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we've already talked about the 16.7 dot one drivers before the RX 480 and we showed that in our four gigabyte versus eight gigabyte benchmark that was posted yesterday of the day before and that update was provided to us strictly to look at GTA 5 where it resolved stuttering issues is something we actually saw the stuttering issues have kind of receded in GTA 5 with 16.7 dot 1 the release drivers were 16 dot 6.2 but there's another thing that 16.7 dot one theoretically resolves in that coincides and these newest statement on their PCIe bus power draw for the RX 480 so the statements pretty long I've got the whole thing posted at an article you can hit that in the link below but the relevant parts of this statement are addressing the power draw on the PCIe bus and AMD specifically says we're pleased to report that this driver Radeon software 16 7 1 is now undergoing final testing and will be released to the public in the next 48 hours and that's the main part but the thing here is this is introducing a compatibility switch so it's a toggle button in Radeon software and that toggle allows you to basically enable a throttle for the power if you're concerned about the PCIe bus drawing too much power and potentially damaging components in the system like the motherboard if if that is a concern to you it doesn't necessarily have to be de set de pending on what sort of components you're using but it will be a toggle the toggle will definitely throttle performance to some extent but it may not be a large amount we'll see I will validate that as soon as we've got a final build of the driver and to that end AMD actually says we've included an option to reduce total power with minimal performance impact users will find this as the compatibility UI toggle in global settings and it's off by default that means that it will be drawing the amount shown in our initial review by default and they say finally we've implemented a collection of performance improvements that improve performance in some games at the three-percent and these optimizations are designed to improve the performance of the rx 480 and this is the important part so pay attention here these should offset the performance impact for users who choose to activate the compatibility toggle or should substantially offset is what they actually say so clearly there is a performance impact with this compatibility switches off by default so the card out of box will resemble what the reviews are showing if you turn it on just based on this this sort of obvious wording there will be a performance reduction that's because there will be less power going to the card and the way that will manifest itself is the clock rate will likely be sort of down clocking more frequently to reduce the power draw so you're gonna get either a less stable clock rate or a lower overall clock rate but that's how the power patch will likely work and then there's the performance improvements before title so we saw those in GTA 5 like with stuttering and the actual fps so it sounds like this will be resolved in some form we will still be doing endurance testing on the PCIe bus with the original card with that setting turned off it's off by default anyway so it makes sense to test that but overall that's kind of what we got from AMD right now in terms of the PCIe bus check the content on 4 gigabytes versus 8 gigabytes if you're interested in more on our X 480 or of course the full review and if you're not really sure what this problem is I would recommend checking the actually Tom's Hardware had one of the best posts on it in their review they have power testing that a lot of sites don't because equipment costs so that's where you should start if you want to learn about what's happening and then check back here if you want to learn about how it's resolved if it's resolved and if in the real world this is a problem because we have another video coming out with some cheap from other board parts and things like that that we bought to see if the power draw kills anything so as always thanks for watching patreon commercial video if you wanna helps out directly I will see you all next time