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According to Gibbo he said more 4GB cards are on the way. Sapphire just leaked a 4GB Nitro card too.
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According to Gibbo he said more 4GB cards are on the way. Sapphire just leaked a 4GB Nitro card too.
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The difference will likely be akin to that of a Fury X vs a 980 Ti. I remember how you (quite literally) hyped the Fury for an entire year, only to get rid if it within a month for the superior Nvidia alternative.
I will respect your decision when you buy the big Pascal chip as soon as it lands, which you will undoubtedly do regardless of the price. I hope you show the same respect to people who choose to buy a GTX 1060.
Hyped it? You mad bro? I buy from both camps, don't hype any of em. Just call it how I see it from actual user experience when I have the card in my hands.
GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 are massively overpriced. That's my opinion. You're baiting ain't gonna change that. Nor is it anything to do with respecting someones decision to buy something.
Go bait elsewhere, back under your bridge plz
Sure it is. Gibbo's sales numbers suggest other wise. They were literally flying out of the door.
PC gaming is growing quite a bit and there is more hype around launches now than ever thanks to social media. I wouldn't give the verdict until a few months down the line. The hardcore fans will buy it day 1 and there's more of them each year.
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Wow this post is just full of nonsense. You must be really upset that AMD have a good selling card on their hands.
Take it easy mate.
Sure it is
So did the FX5800, so what.
Ignorant buyers doesn't change the absolute fac6tualy information about a card.
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Even when AMD win they lose. Look at the nano..hbm, fast.. small... No HDMI2.0 what were they thinking?
RX480, over clocked too far for launch to give good reviews, gets neutered within a week as they had to give it too much juice one step forward one back.
RX480, over clocked too far for launch to give good reviews, gets neutered within a week as they had to give it too much juice one step forward one back.
Your post is nonsense. The fact of the matter is with a brand new architecture and a whole new 14nm fab process AMD can release a card with he same performance and power as a generation old 970 built on 28nm. That is an epic failure.
oh, and why would I be upset that AMD are supposedly selling decent volume. that is quite news, hopefully means despite their monumental screw up they are getting some much needed returns on their investment.
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awesome, more free memory then!
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I see the Nvidia defense force is in full swing today.
Good job guys, I hope these guys get paid well for their work.
Honestly between the shills and the fanboys it makes me cringe sometimes to have an Nvidia card. Eeeeew, 'shudders'.
I think from now on no more GPU sub section for me. Will leave the shills etc to it. This place has become toxic. I will miss the few decent guys on here though.
Peace.
Good job guys, I hope these guys get paid well for their work.
Honestly between the shills and the fanboys it makes me cringe sometimes to have an Nvidia card. Eeeeew, 'shudders'.
I think from now on no more GPU sub section for me. Will leave the shills etc to it. This place has become toxic. I will miss the few decent guys on here though.
Peace.
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It will force the OEMs* to concentrate more on 4gb offerings. 3gb 1060 seem weaksauce, but 4gb 480s for <£190 would be just under the big 6gb card radars.
*or AIBs or whatever the new word for them is.
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don't know what you mean, I am tempted to get a 4gb for myself just to see if i can flash it.
Pathetic as always
IF you are are going to keep claim people shill you better prove it or face suspension.
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Yea sales in the long term matter more but reading around you would think the RX480 was some fail of a launch. The initial sales have been good and the reviews have been positive. Sure there are things not to like but it's not the fail some would put it down as.
AMD could release a card twice as fast but you would still call it a fail . Even in a 1060 thread you can't help yourself attacking AMD can you?
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First of all the 15% increase (marketing spiel) has not yet been highlighted under what circumstance it applies. It may be greater in some titles but it could also be behind by even more in others. You also have to look at percentages in relation to just quoting £60/£80 as if it is nothing. For many pushing to spend £200 is quite a stretch. Closer to £300 vastly reduces the sales potential from mainstream customers.
Alternatively I could say that an AMD card with MSRP $199 is potentially going to be outperformed by the 1060 with select titles or circumstances but costing 25% more at $250. By that mindset we could take the same 25% price percentage difference and put it to state that the 1070 is cheaper but the 1080 is faster.
1060 will have many good points but some do not see it trouncing the RX480 AIB models in all scenarios.
Reviews will be exciting but it would be nice to see people embrace the battle and fascination with the upcoming situation rather than just try to dog the other option.
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With pricing as it is, it looks like the 1060 is going to be no better value than the 1070. Just cheaper and slower by the same relative amount.
A nice overclocked AIB 1070 is ~£420
A nice overclocked AIB 1060 (6GB) will likely be ~£280
Both clocked the 1070 will be about 50% faster and 50% more expensive.
Lower tier cards are supposed to be good value...
A nice overclocked AIB 1070 is ~£420
A nice overclocked AIB 1060 (6GB) will likely be ~£280
Both clocked the 1070 will be about 50% faster and 50% more expensive.
Lower tier cards are supposed to be good value...
This is the thing most people are failing to realise Polaris as a new architecture from a neutral perspective is not great at all considering its more or less performing on the levels of Maxwell as far as perf/watt making them more or less a generation behind Nvidia and thats me really not being biased at all. It draws a lot of power for its performance, doesn't seem to clock too well and this driver update to fix the power draw seems to be indicating is just going to throttle the card as soon as it hits the power threshold its currently hitting.
In my opinion AMD should have really been gunning for at least 1070 performance per watt levels with the 480X allowing Vega to compete with 1080/Ti/Titan but from my perspective its looking like AMD need a 2 generation release (Polaris being 1st gen 14nm/Vega 2nd gen assuming Vega is going to be a significant increase in perf/watt) in a single generation time frame to match where Nvidia are at the moment. This may also have negative a knock on effect of maximising the node efficiency too early preventing significant gains in performance for future cards further down the line using the same node.
And you are right lets be honest a Nvidia fan isn't going to give 2 ***** about how many 480X's AMD sell with them having 80% market share.
Looks like there's not going to be a 3GB version and also looks to be space for a 256-bit + 8GB version looking at the 1060 PCB layout a lot of people have pointed out.
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Well technically it is $10 more expensive than the RX 480, so anything more than a tenner is gouged.