So gaming at 1080 for the foreseeable future what card would be better a 970 or a rx480 (both with AIB ) ?
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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So gaming at 1080 for the foreseeable future what card would be better a 970 or a rx480 (both with AIB ) ?
The prices have really only significantly dropped *very* recently. In anticipation of the 480 specifically, trying to clear stock. So compared to the current dropped prices, yes, it clouds the real performance/price gains made with the 480, but it's still not that big.
Performance especially, I was really expecting *at least* 390X performance, even in DX11 titles. Looks like Polaris 10 was highly tuned for low TDP more than performance.
Anyways, hopefully this is all wrong and more official reviews give a more positive picture.
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Its slower than a 970 or there abouts, what is the point of this card, is there big polaris coming soon?
We don't know for sure yet.
Looks like even 100Mhz more than stock is all it'd need to do to say it is doing better than the 480's cooler.
Nail on head!
I have a load of FREESYNC deals going live today.
RX-480 plus a sub £200 FREESYNC monitor is truly an incredible way to get silky smooth tear free gaming at sub £400, even £300 is nearly possible (RX-480 plus 22" FREESYNC), this is vastly less then say buying a 970/980 with a G-Sync monitor.
This is where AMD easily wins due to how much better value Freesync monitors are compared to G-sync.
Are you having an early lunch today Gibbo or none at all lol you'll be busy.
Lol, what on earth makes you think that? I've got a reference 1070, it's rock solid at 2073MHz for hours of gaming. Ran on a looping benchmark for around 8 hours on valley benchmark, temp never exceeding 69 degrees (@69% fan speed).
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We will need to see about that, and it's still hardly an achievement or close to the 2000Mhz you claimed.
As I said, in less than 2 hours we will know everything.
Did this really need its own thread?
When NDA lifts, we can have an official review thread. Not just a 'my personal thoughts that could have easily went into the topic where everybody is already discussing it, but I felt mine were more important' thread.
When NDA lifts, we can have an official review thread. Not just a 'my personal thoughts that could have easily went into the topic where everybody is already discussing it, but I felt mine were more important' thread.
But why release something we've had for 2 years already? The GTX 970 seems to be the better buy at this point, especially the models that overclock beyond 1500mhz. Not sure what to do now.
Thinking about picking up a second hand 290x as I already have a block for it.
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A reference (standard blower) card?
All we need now is for AMD to sponsor the England football team. It's a match made in heaven!
Lots of hype - no delivery.
Nope. Merged.
What AMD was thinking was: we need a 380x replacement card. People here should remember that surely?
Dang mods making me look senile.
An 8Gb RX480, if you want to gamble on console ports getting more texture heavy as we move to the "upgraded" XBox and PS4 Neo. AMD also tend to carry on pushing out driver performance releases for a lot longer than NVIDIA.