07-02-2016, 11:45 PM
ROFL!!
Perhaps the 480 could've indirectly caused Apoppin's mobo to mess up with voltages across the board and thus fry the memory sticks?
Yeah, I agree with you as well - clearly, AMD didn't plan on making the card eat more than 165W with a single 6-pin PCIe power plug. I think that AMD went a bit cheap with the aluminum heatsink, though. Just a couple bucks more for a heatsink with just 2 heatpipes would've made the card run 20C cooler at least, 5-10dB quieter, and save maybe 10W of power leakage (if AMD didn't try to clock it even higher as a result of a better heatsink). Retrofitting the thing with an aluminum heatsink was probably part of the long-term strategy to price the thing at less than $200 - at least the 8GB version for $40 more should've had heatpipes. This would've avoided a lot of the negativity that we're seeing now. One thing for sure is that AMD is regretting this now - wishing that they fitted the 8GB models with just 2 heatpipes.
But instead of spending that $ on improving the 480 beforehand, Lisa Su had to get a $75000 pay raise in her salary (it happened 2 days ago, I think). Brilliant CEO!
(07-02-2016, 10:26 PM)SickBeast Wrote: I think what has happened is that AMD overclocked the RX480 at the last minute and did not test the card properly. I say this for a few reasons:
1. The card has virtually no overclocking headroom.
2. The card runs quite hot even at stock settings.
3. The card draws more power than it's rated for.
4. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 came in way ahead of expectations in terms of price and performance.
I think AMD got really desperate and tried everything they could to make the RX480 competitive. Unfortunately they failed badly. :(
Perhaps the 480 could've indirectly caused Apoppin's mobo to mess up with voltages across the board and thus fry the memory sticks?
Yeah, I agree with you as well - clearly, AMD didn't plan on making the card eat more than 165W with a single 6-pin PCIe power plug. I think that AMD went a bit cheap with the aluminum heatsink, though. Just a couple bucks more for a heatsink with just 2 heatpipes would've made the card run 20C cooler at least, 5-10dB quieter, and save maybe 10W of power leakage (if AMD didn't try to clock it even higher as a result of a better heatsink). Retrofitting the thing with an aluminum heatsink was probably part of the long-term strategy to price the thing at less than $200 - at least the 8GB version for $40 more should've had heatpipes. This would've avoided a lot of the negativity that we're seeing now. One thing for sure is that AMD is regretting this now - wishing that they fitted the 8GB models with just 2 heatpipes.
But instead of spending that $ on improving the 480 beforehand, Lisa Su had to get a $75000 pay raise in her salary (it happened 2 days ago, I think). Brilliant CEO!