We'll talk about that in the later part of the review. But SAPPHIRE stepped it up a notch with the RX 580 Nitro+ with changeable fans and included two LED-capable ones in the box for an awesome silver/gray/blue theme. Sapphire’s RX 580 needs two power connections. SAPPHIRE's choice of a 6+8-pin PCIe power connector is another weird decision since the performance over the RX 480 isn't worth another PCIe power connector being used. SAPPHIRE's updated Gear-Nitro LED fans will work wth a bunch of the previous Nitro+ and Pulse branded Radeon RX 580/570 and RX 480/470 cards. I do wish the PCIe power connectors were on the end of the card again, as it looks sleek as hell in my system. Finally, the Nitro+ includes dual DisplayPorts, two HDMI 2.0 connections, and DVI-D. Right now, the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ is a mish-mash Frankenstein graphics card, with parts Polaris, a larger and questionably better cooler over the RX 480 - which is not only higher, but requires 6+8-pin PCIe power connectors. Speaking of which, the card we’re reviewing today is the 8GB Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ ($250 on Newegg), which cranks clock speeds all the way up to 1,411MHz, or 69MHz faster than Sapphire’s older RX 480 Nitro+. There's a super-simple removal and installation system, where a single small screw is removed, and then you unclip the fan from the push-down insertion lock.

Far Cry Primal is a game built on the impressive Dunia Engine 2 with wide open, beautiful environments. With so little changed, and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 likewise matured, is AMD’s offering still the mainstream graphics card champion? Dual-X’s dual fans and heat pipe-infused heat sink work well—as you’ll see in the temperatures section—and Sapphire has re-engineered the cooler’s design to run much quieter than before. When cranked up to maximum detail, it will chew through your GPU and its VRAM like it's nothing.

AMD’s also allowing board makers to build cards with both an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connectors to push things even further. US price (as reviewed): $259.99 (ex tax) The first RX 580 card we happened across, the Asus Strix RX 580 Top OC, was a very good one but a much too expensive one; we finished our review … Senior Editor,


The Radeon RX 580 release sweeps away all of that controversy—and gives AMD new Radeon 500-series GPUs to sell alongside its new Ryzen 5 processors. For our mid-range testing, we're shifting over to testing the cards on our AMD Ryzen 5 1600X system. But these “new” graphics cards aren’t really new at all, relying on the same underlying graphics processors as the RX 480, but with slightly boosted clock speeds granted by a year of process optimizations. Cranking clocks requires cranking power, though. AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition: How Does It Fair In 2020?

The work that SAPPHIRE puts into its cooling technology is one of the main reasons the company is one of the biggest AIB partners for AMD and custom Radeon graphics cards, especially it's higher-end Tri-X and VAPOR-X cooling tech.

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This was a hard one.