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

[JEMC]

shikamaru317 said:

^It's one of the loudest ASUS cards I've ever seen as well. Only 2 decibels quieter than a reference card at load is awful. I don't think I've ever seen an ASUS card that was lower than 200w with anything higher than 35 decibels, this is 39 decibels. Majorly disappointing offering from them, hopefully MSI does better. The MSI 1060 only hits 28 decibels at load, so I have high hopes for the MSI 480 coming in under 31 decibels.

That's because the fan setting is wrong, It's set to keep the card at 65º C which is too low. They manually set the fan profile at 75º C and the card was much quieter and made 30 dBA.

They mention it in the conclusion.

Pemalite said:
The 480 seems to be a dud. Many had hopes that custom cards might shine a bright spot on Polaris.

Seems to be a bit of a silicon/card lottery with the 480 as well... Some people can't push past 1.25ghz... Others are hitting 1.5-1.6ghz.

The latest GCN architectures aren't known for being good overclockers, and the fourth installment seems to follow the same path.

That said, maybe the 14nm process still needs some tweaking and it's worth to wait until the hypothetical 485 card goes on sale.