Sapphire AMD RX480 Nitro+ 8 GB GDDR5 Memory Polaris FinFET DX 12 Vulkan FreeSync PCI-Express Graphics Card

The card does its job, and it does it well. Coupled with my i5-4690K I get 60fps+ in Grand Theft Auto V (the game I bought it for) and certain emulators, such as Dolphin and PCSX2 (which is notorious for its horrible optimisation). This card also doesn't have the flickering reflective water bug in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, if you're still playing that like I am.Make sure you use DirectX or, if the game or application supports it, Vulkan, as AMD cards perform less efficiently on OpenGL.The card itself is well-built and is coupled with an LED showing the Sapphire logo. You can change this with the button on the GPU or using TRIXX. Custom colours can be done but I haven't been able to get it displaying the right colour. This is probably due to TRIXX, since the vivid colours I wanted can definitely be shown when you look at the GPU's rainbow & Sapphire Blue modes, but this only affects the card cosmetically and not functionally.Another thing to consider is that the card generates a LOT of heat, so sufficient cooling is necessary if you don't already have a water-cooling setup. The card is built to withstand its heat, and coupled with a good aftermarket CPU cooler (my recommendation: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo), you should get sufficient cooling in your PC with this card.You can crank the fans up using MSI Afterburner or Sapphire's own TRIXX software if you want, and if the fans need replacing or cleaning, they can be replaced easily, by unscrewing it from the GPU. Fan noise is like any other card, but I'm not bothered by fan noise.

Works beautifully but do note there's not a lot of overclocking headroom and you're likely to get an ASIC quality around 70%. (1360 / 2210 is as high as I can get at present)Replaced a 6970CF and the difference in performance and noise is astounding, not to mention that the power efficiency versus older generation cards is simply wonderful.Noise isn't an issue for me, you can set the fans rpm to near silent using WattMan (AMD Crimson software) but 3rd party support is currently very limited / non-existent so take note if you intend to buy into Polaris at time of this review.Edit: 31/10/2016 - Sapphire have released their TRIXX 'overclocking' tool to fully support their RX48x cards. This allows for better fan curve profiling than WattMan. However it isn't as comprehensive, WattMan allows you to setup specific clocks per application/game.However, there is still no additional overclocking headroom over the 'preset' Nitro+ clocks, even with being able to fine-tune additional voltage via TRIXX.

Good, But difficult to get the settings right for certain games, but then again i have two of these,any game I threw at the single card workd perfectly on full setting, but have X2 cards it seems there is issues and game crashing, blue screens of death and in game stuttering.I Have faith that its just the settings in he crosfire mode or the drivers,. But one card on its own is more than enough for any game at 1080p

As stated, it's not the card. 480 is a fantastic card. It was the way it was packed. NOT in ESD approved wrapping. The card lasted 30 mins tops. I sent it back, and got a refund. But that did not include the £13 recorded delivery to send it back. Steer clear from this seller!

So I bought this card back in February 2017. It worked flawlessly for about a year and then after the 18.X.X Radeon Drivers it started having a lot of issues.Games and Drivers would crash when on duty, performance would be throttled by power consumption, no amount of tweaking on WattMan would make the card stable enough to last a week without issues. I've rolled back drivers, tried on different PSUs, switched between the card's silent and boost BIOS, searched weeks for troubleshooting on forums and support sites and even a fresh windows install.Nothing I did could make the card stable again, since the card worked fine for a year I thought maybe the drivers broke it but after all I've tried I'm convinced the card was faulty.Since I bought it over a year ago Amazon would not let me request a refund or replacement, Sapphire support tells me I should ask the seller for a solution, so here's hoping someone reads this and maybe can help me out.

This was well worth the money, save up that bit extra and get this card. It plays everything on Ultra settings (although I still have vSync enabled in order to avoid screen tearing, this will change once I get a monitor with FreeSync built in) like Star Wars Battlefront & Elite Dangerous without even breaking a sweat. I was torn between this and an Nvidea 1060, but I’m really glad I stuck with AMD as I later discovered the issues of screen tearing and the only way to resolve this was upgrading your monitor, with AMD FreeSync this isn’t much of a big deal as you can pick up a really good monitor for around 300 pounds, but Nvidea’s Gsync equivalent are usually double this.I've read/seen some reviews that say the fans are noisy, but I can't hear them and my case is only 50cm away from me, it also looks like excess heat is a thing of the past as this card never really gets very hot even in extended game play sessions.The only slight down side to this card is that the RGB control is on the card itself and can't be controlled via software (I have heard rumour AMD are going to fix this in a patch update).

Excellent card for the price.Runs a little bit hot in some games when overclocked even with a custom fan curve but then again its a mid range card and one cannot expect premium quality cooler in this price range.Solid build and at factory settings supprisingly quiet .I run two of these in Crossfire and they cut through games like butter on 1440p ,very pleased.