Temperature testing will be accomplished by loading the video card to 100 using unigine heaven benchmark version 4 0 with msi afterburner overclocking utility for temperature monitoring.
Sapphire rx 480 8gb nitro power consumption.
We supplement our analysis of amd partner rx 480 cards today by looking at the two sapphire nitro oc models in 4gb and 8gb capacities.
Power consumption from the system showed between 280.
Power consumption of the system will be measured at both idle and loaded.
Sapphire s nitro radeon rx 480 averages 1 15v and peaks at 1 1563v.
Power consumption idle and gaming in order to get an idea of a gpu s power draw we loop the unigine valley 1 0 benchmark 2 560 x 1 400 ultra detail no anti aliasing which is a very gpu.
Sapphire nitro rx 580 v2 8 gb.
260 mm 10 2 inches 1x dvi 2x hdmi 2x displayport.
The sapphire rx 580 nitro limited edition is a highly overclocked custom variant of the just launched amd radeon rx 580.
Those numbers increase to an average of 1 1688v and a peak of 1 19v for the company s nitro radeon rx 580 limited edition.
This puts the power consumption of the rx 570 at.
260 mm 10 2 inches 1x dvi 2x hdmi 2x displayport.
That s simply too high for a modern.
The radeon rx 480 s minimum gpu and memory clock rate is 300mhz resulting in an idle power measurement of 16w or 19w if you re using multiple monitors.
And the sapphire nitro rx 570 only shaves off all of 10mhz in two of our games.
4 gb 230 mm 9 1 inches 1x dvi 2x hdmi 2x.
Sapphire pulse rx 580 4 gb.
Performance now beats the nvidia gtx 1060 and in the box sapphire has bundled two user replaceable semi transparent fans with blue leds if you want a little bit more bling.
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