Conclusion
Performance: Our sample was able to reach 1400+ MHz, which gave us the opportunity to put RX 480 and GTX 1060 face to face at highest overclocking settings. It produced some interesting results proving that GTX 1060 and RX 480 indeed have similar potential. RX 480 clearly offers better framerate in DX12 titles.
Cooling and design: A big step forward from previous series. We finally have have black PCB with black shroud. Yes, it does have a gold lion, and yes it does have a blue fans, but to be honest, most of the time you won’t even see it, when card is installed in the system. The new IceQ X2 cooler also received 0dB feature.
Overclocking: RX 480 sample that reaches 1430 MHz and finishes all 3DMark tests without hiccups is clearly a great sample. Clock to clock, this is nothing like GTX 1060, but the actual gain from overclocking is comparable.
Price and bundle: (Update) Official suggested retail price is 289 USD / 289 EUR. In UK it should cost around 260 GBP. I think it’s a good price for such a powerful card.
Issues: There was a problem connecting this card to our UHD monitor. It would detect wrong (non-native) resolution, and sometimes it would produce black screen when resolution was changed. No such issues were seen on other cards (even with RX 470).
