Amd radeon rx 480 consumes only 100w

AMD has promised a high level of energy efficiency with its Polaris architecture and everything indicates that it will keep its word. At the presentation of the Radeon RX 480, its unique 6-pin power connector together with a 150W TDP caught the eye, which bodes well for a very tight consumption, something that has finally been confirmed.

Radeon RX 480 consumes only 100W and a maximum temperature of 60 ºC

In typical gaming situations the new Radeon RX 480 features a power consumption of just 100W showing excellent energy efficiency. The reference design can consume up to 150W thanks to the 75W of the 6-pin connector in addition to the 75W supplied by the PCI-Express 3.0 bus. The custom designs of the assemblers will come with an additional connector to allow higher levels of overclocking and therefore greater performance, at least in theory and hoping that it will not happen as with the GeForce GTX 1080 that sees its overclocking potential seriously limited by the blocking. voltage.

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This low power consumption allows the Radeon RX 480 to maintain a temperature under load of only 60ºC in its reference design, a further achievement when we know that the heatsinks mounted by AMD are not exactly the best. The Radeon RX 480 comes standard at a frequency of 1266 MHz to be able to outperform the R9 Nano, which is very impressive considering that the Fiji-based card samples almost three times as much and features the advanced HBM memory..

Source: tweaktown