Leaked benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 480 hits minimum VR spec for $199

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Another round of leaks and rumors. Honestly, the only thing missing by now are actual game benchmarks, because I think that we already know everything else.

 

AMD Radeon RX 480 Rumors, Part 6

http://videocardz.com/61422/amd-radeon-rx-480-rumors-part-6

Availability of custom cards from RX 400 series

Hermitage Akihabara reports on the availability of non-reference Radeon RX 400 cards. According to their information custom RX 480 cards are expected mid-July. Meanwhile custom RX 470 will be available end of July, and finally RX 460 are expected early August.

AMD Radeon RX 480 temperature and clock stability test

This was posted on reddit. According to this screenshot there is no thermal throttling present on RX 480, GPU clock is stable and power draw is around 112W.

AMD Radeon WattMan?

Sapphire had a RX 480 page online for a brief moment. What caught my attention is the name for Radeon Settings overclocking tool. According to this description this application will be called Radeon WattMan.

AMD Radeon RX 480 failed to OC to 1400 MHz

Like I said 2 days ago, most review samples are having trouble reaching anything beyond 1350 MHz. The highest reported clock is 1379 MHz. The member of the PCGamesHardware team confirmed that their sample did not reach 1400 MHz.

^That's a roughly translated (by Google Translator) post from the original german one. You can read the original one following the provided link. And remember that this is about reference cards with 1x6-pin power connector, we don't know what custom cards with different power settings may be able to achieve.

 

Radeon RX 480 Stress Test

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1609649-1-1.html

We get new GPU-Z screengrabs showing overclocked settings and TDP at 147.3W.

Look that the card is clocked at 1328 MHz, but the results show that it achieves 1322.6 MHz with a 100% load, reaching 88ºC with the fans at 58% and using the mentioned 147.3 W.

These are the results: