HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo 8GB GDDR5

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Great Overclocking, All Copper Heatpipes, Metal Fan Shroud, 0dB Smart Fans, Advanced Composite HeatPipes, 6 Phase Power, International Rectifier (IR) Digital PWM, Great Overclocking, All Copper Heatpipes, Metal Fan Shroud, 0dB Smart Fans, Advanced Composi...
High performance, Well performing cooling, High boost clock, Improved performance per watt comparing to older series

Cons:

Backplate Touches Ram Clips (Asus Maximus VIII), Sticker On The PCIe Locking Slot, Had To Manually Increase Power Limit To Maintain 1338 MHz, Backplate Touches Ram Clips (Asus Maximus VIII), Sticker On The PCIe Locking Slot, Had To Manually Increase Power...
Cooler ( visual ) design could be improved, No additional software, only basic drivers.

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Last revision on August 15, 2018

Reviewers Liked

Great Overclocking, All Copper Heatpipes, Metal Fan Shroud, 0dB Smart Fans, Advanced Composite HeatPipes, 6 Phase Power, International Rectifier (IR) Digital PWM, Great Overclocking, All Copper Heatpipes, Metal Fan Shroud, 0dB Smart Fans, Advanced Composi
High performance, Well performing cooling, High boost clock, Improved performance per watt comparing to older series

Reviewers Didn't Like

Backplate Touches Ram Clips (Asus Maximus VIII), Sticker On The PCIe Locking Slot, Had To Manually Increase Power Limit To Maintain 1338 MHz, Backplate Touches Ram Clips (Asus Maximus VIII), Sticker On The PCIe Locking Slot, Had To Manually Increase Power
Cooler ( visual ) design could be improved, No additional software, only basic drivers
Blue fans, Issues with UHD monitor

Expert reviews and ratings

The HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo 8GB certainly makes sense for gamers wanting to run at 1440p and below, and overkill for those running 1080p. The metal cowling with the roaring lion's head is a nice touch that differentiates the HIS video card from...

By bjorn3d.com on September 28, 2016

Performance: Our sample was able to reach 1400+ MHz, which gave us the opportunity to put RX 480 and GTX 1060 face to face at highest overclocking settings. It produced some interesting results proving that GTX 1060 and RX 480 indeed have similar...

By videocardz.com on August 31, 2016

HIS RX480 Roaring Turbo is a great graphics card for all gamers who stick to single display and wish to play in the latest games in high details but don't have budget for the highest graphics card series or multi GPU setups. HIS RX480 is offering great...

By funkykit.com on September 23, 2016

Slowly but surely, the situation with the availability of video cards Radeon RX 480 starts to improve, the market appears more and more models with alternative cooling system. We have tested three of these graphics cards, today our review is dedicated...

By hw4all.com on September 22, 2016

By using a considerably more efficient dual-fan cooling system and an improved power delivery, HIS is offering the end-user a highly-overlocked video card (core clock of 1338MHz) which is able to beat the R9 390X at Full HD and 2560x1440 resolutions....

By MadShrimps on September 08, 2016

100

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By pc-magazin.de on December 07, 2016

Fazit und Wertung“Christoph meint: Leise und flotte Custom-RX-480-Karte!„Fazit von ChristophMit der neuen Radeon RX 480 liefert AMD eine überzeugende Mainstream-Grafikkarte ab. Für einen Preis von knapp 260 Euro punktet die neue AMD Karte selbst unter...

By Gamezoom.net on September 24, 2016

Die HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring Turbo bringt zu einem Preis ab 287,00 € (Amazon.de) reichlich Leistung für Gaming bis 1440P mit. Dabei sprechen die aktuelle Polaris 10 GPU, sowie 8 GByte GDDR5 Speicher für sich und sorgen für reichlich Spielspaß....

By Technic3D on February 05, 2017

Zum Start gab es die Radeon RX 480 nur im Referenzdesign, doch mittlerweile gibt es zahlreiche alternative Designs am Markt zu kaufen. Doch welche ist die beste? Nach großen Vergleichstests zu Partnerkarten der GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070 und GTX 1060...

By ComputerBase on December 01, 2016

Bevor wir finale Worte zur Grafikkarte selbst formulieren, noch kurz ein paar abschließende Worte zur neuen AMD-GPU und zur vierten Generation der GCN-Architektur: Die Variante „Polaris 10“ basiert auf rund 5,7 Milliarden Transistoren und fungiert dabei...

By Hardware-Mag on November 07, 2016

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