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

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^But that's how usually GPU chips are done (not good enough to be a 480? Let's make it a 470 instead). It's unusual to do it with a whole graphics card.

 

And Tom's Hardware has made a follow up article to their RX 480 review where the power consumption problems where revealed:

AMD Radeon RX 480 Power Measurements Repeated And Clarified

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-480-power-measurements,4622.html

Here are the conclusions:

"The AMD Radeon RX 480’s power supply configuration exceeds the limit defined by the PCI-SIG’s specifications. It doesn’t exceed them by a massive amount, but it does do so reliably. Norms should be respected, especially if they already have a very generous built-in tolerance range. We never implied in our launch article that a system made up of solid components might be directly damaged by an AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card running at stock clock frequencies.

There shouldn’t be any problems unless cheap, dirty or outdated components are used, the card isn’t installed correctly, or the amount of power drawn is increased by overclocking the card."