With Tom's Hardware reporting that the RX 480 draws (substantailly) more than the 75W allowed from the motherboard (for example, the PCI Express high-power card spec allows a mazimum of 66W to be drawn from the 12V pins of the PCI Express slot, and the RX 480 averages79W from the 12V lines alone) AMD seems to be violating the PCI Express(R) spec.
According to the licensing contract for the spec, if they do not fix this within 3 months, AMD will NOT be able to call the card a PCI Express card. If they do, they face not only litigation, but if my understanding is correct an action before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the importation of the card as counterfeit goods. You might think the PCI-SIG will give AMD a pass, but if they do, they risk loosing the trademark entirely. An unforced trademark gets invalidated. The SIG won't let that happen.
So what does this mean to the consumer? I think there are two possibilities, if we assume AMD will not choose to remove the PCI Express logos from these cards: Either they will alter the boards to have an 8-pin socket and to more power from there, or they will neuter the card to ensure it doesn't draw more power than the PCI Express specification allows. I don't see any other options.
>>55321117
You're a shill
REKT
DRECKT
SHREKT
/thread
>>55321117
Keep me posted
>>55321117
brb buying a shitty €35 mobo, frying it with RX480 and crashing the AMD stock afterwards.
>>55321117
>750Ti and 960 have been violating the PCIe spec for literally years now
>only becomes a problem when AMD does it
K bud.
>>55321117
Holy shit.
AMD is done. They're finished. Expect AMD stock to tank.
This is seriously a big deal.
>>55321117
4 watts is substantial? In what universe?
>>55321332
Um, no, it's getting to up to 100 watts NON overclocked.
AMD is fucking done. What a disaster.
>>55321344
So they remove a logo from the box? I'm really trying to understand.
>>55321377
Oh wow, figures AMD tards would be this ignorant.
This is a HUGE deal, if they lose their PCI-E certification AMD is fucking DONE as a company.
AMDFAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>55321344
LOL no dude, no not even 100 watts. They were getting tests at 160 watts NON OVERCLOCKED
This thing is going to FRY motherboards.
>>55321421
So why did the 750Ti and 960 never lose their PCIe cert in spite of them also blatantly running over the PCIe slot power draw spec?
Oh right, because the only people that care about this are buttblasted nvidiots who just bought a worse-performing, more expensive 970.
>>55321421
OK now I'm convinced this is a troll. And has not adhered to pcie spec in generations now. And it's not AMD printing the boxes and literature, so you have a pretty big technicality there, memer.
Sell AMD NOW.
>>55321475
>a worse-performing
970 is curbstomping the 480 in all game tests except for asses of the shitularity
>>55321507
If only this were true.
>>55321473
>source: my ass
>>55321507
so which shillsite is saying that? Tom's doesnt, TPU doesn't, and hardwarecanucks doesn't.
>>55321507
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Holy shit my 480 is drawing 1200 watts of power from my mobo I don't even know how since I'm running a 300 watt PSU
>>55321507
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>55321542
>>55321586
DELETE THIS
>>55321586
wow nice bar graph!
>>55321507
>>55321542
>>55321586
Shills getting exposed
delicious
>>55321117
literally nobody cares, it's not a big deal.
Do you really think a massive company like AMD would supercede spec without clearing it first? ITC will do exactly fuck all about this.
Not to mention most sane people will get non-reference cards with probably better power designs.
>>55321473
You're kidding right?
Tom's said the draw was 160w WHEN IDLE.
AMD IS FUCKING DONE FOR
>>55321727
nonono ure wrong
they said it was 240w on iddle lol
amd is finished lel
>loosing
>>55321761
no you fucking retards, tom's hardware said it consumes 450W ON IDLE LMAO
they're fucking finished
Holy shit, how can AMDrones defend this? This is fucking terrible.
How will AMD recover from this disaster of a launch?
>>55321542
>>55321586
that would be pretty good 2 years ago.
>>55321765
you get loose after you're screwed that much.
but seriously, this is such a letdown.
>>55321241
Just looked this up to see if true, and according to reviews the 750 Ti only reaches 68W at peak power draw, averaging 63W. So, no, you're wrong
