This is the review we've all been waiting for. How much performance can you get from a CrossfireX pair of RX480s? Particularly if they're ASUS Strix variants.
ASUS RX480 Strix Crossfire Review
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ASUS RX480 Strix Crossfire Review
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This is the review we've all been waiting for. How much performance can you get from a CrossfireX pair of RX480s? Particularly if they're ASUS Strix variants.
ASUS RX480 Strix Crossfire Review
ImprovizoR
Active member
Makes you wonder what a single 490 will be able to do.
jmaster299
New member
No DOOM (OpenGL or Vulkan), no Overwatch, no GTA V, no Witcher 3. Just another invalid and biased review from a paid shill.
To anyone who wants to complain that some of the I mentioned games don't officially support multiple GPUs, that's kind of the point.
To anyone who wants to complain that some of the I mentioned games don't officially support multiple GPUs, that's kind of the point.
p.s. did you have CF disabled for the two 480s when you ran your DX12 test on AotS?
Davva2004
Active member
Woohoo, I've found the idiot! What do I win?
Tolemac
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
It's the older games that seem to show the most scaling. I would like to see a few newer games like The Division, Doom (Vulkan), Overwatch, etc. tested to see whether Crossfire support has worsened over time or whether I'm just being a negative nit-picker.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Overwatch favours nVidia, right? But it really doesn't matter unless you want to play 4K. If a 1060 can hit 160 FPS at 1080p while a RX 480 hits 140 FPS, that really makes no tangible difference. You're still getting highly competitive frame rates and that's the most important thing.
Firstly Im flattered you think I might be paid by someone, I can only assume this in Nvidia? If that was truly the case Id not have done a review that basically show that the 480 has an upgrade path that the 1060 doesnt. While Id not suggest someone buys two 480's right now if in a few months you can pick up a matching used one second hand then that is an absolutely perfect way to utilse crossfire.
While normally I avoid feeding the trolls I thought I would at least try and explain some more things to you.
We upgrade the odd game here and there, Ive actually been benching vulkan since before it was released to the public and it is tbh a total pita so until there is a more reliable and consistant way to extract performance results Ive personally decided not to bother. DX12 is a big enough pita right now but I do live in hope that FRAPS has something in the works that will be able to solve all of our issues.
We do have a fairly wide range of games and right now we bench 11 games in 3 resolutions for every review, thats more than most sites bother with (and they dont even produce videos too) so I apologise for my limitations but I find a meety graph better than swapping games every 5 minutes.
When the two camps stop releasing cards every couple weeks I already have plans to drop into the review set.
I wish it was as simple as keeping everyone happy but Im sorry I cant bench exactly the games that you wanted to see for this one. Dont worry though we have a lot of reviews and other items planned for the 480. Its a cracking price and is benching very well so Ill be giving it as much of my schedule as I can (before the green fanboys start calling me a paid shill too obviously)
You wanted to have some Time Spy scores, I have a G3258 and Rx480 - so here it is :
3 132 with AMD Radeon RX 480(1x) and Intel Pentium G3258 http://www.3dmark.com/spy/71326
Is not as impresive as other scores but that's it
BTW the CPU is overclocked at 4GHz, the graphic card is just the reference version with 8GB without overclock.
3 132 with AMD Radeon RX 480(1x) and Intel Pentium G3258 http://www.3dmark.com/spy/71326
Is not as impresive as other scores but that's it
BTW the CPU is overclocked at 4GHz, the graphic card is just the reference version with 8GB without overclock.
Kilbane
Hagrid Look-A-Like
Unfortunately there will always be people who don't appreciate or understand the work involved in actually producing a review (especially when there is so much to be reviewed currently). I'm sure everyone would love to see a graph for 50+ games comparing every setting, resolution and card. Unfortunately that will never happen.
As it stands, keeping to the same benchmarks shows how each generation of cards has improved and by how much. Adding more benchmarks to the mix can only show what cards that are still held and what time can allow.
To be honest, I thought the review really showed how well AMD are fighting for a place these days. The crossfire support can be a huge bonus over the GTX 1060. Kudos to the review and to AMD.
I will tell you that SLI scaling is very good in The Division and the Rise of the Tomb Raider patch 7. Overwatch is ok scaling, nothing to write home about. Doom doesn't really scale as it's not supported at all in Vulkan and in OpenGL you can have a regression with SLI enabled (AFR2 forced.)
Does this translate to CF? I can't say, but based on the fact SLI and CF are both based on alternate frame rendering techniques, I'd say it should.
Greenback
Active member
Tom I honestly don't know why you haven't retired yet, all the times I have seen people accuse you of being paid by this company and that company I'm thinking you must have money falling out of the windows by now 
Your review shows that a 480 would be a nice little buy and a 2nd will be a good idea when vulkan and DX12 become main stream
Your review shows that a 480 would be a nice little buy and a 2nd will be a good idea when vulkan and DX12 become main stream
Wraith
Bettyswollocks
I'm honestly looking at the Nitro RX480+ 8GB to replace the 2 GTX950s, it's a stonking card and the performance increase over a single 950 is rediculousRest well Tom but please please do the Sapphire Nitro next i'm interested to see how it fairs up to the 480 Strix
and that price too 
1 now, and wait for another further down the line.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I'm honestly looking at the Nitro RX480+ 8GB to replace the 2 GTX950s, it's a stonking card and the performance increase over a single 950 is rediculous
1 now, and wait for another further down the line.
Yep the Nitro is the hottest card in the US right now. Sold out of pre orders everywhere. It was #1 on Amazons best selling list last I checked ahead of even the various 1070s and 1060s out, all of which are in stock. I'm on the waiting list for mine, but none have been shipped out yet. I'm guessing it'll be within the next 2 days as AMZ has just updated the Nitro's page with more details(like clocks/model #/etc). Newegg doesn't even have preorders for it, it's not for sale yet on that website. It's proven to get a struggle to get one. And the fact that there are 2 different Nitro 8GB cards makes it even harder to get the OC version. It sold out within hours of AMZ allowing preorders.. i didn't get the chance to get the OC version
Sucks too, since it's only $10 more. But as far as reviews go, it seem to be the hottest of the custom cards so far but not by much and on the other hand it also seems to be very very quiet. So that's why I think people want it. Also doesn't hurt that it's the best looking card out of all of them imo. Every other card is copy paste.
Tolemac
Active member
I'm honestly looking at the Nitro RX480+ 8GB to replace the 2 GTX950s, it's a stonking card and the performance increase over a single 950 is ridiculous
1 now, and wait for another further down the line.
I have been having really good discussions about the 480 Nitro on Sapphire Eds discord channel "although its more of a gamers channel"courtesy of Kong. and NBD is right you cant even pre-order one. they are selling out so fast it's unreal. Some are saying its because they mine more efficiently compared to last gen. Personally it's not a card for me as my 290X does me just fine in current games but I am still very interested in Toms review of this card.
