Video Card Radeon RX 480 continues to surprise, and this time a surprise rather pleasant. According to several sources, including our colleagues from WCCFTech site model Radeon RX 480 with 4 GB memory actually physically has twice as much memory capacity.
It is reported that the boards 4 GB versions Radeon RX 480 from PowerColor and XFX companies soldered eight video memory chips Samsung labeled "K4G80325FBHC25", the volume of each of which is 8 Gb. As a result, the board has physically 8 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory, merely half of this memory is disabled in the BIOS.
Graphics Card AMD Radeon XFX RX 480 with 4GB memory chips Samsung GDDR5 8GB
Memory chips Samsung K4G80325FBHC25
XFX could unlock the hidden 4GB simply by setting the BIOS version for video card with 8 GB of memory. Also, after firmware change memory frequency increased from 7 to 8 GHz. It is worth noting that AMD has provided for the test samples Radeon RX 480 had two BIOS profiles: all 8GB of memory included in one of them, and the other only 4 GB.
It turns out that the producers could earn on each such card at least $ 30 more, but above all meet the demand. While it is difficult to say how many 8-GB versions of the Radeon RX 480 sold as 4 GB. According to some, this may be the entire first batch from all manufacturers. Related Products :
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