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AMD have updated their drivers to lower PCI-E power draw on reference cards.
> As you know, AMD launched the Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card last week and it was well received by customers and reviewers alike. However, concerns arose around the Radeon RX 480 drawing excess current from the PCIe bus. Although we are confident that, based on expected usage, the levels of reported power draws by the Radeon RX 480 do not pose a risk of damage to motherboards or other PC components, we are serious about addressing this issue. Towards that end, we assembled a worldwide team this past weekend to investigate and develop a driver update to improve the power draw. We’re pleased to report that this driver—Radeon Software 16.7.1— is now ready and available for download. In this driver we’ve implemented a change that will lower current drawn from the PCIe bus.
Nvidia has better graphics so fuck you.
Better graphics and more transistors.
OKAY?!?!!
better intel hd then amd.
>>55474474
okay
>>55474474
More transistors = more fire EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
>>55474474
The 1060 with less then 5 tflops
vs
The cheaper RX480 with more then 5 tflops
>MUH NVIDIA MUSTARD RACE
>>55474495
>AMDrone
stop samefagging every thread hoping that you nvidiot counter-buzzword will catch on
>>55474733
>>55474474
>>55474495
>>55474664
>>55474891
>>55474406
Chill what with the gandering on nvidia and AMD there both good compaines but with different marketing ideas
AMD
Wants console games to have a good and easy time to be introduced to pc gaming with cheap cards but at times lack in the best performance ever.
Nivdia
Wants to be high end and take control of where graphics cards for gaming/editing should be at but there cards at times are very priccy and is hard for people to follow them all the way.
Overall it just depends who you are when choosing graphics cards, no one is wrong and no one is right.
The funniest thing is the RX480 performs much better when undervolted
Looking forward to the non trash AiB versions whenever the fuck they show up.
>>55474406
Has anyone released updated benchmarks with the new drivers?
>>55474910
This.
>>55474932
Sapphire RX 480 with 8-pin and 2-fan cooler coming end of the month.
>>55474932
It performs better because they made the drivers more optimized. Not because they lowered the power consumption. Actually, they didn't even lower it. They just changed duty cycles on the power phases which changed power draw bias toward the 6 pin. (which is good)
>>55474943
Not that I've seen. Hoping to get my hands on a 480 for benchmarking within the next week or so.
old news.
problem is that since the card still maxes out the spec and powers the memory entirely from the pcie bus. if you OC memory at all you're bringing it back into spec breaking power draw, which is disappointing as fuck.
>>55474972
It actually does clock slightly higher
