Alby_da_Wolf said:
AMD is investigating the issue, but it looks like it just happened in a few cases amongst hundreds evaluation cards sent to reviewers. They most probably are just a few faulty cards, not unusual in the first production batches. My additional hypothesis is some quirk in the power management parts of firmware and drivers that's triggered just in some configurations HW and SW, this must have been considered by AMD too, as they are trying to reproduce those conditions in their internal tests (from what I understood, not only for out of PCI-E specs power consumption, but also for cases in which reviewers just measured consumption within those specs, but excessively higher than AMD declared ones).
“However we have received feedback from some of the reviewers on high current observed on PCIE in some cases. We are looking into these scenarios as we speak and reproduce these scenarios internally. Our engineering team is fully engaged.” It is possible that the review card was faulty or something went wrong with the testing. “We will have more on this topic soon as we investigate, but it’s worth reminding people that only a very small number of hundreds of RX 480 reviews worldwide encountered this issue.”
So far we have only heard review problems for Tom’s Hardware in fact the card has had reasonable reviews elsewhere so it could be a faulty card. |
Tom's Hardware already found problems with the PCI-E power draw last year with the GTX 960.
In any case, AMD has already said that they are working on a driver fix: http://videocardz.com/61783/amd-testing-driver-fix-for-rx-480-pci-express-overcurrent-issue and http://www.anandtech.com/show/10465/amd-releases-statement-on-radeon-rx-480-power-consumption
Conina said:
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Please excuse my bad English.
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