Rx 480 sapphire nitro: first images and price

RX 480 Sapphire Nitro is the new custom graphics card that plans to launch the Sapphire brand this July with the intention of improving many aspects of the RX 480 reference model.

'Custom' model of the RX 480 for 296 euros

The mentioned new AMD RX 480 graphics card we dedicated an extensive analysis to it in ProfesionalReview, it has arrived on the market a few days ago and the "customs" models of the most important assemblers, Sapphire among them, are starting to appear.

The RX 480 Sapphire Nitro will come with dual-fan cooling and a metal plate on the back, plus a button that changes the card's LED lighting to the color we want, a solution that is very popular among modders or tower users of 'open' PCs.

One of the most curious aspects of this graphic is that the fans (coolers) can be easily disassembled (as seen in the gif image), something that makes it much more comfortable to clean them from dirt and lubricate them without having to completely disassemble the entire graphics card.. The model in question will receive a generous overclock, setting the frequencies of the GPU at 1, 325 - 1, 350 MHz, remember that the reference model works with frequencies of 1, 120 - 1, 266 MHz, this should give us a couple of extra frames in video games that never come wrong.

RX 480 Sapphire Nitro is shipped from the factory

The other highlight of the RX 480 Sapphire Nitro is that it is powered by an 8-pin connector instead of 6 as the reference model does, this would allow it to draw an extra 150W of power.

RX 480 Sapphire Nitro is going to storm the market in the middle of this month for an approximate price of 296 euros. What do you think? Do you think it is the best model to launch for this range?