Speaking of visual aspects the most obvious difference in comparison with the nitro rx 480 is the rx 580 s unique design with a gunmetal gray shroud that looks incredibly good.
Sapphire nitro rx 480 bios switch.
The sapphire nitro rx 580 limited edition is based on the company s custom pcb designed specifically for this card.
As previously mentioned the sapphire nitro rx 480 oc features a bios switch with the option to cycle between silent and boost modes.
Users are able to switch between two modes quiet and performance the first one has a lower clock rate and allows to optimize the fan curve settings.
It is safe and designed to switch bios when you have the card powered on.
We ve already seen asus s all singing all dancing rx 480 strix oc 8gb that comes with a hefty premium but with its nitro series sapphire offers a surprisingly strong feature set as we already.
I ve always preferred a manual switch instead of relying on.
Sapphire nitro radeon rx 480.
In this third part of our sapphire how to series we want to shed some light on the dual bios feature present mainly in the nitro gaming series.
In comparison to sapphire s simpler and slightly newer nitro card this one features elaborate rgb lighting and a second bios.