Asus RX 480 Strix Gaming OC Aura RGB 8192MB

The tests were performed in a controlled air conditioned room with temperatures maintained at a constant 21c – a comfortable environment for the majority of people reading this. Idle temperatures were measured after sitting at the desktop for 30 minutes. Load measurements were acquired by playing Rise Of The Tomb Raider for 90 minutes and measuring the peak temperature. We also have included Furmark results, recording maximum temperatures throughout a 10 minute stress test. All fan settings were left on automatic.

This review was delayed by some weird issues we were experiencing which seemed intermittent. Sometimes the target temperature of the Asus RX 480 Strix Gaming OC would switch from 75c to 65c and vice versa. We issued a report to ASUS on this problem and are waiting on feedback. I am also working on reviewing other RX 480 cards right now and we have since heard from Sapphire that the same problem occurs with their hardware. It would logically seem a Catalyst driver issue on some level (perhaps overriding the BIOS fan profile settings?) as Sapphire confirmed their target temperature settings should be 75c, not 65c.

All our results on this page are taken from the Asus RX 480 Strix Gaming OC running with a target temperature of 65c – which is the setting that we got most times on a reboot. This is obviously louder, and cooler than a profile set 10c higher as the fans have to work harder.

The Asus RX 480 Strix Gaming OC was silent at idle, as the fans disable completely (under 54c). When the load increased, the three fans started spinning more aggressively. All these results are achieved with the target temperature set at 65c. If the correct profile is 75c, then these temperatures will increase.

We install the graphics card into the system and measure temperatures on the back of the PCB with our Fluke Visual IR Thermometer/Infrared Thermal Camera. This is a real world running environment playing Rise Of The Tomb Raider for extended periods of time.

With the 65c profile running, we can see that the temperatures run evenly across the backplate. The hottest parts of the cooler read around 51-52c.

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