]

But WoW

Thank you.

In WoW

Ok I found the problem, had a coding bug in my summary script, it didn't count the last score (WOW), but counted the one before that twice (COD BO).

Will remake all summaries

Thanks everyone!