Gigabyte rx 480 g1 gaming review in Spanish (full analysis)

The benchmark AMD Radeon RX 480 gave us great performance in our first tests, but we saw that it had several weak points: aesthetics, loudness and somewhat high temperatures at the cost of a low dissipation profile. The Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming comes to cover all these deficits and offer an extraordinary experience with one of the best graphics chips on the market and its 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Don't miss our review!

We thank Gigabyte Spain for trusting the product for its analysis:

Technical characteristics Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming

Unboxing and design

We find a simple, compact presentation that perfectly describes what model we have in front, its exact version, its overclocking capacity, cooling, lighting system and its compatibility with virtual reality glasses.

While in the back we find all the technical characteristics of the Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming.

Once we open the box we find:

• Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming.CD with installation drivers. Quick guide.

The Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming is designed by AMD Polaris (GCN 4.0) architecture with Global Foundries 14nm Fin-FET process. This new manufacturing process has allowed the creation of a very powerful GPU with a very small size of only 232 mm2. While the dimensions of the graphics card are 23.2 x 11.6 x 4 cm.

This new card will be the most powerful in the Polaris family, at least for now, thanks to its Ellesmere GPU made up of a total of 36 Compute Units (CU) totaling no less than 2, 304 stream processors, 144 TMUs and 32 ROPs at one frequency. maximum on the reference card of 1, 290 MHz. With these characteristics the Ellesmere core is capable of offering a maximum power of 5.8 TFLOPs, comfortably fulfilling the minimum requirement for virtual reality that is set at 5 TFLOPs.

The Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming uses GDDR5 memory at a frequency of 8, 000 MHz and with a 256-bit interface to achieve a bandwidth of 256 GB / s. A figure of bandwidth that will allow excellent performance thanks to the presence of a new generation of AMD's Delta Color Compression technology that compresses colors to reduce bandwidth consumption.

The benefits of AMD's GCN 4.0 architecture continue to support FreeSync technology that eliminates thearing and stuttering of our games to provide a far superior gaming experience with great fluidity of movement. AMD boasts that FreeSync is a free and open technology that can be adopted by any monitor manufacturer to enhance the gaming experience. FreeSync is also characterized by not penalizing game performance at all.

We continue with 100% hardware compatibility with Async Compute to achieve the best possible performance in DirectX 12 as has been demonstrated in previous generations of GCN. With Async Compute, more efficient use of GPU resources is achieved, which results in better FPS rates in games and a better user experience.

It has the new and renovated Windforce 2X heatsink with two copper heatpipes and divided into a double structure. Among its benefits we find a totally passive cooling system that is only activated when you are working on 3D applications (Design, games…), which is why lovers of silence will fall in love with them.

Without a doubt, it is one of the best PCBs on AMD graphics cards we've seen this year. As expected, it incorporates Ultra Durable components that help improve the efficiency of the card and has no electrical noise either at rest or at full load.

It is time to see its performance… right? Here we go!

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	i7-6700k @ 4200 Mhz..
Base plate:	Asus Maximus VIII Formula.
Memory:	32GB Kingston Fury DDR4 @ 3000 Mhz
Heatsink	Cryorig H7 heatsink
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO SSD.
Graphic card	Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming.
Power supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2.

For benchmarks we will use the following titles:

• 3DMark Fire Strike normal.3DMark Fire Strike version 4K.Heaven 4.0.Doom 4.Overwatch.Tomb Raider.Battlefield 4.

All tests have been passed with the filters to the maximum unless we indicate otherwise. To have adequate performance, we have carried out three types of tests: the first is the most common at Full HD 1920 x 1080, the second resolution is making the leap to 2K or 1440 gamers (2560 x 1440) and the most enthusiastic with 4K (3840 x 2160). The operating system we have used has been Windows 10 Pro 64 bit and the latest drivers available from the AMD website.

What are we looking for in the tests?

First, the best possible image quality. The most important value for us is the average FPS (Frames per second), the higher the number of FPS the more fluid the game will go. To differentiate the quality a bit, we leave you a table to assess the quality in FPS, but we will also have the minimum Fps in the tests that were thus possible:

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FRAMES BY SECONDS
Frames for Seconds. (FPS)	Gameplay
Less than 30 FPS	Limited
30 - 40 FPS	Playable
40 - 60 FPS	Good
Greater than 60 FPS	Fairly Good or Excellent

Synthetic benchmarks

As we have been doing in our analysis of graphics cards we have reduced to three synthetic tests, since what really matters is the performance in games. The chosen tests are 3DMARK FireStrike Normal (1080p) and 3DMARK FireStrike in 4K quality.

Game Testing

We have decided to make the leap to checking various games manually. The reason? Very simple, we want to give a much more realistic vision and cover tests with current games. Since we make an effort, it is consistent with the level of the website and that of our readers.

Testing in Full HD games

Testing in 2K games

Testing in 4K games

Overclocking and looking for the sweet spot

Note: Remember that overclocking or manipulation carries a risk, we and any manufacturer are not responsible for improper use, use the head and always do so at your own risk.

We have increased the overclocking capacity to 1370 MHz in the core (It was the maximum it allowed us) and keeping the clocks in the memory at 2000 MHz in the default GDDR5, voltage and fan memories.

Temperature and consumption

The temperatures of the Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming are excellent compared to other reference models that AMD launched not long ago. At rest we have obtained 55º C and a maximum of 64º C playing. With overclock the temperatures hardly rose in full performance: 69ºC.

Regarding consumption, we got 88 W at rest and 271 W playing with an Intel i7-6700K processor . When we overclock it goes up to 91 W at rest and 295 W playing at the top.

Final words and conclusion about the Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming

We reach the end of the analysis and we can affirm that the Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming is one of the best graphics cards on the market in the mid / high range. Able to fully run any game in Full HD and defend really well at 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution.

Gigabyte has done the homework for this AMD model. It has improved the PCB fabulously , has incorporated a dissipation that always keeps the temperatures at bay and a really low loudness .

Regarding consumption, we have seen a certain improvement over the reference model and that together with a good PC Gaming configuration can give a great result.

Currently we can find the card for a price of 285 euros in online stores in its 8GB version, while the 4GB we find it for about 40 euros less, which makes it a great option for computers on a tighter budget.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ QUALITY OF THE COMPONENTS.	- NONE.
+ VERY GOOD REFRIGERATION.
+ 0DB (FANS STOPPED AT REST).
+ OVERCLOCK CAPACITY.
+ GOOD MARKET PRICE.

And after carefully evaluating both the evidence and the product, Professional Review awards him the gold medal:

Gigabyte RX 480 G1 Gaming

COMPONENT QUALITY

DISSIPATION

GAMING EXPERIENCE

SONORITY

PRICE

8.5 / 10

EXCELLENT AMD RX480