In the Acoustics Department, it's clear that the RX 480 SiIPS is designed to stay comfortably quiet at low to mid RPMs. This feature is impressive, especially when compared to reference designs. At 60% fan speed, the card outputs a fairly calm humming noise that's non-intrusive and quite impressive.

To put this into perspective, let's take a look at the total system power draw of each card. The RX 480 SiIPS just about matches the power consumption of the EVGA Super SuperClock GTX 970, which is a notable achievement. However, when overclocked, it consumes more power than all of the Nvidia cards in the test, but still remains below the Nitro R9 390.

It's worth noting that the card used in this review was a factory overclocked model, and had not been manually tweaked by the author. However, if you've been following recent news, you may have heard about MSI's GTX 1070 being shipped to reviewers with an aggressive pre-week firmware that set the card to an OC profile. In this review, we've switched to the Gaming Profile, which is more representative of the clock speeds retail consumers can expect out of the box.

Our test bed features a Gigabyte Gaming G1 Wi-Fi motherboard with a 5820K overclocked to 4400 MHz and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. All games were run in Windows 10 at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, using the latest drivers from Nvidia and AMD's Press driver.

In terms of performance, the RX 480 SiIPS delivered impressive results across all tests. Most notably, it showed a 20% increase over DirectX 11 performance in Ashes of the Singularity at 1080p, and marginal gains at higher resolutions.

To understand the full extent of the card's capabilities, we've calculated its overall gaming performance by averaging the average frame rates across all games. The results show that the RX 480 SiIPS fared just 6% slower than the Super SuperClock GTX 970, 3.8% slower than the Nitro R9 390, and a whopping 59% faster than the MSI GTX 960 in Hitman.

It's also worth noting that the RX 480 SiIPS was using its first pre-release driver, whereas its competitors had highly mature drivers. However, it would have been ideal if the card had beaten out the GTX 970 more consistently. In some cases, it did fall behind, but ultimately delivered impressive value for performance.

The RX 480 SiIPS is priced at $239, which nearly delivers two frames per dollar, edging out the Super SuperClock GTX 970 and scoring well above other cards. Even if we consider Nvidia's new price drop with the $259 rebate, the GTX 970 would only yield 1.8 frames per dollar, presumably for a non-factory overclocked model that would score lower than our Super SuperClock Edition.

The RX 480 SiIPS is not the greatest overclocker and does suffer from some moderate throttling. However, hopefully, custom board partners can deliver the cooling and power delivery needed to turn things around.

AMD's new reference cooler veers on the warm side without proper tuning, but offers an acoustic profile less atrocious than what we've seen in the past.

Overall, the RX 480 SiIPS is a remarkable card that delivers impressive performance and value. While it may not be the greatest overclocker, its ability to deliver two frames per dollar makes it a compelling choice for those looking for a powerful GPU without breaking the bank.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys today AMD launches its first GPU based on the new Polaris architecture aimed at mainstream Gamers throughout the PC Kingdom the rx480 promises smooth gaming and fluid VR experiences for significantly less coin than the current market offerings MSRP of the reference 8 gig model comes in at 239 while the 4 Gig reference card sits at just 199 us that's equivalent to just €80 or as of last week 500,000 British pounds while AMD in recent years has sometimes been regarded as the economical choice in lie of performance compared to its competitors over the last few weeks a number of leaked benchmarks and Enid's price drop on all their 900 series gpus clued Us in that team red could be bringing more to the table than just attractive msrps with its new card sporting the new 14 NM finfet process and fourth gen gcn architecture the rx480 features the latest support for direct X12 and Vulcan AMD free sync HDR and the ability to stream and record gameplay up to 4K with h265 at 60 FPS on the chip we get 36 compute units 234 stream processors a Bas and boost clock of 1120 and 1266 MHz respectively and either 4 or 8 gigs of gddr5 on a 256bit bus the die shrink comes with improved power efficiency over the last generation as well with a TDP of 150 watts taking a closer look at amd's new reference cooler we see it features an enclosed plastic shroud with a single 75 mm blower style fan that ejects air out the back it also has a single six pin power connector facing the front side of the cart on the top we find that the cooler actually extends beyond the relatively short PCB making the total card length 9 1/2 in or 241 mm you won't find a sexy back plate here unfortunately but the cooler does look very nice with its textured surface and straightforward design on the back you'll find no signs of DVI just three display port 1.4 and a single HDMI on the software side of things AMD also introduces their new tweaking utility called watman which makes me think all overclock tool should be given fun superhero names this program effectively replaces AMD overdrive in the global radon settings and is skinned with a Sleek modern UI with a nice assortment of adjustable parameters when overclocking the rx480 in watman I maxed out the power limit to 50% and managed to increase the core clock speed by just 4.5% before reaching instability taking the maximum boost clock to 1325 MHz the rx480 may not be the overclocking champ we always hope a new video card will be but there's a fair chance we'll be able to squeeze more juice out with aftermarket card sporting more than just a reference six pin power plug memory clock speed was more forgiving going as far as the slider could take it to 2250 MHz all of this was done without touching the voltage and as of now voltage values in watman can only be assigned for each DPM State manually though AMD is looking into adding a voltage offset slider later on for fan control you can assign a minimum RPM so your fan never spins below the assigned value and Target which is the fastest the fan will run at if the card is not above its temp Target you can also set a minimum acoustic limit in megahertz that dictates the Threshold at which Acoustics can be violated user options for temperature control include a max value where the GPU will Throttle Down the clock speed if it hits that assigned temperature and Target indicates how hot the GPU can get before ramping up the fan for all my overclock testing I set my Max to 83° C and my target to 80 with these parameters I did encounter some thermal throttling on the overclocked rx480 with the max GPU temp hitting a toasty 85° C and the core clock speed averaging 1,200 92 MHz compared to our Max clock speed of again 1325 it's not an alarming loss but it is significant enough to mention so I'm looking forward to seeing this effect minimized with the arrival of custom coolers fortunately the reference card does a nice job in the Acoustics Department it stays comfortably quiet at low to mid RPMs and even at the 60% fan speed I tested at the fan outputs a fairly calm humming noise that's pretty non-intrusive and quite impressive for a reference design before we take to the benchmarks here's a look at the total system power draw featuring the cards I tested at reference speeds the rx48 siips just about as much power as the EVGA super superclock gtx970 and when overclocked consumes more than all of our Nvidia cards but is still well below the Nitro r9390 which as we're about to see yields an impressive performance per watt with the exception of the rx480 all the cards in today's tests are factory overclocked models and have not been manually tweaked by me in any way however if you've been following the news lately you may have heard that MSI GTX 1070 was being shipped to reviewers with a pre-week firmware that set the card to an aggressive OC profile so I've gone ahead and switched that to the gaming profile which more accurately reflects the clock speeds retail consumers can expect out of the box only our rx480 will be showing both reference and manually overclock speeds today our test bed features a gigabyte gaming G1 Wi-Fi with with a 5820k overclock to 4400 MHz and 16 gigs of ddr4 all games tested were run in Windows 10 at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 by 1440 using the latest drivers from Nvidia and the pre-released Press driver straight from AMD without further Ado here are the benchmarks aah all right so those are the results well most of them since the GPU does feature async shaders I did run a quick test for directx12 performance in ashes of the singularity and found a 20% increase over direct X11 in average frame rates at 1080 and rather marginal games at higher resolutions overall it looks like there's still a bit of room for improvement on the async compute front throughout our testing the card's Max vram usage hit around 5 gigs which certainly Advocates having more than a 4 gig frame buffer these days even at sub 4K resolutions now to make sense of today's numbers I've calculated the overall gaming performance of each card by averaging the average frame rates across all games not confusing at all the end results shows that our overclocked RX 488 gig model fared just 6% slower than the super superclock gtx970 3.8% slower than the Nitro r9390 and a whopping 59% faster than the MSI gtx960 in Hitman we saw the rx480 best the gtx970 and r9390 at both resolutions and in Crisis 3 it beats out the GTX 97 at 1920 x 1080 this is kind of exciting when you consider that the rx480 is using its first pre-release driver versus the highly mature drivers of its competitors while it would have been awesome to see the rx480 beat out the GTX 970 more consistently here where the Polaris chip takes a slight loss in raw performance it makes up in terms of value with the rx48 8 gig priced at 239 bucks it nearly delivers two frames per dollar edging out the 1.5 fpd of the super superclock gtx970 and scoring well above the other cards even if we're to use nvidia's new price drop with the tossin rebate of $259 the gtx970 would still only yield 1.8 frames per dollar and that's presumably for a non-factory overclocked model that would score lower than our super superclock Edition today so if we're following the numbers here the rx480 at least the 8 gig model I've tested packs in quite an amazing value for performance that Trails closely behind and occasionally outperforms the notably more expensive GTX 970 and r9390 it's not the greatest overclocker and it does suffer from some moderate throttling but hopefully the custom board Partners can deliver the cooling and power delivery needed to turn things around if you simply can't wait for the aftermarket models amd's new reference cooler veers on the warm side without the proper tuning but offers an acoustic profile less atrocious than what we've seen in the past but that is going to do it for now guys so let me know what you all think of this new card in the comments and don't forget to toss me a like on this video If you enjoyed it before you go feel free to pick up an awesome sauce shirt in my store they're sure to turn some heads especially if you're not wearing pants as always I'm Kyle with awesome Sal Network thank you all for watching subscribe to the channel for more Tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the next videowhat's up guys today AMD launches its first GPU based on the new Polaris architecture aimed at mainstream Gamers throughout the PC Kingdom the rx480 promises smooth gaming and fluid VR experiences for significantly less coin than the current market offerings MSRP of the reference 8 gig model comes in at 239 while the 4 Gig reference card sits at just 199 us that's equivalent to just €80 or as of last week 500,000 British pounds while AMD in recent years has sometimes been regarded as the economical choice in lie of performance compared to its competitors over the last few weeks a number of leaked benchmarks and Enid's price drop on all their 900 series gpus clued Us in that team red could be bringing more to the table than just attractive msrps with its new card sporting the new 14 NM finfet process and fourth gen gcn architecture the rx480 features the latest support for direct X12 and Vulcan AMD free sync HDR and the ability to stream and record gameplay up to 4K with h265 at 60 FPS on the chip we get 36 compute units 234 stream processors a Bas and boost clock of 1120 and 1266 MHz respectively and either 4 or 8 gigs of gddr5 on a 256bit bus the die shrink comes with improved power efficiency over the last generation as well with a TDP of 150 watts taking a closer look at amd's new reference cooler we see it features an enclosed plastic shroud with a single 75 mm blower style fan that ejects air out the back it also has a single six pin power connector facing the front side of the cart on the top we find that the cooler actually extends beyond the relatively short PCB making the total card length 9 1/2 in or 241 mm you won't find a sexy back plate here unfortunately but the cooler does look very nice with its textured surface and straightforward design on the back you'll find no signs of DVI just three display port 1.4 and a single HDMI on the software side of things AMD also introduces their new tweaking utility called watman which makes me think all overclock tool should be given fun superhero names this program effectively replaces AMD overdrive in the global radon settings and is skinned with a Sleek modern UI with a nice assortment of adjustable parameters when overclocking the rx480 in watman I maxed out the power limit to 50% and managed to increase the core clock speed by just 4.5% before reaching instability taking the maximum boost clock to 1325 MHz the rx480 may not be the overclocking champ we always hope a new video card will be but there's a fair chance we'll be able to squeeze more juice out with aftermarket card sporting more than just a reference six pin power plug memory clock speed was more forgiving going as far as the slider could take it to 2250 MHz all of this was done without touching the voltage and as of now voltage values in watman can only be assigned for each DPM State manually though AMD is looking into adding a voltage offset slider later on for fan control you can assign a minimum RPM so your fan never spins below the assigned value and Target which is the fastest the fan will run at if the card is not above its temp Target you can also set a minimum acoustic limit in megahertz that dictates the Threshold at which Acoustics can be violated user options for temperature control include a max value where the GPU will Throttle Down the clock speed if it hits that assigned temperature and Target indicates how hot the GPU can get before ramping up the fan for all my overclock testing I set my Max to 83° C and my target to 80 with these parameters I did encounter some thermal throttling on the overclocked rx480 with the max GPU temp hitting a toasty 85° C and the core clock speed averaging 1,200 92 MHz compared to our Max clock speed of again 1325 it's not an alarming loss but it is significant enough to mention so I'm looking forward to seeing this effect minimized with the arrival of custom coolers fortunately the reference card does a nice job in the Acoustics Department it stays comfortably quiet at low to mid RPMs and even at the 60% fan speed I tested at the fan outputs a fairly calm humming noise that's pretty non-intrusive and quite impressive for a reference design before we take to the benchmarks here's a look at the total system power draw featuring the cards I tested at reference speeds the rx48 siips just about as much power as the EVGA super superclock gtx970 and when overclocked consumes more than all of our Nvidia cards but is still well below the Nitro r9390 which as we're about to see yields an impressive performance per watt with the exception of the rx480 all the cards in today's tests are factory overclocked models and have not been manually tweaked by me in any way however if you've been following the news lately you may have heard that MSI GTX 1070 was being shipped to reviewers with a pre-week firmware that set the card to an aggressive OC profile so I've gone ahead and switched that to the gaming profile which more accurately reflects the clock speeds retail consumers can expect out of the box only our rx480 will be showing both reference and manually overclock speeds today our test bed features a gigabyte gaming G1 Wi-Fi with with a 5820k overclock to 4400 MHz and 16 gigs of ddr4 all games tested were run in Windows 10 at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 by 1440 using the latest drivers from Nvidia and the pre-released Press driver straight from AMD without further Ado here are the benchmarks aah all right so those are the results well most of them since the GPU does feature async shaders I did run a quick test for directx12 performance in ashes of the singularity and found a 20% increase over direct X11 in average frame rates at 1080 and rather marginal games at higher resolutions overall it looks like there's still a bit of room for improvement on the async compute front throughout our testing the card's Max vram usage hit around 5 gigs which certainly Advocates having more than a 4 gig frame buffer these days even at sub 4K resolutions now to make sense of today's numbers I've calculated the overall gaming performance of each card by averaging the average frame rates across all games not confusing at all the end results shows that our overclocked RX 488 gig model fared just 6% slower than the super superclock gtx970 3.8% slower than the Nitro r9390 and a whopping 59% faster than the MSI gtx960 in Hitman we saw the rx480 best the gtx970 and r9390 at both resolutions and in Crisis 3 it beats out the GTX 97 at 1920 x 1080 this is kind of exciting when you consider that the rx480 is using its first pre-release driver versus the highly mature drivers of its competitors while it would have been awesome to see the rx480 beat out the GTX 970 more consistently here where the Polaris chip takes a slight loss in raw performance it makes up in terms of value with the rx48 8 gig priced at 239 bucks it nearly delivers two frames per dollar edging out the 1.5 fpd of the super superclock gtx970 and scoring well above the other cards even if we're to use nvidia's new price drop with the tossin rebate of $259 the gtx970 would still only yield 1.8 frames per dollar and that's presumably for a non-factory overclocked model that would score lower than our super superclock Edition today so if we're following the numbers here the rx480 at least the 8 gig model I've tested packs in quite an amazing value for performance that Trails closely behind and occasionally outperforms the notably more expensive GTX 970 and r9390 it's not the greatest overclocker and it does suffer from some moderate throttling but hopefully the custom board Partners can deliver the cooling and power delivery needed to turn things around if you simply can't wait for the aftermarket models amd's new reference cooler veers on the warm side without the proper tuning but offers an acoustic profile less atrocious than what we've seen in the past but that is going to do it for now guys so let me know what you all think of this new card in the comments and don't forget to toss me a like on this video If you enjoyed it before you go feel free to pick up an awesome sauce shirt in my store they're sure to turn some heads especially if you're not wearing pants as always I'm Kyle with awesome Sal Network thank you all for watching subscribe to the channel for more Tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the next video\n"