Hardware Asus Radeon RX 580 Strix Gaming Top OC Review

Scan have the Asus 480 equivalent of this card for £220. Makes this look even more nonsensical really.

 

Look at the graphs on each subpage. There are cards listed for one setting/resolution that are missing for the others. There's also no inclusion of the Asus 1080 Ti Strix that was reviewed just the other day, which was also rather importantly missing from the Aorus 1080 Ti review.

Just basic inconsistencies in the metrics.

 

Colour me disapointed. I was expecting the 580 to match the specs of the Project Scorpio GPU - 4 SEs, 40 CUs, and I was expecting it to be clocked around the same speed as the 480 was.

I think AMD have massively missed a trick here.

 

This is just a placeholder until Vega, so it's not surprising that it doesn't offer much more than the 480. It's still a bit disappointing, though.

 

Bios flash of 470 / 480 to 570 / 580 may be possible (depending on specific card and so on)

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/wanna-flash-your-rx-470-towards-a-570-it’s-possible.html

 

I'll try to flash my cards and see where they end up. I'm not worried about having bricked cards as it is an easy fix if it goes wrong.

Who knows... maybe my $200 cards suddenly become worth $300+ ..... stupidity.