Official Statement from #AMD on the PCI-Express #Overcurrent Issue
by
W1zzard (@Techpowerup)
Saturday, July 2nd 2016 04:58
AMD sent us this statement in response to growing concern among our readers that the #Radeon RX 480 graphics card violates PCI-Express power specification, by overdrawing power from its single 6-pin PCIe power connector and the PCI-Express slot. Combined, the total power budged of the card should be 150W, however, it was found to draw well over that power limit.
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power designs in the past with the Radeon R9 295X2, for example, but that card is targeted at buyers with reasonably good PSUs. The RX 480's target audience could face troubles powering the card. Below is AMD's statement on the matter. The company stated that it's working on a driver update that could cap the power at 150W. It will be interesting to see how that power-limit affects performance.
read the full article here:
www.techpowerup.com/223833/official-statement-from-amd-on-the-pci-express-overcurrent-issue
Wow...read the comments...you'd have thought this was an official announcement of the Rapture or something. I love me some Geek folks, but sometimes they go all Apoplectic over the silliest of notions.
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