We just received the following update from AMD regarding the RX 480 and its power draw issues. ———- We promised an update today (July 5, 2016) following concerns around the Radeonâ„¢ RX 480 drawing excess current from the PCIe bus. Although we are confident that the levels of reported power draws by the Radeon RX…

“As you know, we continuously tune our GPUs in order to maximize their performance within their given power envelopes and the speed of the memory interface, which in this case is an unprecedented 8 Gbps for GDDR5. Recently, we identified select scenarios where the tuning of some RX 480 boards was not optimal. Fortunately, we…

Now with RX 480 in the market, AMD will be launching both the RX 460 and RX 470 very soon. The Polaris 11 architecture will carry the same features as Polaris 10 that’s seen on the RX 480. The only difference being the lower Compute Units count, lower TFlops and lower memory bus width. Below…