AMD reveals the Radeon RX 480 Polaris 10 card to the public. (Photo : YouTube /WCCFTech TV)
AMD is not stopping the leaked info regarding their upcoming Radeon RX 480 as a new report claims that it can be overclocked to 1.6GHz from its stock boost clock of 1.2GHz.
Several days earlier, there were reports that said the Radeon RX 480 could be overclocked up to 1.5GHz on just the standard air cooler. The video of the new Polaris 10 card running Overwatch that streamed yesterday was found to be running an RX 480 that was overclocked up to 1607MHz which led to the smooth framerates of the new first person shooter.
The new card from AMD is expected to be launched on June 29 and the info about the GPU has been scarce until this week. Several benchmark results and leaked photos of the card have surfaced.
Another good news is that the XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB variant is expected to be factory overclocked at 1328MHz when it rolls out, WCCFTech has learned. Pricing has not been revealed yet but earlier reports have claimed that the RX 480 8GB reference will sell for $229 while the partner cards can go up to $300.
One GPU-Z screenshot from ChipHell shows the XFX card running with 8GB GDDR5 memory from Samsung through 256-bit and a clock speed of 2GHz. All in all, it can reach bandwidth up to 256GB/s.
The leaked photos also show that the XFX Radeon RX 480 card will use a blower type cooler but it also sports a backplate, TechFrag reported. It will support DVI-D connections which are often the only option for 1440p or 4K monitors besides HDMI.
More specific numbers for the Polaris 10 card's specs have also been shown. The GPU dishes out 5.8 TFLOPs on the stock and base clocks of 1080MHz and 1266MHz so it could be expected that the factory overclocked partner cards will have better performance than the reference ones.
Several days from now and AMD will be launching their new Polaris 10 card into the market. Some users may want to buy the XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB partner card instead as it features 1.3GHz boost clocks and it could even reach more than the 1.6GHz reported overclock. In addition, the backplate will also help cool those who want a CrossFire setup to beat the NVIDIA GTX 1080.
