XFX RX-480 GTR Review with Radeon's Global Wattman Utility
- Michael P.
- Apr 25, 2017
- 2 min read
That's right. She's mine! I wanted to tell all of you at GTribe and whoever might also read this, what a wonderful video card Radeon and XFX have made!
This is a beast of a card both in size and overclocking ability. It comes out of the box with a 1288 core clock and 2000 memory clock. Not bad! And by using Global Wattman (Radeon's power management utility that controls GPU voltage, engine clocks, memory clocks, fan speed and temperature that is downloadable from their site) -- I was able to achieve more! There are several tutorials on using this Radeon utility app and so far, it has been awesome with one exception. At times the software resets the settings after turning off or rebooting. It's given me no Windows exceptions or anything like stuttering, overheating, etc. It just resets. I have read that there is possible "bug" but that is not confirmed except to say I'm not the only one that happens to.
I managed to overclock this to a stable 1390 core and 2200 memory. The difference in Doom was amazing and smooth like my bald head! I went from a 3815 3DMark Time Spy score to 4032 and my PC never ran over 71 degrees celcius! What's crazy is this is in a system with an AMD FX-8350 on an ASUS 970 Pro Gaming Aura with 32gigs Crucial Ballistix 1600 DDR3! With a 990 board I could probably do better and even better with the new Radeon CPUs and mainboards.
I am so impressed and happy with this relatively cheap purchase that once again, I am justified in my loyalty to AMD. If you are wondering if you should get this, my answer would be a resounding YES! If you want to try out Global Wattman, here are some of the links I used that seemed most helpful. AMD RX 480 Overclocking Guide / Tutorial by Gamers Nexus
How to use AMD's WattMan, the powerful new overclocking tool for Radeon graphics cards / PCWorld.com / Thomas Ryan / July 13, 2016 XFX RX 480 XXX GTR Review by ccokeman - December 14, 2016
Big, BIG thanks to Dot for this wonderful opportunity to share my experience with my friends! Game on, my friends!
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