![]() ![]() What is impressive is that hefty overclock they’ve leveraged onto the base clock. Especially as we start to see smaller configurations from the likes of Gigabyte make it to market. And by a touch, we mean "good lord is it big!" It’s still a two slot card, but the overall dimensions of this AIB configuration is just ridiculous in contrast to the competition. That said, it’s nothing if not a touch bulky. Combine that with a simple single blue LED logo and Sapphire really have nailed it on this one. The inclusion of a black and white back plate really spruces up any build. The double dissipation, dual fan design has always been a solid performer when it comes to noise reduction, and overall cooling potential, something quite obvious as soon as you look at just how high they’ve managed to boost those base clocks on the 580. This makes the RX 580 somewhat of an oddity, as without any major flagship high-end GPU launch, nor a designation drop, it merely comes across as an overclock, for a card that’s roughly the same price as its now relegated older sibling.īut what about the card?! Well Sapphire’s Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ is a stunning piece of craftsmanship. ![]() You’d have two top tier cards based off the new architecture, with last generations high end, dropping down a designation, and so on. And typically those re-badges would be only seen on the lower end of the spectrum. Traditionally we’d see this when a new architecture made its first heady foray into the headlights of mainstream consumers. And then you take the best of the best of the same architectural design, on the same manufacturing process, bump up the clock speeds, and resell them, usually as a lower tier model than before. You go back to the foundries where the GPUs are carefully crafted onto the silicon. So what do we mean exactly by 'rebadge'? Well in short, you take a well-established architecture like Polaris, and the RX 480. ![]()
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