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PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample Pictured With 6-pin, 8-pin Connectors

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Remember that PowerColor Red Devil teaser from a few days back? While the source link is no longer available, it would seem that someone has gotten their hands on a (golden) sample, one of the two different SKUs that PowerColor is expected to launch around the RX 580. This Golden Sample edition sports a beefier, higher-performing 2.5-slot cooling solution, compared to the expected RX 580 Red Devil's 2.0-slot one. This sample, however, sports something unusual for a card with the power envelope expected from the RX 580: two auxiliary power cables, one 6-pin, as is par of the course with previous-generation RX 480 cards of which the RX 580 is a rebrand; and another, 8-pin one.





The cooling solution on this Golden Sample seems to sport a 4-heatpipe solution, with 2x 6 mm and 2x 8 mm copper heatpipes extending from the main heatsink. Despite the additional power connector, the VRM appears to be a 6-phase design, the same as reference RX 480. The different coloring in the connectors could mean some different things: that the user can choose which connector to power the card with, with increased power delivery for additional overclocking requiring the use of the 8-pin; or as an additional power source for the Red Devil Golden Sample's "OC Mode" (which appears alongside a "Silent Mode" on the BIOS switch.) No information on pricing or clock-speeds were available at time of writing.



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Stupid engineering for stupid buyers. Many 1060s also come with two power connectors even if 1060 can sustain almost 2GHz boost with a single one (as my card proves).
So I wouldn't read much into that second connector. MSI just wants to make it looks like the GS is equipped to do more than the regular Red Devil.
 
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Stupid engineering for stupid buyers..... MSI just wants to make it looks like the GS is equipped to do more than the regular Red Devil.
PowerColor :slap:
Looks like you are the target audience :rolleyes:
 
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Must one laugh or cry when first noticing that pentagram on the backplate?
(rhetorical question)

Worse still that i can see this selling like crazy. Pwnzor!!!1111 Dem lightz! And teh.. wuz it called, in teh back? Jeah, dat!!

On a serious note, i hope its clocks are phenomenal. Anything to disturb the waters is a plus in my book.
 
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Red Devils have ALWAYS been over-engineered. It's not exactly meant for very average consumers...

Well the 480 Red Devil was underwhelming to say the least with a shitty VRM. So if this has that same VRM then those two power connectors are just for show.
 
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Looks even better than the 480.
Seems that they went for a larger fan instead of 3 smaller, which I hope it still runs as quiet as the 480 Red Devil, that thing was amazing, couldn't hear a thing.. even with overclock.
Some people complain about the VRMs but for me, that's B.S. Even the overclocker who did the video, released another one saying that the card is totally fine for normal overclocking. Unless you want to LN2 the thing... :D
Mine ran smooth no problems what so ever for months 1400+Mhz, could push higher but wanted the cooler to be dead quiet.
 
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PowerColor...Last brand i'd buy a card from.
 
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Stupid engineering for stupid buyers. Many 1060s also come with two power connectors even if 1060 can sustain almost 2GHz boost with a single one (as my card proves).
So I wouldn't read much into that second connector. MSI just wants to make it looks like the GS is equipped to do more than the regular Red Devil.

Nvidia chips are far too tightly locked down to benefit from custom pcb''s or extra connectors nowadays, AMD cards can still benefit from a better board

The last red devil card was awful though
 
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Why on earth would it need additional power connector, 8 pin can do 150W, +75W from pcie, 225W total, why would this card need 300W???
 
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Why on earth would it need additional power connector, 8 pin can do 150W, +75W from pcie, 225W total, why would this card need 300W???

Its for when your central heating stops working, just a case of upping the gpu vcore and your whole home will be toasty in no time.
 
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Why on earth would it need additional power connector, 8 pin can do 150W, +75W from pcie, 225W total, why would this card need 300W???

The core of my RX 480 GTR was using 220-270W all on it's own when at 1580MHz. The memory was doing 2300 so that would probably be using another 40-60W.
 
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The core of my RX 480 GTR was using 220-270W all on it's own when at 1580MHz. The memory was doing 2300 so that would probably be using another 40-60W.

aka the power consumption of an overclocked GTX 1080 Ti.
And then people wonder why Nvidia decided to take a heavier approach towards power usage.
 
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Maybe I'm just missing it in the article but there's two cards here. One with 8+6 pin and one with a single 8 pin.

Does it make sense that there would be a 8+6 pin 2.5 slot card that's basically a Polaris 10 refresh? The disassembled card does appear to be a P10 size chip. I just find it confusing.
 

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Why on earth would it need additional power connector, 8 pin can do 150W, +75W from pcie, 225W total, why would this card need 300W???
Do you really think that graphics cards use all that power that the connectors are capable of? I rather have overkill connectors than just the minimum.
 
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