Enter the RX 480 AIB Cards

[tsk]

Brace yourselves, the custom RX 480 cards are coming, and this is a megathread for that.

First up

MSI Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
 

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Sapphire RX 480 Nitro
-4/8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1342MHz boost
-Review

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ASUS Radeon RX 480 Strix
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1330MHz in OC mode
-Review
 

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Powercolor Radeon RX 480 Red Devil
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1330MHz boost
 

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Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming
-4/8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
 

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XFX Radeon RX 480 DD
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1328MHz boost
 

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HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQX2
 

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OP thoughts; 
These all look good and should preform similarly, I'm sitting here staring at my Reference RX 480 and its puny 6-pin connector, maybe I'll send it back for one of these.



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[dionkoffie]

4gb???

[xMishax]

no 4gb versions?

[tsk]

No word on custom 4GB as of yet.

[Murasaki]

I'm onboard on either MSI or Sapphire

[thekeemo]

4 minutes ago, xMishax said:

no 4gb versions?

 

5 minutes ago, dionkoffie said:

4gb???

 

3 minutes ago, tsk said:

No word on custom 4GB as of yet.

They will all probably have a 4gb version

The GB ones are very probable (leaked)

but why are they all so big..

[DXMember]

the 6-pin is not a problem on rx480...

even Sapphire said so, they just changed it to 8-pin to calm down people like this

10 minutes ago, dionkoffie said:

4gb???

 

10 minutes ago, xMishax said:

no 4gb versions?

 

you can flash it to 4GB easily

 

I think XFX is bea

 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Give me the damn pics of the PCB... 

 

And ohhhhhh that XFX design is really pleasing to the eyes... 

 

Powercolor looks like they're using the same kind of heatsink as their PCS+ cards. But I'll bet you that those "claw like" looking fans are gonna be damn loud. 

 

[Nup]

The xfx one does look good... Now we gotta wait for reviews  

[tsk]

2 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

Give me the damn pics of the PCB... 

 

And ohhhhhh that XFX design is really pleasing to the eyes... 

 

Powercolor looks like they're using the same kind of heatsink as their PCS+ cards. But I'll bet you that those "claw like" looking fans are gonna be damn loud. 

 

Here's from the MSI card:

[Fetzie]

I guess I'm going to have to wait for the MSI hawk cards to get yellow accents on the shroud?

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

5 minutes ago, tsk said:

Here's from the MSI card:

 

Looks like there will be a hawk version with 6 phases for the core. Cool. 

 

GIMME MOAR PCBs

[TheRandomness]

Notice how all of them have custom PCBs. That requires advanced planning, possibly meaning that the partners have known about the power issue for a while?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Already pre-ordered the Sapphire NITRO

[samcool55]

13 minutes ago, tsk said:

Here's from the MSI card:
-snip-

Looks quite disappointing...

It is a huge pcb but it looks like there isn't much going on sadly.

[kmanchine]

13 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Notice how all of them have custom PCBs. That requires advanced planning, possibly meaning that the partners have known about the power issue for a while?

Not really, AIB cards are for overclocking, so more power than reference is normal.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, kmanchine said:

Not really, AIB cards are for overclocking, so more power than reference is normal.

Yeah, but to save costs you'd think that at least one of them would stick with the reference PCB, no?

[3DOSH]

Now show us the 1400 mhz boost clocks and I'm all set to buy one, if not well have to wait to see how far they well OC

[Fetzie]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Yeah, but to save costs you'd think that at least one of them would stick with the reference PCB, no?

Not really, their custom PCB design and their power delivery design is a point of differentiation for the manufacturers.

[TheRandomness]

2 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

Not really, their custom PCB design and their power delivery design is a point of differentiation for the manufacturers.

Happy 3000th post (assuming you reply to this)

Then why didn't every manufacturer have a custom PCB for the 290 or 390?

 

[Fetzie]

8 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Happy 3000th post (assuming you reply to this)

Then why didn't every manufacturer have a custom PCB for the 290 or 390?

 

Every manufacturer had SKUs with custom PCBs for the 290 and 390. that doesn't mean they HAVE to have custom PCBs for every SKU (i.e. the cheap SKUs tend to not have custom PCBs, but those aren't the ones the manufacturers talk about when drumming up hype).

[kmanchine]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Happy 3000th post (assuming you reply to this)

Then why didn't every manufacturer have a custom PCB for the 290 or 390?

 

My guess is probably for cost, Manufacturers need to compete between each other so saving few extra bucks on pcb allows for cheaper price which is more attractable for buyers

[Trik'Stari]

That Sapphire card looks beautiful.

[raphidy]

33 minutes ago, DXMember said:

the 6-pin is not a problem on rx480...

even Sapphire said so, they just changed it to 8-pin to calm down people like this

 

I don't think it's correlated. I guess it's just for more overclocking headroom.

[Castdeath97]

All seem good! The sapphire and MSI cards are the best of the bunch.