Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Steam VR Performance Test6. Unigine Heaven (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ashes of the Singularity (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Grand Theft Auto V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Metro Last Light Redux (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Rise of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Noise13. Power Consumption14. Temperatures15. Overclocking16. Conclusion17. View All Pages

While AMD's Ryzen has disrupted Intel's long-running hegemony in the CPU market, AMD has been relatively subdued in the GPU market of late resulting in Nvidia's continuing dominance of market share, particularly at the mid-range and beyond. AMD has today taken steps to change this with two “new ” GPUs for its RX 500 series, the RX 570 and RX 580, hoping to attract new customers in the mid-range market.

Enthusiasts expecting to see a brand new graphics architecture (or product) may be disappointed since the RX 580 and 570 are, for all intents and purposes, lifted from the RX 400 series with only incremental tweaks. The RX 580, the focus of this review, is based on the 14nm Polaris RX 480 while the RX 570, also launching today, is based on the RX 470. Enthusiasts looking for something truly new will have to continue waiting for AMD Vega which is expected out at some point later this year.

This launch draws striking similarities to AMD's release of the R9 390X and R9 390 back in 2015, which were based on the R9 290X and R9 290, respectively. AMD faced criticism at the time for the move since it had been very active in the process of rebranding and re-releasing existing GPUs as new products. AMD waved away criticism of the R9 390X and R9 390 stating the GPUs were new given the frequency increases, increased video memory and power management tweaks.

The RX 580, and RX 570, are new in so far as they are built from a refined 14nm FinFET process to achieve better typical clock speeds. AMD has also made some tweaks to the power management to reduce power consumption and increase power efficiency under a number of scenarios including multi-monitor, multimedia playback and system idle.

AMD has been able to achieve this by adding a third intermediate memory state to reduce power consumption, which sits alongside two existing memory states. To over-simplify, the current Polaris GPU effectively has two memory states, low and high, and most GPU activities (including having a second display) alter the memory state from low to high, increasing power consumption in the process. The new third intermediate memory stage now means the refined Polaris GPU has low, medium and high. In many cases a load activity can increase it to medium, before high, thus resulting in lower overall power draw.

AMD is using the RX 500 series launch as a platform to introduce a new feature it's calling Radeon Chill, which effectively reduces the frame-rate when the user is in-game but idle or AFK (away from keyboard) and then increases the frame-rate again when the user becomes active. It also caps “excessively high” frame rates to further reduce power consumption.

AMD doesn't specify how it achieves reductions in frame-rate, presumably it does this through a clock speed reduction, but the end result is still less power consumption. This new setting can be turned on or off from the AMD Settings included in the driver package and a long list of games is initially supported including Counter Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and Dota 2.

In this review we are assessing Sapphire's take on the RX 580, the Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ OC Limited Edition graphics card with 8GB of video memory. Any KitGuru readers feeling a sense of Déjà vu right now can refer back to our previous review on the Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+ OC graphics cards to confirm their suspicions.

Sapphire has left its previous design mostly unchanged with the release of the RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition. Certainly, that is no bad thing for prospective customers since the Nitro+ cooler was already effective with good build quality and a sturdy backplate. Clock speeds on the Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ are more aggressive out of the box to reflect the higher clocking capability of the RX 580 versus the RX 480 which will result in more performance.

Our sample ran out of the box at 1450MHz on the core, up from 1342MHz on the RX 480 Nitro+ OC 8GB graphics card. That's a 108MHz increase in frequency, equating to 8%, while the memory remains unchanged at 2000MHz actual, 8000MHz effective.

Given that the RX 580 brings no Instructions Per Clock (IPC) improvement, we should expect to see that the only additional performance the RX 580 brings over the RX 480 stems from it's increased frequency. If both were clocked identically then performance would be identical.

The out of the box frequency can be changed by toggling between two different BIOS modes using a switch. Silent sets the core at 1411MHz while Boost ups this to 1450MHz. Since it requires minimal user effort to enable the faster Boost setting, we tested throughout our review using this mode.

GPU	AMD RX 480	AMD RX 580	AMD RX 470	AMD RX 570	AMD R9 390	Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti	Nvidia GTX 1060
Streaming Multiprocessors / Compute Units	36	36	32	32	40	6	10
GPU Cores	2304	2304	2048	2048	2560	768	1280
Texture Units	144	144	128	128	160	48	80
ROPs	32	32	32	32	64	32	48
Base Clock	1120 MHz	1257 MHz	926 MHz	1168 MHz	Up to 1000MHz	1290 MHz	1506 MHz
GPU Boost Clock	1266 MHz	1340 MHz	1206 MHz	1244 MHz	Up to 1000MHz	1392 MHz	1708 MHz
Total Video memory	4096 or 8192 MB	4096 or 8192 MB	4096 or 8192 MB	4096 MB	8192 MB	4096 MB	6144 MB
Memory Clock (Effective)	1750 (7000) or 2000 (8000) MHz	2000 (8000) MHz	1650 (6600) MHz	1750 (7000) MHz	1500 (6000) MHz	1752 (7008) MHz	2002 (8008) MHz
Memory Bandwidth	224 or 256 GB/s	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	224 GB/s	384 GB/s	112 GB/s	192 GB/s
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	512-bit	128-bit	192-bit
Manufacturing Process	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	28nm	16nm	16nm
TDP	150 W	185 W	120 W	150 W	275 W	75W	120 W

In terms of positioning nothing has changed for AMD, the RX 580 just like the RX 480 goes after the GTX 1060, with the smaller RX 470 going against the GTX 1050 Ti.

AMD has not been clear about whether or not the RX 480 and RX 470 will be officially discontinued from today, however, we imagine this will be the case and so there may be bargains to be had for buyers of “old” RX 480 and RX 470 stock.

Sapphire's RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition comes well presented with the packaging highlighting the key features of the GPU- DirectX 12, FreeSync 2, AMD's new Radeon Chill feature and more.

The accessory bundle includes some basic documentation and two spare fans. These are both transparent and include blue LEDs and give the end user the choice of the more subtle default fans or some extra flare with the blue LED fans.

The Sapphire card uses a pair of fans, 100mm – and a plastic shroud to enclose these. The design is subtle with a grey and black aesthetic to blend in with the majority of system builds, Sapphire's RX 480 version of this card is all black so the grey represents a slight change.

 

Sapphire implements its Glow RGB LED indicator, a software controllable RGB light underneath the Sapphire logo, as well as optional blue LED fans that should really be RGB capable.

The range of colour customisation and extent of the RGBs is not as advanced as on other brands but Sapphire still offers some customisation. All customisation can be done in the Sapphire TriXX software under the Nitro Glow option.

 

Along the top of the card the Sapphire logo is embossed into the plastic shroud. On the RX 480 Nitro+ a bulky switch is present in the cut-out near the heat pipes to house an LED switch but on the RX 580 version this isn't present since the lighting is now software controlled. The gap looks a bit strange and Sapphire should probably have changed the PCB and backplate to account for this.

The cut-out still includes a tiny VBIOS switch which toggles between two profiles that Sapphire call Silent, 1411MHz clock speed, and Boost, 1450MHz clock speed.

In the top section the two 8mm heat pipes are visible, the other two heat pipes, which are 6mm, are visible from the bottom near the PCIe lane and these comprise a total of four nickel-plated copper heat pipes.

The Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ LE uses 6-pin and 8-pin power inputs. AMD rates the TDP of the RX 580 at 185W but Sapphire's will go beyond that given it's high factory overclock.

Sapphire's backplate is stylish and helps the product to stand out as a quality piece. It uses a tri-colour design – black, grey and white, with some cut-outs for ventilation. Many vendors of RX 500 series cards do not use backplates so we're pleased to see Sapphire making the effort.

The PCB layout of this card is identical to its predecessor, the Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+ OC. You can read a disassembly and closer inspection of that card here.

 

The I/O includes two HDMI 2.0b, two DisplayPort 1.4 and one DVI-D plus a cut-out for additional ventilation. Sapphire's card conforms to a dual slot form factor and measures, at its longest dimensions, 27cm in length (including the rear I/O) and 16cm in height (including the rear I/O).

Our GPU test system has been built with the intention of benchmarking a variety of graphics cards from mid-range to high-end. Each GPU is tested in a number of 3D applications and games at 1080p, 1440p and 2160p (“4K”) resolutions using Very High or Ultra detail presets.

Test System Components

• Case: Corsair 400Q (two stock case fans replaced with Noctua 120mm rear exhaust and 140mm front intake, speeds UEFI-limited)
• Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K (Stock Intel Turbo behaviour).
• Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) G.Skill Trident Z XMP (3200MHz 16-18-18-38 @ 1.35V).
• Graphics Card: Variable.
• System Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 512GB SSD
• CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 (pump at 12 volts, fan speed UEFI-limited to reduce noise).
• Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum 760W.
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

General Test System Notes

• AMD Graphics cards were benchmarked with the AMD (Crimson ReLive Edition) 17.4.2 drivers (17.10.1711 Beta 5) except the RX 570 and RX 580 GPUs which were benchmarked with a special press release driver (17.10.1030 Beta 8).
• Nvidia Graphics cards were benchmarked with the Nvidia (GeForce Game Ready) 381.65 driver.
• To tune the test system appropriately for acoustic measurements the case was stripped of its original fans and fitted with ultra quiet Noctua fans.
• The CPU cooler, the Corsair H100i v2, was set to a fixed low fan speed to further reduce the base noise level while the pump was left to operate at full speed since it produces no significant noise output.
• The CPU was left to default Intel Turbo behaviour, disabling ASUS enhancements such as all-core Turbo to minimise heat output inside the case and non-GPU related power consumption. The CPU voltage was also negatively offset (read: reduced) by a measure of -0.15 to further reduce non-GPU related heat and power consumption and keep CPU temperatures down to accommodate for the ultra silent CPU and System fan profiles.
• Each 3D benchmark or game is run 3 times at each resolution with an average result of the three runs taken as the final result for the graphs. Where benchmark screenshots are shown note these may not match the graphed figure since the graph represents the average of three while the screenshot is a single of those three values

Comparison Graphics Cards List

• AMD RX 480 8GB (1266MHz core, 8000MHz memory)
• ASUS RX 570 STRIX Gaming OC 4GB (1300MHz core, 7000MHz memory)
• Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11GB (1607MHz core, 1721MHz boost, 11232MHz memory)
• Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8GB (1695MHz core, 1835MHz boost, 10010MHz memory)
• Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming Windforce 6GB (1216MHz core, 1317MHz boost, 7200MHz memory)
• MSI R9 390 8GB Gaming (1040MHz core, 6000MHz memory)
• Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB Founders Edition (1506MHz core, 1708MHz boost, 8008MHz memory)
• Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB (1480MHz core, 1582MHz boost, 11008MHz memory)
• PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 Gaming OC 8GB (1607MHz core, 1797MHz boost, 8008MHz memory)
• Sapphire R9 Fury X 4GB (1050MHz core, 1000MHz memory [HBM])
• Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4GB (1260MHz core, 7000MHz memory)
• Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB (1450MHz core, 8000MHz memory)
• Zotac GTX 970 4GB (1076MHz core, 1216MHz boost, 7010MHz memory)

Software and Games List

• 3DMark
• Ashes of the Singularity
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Furmark
• GPU-Z
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Metro Last Light Redux
• MSI Afterburner
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Steam
• SteamVR Performance Test
• Unigine Heaven

3DMark is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our [FutureMark’s] most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.

We run 3DMark Fire Strike (1080p), Fire Strike Extreme (1440p) and Fire Strike Ultra (4K).

3DMark gives a good summary indicator of gaming performance and here the Sapphire RX 580 scores better than the reference RX 480 and GTX 1060. Overclocked and custom-cooled denominations of the RX 480 and GTX 1060 would undoubtedly narrow or eliminate that gap.

The SteamVR Performance Test measures a system's rendering power using a 2-minute sequence from Valves Aperture Robot Repair VR demo. After collecting the data it determines whether a system is capable of running VR content at 90fps and whether VR content can tune the visual fidelity up to the recommended level. For machines that are not VR Ready the tool can help determine whether capabilities are bound by Graphics Card, CPU, or both.

Steam's VR Performance Test grades GPUs based on their ability to keep the FPS above 90 and how much quality they can do this with. The Sapphire RX 580 is roughly on par with the GTX 1060 and R9 390 in terms of its score in this test.

Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk. Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

• Multiple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 / OpenGL) render
• Cross-platform: MS Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) / Linux
• Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
• Multicore CPU support
• Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
• Powerful C++ API
• Comprehensive performance profiling system
• Flexible XML-based data structures

We set Quality to ‘Ultra’, Tessellation to ‘disabled’ and Anti-Aliasing to 2x.

Unigine Heaven, even with tessellation disabled, is tessellation heavy and so favours Nvidia GPUs. The Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ LE is approximately 10% behind the stock GTX 1060 in this benchmark and around 10% ahead of the RX 480.

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in the future where descendants of humans (called Post- Humans) and a powerful artificial intelligence (called the Substrate) fight a war for control of a resource known as Turinium.

Players will engage in massive-scale land/air battles by commanding entire armies of their own design. Each game takes place on one area of a planet, with each player starting with a home base (known as a Nexus) and a single construction unit.

We opt for the Extreme quality profile and run the GPU-Focused test using the DX12 game mode.

The first of our DX12 tests finds the RX 580 to perform around the level of the R9 390, a good showing for AMD given the difference in power-draw between the two GPUs.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is set in the year 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution and the “Aug Incident”—an event in which mechanically augmented humans became uncontrollable and lethally violent.

Unbeknownst to the public, the affected augmented received implanted technology designed to control them by the shadowy Illuminati, which is abused by a rogue member of the group to discredit augmentations completely. (Wikipedia).

We test using the Ultra quality preset and the DirectX 12 API at all resolutions.

Deus Ex is an AMD-endorsed title so AMD GPUs fare slightly better here. The RX 580's improvement over the RX 480 here is around 10%.

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. Outside of missions, players may freely roam the open world.

Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series. It may be fully explored after the game’s beginning without restriction, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content.

We use the Ultra quality settings (or the highest alternative when Ultra is unavailable), MSAA is set to 2x. The Advanced Graphics options are all set to their maximum levels. Memory usage is calculated as 3469, 3764 and 4733 at 1080, 1440p and 4K, respectively.

The Sapphire RX 580 is outpaced in GTA V by the two most popular AMD and Nvidia mid-range GPUs of recent times, the R9 390 and GTX 970. There is a bit of toing and froing at different resolutions but ultimately the overclock has only resulted in 5 to 10% extra performance for the RX 580 compared to the RX 480.

Just like the original game Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light is played from the perspective of Artyom, the player-character. The story takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, mostly inside the metro system, but occasionally missions bring the player above ground. Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, following the canonical ending in which Artyom chose to proceed with the missile strike against the Dark Ones (this happens regardless of your actions in the first game). Redux adds all the DLC and graphical improvements.

At all resolutions we test using a Very High quality profile with SSAA enabled and Tessellation set to Normal.

Metro Last Light Redux shows the RX 580 to again fall behind the GTX 1060. AMD may be looking to bolster its mid-range with the RX 580 but unless pricing is appropriately set the GTX 1060 appears to still be the more attractive option.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013’s Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story. It uses a Direct X 12 capable engine.

We use the Very High quality preset and 2x SSAA at all resolutions with Direct X 12 enabled.

The last of our DX12 titles shows the RX 580 nearly keeping pace with the liquid-cooled R9 Fury X. It's another AMD-endorsed title so the RX 580's lead over the GTX 1060 needs to be considered appropriately.

Our acoustic measurements are less precise on this mid-range test system, the noise floor of the totally quiet testing room is 34 dBA as measured with a Benetech GM1351 Digital Sound Level Meter.

We take our measurements with the decibel meter on the top and middle section of the case, overhanging the side panel (PSU side, not Motherboard tray side) by exactly 1 inch to avoid any airflow pressure coming from the exhausting H100i V2.

The underlying noise level of the system, emitted by all the non-GPU hardware combined, is 35 dBa thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The PSU is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in and all CPU and System fans have a fixed fan speed completely isolating them from any changes in temperature across the system.

Noise levels were measured after 5 minutes of load under three scenario: Furmark, Unigine Heaven and desktop idle in sequential order with 2 minutes downtime in between each test.

Sapphire's opportunity to shine, the custom cooling solution, is duly taken with the RX 580. It's silent at idle with its passive fan mode and at full load it's still very quiet rarely, exceeding 35% fan duty.

Under extremely prolonged and high intensity load the fans did start to spin up during our testing to 40% or so, getting noticeably audible. However, this is likely a result of the extremely slow case fans we set to keep noise down, contributing to a “hotbox” type effect whereby the inside of the case heats up and the fans have to spin faster to compensate.

Note that enabling the Quiet mode VBIOS significantly reduces heat output and consequential noise so gamers with a preference for quiet should use this over the Boost mode VBIOS we tested with.

Power consumption was measured after 5 minutes of load under three scenario: Furmark, Unigine Heaven and desktop idle in sequential order with 2 minutes of downtime in between each test. The measurement was taking using an Energenie ENER007 power meter and measured for the whole system at the power supply, excluding the monitor.

While Furmark and desktop idle provide stable and consistent power read-outs, Unigine Heaven does not so the power reading is taken as the peak value that occurs in Scene 2 of 26.

The RX 480 was already behind the competition in terms of performance per watt, particularly the GTX 1060. Unfortunately, the RX 580 does nothing to improve the situation because it's clocked higher and consumes more power as a result.

Sapphire exacerbate this situation with an aggressive overclock which leaves their RX 580 consuming more power than a GTX 1080 in some scenarios.

Temperatures were measured after 5 minutes of load under three scenario: Furmark, Unigine Heaven and desktop idle in sequential order with 2 minutes of downtime in between each test. GPU-Z was used to record the maximum temperature, fan profiles on GPUs were left to their default behaviour.

Delta temperatures are presented below to account for small fluctuations in room temperature, but for all the testing present in this graph the temperature ranged from 21.6 to 23.1 degrees Celsius.

Given the thermal output and noise levels of the Sapphire card, temperatures are very strong indeed. Sapphire does well to balance noise and temperatures and typical operating temperatures in the mid-70s keep the GPU well away from the boost frequency throttling zone.

Sapphire's decision to fit a backplate is well-founded. Heat is evenly spread with temperatures reaching no higher than 65 degrees Celsius. On the ASUS RX 570 that we also tested, a card that produces less heat, we observed higher PCB temperatures in the mid-70s since it equipped no backplate.

While AMD's refinement of the 14nm process may have opened up some additional frequency headroom, most of that has already been eaten into by vendors to help make RX 580s faster than their predecessors.

In the case of this Sapphire card we were not able to push it beyond 1475 MHz, which is only 25 MHz more than the Boost VBIOS the card ships with. Memory had more scope for improvement with an additional 175MHz actual (700MHz effective) on our sample.

The real world impact of this extra frequency? Negligible quite frankly. The RX 580 isn't a very overclockable GPU and prospective buyers should assume there are minimal gains to be made, anything that they do achieve is a bonus.

Sapphire permits voltage increases of up to 200mv (0.2 volts) through its TriXX utility, but even applying the maximum additional voltage we weren't able to get 1500MHz stable.

The Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB replaces the Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+ OC 8GB which currently retails for £248.99. AMD is expected to retain similar pricing for the RX 580 once the dust has settled, though it may be slightly higher at launch to help retailers clear existing inventories of the RX 480. As such, expect pricing between £$€220 to £$€280 for RX 580s with the variation in between due to differences in memory sizes, overclock levels and general features.

Sapphire's particular model will likely retail for £259.99 with a standard 3 year warranty, making it one of the more expensive models in the RX 580 range. However, Sapphire has delivered an excellent product with good cooling performance, low noise and strong temperatures. It's also pushed out of the box performance to the limit of the GPU meaning there's very little required of the end user to get maximum performance, other than install the graphics card and set the VBIOS to boost mode.

While we haven't had an opportunity to assess other RX 580s available at launch, it's hard to imagine anyone could be disappointed with Sapphire's offering. That said, the 8GB of frame buffer still seems overkill for the RX 580: the GPU runs out of computational power before it runs out of frame buffer. Most buyers would be better off opting for a lower cost 4GB model and making up any clock speed deficits through manual overclocking of the core and memory.

System owners looking to upgrade their graphics card will find that the RX 580 is a compelling option, provided that pricing is right. AMD PR sent this price list just before launch but based on our retail sources this pricing seems optimistic:

• RX 580 8GB: £219.99 inc VAT
• RX 580 4GB: £184.99 inc VAT
• RX 570 4GB: £164.99 in VAT

Pricing is increasingly important for AMD and Sapphire as we have started to see Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB partner cards for as little as £215 (HERE and HERE) online today.

AMD's RX 580 struggles to significantly overcome Nvidia's GTX 1060 which is generally a better option due to being considerably more power efficient. In short, the RX 580 is the less desirable option of the two, even if board partners like Sapphire have done a stellar job in presenting the graphics card in a refined and well-built package.

Gamers looking to upgrade from popular GPUs like the GTX 970 and R9 390 may still be able to put off that mid-range upgrade for a while longer. The RX 580 is, on average, a faster graphics card but not enough so to warrant any urgency in making an upgrade.

Overclockers UK confirmed a £289.99 including VAT retail price for this product. This is in our opinion too expensive but reflects the limited edition nature of this specific product. Sapphire does, thankfully, also sell an RX 580 Nitro+ OC 8GB, which isn't limited edition, and that hits a more competitive price point of £259.99 as well as an even more affordable Pulse variant. We'd advise buyers interested in Sapphire's RX 580 to seriously consider the standard Nitro model or Pulse variant instead since the differences are minimal but the savings are considerable.

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Pros

• Good cooling performance and low noise.
• Semi-passive fan mode.
• Backplate.
• High factory overclock.
• Dual VBIOS switch.
• Optional blue LED fans.

Cons:

• Limited OC headroom.
• High power consumption.

KitGuru says: Sapphire makes the best of AMD's RX 580 GPU with its Nitro+ Limited Edition version. If you're in the market for an RX 580 then this graphics card deserves to be on the shortlist but it could benefit from a price drop.

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