On July 1st, the happy courier brother rang the dewdrop door bell with a box of parcels: "SF Express, check the water meter. Open the door!", Alai? No mistake, Dew Pearl is a good citizen who loves the government to love the people. Why should it hurt dew? Luzhu relied on the danger of being investigated by the meter to open the door resolutely, because Dewdrop knew that the RX480 pre-sale in Jingdong had arrived, and Jingdong Brother was really naughty. Since the Jingdong 618 scheduled to begin, after half a month's wait, endured half a month's bright card life, when finally can get rid of, very happy.
The RX480 Polaris chip, now the latest high-definition A-card chip, has brought a lot of controversy on its birth. From the predecessor AMD's own performance dual card can fight GTX1080, and before and after the pre-sale about the problem of price positioning, has always been the focus of A/N food. This post will not be an argument on the A/N performance comparison and price positioning. It will only discuss the quality of the card itself and its gameplay.
Out of the boxJingdong this time sent a carton that is about the same size as the graphics card. Compared to the large boxes in the past, it has a lot of environmental protection.
The pre-sold version of the XFX 480 Jingdong is not the high-frequency version afterwards, and the price is the same as the price of the other three are the pre-sale prices for 1999.
RX480 is currently the most advanced graphics card from AMD and naturally incorporates a variety of new technologies. The new 14nm process FinFET process supports DirectX 12.0 games and supports its own FreeSync display technology. The key is relative to the high-end graphics card, which claims to be the most cost-effective VR Ready card.
Pre-sold version of the RX480 is 8GDDR5 memory, for the CF battle 4K screen?
The back is still a lot of support technology
Open the packaging is imprinted XFX logo, no surprise but at least stronger than the whiteboard
Open the box, remove the plastic bag outside the graphics card, all the accessories are only a double 4pin to 6pin adapter, a manual, a CD that I have not used, it is estimated that the device is also the previous drive (forgiveness Dew does not drive this ancient Artifact). This is worse than XFX's own high-frequency public version of a dp to DVI line, the price difference of 100, I also dont care less.
Since the electrostatic film affects the photographing effect, I chose a photo that Zhang had already torn off the surface electrostatic film. It can be seen that the gold finger is sealed with a plastic strip to prevent oxidation in the package.
The size of the graphics card is not large. The wrong length is 24cm, the width is connected to the baffle 14cm, and the thickness is 4cm. So the general chassis length is enough
Otes heats up, why stickers are so much worse than pre-sale photos.
The surface skin material looks the same as the fury series, but the material is plastic and feels bad. However, the fate of the graphics card still stays in the chassis. Who is going to touch it?
The material here is still good.
Touching 6pin head, this time AMD buys with low power consumption. Is this power connector for publicity? It's really touching. I'll mention it later in the performance evaluation. It won't start here.
Capital Radeon, but there is no lamp of faith.
Otes cooling vents, three DP interfaces and one HDMI interface, this time AMD abandoned the dvi interface, but can use adapters to switch, this is not the case, the space saved to give more space for heat dissipation
XFX public version special backplane, which is the same with the XFX high frequency version, but compared with the other three is full of sincerity
The back column's screw column actually feels very much. In this photo, everyone pays attention to the traces on the gold finger, not the dew shots that were taken by the camera. This is what it takes to get it. However, the staff of XFX was asked. This is a normal phenomenon. Each card must be tested at least once before AMD and XFX. Not think of Jingdong return parts, so obsessive-compulsive disorder can not be attacked.
The first time was dewdrops under the backplane, and there was even more power afterwards.
The back of the chip
Start the formal dismantling, remove the back clips, and remove the only screw on the pcb and the two screws on the side bezel to remove the heat shield.
Open the heat shield and clean the thick, sticky original grease.
The core area is 232mm2, which is much smaller than the GPU core area (366mm2) of the Radeon R9 380X, the old product of its class, and it looks like a new entry-level GPU.
The serial number and LOGO are produced at I Bay.
Original cooling core inlaid copper
Some details can be seen from this photo 5+1+1 phase power supply
Penetrating thermal solution
The last two split-body maps Ok, I can basically write to here that I have finished the exposure part, the following preparation to enter the test article.
testtesting platform:
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (DirectX 11)
Windows 10 Professional 64-bit (DirectX 12)
Processor: Intel's second-generation Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz six-core
Motherboard: ASUS RAMPAGE IV FORMULA (Intel Xeon E5/Core i7 DMI2 - X79 PCH -)
Memory: 12 GB (South Asia Easy Win DDR3 1866MHz)
Main Hard Drive: Intelli-CT960M500SSD1 (960 GB / Solid State Drive)
Graphics: ATI Radeon RX 480 (8 GB / XFX (Pine View))
Monitor: ViewSonic VSC31AD VX4002-4K-2G (39.7 inches)
Sound Card: Innovative X-Fi Audio Processor
Network Card: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
Although there is no high-frequency version of the 1322MHz high frequency, the XFX public version is also higher than the other two. This is why XFX has a similar sales of sapphire's pro-son in the JD.com reservation.
Room temperature 25 °C, standby temperature, 37 ~ 40 °C, the default fan speed is only 750RPM
After continuous trials, when the fan is working at 2400 RPM, the fan can almost be covered by the sound of other fans in the chassis. When the fan speed exceeds 3,000 RPM, the sound of the video card fan will be clearly identified. So running at full default settings will only increase the speed of the fan to 2400~3000 RPM. You can see that the running score reaches 5206.
The power meter at this time is only 240w.
Then began the overclocking test, but before it is necessary to understand the next AMD deep red drive.
Enter the driver click on the game and click on the global settings you can see the core features of crimson, the global graphics settings, although this part is not related to overclocking, but it is closely related to the quality of the picture.
The first option eliminates the aliasing mode, and the anti-aliasing feature can only be customized after selecting the override application setting, and there will be two more options. Elimination of aliasing levels, with the best picture quality EQ, full-screen anti-aliasing for flames, particles, light, etc.; elimination of aliasing filters, Edge-detect will consume less memory but better compatibility or standard mode .
Anti-aliasing method, multiple sampling (MSAA) speed, super-sampling (SSAA) picture quality but slow.
Morphological Filtering (MLAA) relieves the computational pressure on the GPU. The computing task is handed to the CPU and can be attempted to be turned on in the case of a strong CPU.
The higher the number of anisotropic filtering options, the better the quality of the image, and the quality of the texture filter is also recommended to open to the highest
The surface format is optimized to increase the startup speed while sacrificing a small amount of image quality.
Vertical synchronization is the lock frame. You can prevent the picture from tearing and make the picture better.
Triple buffering is better when used with vertical sync. Simultaneously enabling will reduce the number of frames caused by vertical sync.
Shader cache, speed up loading, and turn it on.
Mosaic mode also changed to use application settings. AMD's black technology makes the picture more clear and more three-dimensional, but it may lead to unstable game frames.
Power efficiency, lower heat and power consumption, but will reduce the graphics performance, so overclocking friends please turn off this one, usually used, this option is a good choice.
Compatibility mode Compatibility mode should be an option to increase compatibility.
Frame number target control, control the maximum number of frames, prevent the number of frames is too high, increase the graphics card heat.
Ok, the above is the graphics related settings, friends who want to start overclocking can turn off the power efficiency option, enter the global Wattman, this is the overclocking interface.
The top row is the video card status monitoring interface, the left side of the second row is the core overclocking, can directly control the frequency curve by sliding the slider, try a higher overclocking frequency; voltage control can adjust the power supply voltage at each frequency, but in the crack Before the voltage, the maximum can only be increased to 1.15V.
The right side of the second row is the memory frequency, there is only one frequency, you can pull the slider directly.
The third row left is the fan speed, and the minimum is the number of revolutions that the computer will reach once it is started. It is best to set it to 2400. If it is the limit of running, it is recommended to open it to the highest; the target speed is to reach the target temperature, and the maximum fan starts. Rotating speed.
At the right is the temperature option. The maximum temperature is the protection temperature of the graphics card. Once the temperature is reached, the core frequency of the graphics card will be reduced to lower the temperature to the maximum temperature; the target temperature is the temperature at which the target fan speed is turned on.
The most important is the power limit option, which directly pulls to the maximum, which can give you a few hundred points of fse leap, but at the same time it will greatly increase power consumption and temperature.
Ok, I ran fse over the extreme overclocking of my graphics card.
The biggest increase in running points is power consumption> core frequency> memory frequency
Back to the question mentioned in the bill, why do we say that the 6pin power supply pit, we look at the power consumption meter at this time the entire machine power consumption has reached close to 400w, you can see at this time the power consumption of the ultra-band is very large of.
Further overclocking, when the power consumption exceeds 420W, it will drive off (card dead, black screen phenomenon), when you turn off the power overclocking, only increase the frequency, this 480 can be raised to 1.4ghz. Therefore, there is reason to suspect that the power wall or temperature wall of the graphics card has been reached, resulting in instability of the graphics card.
The RX480 is the most cost-effective VR Ready card. Although Dew currently does not have a VR device, it can also be tested using SteamVR. The test result is 6.4. There are no less than 90fps frames, so it should be consistent with the previous publicity.
Game performance testFinally arrived at the game test, but because Dew usually does not play 3A masterpiece, the only online game to play is to wear earphones for the elderly all day long. So in this part I only use the representative DX11 and DX12 game tests, hoping to give the reader a little reference value.
"Batman: Agam Knight"
The new series of Batman: Agam Knights reopened by Steady Rock first originated in "Batman: Arkard Asylum" and it has gone through six years. From the very beginning, developers and publishers were still skeptical about this series. In the past six years, the Batman series has become almost the same as the phrase “superhero games are money-making products.†The only counter-example of iron bones.
Actual test screen
Test environment: resolution 2560×1440, turn on rainwater boost and beam boost game options, turn on the drive's triple buffer function.
Most of Batman's open-air plots were conducted during rainy nights. After starting two game options, the effects of rain and the effects of the beam's reflection through the rain were very realistic, which also increased the requirements for the graphics card. The performance of the RX480 was very satisfying. It stabilized at 60 frames and occasionally dropped to over 45 frames. After entering the bat car, the graphics card performance is still awesome, able to stabilize at more than 45 frames.
The RX480's performance in this game is more than adequate, there is no phenomenon of Caton.
DX11 and DX12 game performance testBefore the test, I did an interesting experiment on the graphics core. I reduced the power consumption of the graphics card and used FSP to test the loss of the power consumption of the graphics card.
The Crimson drive does a good job at this point, and the actual power consumption is almost linear while adjusting power consumption. The power limit exceeds -20%, and the performance of the graphics card suffers a significant loss. Therefore, as long as we maintain a power loss profit and loss of -20%, we can get a good performance and power ratio, and then we will have three default, overclocking and low power consumption respectively. Game testing in mode.
Tomb Raider: The Rise
Tomb Raider: Rising is a stand-alone game developed by Crystal Dynamics and distributed by Square Enix. In the game, the player controls the protagonist Laura to explore the supernatural phenomena and unknown world that Laura did not believe in before and seek the secret of eternal life. The game map includes multiple locations in the world. The searchable locations will be three times larger than the previous ones. The openness of the map is greater than that of the previous works. It is full of beautiful and dangerous scenes.
Actual test screen
Test environment: DX11 and DX12 modes, resolution 2560 × 1440, special effects set particularly high, open the drive's triple buffer function.
Test chart
Dramatic things happen in the default frequency DX12 is lower than DX11 in all scenes and average fps, but in the DX12 mode the lowest fps is excellent (the triple buffer function of the graphics card is turned on during DX11 test), that is, It is said that running the Tomb Raider in the DX12 mode will not be like the case where the DX11 is suddenly stuck. This is very satisfactory.
Dew before the win7 system, respectively tested the performance of DX11 in win7 and win10, can be said win10 system fps higher than win7 2 to 3 frames, so it is still tangled whether to upgrade the system partner has one more reason to upgrade Although the increase is not obvious, it is stronger than it is.
Followed by the three modes of fps, here also gives DX11 and DX12 statistics, asked me why I want to give, just for me to test, do not want to waste the labor only.
The DX12 mode has a higher gain than the DX11 in the hyperband, and the loss and power consumption of the DX12 mode is less than that of the DX11 mode. This is also the advantage of the DX12. In addition, reducing the power consumption of the game fps loss is relatively small, 40 frames of the average number of frames and 20 + the minimum number of frames should be able to play a game smoothly, while reducing power consumption can also bring more quiet fan noise and More cold core temperature (I know that your group of local tyrants don't care about electricity, so no mention of dew mention.)
Finally in the last GPUZ diagram, the highest memory consumption in overclocking mode, who said that 4G is enough, at least this game is used up, so you can't go wrong with 8G.
to sum up Appearance: 8 points ---- Who says that Titan Huang is the most beautiful? Dr. Su's skin-like material shell is a low-key luxury, this is consistent with the introductory style of technology products (Mensao style), plus the turbine fan penetration design shape can be marked with 9 points, but unfortunately RX480 relative to the fury series of materials will drop It's plastic, so I lowered it by 1 point.
Ingredients: 4 points ---- This card does not even have a standard video card length, the fan lengthened to reach 24cm, in the blueprint can also see many solder joints are no components, visible materials have been used to Good point.
Performance: 7 points ---- performance can only say that the A card is currently the strongest, wait six months after the Vega. The degree of smooth operation at 2k resolution has reached my goal.
Power consumption performance: 7 points ---- Thanks to the energy consumption ratio given by the new process and the new architecture, the performance is really good. Especially, the performance loss caused by the reasonable reduction of power consumption is not very large and is very satisfactory. However, the power consumption performance of the Tucao public version in the overclocking mode was unsatisfactory, and the full-load power of the entire machine soared from 240W to 400W. I hope to improve in non-public version.
Noise thermal performance: 8 points ---- The thermal solution through noise and noise tests does a good job in terms of noise performance. Below 2400 RPM, almost no turbo fan noise is heard. Even at full speed, it performs better than the previous generation of public version. Finally, getting rid of the video card full load is like having a "turbo" with a turbo engine on your side. The public version of the cooling capacity is generally 80 °C before the replacement of silicone grease is normal,
Summary: I was amazed by performance and noise performance, but it is also true that there is insufficient heat and overclocking capability. We hope that the non-community will improve.
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