XFX RX 480 RS Review: The hot and spicy curry of mid-range AMD GPUs

The RX 480 is a good-looking card that promises solid 1080p performance and a pleasant experience at 1440p after turning down options.

The XFX RX 480 RS is your typical Polaris-powered GPU packing a 256-bit bus, 2048 stream processors, 1288MHz core clock, and 8GB of VRAM at 8000MHz. Those specs on paper don't sound too bad for a mid-range GPU and you'd be right in believing exactly that. Picking one up for 1080p at highest graphic settings, or 1440p with a more conservative approach to in-game options, it's possible to abstract much performance here.

XFX has gone the extra mile when it comes to cooling the RX 480 RS with hot-swappable fans and an all copper unibody VRM heatsink. This is important to note as the card itself runs very, very hot. Firing up a demanding title and having settings turned up will see the GPU easily pass 70 degrees (Celcius) with 80 not too far out of sight. Installing this thing inside a case without adequate cooling and airflow may result in thermal throttling and a reduction in performance.

It's getting hot in here

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