There is no problem with hitting 1600 MHz, but you need another 6 or 8 pin connector for the GPU.
The GPU is locked by the designate around 180W maximum power draw.
I think 1.7 GHz is absolute, unstable max it can hit.
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AMD Confirms RX 480 At $199 USD, Other APU & Polaris Announcements
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The GPU is locked by the designate around 180W maximum power draw.
I think 1.7 GHz is absolute, unstable max it can hit.
If you set OC values in Windows, does this persist over to OS X, assuming native OS X support for the card?
You need to modify the VBIOS to enjoy OC in OSX. Any software OC won't "write" anything to the card. So, this kind of OC will disappear after shutdown.
112.8W of power consumption at 94% GPU load.
Is that only the GPU consumption, but not the card's consumption? (e.g. VRAM not included)
Nano are dropping in price very fast. Until Vega comes the Nano offers GPU performance between the 980 and 1070, but it's OpenCL performance is higher than any GeForce card can offer by a very large margin. Great efficiency, cheap and possibly will be compatible with the final version of Sierra.
What do you mean by compatible? Boot screens and native drivers in OS?
Drivers, if Sierra will support Fiji directly or via some translation in Baffin drivers
Boot screen only if you put the effort to write an EFI
Ladies and Gentlemens, Netkas actually didn't find FIJI support, what he did was to FORCE fiji support on COMPATIBLE DRIVERS.
Few Interesting things to note about Netkas "Finding" APPLE Checks you are Running on a Mac PRO, also previously Netkas find Polaris 10 Framebuffer support.
So what's happens if you instead to inject a FIJI CpuID, you inject a POLARIS 10 GpuID ? gotcha you have a MAC PRO WITH POLARIS 10 SUPPORT (further Frambuffer support too)...
My conclusion: a MacPro loaded with AMD Polaris-Compatible GPU is coming to an Apple Store near you...
Few Interesting things to note about Netkas "Finding" APPLE Checks you are Running on a Mac PRO, also previously Netkas find Polaris 10 Framebuffer support.
So what's happens if you instead to inject a FIJI CpuID, you inject a POLARIS 10 GpuID ? gotcha you have a MAC PRO WITH POLARIS 10 SUPPORT (further Frambuffer support too)...
My conclusion: a MacPro loaded with AMD Polaris-Compatible GPU is coming to an Apple Store near you...
Yeah, but Baffin is Polaris 11, so an RX460, which is a medium to low end GPU unfortunately.
That's what I meant by Baffin translating into Fiji support. The performance can suffer though and you could have Fiji running like a Baffin. Very similar situation to how Maxwell runs like a Kepler because the web drivers aren't optimal yet.
The GPU provides around 80% of GTX 1070 performance at 50% cost with around 60% power consumption.
And it is 10% slower than GTX 980 Ti. On stock PCB, and cooler the GPU is not able to exceed 1400 MHz. There will be 1600 MHz versions for up to 299% with around 150-180W power consumption.
Add another 25% of performance due to much higher clocks on VRAM.
Yep we are in faster than GTX 1070 ranges.
P.S. Compare this benchmarks with the BS that Kyle from HardOCP tried to sell. Does it, with this empirical evidence, has anything to do with reality?
Remember, this GPU is supposed to compete with GTX 1060. And already is competing with GTX 1070. Expect similar gap in performance between Vega 10 and GP104 GPUs. Vega 10 will compete with GP102 GPUs.
And it is 10% slower than GTX 980 Ti. On stock PCB, and cooler the GPU is not able to exceed 1400 MHz. There will be 1600 MHz versions for up to 299% with around 150-180W power consumption.
Add another 25% of performance due to much higher clocks on VRAM.
Yep we are in faster than GTX 1070 ranges.
P.S. Compare this benchmarks with the BS that Kyle from HardOCP tried to sell. Does it, with this empirical evidence, has anything to do with reality?
Remember, this GPU is supposed to compete with GTX 1060. And already is competing with GTX 1070. Expect similar gap in performance between Vega 10 and GP104 GPUs. Vega 10 will compete with GP102 GPUs.
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Thanks for the info, may I know how to get that displayed? Or it is only supported on some GPU? I don't have this info on both of my R9 280 and 7950. (Same GPU-Z 0.8.9)
I wouldn't make too many assumptions about overclocking potential. Nvidias 1000 series does not overclock better given more power so I would not assume amd's would either. If it had that much headroom Amd would have released a higher performance, higher price version as the RX 490.
Nvidia GPUs do not overclock well because of extremely high core clocks. What do you expect? To be possible to clock them at 2.5-3 GHz? Not on this process...
I am not making overclocking potential of RX480 as assumptions, but already are the AIB GPUs with such high clocks listed in number of shops all over the world.
And yes, all of AIB cards have either 6+6 or 6+8 pin connectors. Only reference model has 1266 MHz core clocks and single 6 pin connector. And those with 6 pin connectors will always be limited to 1400 MHz max. Those with 6+8 pin can go right up to 1700 MHz. Highest so far I have seen is Asus Strix model with 1622 MHz and 10000 MHz on memory.
P.S. There is also very good reason on the silicon why the Nvidia GPUs do not clock high enough, and are not able to maintain high clocks for longer periods of time. I will shut myself up here to not again be called AMD fanboy, despite the fact that over the technological internet there is MASSIVE article about problems with Nvidia consumer 16 nm GPUs.
But hey, it will be also quite loud 1.5 years later, when they will fall on a massive scale.
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I'll be buying one or two of these for the PC gaming rig as soon as they're available... the old GTX760 is getting a bit long in the tooth and Nvidia has no reasonably priced replacement that gives a decent boost vs. what i paid for this thing originally. I.e., if i spent what i spent on the 760, i don't get much more out of NV's lineup, 3 years later...
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More benchmarks:
http://hwbench.com/news/amds-rx480-benchmarks-begin-to-leak
Also... anyone know if i'd be able to keep the GTX760 kicking around purely for PhysX support?
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More benchmarks:
http://hwbench.com/news/amds-rx480-benchmarks-begin-to-leak
Also... anyone know if i'd be able to keep the GTX760 kicking around purely for PhysX support?
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