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ASUS ROG Strix Gaming RX 480 8GB
ASUS has done it again and “Strixed” the RX 480 with all the Strix bells and whistles. Direct CU III cooling solution, 3 Wing Blade fans, ASUS Fan Connect, Auto Extreme Technology, Aura Lighting, VR friendly HDMI ports and tosses in GPU Tweak II. No one dresses out a GPU Like ASUS they pack geeky goodness on video cards thicker than icing on a cake. From box to hand we knew we were looking at a totally luxury RX 480!
Under the hood you still get the 14nm FinFET process from TSMT (Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology), the Polaris 10/Ellesmere core with 2048 shader processors, 144 Texture Units, 32 ROPs, 8GB of ridiculously fast GDDR5 at 8Gbps running across a 256-bit bus and wearing ASUS’s renowned ROG Strix crown!
AMD GPU Comparison Table
| Radeon | R9 Fury X | R9 Nano | R9 390X | ASUS ROG Strix
Gaming RX 480 |
RX 470 |
| Fabrication Process | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 14nm | 14nm |
| GPU | Fiji | Fiji | Hawaii / Grenada | Polaris 10/Ellesmere | Polaris 10/Ellesmere |
| Shader procs | 4096 | 4096 | 2816 | 2304 | 2048 |
| Graphics memory | 4 GB HBM | 4 GB HBM | 8 GB GDDR5 | 4GB / 8GB GDDR5 | 4GB / 8GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps | 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps | 6.0 Gbps | 7.0/8.0 Gbps | 6.6 Gbps |
| GPU Clock Max | 1050 MHz | Â 1000 MHz | 1050 MHz | 1266MHz | 1206 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | 512 GB/s | 384 GB/s | 224 GB/s (4GB) 256 GB/s (8GB) |
211 GB/s |
| Power Connectors | 2 x 8-pin | 1 x 8-pin | 1 x 6-pin – 1 x 8-pin | 1 x 8-pin | 1 x 6-pin |
| Form Factor | Dual slot | Dual slot | Dual slot | Dual slot | Dual slot |
| Freesync | Â Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DirectXÂ 12 Support |
 Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
