PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

[SlickR]

At last an RX480 that doesn't put your whole system at risk whenever you load your graphics card up.

AMD's handling of this power draw issue has been both risky and shameful.

As soon as the cards were discovered to be operating outside of specification they should of cut the power draw by default and then in a later driver release allow the user to select full power mode once they had agreed to a disclaimer that it puts the psu and motherboard at risk.

Instead they've added an optional 'compatibility' mode which makes it pci-e compliant.
It's only a matter of time before someones computer will blow up and be blamed on AMD and they'll go very red faced.

AMD may say the risks are minimal but they are still risks as they're putting trust in the other manufacturers exceeding the specification.

I don't think this is the first time it's happened either back when graphics cards used the 4 pin molex connector to provide more juice I lost count how many computers came into the computer shop I worked in on a saturday with burnt molex connectors.
Thankfully it was only ever the pins / sockets that got to hot and not the wires / psu

Just because 6 pin is rated at 75W doesn't mean its true. The official specification is 75W, but realistically it can easily provide up to 100w. Each wire can provide up to 3amps of power, the specification is at 2amps, so therefore the official number of 75W.

[Cr@ig]

Rx480 maybe a touch behind in dx11 titles against the Gtx1060 but all Rx480 fps i have seen in Dx11 are more than enough to play well over 60 fps. So hollow questionable victory for Gtx1060. Move to Dx12 and future Dx12 games then its probarly obvious that we are going into Rx480 territory and possibly Gtx1060 owners wondering why they invested in the green team this time. Coupled with lower purchasing cost for Amd and no sli on Gtx1060 but having crossfire on the Rx480. Also freesync at no extra cost over gsync at a silly markup. Then surely the facts lean towards AMD having the better package for our hard earned cash?

[scaryjim]

... no sli on Gtx1060 but having crossfire on the Rx480. ...

Relevant for the DX11 titles that have crossfire/SLI profiles and actually scale with multiple GPUs (not all games do, after all). Less relevant for DX12 which allows developers to add explicit multi-GPU, where 2 GTX 1060s will work just fine. OTOH I can't believe it costs nvidia so much to support SLI on a card by card basis that they've dropped it from the GTX 1060 for financial reasons. As others have said on various threads, it seems likely that they've simply dropped it to stop people buying 2 GTX 1060s instead of a GTX 1080. Not sure it does them any favours from a marketing point of view, though...

[forsakenrichy]

I always love the look of the devil cards, shame they are only AMD

[MrNeil]

I think this is my next card