Yo Ocre, I've been thinking that AMD didn't get to completely solve the power consumption issue on GloFo's new 14nm process. If AMD didn't diverge from TSMC and stuck with the same 16nm process as NV, I think that AMD would've had their RX 480 ready for launch maybe 6 months ago... with lower idle power consumption than that of Tonga R9 285 (and lower load consumption than that of Pitcairn XT R9 270X -- less than 120W on average). See how great the new Pascal cards are at idle consumption:
![[Image: power_idle.png]](https://tpucdn.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480/images/power_idle.png)
Could it also be that 8GB GDDR5 clocked at 8GHz effective would consume about 5W more than 7GHz that AMD is apparently setting lots of these 380 cards at default (not just for 4GB but 8GB cards as well)? Furthermore, how much would 8GB consume over 4GB? My guess is around 15W.
Could it also be that 8GB GDDR5 clocked at 8GHz effective would consume about 5W more than 7GHz that AMD is apparently setting lots of these 380 cards at default (not just for 4GB but 8GB cards as well)? Furthermore, how much would 8GB consume over 4GB? My guess is around 15W.