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How many watts does a RX 580 need?
power consumption for rx 580 is 185W, GPU and CPU both uses the 12v port from your psu, just make sure you CPU and GPU’s power consumption add together is about 80\% of your 12v port.
Is 550w enough for RX 580 8gb?
no need to upgrade, 550w is plenty for your system, quality aside, it claims to provide 43 A on the 12 v rail. So, number-wise it’s perfectly capable of supplying the cpu and gpu at the same time, I think on average your cpu and gpu pulls about 25a or less on the 12v (300w) during intense gaming session. So it’s fine.
Can a 500W PSU run RX 580?
A quality of 500 watts is enough for an RX 580, but it is the minimum recommended level as a Tier 5 PSU. Yet, it is a good idea to have some extra capacity in a power supply, so you should replace it down the road when you have the opportunity to upgrade to a better PSU.
Why does the AMD Radeon RX 580 use so much power?
In our gaming loop, its Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 operates at an almost-constant 1450 MHz, whereas the previous-gen card was limited to 1350 MHz and used just as much power. One explanation for this is lower leakage current. A much better cooling solution helps keep GPU temperatures down, and we estimate this provides an advantage of ~10W.
Should I upgrade from RX 550 to RX 580 or 650Ti?
650 TI’s nominal maximum is 110w, RX 580 is almost twice that (around 190). 650TI is 6pin, 580 is 6+8 pin. I’d definitely upgrade, 400 is too low in my opinion for a stable system with this hardware. 550 is good enough, 650w (something like RM650x from corsair) is perfect.
What is the power consumption of the Radeon RX 480?
Sapphire’s Nitro+ Radeon RX 480 averages 1.15V and peaks at 1.1563V. Those numbers increase to an average of 1.1688V and a peak of 1.19V for the company’s Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 Limited Edition, creating more power loss. This doesn’t show up in the graph, though, because of the RX 480 card’s much higher leakage current.
What is the recommended clock rate for the RX 580?
Those stay well within a safe range. Switching over to boost mode pushes the Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 Limited Edition to a GPU clock rate of 1450 MHz. That’s a big step up from the vanilla version’s ceiling, but it should still represent what you might see after some manual overclocking.