xfx rx480 8gb flashed to saphire rx580

[pmpv91]

This is the one I'm using as well. Tried the "Quiet" version of this as well but it seemed unnecessary to me. Seems stable so far after benchmarks and gaming. I'll reserve judgement for a few weeks before reporting whether it's 100% stable for me. In my experience, slight instability can take a good amount of time to reveal itself.

Nice!

1- So are you a Asus Strix RX480 owner?
2- By the ''Quiet version'' you mean the Silent BIOS patch from Asus website?

Cheers!

EDIT: i'll see if i can let Watch Dogs 2 runnig all night while i'm sleeping tomorrow.
8 / 9 hours should be enough to prove its stability.
I could also try to run 2 games at the same time if this could help.

 

[AMD718]

Nice!

1- So are you a Asus Strix RX480 owner?
2- By the ''Quiet version'' you mean the Silent BIOS patch from Asus website?

Cheers!

1 - No, this is an XFX RX 480 reference (purchased on day 1).
2 - Yes. I mean the BIOS that results from the RX580.exe from the Asus website. I ended up going back to the stock BIOS, no silent patching.

 

[pmpv91]

1 - No, this is an XFX RX 480 reference (purchased on day 1).
2 - Yes. I mean the BIOS that results from the RX580.exe from the Asus website. I ended up going back to the stock BIOS, no silent patching.

Doesn't it stay noisier?
I used to have a couple reference cards, all of them sounded like a vacuum cleaner under heavy load
I quitted from reference when i upgraded to RX480.

 

[AMD718]

Doesn't it stay noisier?

It's very hard to detect a noticeable difference in noise level. In total, it may be a tad bit quieter, but IMO, not worth the performance hit. Granted, the performance hit is pretty small.

 

[JumBie]

So it looks like its completely useless to flash my ASUS RX 480 Strixx to the 580 edition. I am already pushing 1410/2150(can probably push it further) and saving a couple bucks worth of electricity a year is worthless to me. Guess my curiosity has been filled, was looking for information on this for the past week about my strixx.

 

[Ploid]

I'm jealous of these reduced watts, even people on 480 bios seem to have better watt readings than me. My GPU-Z reading of my Powercolor, not unlocked (5% power limit max) 1360MHz and -78mv, gets up to 196.6w max on extreme Heaven benchmark looping for 30minutes. I was able to take this card to 1400MHz at the stock 1150mv but that produced way too much heat for me (fan noise). Seeing people at 1411 with low mv and temperatures has me drooling. Looking worth it to me.

 

[pmpv91]

I'm jealous of these reduced watts, even people on 480 bios seem to have better watt readings than me. My GPU-Z reading of my Powercolor, not unlocked (5% power limit max) 1360MHz and -78mv, gets up to 196.6w max on extreme Heaven benchmark looping for 30minutes. I was able to take this card to 1400MHz at the stock 1150mv but that produced way too much heat for me (fan noise). Seeing people at 1411 with low mv and temperatures has me drooling. Looking worth it to me.

it's not stable at 1411.
The Strix one it isn't at least.

 

[ImRobi]

My flashed 480 is using less wattage than my stock non oc 480.

 

[82EE]

My flashed 480 is using less wattage than my stock non oc 480.

Which 480 is it; which bios are you using?

 

[ImRobi]

Which 480 is it; which bios are you using?

Gigabyte G1 gaming rx 480. Flashed with sapphire bios

 

[pmpv91]

My flashed 480 is using less wattage than my stock non oc 480.

Me using the Strix BIOS 1411 / 2000 when i get to Watch Dogs 2, i play for 15 minutes or less and after that i get artifact lines in my screen, the game freezes and closes by itself.
Is there anything i can use to compare BIOS specs voltages?
Radeon Bios Editor doesn't work anymore with these recent BIOS.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I don't know man. I had the one you also used and with temperature patch 75ºC after 15 minutes in WD2 the game crashes... And before that i had screen line artifacts
Today morning i was using the 1360 MHz, i played CS:GO competitive match for 50 minutes, 0 issues.
That's the main reason i downgraded.
I'm also giving credit to Mademan when he said:

'' So, now I tested a bit with my XFX 480 RS:
I didn't get any better results:
1350 / 2200 MHz.

Over that wasn't stable in Timespy Benchmark. ''

Again, adjust your fan curve ,the one you're using wasn't designed for your card it's overheating.

 

[pmpv91]

Again, adjust your fan curve ,the one you're using wasn't designed for your card it's overheating.

i think the card wasn't overheating at all, by that time i had GPU-Z minimized and it measured 73ºC max set, my max temp is aimmed to 75ºC.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

i think the card wasn't overheating at all, by that time i had GPU-Z minimized and it measured 73ºC max set, my max temp is aimmed to 75ºC.

Well you're the expert , why did it crash then after 10-20 mins but not straight away.

 

[pmpv91]

Well you're the expert , why did it crash then after 10-20 mins but not straight away.

the reason seemed not to be the temperature, it could have been the undervolt or my crap psu not handling it.

aGeoM is everything ok with the Strix 1411 MHz BIOS?

 

[kggrm]

Me using the Strix BIOS 1411 / 2000 when i get to Watch Dogs 2, i play for 15 minutes or less and after that i get artifact lines in my screen, the game freezes and closes by itself.
Is there anything i can use to compare BIOS specs voltages?
Radeon Bios Editor doesn't work anymore with these recent BIOS.

The polaris bios editor worked just fine for me. I was able to use the xfx bios posted on this site by using the editor to change the max boost clock from 1430 to 1366 and then successfully flash the 580 bios file. I'm still testing it out but so far so good. The polaris editor over on the overclock.net forum didn't seem to read bios files right for some reason but the one listed below does. Maybe its a newer version. Also the patcher is no longer necessary since AMD drivers now allow the use of modded bios files since version 17.4.3.

https://github.com/jaschaknack/PolarisBiosEditor/tree/110aa3a5a0aeafe16bb0a96b53583e7e8e77999b

 

[pmpv91]

The polaris bios editor worked just fine for me. I was able to use the xfx bios posted on this site by using the editor to change the max boost clock from 1430 to 1366 and then successfully flash the 580 bios file. I'm still testing it out but so far so good. The polaris editor over on the overclock.net forum didn't seem to read bios files right for some reason but the one listed below does. Maybe its a newer version. Also the patcher is no longer necessary since AMD drivers now allow the use of modded bios files since version 17.4.3.

https://github.com/jaschaknack/PolarisBiosEditor/tree/110aa3a5a0aeafe16bb0a96b53583e7e8e77999b

thanks i'll try it.

 

[manitox]

My flashed 480 is using less wattage than my stock non oc 480.

How can you get that max power draw and that vcore with that bios?? Mine was at 211w max and vcore of 1.225v

 

[cdawall]

Well you're the expert , why did it crash then after 10-20 mins but not straight away.

Wonder if people know there are more things on a GPU that get hot than just the GPU core. VRM temps?

 

[stdout]

aGeoM is everything ok with the Strix 1411 MHz BIOS?

 

[pmpv91]

Wonder if people know there are more things on a GPU that get hot than just the GPU core. VRM temps?

yeah, that's why i dont touch in MEM Clock Frequency.
Core is easier and safer.

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Oh, Copenhagen xD
Here is 23ºC at the moment lol

You will always have better results.
My cooling system is crap, i'm using this case:
I can get nice idle temperatures around 29ºC / 31ºC
And heavy load is always 70'sºC with the fan at 43 to 48%

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

the reason seemed not to be the temperature, it could have been the undervolt or my crap psu not handling it.

I think you believe your account of it , but it likely isn't so, every chip has a ceiling but it is moveable despite itself via thermals and volts upto it's true max , and your card is getting heat soaked upto it's ceiling then falling over ,if you're PSU were failing a higher load wouldn't last a minute , due to water blocks my GPU can't get above 56 with its vrm at 70 for max clocks and it will fold(similar to max GPU power virus load) all year like that, I'm not advising based on assumption and theory no but experience.
But don't fret i won't try n help you again.

Didn't see your post above before but damn , way to go about proving your wrong.
That case is not the best for overclocking , I'm really laughing now sorry no i shouldn't.

 

[cdawall]

yeah, that's why i dont touch in MEM Clock Frequency.
Core is easier and safer.

Minus the fact that it makes the gpu consume more power which increases freaking vrm temps.

 

[pmpv91]

every chip has a ceiling but it is moveable despite itself via thermals and volts upto it's true max , and your card is getting heat soaked upto it's ceiling then falling over

yes, this could also be another.
once i cannot control the temps in those chips, i assume this could also be what it is happening.

Curious fact: in the first try, i had the Sapphire BIOS 1411 for a couple hours with no issues at all.
Then i just had issues with the Asus 1411 in the second run... I chose this Asus once my card is from Asus manufacturer, and it was here running at 1411 when the problems started too early, which this tends me again to lead for the faulty BIOS 1411 from Asus.

Sapphire didn't give me any issues, i just didn't keep it because it has 2 cooling fans while mine has 3, so i kept to the approximate Cooler design and PCB one, and it fails...

That's why i would like to use a similar program to radeon bios editor to compare both BIOS and its voltages.

Either my problem with the Asus could be some upvoltages or downvoltages.
I didn't experience that with Sapphire.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

As was already mentioned previously Polaris bios editor will allow you to see all the values you want and compare bios's.