AMD RX 480 Overclocking Tool, Power & Noise Leaked In Chinese Stream - Embargo May Get Cut Short To June 24

The embargo for AMD'due south RX 480 doesn't end for at least ane more than week, however information technology seems some folks oasis't gotten the memo. 1 private decided to livestream the RX 480 running various benchmarks. In addition to demonstrating some ability and noise testing. The stream likewise included a look at the new overclocking tool that AMD is launching for the RX 400 series. The very same tool that we detailed in our exclusive written report just a few of days ago.

The Radeon RX 480 officially launches on the 29th of June and all data related to the carte's functioning and testing is under embargo until and so. However as non all publications take agreed to AMD'due south NDA nosotros've seen numerous leaks popular up in the past few days. Peradventure the biggest of which has just taken identify.

AMD RX 480 Overclocking Tool, Racket & Power Leaked In
Chinese Alive Stream

The streamer measured the card'southward power draw at idle, which was 14W. Gaming power draw was not measured during the stream. Withal, nosotros've already discussed the card'southward gaming power draw in our exclusive study which went out a few days ago. While gaming the card hovers around ~100, which is substantially less than the advertised TDP of 150W. In fact, considering the carte is equipped with a single six pin PCIe connector, 150W would be the card's maximum power rather than what would be typically seen under a gaming load.

The leaker also stuck a microphone right next to the card and took racket measurements to demonstrate how quiet the card was running. The exact measurements weren't shown only the card was said to be very placidity. According to the chatter that was going on during the stream, this was only a teaser and more results, including RX 480 8GB benchmarks, will be coming on the 29th.

He also showcased the new overclocking tool for the Radeon RX 400 series. Unfortunately the picture quality of the stream wasn't the greatest. The fact that the monitor was quite far away from the photographic camera didn't assist either. Nonetheless, nosotros can share with y'all what we had already reported a few days ago. Which is that the user interface for the new tool will include GPU & memory overclocking in addition to custom fan profiles and voltage command settings.

RX 480 Thermal Tests

RX 480 Embargo May Get Cutting Short To June 24

Interestingly, nosotros've just heard whispers that AMD is mulling over the possibility of moving the embargo forrad to June 24. This would cutting the NDA by an entire week and would hateful reviews can get live this Friday. Right now this is very much a rumor so please take it with half a dozen buckets of salt. Although information technology'southward worthy of annotation that other publications have also reported hearing similar talk.

WCCF	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon R9 390X	Nvidia GeForce GTX 980
GPU	Polaris ten XT	Grenada XT	GM204-400
Process Node	14nm FinFET	28nm	28nm
Compute Units	36	44	NA
CUDA Cores	NA	NA	2048
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN two.0	Maxwell 2.0
Heave Clock	1266Mhz	1050Mhz	1216Mhz
Peak Unmarried Precision Compute	v.8 TFLOPS	v.9 TFLOPS	5.0+ TFLOPS
Memory Coach	256-bit	512-bit	256-bit
Retentivity	4/8GB GDDR5	8GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
VRAM Speed	8Gbps	6Gbps	7GBps
Bandwidth	256GB/due south	384GB/s	224GB/south
TDP	150W	275W	165W
Typical Power	~100W	~250W	~165W
Launch Cost	$199	$429	$549