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PowerColor Teases RX 500 Series Red Devil's Upgraded VRM Circuitry

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Marketing rebranded cards is a much greater effort than selling the achievements and improvements of a fully new product launch. And word on the street is AIB partners that have to deal with rebrands don't really enjoy doing so. Having to sell the old as new is a tough sell, especially so when virtually no extra features seem to have been implemented. AMD itself is marketing their new RX 500 series as worthy improvements to its R9 390 graphics cards, for what it's worth. And as such, AIB's have to come up with original, out-of-the-box ways of peddling what is pretty much their old stuff as if it was new.

Recently, we've seen MSI showcasing a "3rd Gen FinFet 14" production process for its RX 570 Gaming X; now, PowerColor is looking to increase the attractiveness factor on its RX 580 Red Devil and Red Devil Golden Sample graphics cards (of which we've seen a teaser here and there) by showcasing an improved, reinforced VRM design for its upcoming graphics cards, with a "Platinum Power Kit", which includes Dr.Mos and a top-of-the-line Digital Power delivery system. Its VRM, however, keeps the 6-phase design that was already present on the RX 480. Here's hoping that the additions to PwerColor's card, alongside the Red Devil's purported 8+6-pin power delivery, will allow for higher overclocks, perhaps making this card a prime candidate for more efficient, exotic cooling solutions.



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Well they screwed up on the 480 Red Devil VRM hopefully this round they would actually use a good VRM.
 
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Well they screwed up on the 480 Red Devil VRM hopefully this round they would actually use a good VRM.

like EVGA yo, gotz to learn
 
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Beefy VRM & 6 + 8 pin, they intend these to use much over 150w/175w?

Rx4XX series was rebranded to make a full stack of 'new' cards, top to bottom, for when Vega is released. AIBs can bitch all they want, just don't forget to smear the stink on ALL those MFGs that do it.

Really getting sick of all this trash talk about rebranding, someone else prolly posted this in another thread. Some good points brought up in there, could do without the low blow to AMD though labeling them 'Rebrandeons' but I guess a bitch gotta do what a bitch gotta do to get page hits...

 
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EVGAs problem was a little more fuzzy than VRMs, some people pointed out to bad capacitors (Gamers Nexus after a TON of analysis) but the VRMs on the red devil 480 are really bad
That's true EVGA's problem was more some people got bad batches where the VRM componenets blew up. The temperatures themselves are completely fine and the thermal pad upgrade was just a marketing stunt imo. At least the whole fiasco brought us the ICX coolers which have awesome thermal sensors.
 
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