HIS Radeon RX 480 Features A Custom IceQX2 Cooler And An Intelligent Fan Control Software

The IceQX2 cooler from HIS for the Radeon RX 480 has been pictured featuring a custom cooler. In addition to providing upgraded cooling performance, the HIS IceQX2 custom cooler also sports an intelligent fan controller software that tin work in your favor, unless of class the temperature of the surrounding is varied.

HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQX2 Has A Metal Fan Shroud And Employs 0dB Technology

Courtesy of VideoCardz, the HIS custom cooler has several goodies that are not establish in the reference coolers. Starting off, there is a metallic back-plate that will deliver more integrity to the entire GPU and will also help in dropping the temperature of the production to a certain extent. There is too a metallic fan shroud which will over again increase the physical strength of the entire GPU, but also increment its weight slightly. In addition to LED illumination, there is one unique affair that HIS has included for its custom RX 480 that nosotros take not seen till now on non-reference graphic cards.

That is the 0dB engineering; this ways that the fans volition non spin unless the temperature reaches a certain level. While this is helpful to maintain the strength of the fan bearing, information technology is kind of pointless for those who are living in hot and humid environments since the ambient temperature is e'er expected to exist high. At that place could be a way to disable this feature entirely, simply it is helpful for those who do non find the noise emanating from the GPU all too comforting.

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The custom-made GPU is going to carry a college price tag, merely we do not know what HIS has intended for this RX 480 variant. AMD's Radeon RX 480 is based on the latest GCN 4.0 architecture which makes use of the FinFET architecture to deliver low power consumption, lesser voltage leak and improve performance. In addition, AMD deploys a completely new architecture for Polaris chips with enhanced features listed below:

Primitive Discard Accelerator
Hardware Scheduler
Instruction Pre-Fetch
Improved Shader Efficiency
Memory Compression

Equally a result, these GPUs can evangelize up to 1.7 times the performance per watt increase cheers to the FinFET architecture while AMD exclusive technologies volition help drive this efficiency up to 2.8 times which is thoroughly impressive. In addition to the foundation of AMD'southward current generation GCN architecture, quaternary generation GCN introduces new features. And one of them is primitive discard acceleration, which in no certain terms is AMD's style of revealing that its upcoming GPUs will add support for boosted key DirectX12 features such every bit Conservative Rasterization.

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Additionally, AMD Radeon RX 480 is also capable of delivering upward to 5.v TFLOPs of compute performance which is extremely impressive because the Radeon R9 390X delivers 400 GFLOPs more while consuming much more ability (275W for the R9 390X vs 150W for the RX 480). While the graphics is available in the 8GB GDDR5 variant, it is also available in the 4GB GDDR5 model.

The 8GB frame buffer will permit not bad gaming experience on the 1440p resolution, and the retentiveness clock of the GPU is running at 8GHz, which brings us to a grand total of 256 GB/due south memory bandwidth. What did you recollect of the custom libation presented by HIS?

AMD Polaris GCN 4.0 GPU Lineup:

Graphics Menu Name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 470D	AMD Radeon RX 460 1024 SPs	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris x	Polaris xi	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Die Size	232mm2	232mm2	232mm2	123mm2	123mm2
Transistors	5.vii Billion	v.7 Billion	5.vii Billion	3.0 Billion	3.0 Billion
Stream Processors	2304 SPs	2048 SPs	1792 SPs	1024 SPs	896 SPs
Clock Frequency	1266 MHz	1206 MHz	1206 MHz	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute Performance	v.8 TFLOPs	4.nine TFLOPs	4.iii TFLOPs	2.56 TFLOPs	2.2 TFLOPs
VRAM	4/viii GB GDDR5	four GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	four GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Bus Interface	256-fleck	256-flake	256-bit	128-bit	128-flake
Retentivity Speed	8 GHz	6.vi GHz	half-dozen.6 GHz	7 GHz	7 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	211 GB/s	112 GB/s	112 GB/s
TDP	150W	120W	110W	75W	75W
Launch Date	29th June	4th Baronial	20th October	TBD	8th August
Launch Price	$199 US (4 GB) $239 US (8 GB)	$179 US (4 GB)	$149 US (4 GB)	TBD	$99 US (2 GB) $119 US (iv GB)
New Price	$199 Usa (4 GB) $239 U.s.a. (8 GB)	$169 U.s. (4 GB)	$149 US (iv GB)	TBD	$99 United states (iv GB) $89 The states (ii GB)