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380x - When?

FoxEye said:
I'm a mouth piece for nVidia? You could not be more wrong.

You know what? This thread is about the 380X. It's not about nVidia cards. The fact that every thread gets derailed into AMD vs nVidia is NOT a good thing, and I do not intend to contribute toward that.

I'm not a fan of the 960 or the 970, incidentally. The 960 because it really should have been the 950 (performance is way too low for the x60 spot) and the 970 because of the 3.5 GB ram fiasco. But that's neither here nor there in a thread about the 380X.

Tbh, I'm as neutral as they come, having owned both brands in equal numbers, and judging each card on price/perf grounds primarily.

Defending either company atm is difficult if you are, as I am, interested in mid-range cards and not the top end.

The fact that I'm not willing to praise AMD's offerings does not make me "anti AMD", despite your misconceptions.
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You and I are cut from the same cloth matey, I'll buy either brand, whichever gives the best value for money in the mid-range.

Throwing £400+ at a graphics card is lunacy to me, although back when I first started buying graphics cards in the late 90s at least a new generation actually offered some improvement, you could argue spending £400 makes more sense now as you'll be seeing it again just re-badged for the next 2 years, lol.

Look at Intel and the CPU market if you want to see how bad having one runaway leader is for the consumer, overpriced chips which aren't bad but besides power efficiency aren't offering the kind of performance increases that make me desperate to change my 4 year old i5 2500k (and only at stock).
 
As near as makes no difference £400 for the latest 8 thread i7 ^^^^ utter insanity. you can get a decent 42" Telly for that.

#Becausetheycan
 
Vizio M43-C1 43" 4K TV...... very nice for the money. But anyway...

I am still very confused why anyone expected a different result. It's is exactly like going from a 280 to a 280x, (380 to 380x which is obviously the 285 and 285X with 4GB RAM). Newer games the 380 and X play better than the 280's so why get hooked up on it. If you don't have a 280 or X... then they are good cards, otherwise, it's a sidegrade.

Too much time arguing rather than discussing.
 
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