Conclusion and Verdict
HIS Radeon RX480 Roaring Turbo is a great gaming graphics card. It performs great and have high culture of work. If you are not playing games then it’s silent. Fan is not spinning at all if card isn’t under higher load. A bit worse it looks when it reaches full load but that not often happens while playing games. Important is to update drivers to the latest version as I noticed that on the new drivers, RX480 is generating less heat and fan isn’t so noisy under load.
The only thing which I would change is design of the cooler. Back plate looks good but front side is more like a retro and reminds me older HIS graphics cards while new product is just asking for something fresh.
HIS RX480 Roaring Turbo is quite new card and I haven’t seen it available in popular online stores but I guess that price wouldn’t be higher than competitive products so should be below $300 and closer to $270 range. It makes HIS RX480 Roaring Turbo great option for all who don’t need 4k resolution to play games but still wish to run their favourite titles in high graphics details.
Pros:
- High performance
- Well performing cooling
- High boost clock
- Improved performance per watt comparing to older series
Cons:
- Cooler ( visual ) design could be improved
- No additional software, only basic drivers
Final words:
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 performance in its price and is clear choice for gamers. Additional features and high GPU clock make it only better and it’s hard not to recommend this card.
HIS RX480 Roaring Turbo graphics card is receiving FunkyKit Recommended Award since it’s an exceptional graphics card !
3 comments
I don’t get it, you oVerclocked thw card prettu good but, you show no overclocking result for benchmarks, time spy for oc 1405mhz is 4605 and bellow you show less than 4300 so you probably did all the runs with a stock cards not the 1405mhz oc…. Why? You should have ahowed two results for each, one on stock and one with oc
I understand your point of view. However it’s a review of a graphics card based on results out of the box, so what users are expecting to receive. Overclocking is never guaranteed so I didn’t want to focus on that. On the other hand with already high frequency you won’t get much higher performance in games after overclocking. Count up to 5% performance gain.
Knowing AMD, new drivers should improve performance even more than the overclocking itself. So far we had about 3 official driver versions which were improving performance in single ( new ) titles.
The point is, most people only read individual manufacturer card reviews for the overclocking results. At the end of the day it’s just an RX 480 like all the others.It’s not going to have extra wizard piss in it especially when it’s just a cheap card like this, all people are likely after is the cooling capacity, noise and overclockability.
Also with AMD’s new drivers and Wattman being great with staged clock speed and voltage settings, able to be set per game, overclocking even at 5% is still a worthwhile exercise. I have a Sapphire RX 480 and have set up custom profiles including clock and memory speeds on all of my frequently played games.
Just food for thought, cheers.