XFX Accidentally Leaks Its Own Custom 'Double Dissipation' RX 480 Graphics Card With Hard Swap Fans

No ane bothers to read manuals anymore, and that'south a pity, because for all nosotros know the secrets of the universe could be subconscious inside those things. We didn't observe whatever basis breaking physics discoveries, only yous know what our reviewer Keith May did find? XFX'south custom built double dissipation RX 480 GPU right there in those fancy illustrations. It goes without maxim that this is probably an accidental slip - no dubiousness XFX assumed no one would await too closely into this (ha!).

A stock picture of the XFX Double Dissipation R9 290X featuring fans spaced wide apart.

XFX double dissipation RX 480 spotted in instruction transmission of the reference XFX RX 480

The RX 480 is the next generation AMD Radeon graphics card rocking the 14nm FinFET based Polaris 10 chip. Housing a total of 2304 stream processors based on the GCN 4.0 compages this operation efficiency and value monster volition retail for the base price of $199 for the 4GB model. Featuring a blower style cooling solution strongly reminiscent of the Fermi series from Nvidia, the RX 480 will have a TDP of only 150W and a single six-pin connector. That is to say, until the custom variants land.

So far, if yous were to head over to XFX's website, you will detect that only the reference variants of the RX 480 are present. That is considering the custom cards haven't been released still (although many have and so far been teased). The XFX RX 480 Double Dissipation looks exactly like its older generation counter parts and at commencement we thought this might just exist a picture of an older RX 380 DD graphics card but there are quite a few things that condone that notion. Every bit before long we noticed this, we dug out our old box of RX 380 Double Dissipation and went through its manual too. Lo and behold, this particular section was not in that location.

A scan of a section in the pedagogy manual of the XFX RX 480.

Secondly, if yous take a close expect at the visible capacitor placement shown in the diagram and compare that to the existing RX 380 and R9 390 Double Dissipation series you will notice that they are quite apparently different. The placement of the caps is similar to the custom Double Dissipation variant of the R9 390, but the make and model of that particular GPU was noticeably unlike: not only did information technology have a longer PCB only it used fans that were widely spaced unlike this particular variant. The fan design and PCB are similar to the R9 380 only the cap placement is different. This is why we can safely assume that the variant shown here is non any older XFX DD GPU and combined with the fact that this is a manual for an XFX RX 480 carte makes it unproblematic enough as far as deduction goes.

The R9 380 (tiptop) and the R9 390 (bottom). Compare the cap placement (similar to R9 390) and fan blueprint (aforementioned as R9 380) to the diagram.

Apart from all that the custom RX 480 looks exactly like the counterparts XFX has already designed. The carte appears to accept: 1x HDMI, 1x DVI-I, 1x DVI-D and 1x Display Port which is the standard configuration for double dissipation cards from XFX. Custom models are expected to land sometime in mid-July and will offer not simply offer better overclockability thanks to custom cooling solutions but volition also have beefier power supply system (even though the electric current 6+1 Phase solution onboard the RX 480 is pretty damn adept).

Be sure to take a look at Keith's full review of the XFX RX 480 which includes the surprise discovery:

Source: https://wccftech.com/xfx-double-dissipation-custom-rx-480/

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