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HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo 8GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2016-09-08

By using a considerably more efficient dual-fan cooling system and an improved power delivery, HIS is offering the end-user a highly-overlocked video card (core clock of 1338MHz) which is able to beat the R9 390X at Full HD and 2560x1440 resolutions. The overall aspect of the card has also been reworked, with a new logo and metallic backplate which covers the full PCB, while the HIS logo is LED lighted for a nice effect inside the case.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Setup

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ 4.6GHz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: BIOSTAR Z97X Gaming

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Currently reviewed card

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB + OCZ Vertex 460

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

With the help of the GPU-Z utility, we could extract lots of information regarding the video card clocks,memory type, pixel and texture fill rate and so on:

To receive more in-depth information regarding the GPU, we have used the AIDA64 utility:

Temperature tests:

For finding out the temperatures in both IDLE and Full Load with the fan set on Auto, we left the computer IDLE for about 25 minutes and then started monitoring with HWINFO64 and logged the values obtained while running Heaven 4.0 at the 1920x1080 resolution for an additional 15 to 20 minutes, with details at Maximum and Tesselation set to Extreme. During this time, the ambient temperature was held steady at 27.6 degrees Celsius:

Noise measurements

Before measuring out the noise the video card was producing, we have first measured the noise inside the room the tests took place and we found out it was 29.4 dBA (with everything turned off).

At all times, the sound meter was placed 20cm near the video card.

The GPU fan was controlled by the latest version of the Sapphire TriXX utility:

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