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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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No it isnt.
My 1070 FE at stock maxes out at 83°C, it runs cool and quietThe official reviews also show the 1070 to be between 70 and 80 during gaming loads, so your statement is incorrect.
That is still pretty toasty to be honest. I prefer my chips to be as close to 60 as possible.
I really don't know what to get.
Seems this card won't do 1080 in recent games at 60 FPS or more.
@1080p
GTAV ~20FPS at max settings with AA and AF.
GTAV <60FPS with NO AA and NO AF.
Witcher 3 <60 FPS with NO AA and NO AF.
Witcher 3 <50 FPS with AA and AF.
The Division <60 FPS at max settings
This is 1080p. Not even 1440p.
Are games just getting too demanding even to play at 1080p with modern hardware?
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Holy crap!!!
GTX 1060 to be launch tomorrow???
This is caught me off guard, I am concerning about my GTX 970 now on ebay and the final value could possible plummet to £100 next week if everybody heard about GTX 1060 launch or read GTX 1060 reviews and benchmarks.
Poor AMD!
GTX 1060 will caught AMD off guard and they cant get a break now that GTX 1060 will stole lots of RX 480 sales LMAO.
Edit: GTX 1060 leaked pics.
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-pascal-gp106-leak/
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Not really, it's just the stupid 'Ultra', 'Epic' and other stupid presets that throw a lot of crap in and hinder performance but don't actually make any noticable to eye difference from 'High' which runs at least 2x quicker in most cases. I've seen a few vids comparing settings and I swear I thought that 'High' setting looked better than most 'Ultra' ones.
It's just stupid marketing gimmick which makes people think that they need to spend £600 on GPU (nvidia probably had some input in it). There is no reason why we need 7 setting presets instead of the old good Low / Med / High / Custom (if you wanted to crank in extra AA).
Holy crap!!!
GTX 1060 to be launch tomorrow???
This is caught me off guard, I am concerning about my GTX 970 now on ebay and the final value could possible plummet to £100 next week if everybody heard about GTX 1060 launch or read GTX 1060 reviews and benchmarks.
Poor AMD!
GTX 1060 will caught AMD off guard and they cant get a break now that GTX 1060 will stole lots of RX 480 sales LMAO.
Edit: GTX 1060 leaked pics.
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-pascal-gp106-leak/
Or, you know, 1060 is NOT launching tomorrow
Don't you think Gibbo would be hyping it already. Think about it for a sec 
Sometimes the most certain outcome is not what turns out as expected.
Even from deep analysis's and opinions of experts crunching numbers based on past history or data performance surprises can happen.
RX480 Farage Edition
Keen to see from official results and latest drivers if the 390x / 980 performance is what they have managed and certainly should have been what they targeted as its close to the $500 performance they branded for $199. I still doubt they would make such statement if only 970 was the true performance and if indeed that is the case. Then it will be disappointing even if its still decent value.
Whatever is the best card under £300 come July and seeing the AIB that is what I may go for...
Even from deep analysis's and opinions of experts crunching numbers based on past history or data performance surprises can happen.
RX480 Farage Edition
Keen to see from official results and latest drivers if the 390x / 980 performance is what they have managed and certainly should have been what they targeted as its close to the $500 performance they branded for $199. I still doubt they would make such statement if only 970 was the true performance and if indeed that is the case. Then it will be disappointing even if its still decent value.
Whatever is the best card under £300 come July and seeing the AIB that is what I may go for...
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Very true. Not many people see this.
What performance do other GPUs at a similar price point get at those settings? It has always been the case the lower tier GPUs required that settings must be lowered even at 1080p. People demand ever more realistic and enhanced graphics in their games otherwise how games look would have stagnated years ago and GPU manufacturers would have all gone out of business.
It's the normal cycle at play.
- Consumers demand ever increasing graphical quality.
- This forces developers to improve graphics with each new release or their games will get panned for looking dated.
- These new graphically improved game engines require more powerful PCs so GPU manufactures release ever more powerful GPUs to cope.
- Older GPUs become increasingly obsolescent with each new AAA game rendering them eventually nothing more than paper weights.
And so the cycle continues.
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the $ performance on graph related to crossfire results as far as I understand, as in, 2x 480 will cost under $500 and be equivalent in performance to a 1080 which costs $700.
Would take that with a pinch of salt.
Either way, if it's quicker than 970 it's already a good card at that price. You have to take into consideration that if 970/980 stock was not paid for already, the 970 would cost around £270 with current exchange. The only reason they're at £220-240 mark now is because the product is discontinued and we managed to get it at a good price earlier. If we looked at same exchange, it was supposed to be £199 which would have been quicker + new tech than £240-300 cards, sounds like a good deal.
No they made other references to the $500 performance, like VR and the supposed build quality. The 970 was never a $500 card.
I question the build quality as its mainly plastic to represent that. Asked a good while ago amongst arguments but did anyone ever show dual 970 in SLI for AOS for reference to an official test that was shown.
I question the build quality as its mainly plastic to represent that. Asked a good while ago amongst arguments but did anyone ever show dual 970 in SLI for AOS for reference to an official test that was shown.
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It seems a little strange to me to launch a mid range before your high end product. I really hope that AMD can compete so it drives the price of the high end cards down, nvidia seem to be stifling the market with poor supply so they can hold the prices up.
no way they have the stock or the performance to compete with 480.IF the 1060 launches in July at all i bet it will be the "not in the stores for months" edition like the 1070.
a new GP106 size should be about 50-60% the size of GP104, puting it around ~170mm², chip of that size will be 470 performance at best, and it needs to land around 150$.
the only way i see nvidia cutting off the 480 is with a 1060Ti, a further cutdown on GP104, and that would still be pricy, but should be on par with 480 perf.
but this 1day prior leak from nvidia seem kind of desperate if they dont follow up with something substantial, because from the context you know it's not a leak but a PR from Nvidia.
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