Radeon RX 480 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card, you to decide

The Radeon RX480 comes with AMD's reference design. Black and red scheme is still thick, but now heatsink cover design more resembles from AMD Radeon R9 Fury X or R9 Nano. AMD also retains the use of a blower fan assigned to remove heat from heatsinks embedded in GPU-based GCN architecture Gen 4.

When we open the cover of its cooling system, you will see a compact aluminuim heatsink above its GPU. VRM temperature and graphic card memory is also handled by a metal heatsink into one with a blower fan frame that carried this graphic card.

To optimize the cooling system of this graphic card, AMD paired a fan blower with dual-intake. This dual-intake system is expected to provide more air supply to remove heat trapped in the heatsink of this graphic card. And with this cooling system, we recorded the working temperature on AMD Radeon RX480 as follows.

 
Working Temperature AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB + Noise

    Full-load: 83 ° C (fan speed: Auto @ 58%)
    Idle: 35 ° C (fan speed: Auto @ 19%)


We do not feel disturbed by the sound produced, because the value of 39.8 dBA is still very reasonable for a PC system. In fact, we believe many PC coolers (CPU Cooler, etc.), which has noise above 45 dBA. So in general, this VGA will not provide any annoying annoying noise.

Speaking of temperature, AMD delivers temperature targets at 80 C which can be achieved with minimum noise levels. It is quite normal to see that some other VGAs have similar operating temperature targets. If you're a bit worried about the AMD GPU temperature target, you can still lower your operating temperature target through Radeon Wattman software, but it means you'll lose a bit of performance because the GPU clock will be lowered to match the target temperature.