PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample Pictured with 6+8-pin Power Connectors

A user named liweizhaocc in the Baidu forums has posted photos of what is supposedly an Radeon RX 580 variant from PowerColor, specifically called the RX 580 Red Devil Golden sample. The video card is launching in a few days and PowerColor will have two SKUs: a regular dual-slot Red Devil Version and a thicker 2.5 slot Red Devil Golden Sample which has beefier heatsink underneath the shroud. What is surprising about the RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample pictured however is the fact that it has two power connectors (a 6-pin plus an 8-pin) instead of just a single 6-pin like with the reference RX 480, which the RX 580 is presumably a refreshed version of.

lilweizhaocc was also kind enough to also took more photos of the RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample with the heatsink assembly taken out, giving a full view of the PCB. From here we can see that despite the additional power connector, the VRM is a 6-phase design for the GPU like it was for the reference RX 480. The VRM and the RAM all have thermal pads and are cooled via the integrated heatsink. There looks to be two 8mm copper heatpipe and two 6mm copper heatpipes extending from the center core. It is nice to see that one of the thick 8mm heatpipes is actually directly where the VRM MOSFETs are, instead of just having a passive aluminum heatsink in there like with other manufacturers and relying on the fan to do the heavy lifting.

From the PCB shot, it appears that the 6-pin is a different color than the 8-pin connector so this might be an ‘or’ situation, rather than an ‘and’ auxiliary power plug so users can choose to either power it with a single 6-pin or with a single 8-pin depending on if they need the extra power draw when overclocking. It could also be an independent power input that is dependent on the BIOS switch position. The BIOS switch near the rear has a setting for OC and Silent mode. The use for this extra power connector is of course, just speculation and more information will surface and be verified once the video card actually comes out. In fact, PowerColor has not disclosed any actual clock speeds for these RX 580 Red Devil video cards yet but they have been teasing them on their Facebook and other social media accounts.

Aside from the cooling features, there is also an LED switch near to the power connector. This is for the LED lights on the side of the shroud lighting up the Red Devil logo. There is also an integrated backplate for additional PCB integrity support.