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Best GPU 300-400 budget

nashathedog said:
It's not really, Yes the 1070 is faster but as Digital foundry showed us with the Fury X v 1070 in Doom, When using Vulcan it has the Fury x well ahead by something like 25% meaning the Fury pro would edge a win too, Now while that's only one game and every other game today has the 1070 ahead having a 1080p freesync monitor and looking ahead the Fury will be great for a few years yet, especially with the adaptive sync advantage he loses by getting an Nvidia card with that monitor. So if he plans to stay on a 1080p freesync screen for a couple of years and wants a graphics card that will do a good job for a couple of years it's a good choice, It'd be better with more ram but it will be okay still. If not an 8gb 480 would also compliment the 1080p freesync panel very well and if I was buying today I would go with the 8gb option. If someone wants to spend there game time staring at an fps counter and going "Ooh this is ten frames faster than if I had the other card" then fine pay the extra for a 1070 but actually playing games without an on screen counter and you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference.
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I think there are issues with your argument, and i think you have misinterpreted the results from that particular benchmark. Yes the FURY X (not the card in question) pulled slightly ahead of the 1070 (not an overall performance of 25%, rather a boosted 25% under vulkan which took the Fury X to just above 1070 performance). Additionally, you mentioned that this is only one game.

However, obviously the poster wishes to use AMD for his monitor.
 
Big Nvidia fan, but there's no point having a freesync monitor and not using it so I wouldn't suggest an Nv card for a second.

People need to read his post before replying.

If you can't hang on for a Fury then I guess it's 480, not a lot of options really.
 
Jack1991 said:
I am 100% wanting to stick with amd for the freesync monitor. I did want the fury but can't find stock.

Looks like I might just wait for an aftermarket rx480 as at 1080p this should be sufficient.
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The same advice I gave you in the other thread still stands.

Wait to see what the custom 480's are like. Then make a choice.

The Fury cards will be in stock by the end of next week according to Gibbo.
 
melmac said:
The same advice I gave you in the other thread still stands.

Wait to see what the custom 480's are like. Then make a choice.

The Fury cards will be in stock by the end of next week according to Gibbo.
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I was going to get the fury but phoned ocuk and they said I won't get my hands on one as the stock that imminent is sold.
 
Jack1991 said:
I was going to get the fury but phoned ocuk and they said I won't get my hands on one as the stock that imminent is sold.
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That's for the Sapphire one though, the XFX one is in stock, though a little more expensive.

You see, nobody can really advise you on the custom 480's, we just don't know what they are going to be like. So we can't help you make a decision between the xfx fury and the custom 480's.

I run an R9 290 with a 1440p Freesync monitor. And it's fine as long as you aren't obsessed with high levels of AA. The reference 480 is faster than the 290, and at 1080p it shines.

If I were you and if you really can't wait, buy a reference 480 for £219. You could have it on Tuesday. It performs really well at 1080p. In nearly every game you will be getting 60+ fps and in games that go lower, you will have freesync to smooth things over.

And, if you aren't happy with it, the noise or heat or whatever, return it. And get the AIB version.

keep the 480 until Vega comes out and hopefully then there will be an AMD card around £400.
 
Well i do appreciate everyone's help. I'm going to just see what the custom 480 will be like. I'm working away the next 2weeks so i can wait to see what they are like.

Hopefully keep a custom rx480 for a year or so and upgrade to something beefier then.

out of opinion would you preorder a custom just now or wait ?

I guess it would be between the devil and the nitro as well.
 
Jack1991 said:
I was going to get the fury but phoned ocuk and they said I won't get my hands on one as the stock that imminent is sold.
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It still says pre-order on the page, you'd think they would change that to sold out if they have already sold them all.

I'd chance my arm and try ordering one as the answer you got on the phone didn't 100% say they have gone from the sounds of it. Perhaps they have and you're out of luck on that one card, but if it is the one you want then there is no harm in trying and then just look again if you do indeed miss out on the deal.
 
Grumbledook said:
It still says pre-order on the page, you'd think they would change that to sold out if they have already sold them all.

I'd chance my arm and try ordering one as the answer you got on the phone didn't 100% say they have gone from the sounds of it. Perhaps they have and you're out of luck on that one card, but if it is the one you want then there is no harm in trying and then just look again if you do indeed miss out on the deal.
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I would have thought so as well but that's just what they've told me.
 
Jack1991 said:
Hi guys,

I had a thread regarding this a few days ago and settled on https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...rd-with-backplate-11247-03-40g-gx-377-sp.html

However spoken to ocuk to order today and they won't receive any stock until start of August and it's all sold. So I would be waiting even longer for the card to come into stock.

So I'll need to chose another card :(

The closer to the bottom end of my budget proffered but will go to 400 for the right one.

I'm using a 1080p freesync

Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake)
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4 3000MHz
Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI Intel Z170
Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply
NZXT S340 midi case.
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Your being given incorrect information, the stock shipped from Hong Kong Friday, it is due to land at OcUK Monday/Tuesday and 500 of them, so far only around 200 are pre-sold.
 
At 1080p he will never (or very very rarely) be under 60fps on a 980Ti, so it is still a viable option as freesync is better in the 40-60fps range from my understanding. I would personally still probably get an AMD card to take advantage of freesync monitor though.
 
Gibbo said:
Your being given incorrect information, the stock shipped from Hong Kong Friday, it is due to land at OcUK Monday/Tuesday and 500 of them, so far only around 200 are pre-sold.
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I wonder why the chap on the phone told me that i wouldn't get one then?couldnt be arsed taking an order lol

Thanks gibbo for letting me know.

The choice is between the fury nitro and the rx480 nitro.

I know that the benches are the 480 are not available but to everyone which card would you take from those 2?
 
Jack1991 said:
I wonder why the chap on the phone told me that i wouldn't get one then?couldnt be arsed taking an order lol

Thanks gibbo for letting me know.

The choice is between the fury nitro and the rx480 nitro.

I know that the benches are the 480 are not available but to everyone which card would you take from those 2?
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Either, I'd go Sapphire though. I imagine the Fury will be slightly faster more often than not and as you are at 1080p the ram won't be much of an issue, At most it'll mean reducing a setting such as textures down one from max which will have almost no visual impact, It doesn't seem to for me anyway.
 
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