That is a downgrade, not a side grade.
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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199
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That is a downgrade, not a side grade.
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I would sell it now since the RX480 AIB cards and GTX1060 will be released soon,and equal or exceed the performance of your GTX980 with more VRAM for around £230 to £300. Both cards will be better served going forward in newer games IMHO.
I thought the aftermarket 480s were equal to the 980? The reference is slower sure.
That one link at the top has it outperforming the Nano. (15363 Firestrike score, my 980 at 1450 got 14500 or something). 980 getting thrashed in DX12 is my main concern which I can already see in Total War Warhammer. Deus Ex DX12 and Battlefield 1 DX12 soon
That one link at the top has it outperforming the Nano. (15363 Firestrike score, my 980 at 1450 got 14500 or something). 980 getting thrashed in DX12 is my main concern which I can already see in Total War Warhammer. Deus Ex DX12 and Battlefield 1 DX12 soon
Caporegime
I thought the aftermarket 480s were equal to the 980? The reference is slower sure.
That one link at the top has it outperforming the Nano. (15363 Firestrike score, my 980 at 1450 got 14500 or something). 980 getting thrashed in DX12 is my main concern which I can already see in Total War Warhammer. Deus Ex DX12 and Battlefield 1 DX12 soon
The thing is the reference RX480 does throttle down to under 1.2GHZ and has a degree of power throttling. Hence,I expect AIB RX480 cards to be somewhat quicker. Then you also have the GTX1060 if you want to stay with Nvidia.
Either way,these should have greater longetivity than your GTX980 IMHO OFC.
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I did the same and got £230 cash in my hand for my 980, ended up being a waste of time with the reference model RX480 - it clocked like a dog and hit 90 celsius. I didn't tale into consideration my 980 did 1500mhz, prob beating the RX480 fairly easily all while in the mid 70's absolute max.
MAYBE the custom ones will be better but it's all guess work for now, MAYBE the drivers will knock up the performance.
Personally I would say stick with what you got.
Caporegime
It still does not change the fact his GTX980 is decreasing in value and the GTX1060 will essentially kill off the GTX980 anyway. Either way it is better to ditch it while it has value and wait for reviews of the AIB RX480 and GTX1060. These will be released in two weeks time.
Who is going to pay decent money for a used GTX980 4GB once the AIB RX480 and GTX1060 cards are released at around £230 to £280?? You can get a new GTX980 at the upper end of that price range now. From what we have heard Nvidia is targetting GTX980 level performance but at a lower price,with DX12 fixes and 50% more VRAM too.
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I thought the aftermarket 480s were equal to the 980? The reference is slower sure.
That one link at the top has it outperforming the Nano. (15363 Firestrike score, my 980 at 1450 got 14500 or something). 980 getting thrashed in DX12 is my main concern which I can already see in Total War Warhammer. Deus Ex DX12 and Battlefield 1 DX12 soon
Basically it comes down to this, if your of the opinion that DX12 matters and will matter more in the future, and are patient enough to wait for drivers to improve performance over the lifespan of the card, then an aftermarket 480 is probably a good choice for you.
If your one of the nearsighted now now now, fast food generation with short attention span and a believer of faster right now is better than long term performance, then a vendor other than AMD is probably your best bet.
Basically it comes down to if you want to upgrade again next or so when plenty more DX12 titles are available, or if your happy to wait it out for superior DX12 performance in the future at the cost of lesser performance right now.
let me ask you a question, what would 980 owners have if they had a choice, extra 4Go of memory or extra 10% perf through OC ?
would they consider extra 20% performance in DX12 games a downgarde, sidegrade or upgrade ? that is still a significant performance gain for probably half the triple A games in 2017/2018.
i would rather suggest a 490 instead for an upgarde from 980, but seeing the price of the 480 that wouldn't be that much of value lost untill then, and he still gets to enjoy higher settings with memory hungry ones.
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Sod it I'm going for a Nitro 480, double vram and actual DX12 performance seals the deal.
All you lads saying its a downgrade are referring to the reference 480 surely. 480 can only get better with drivers while the 980 will be terrible by christmas in new games IMO looking at nvidias past history with drivers on older cards when a new gen arrives.
Yes I'm going for long term performance SiDeards73 (next upgrade 2018), if the 980 had decent DX12 performance I would have kept it. All big games from now on will be DX12.
All you lads saying its a downgrade are referring to the reference 480 surely. 480 can only get better with drivers while the 980 will be terrible by christmas in new games IMO looking at nvidias past history with drivers on older cards when a new gen arrives.
Yes I'm going for long term performance SiDeards73 (next upgrade 2018), if the 980 had decent DX12 performance I would have kept it. All big games from now on will be DX12.
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Dont say that too loudly, or your going to get a lot of Nvidia fanboys in this thread basically calling you a moron
I think a smart decision would be to wait for all the AMD custom reviews and make your choice, or you could do what im doing, hold out til the Vega cards come, rumors of an October release for the smaller one, but if your adamant on an upgrade now, then the 480 customs will probably be a good bet going forwards.
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Smart man.
you would say that Matt
Tell your bosses to hurry the hell up with Vega, i need to upgrade my 290, i want Vega and i want it ASAP
Why would you do this? It would be a downgrade if anything. Is it the SC version you have that boosts to Boost 1367MHz+ out the box?
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Buying a 480 in replacement of a 980 is just daft if you ask me at this current time and would have been better staying put and actually buying an upgrade you've just bought AMDs version of last gen Nvidia tech with some speculative future improvements.
Funny how people are talking about DX12 performance like theres anything currently to actually go by that isn't biased or just a junk badly optimised console port like Hitman which is DX11. The true DX12 games and getting the most out of DX12 is going to take more than 1-2 years just like the DX11 adoption took a long time, by the time real DX12 games come out the 480X isn't going to have the grunt. This argument of AMD having better future performance is kinda funny as its based on nothing but marketing and not really reality at this time based on what we have. And all these assumptions are also based on Nvidia not making any software improvements on there side.
I would wait for Vega if I were you hopefully they managed squeeze and extra 50% perf/per over the Polaris 14nm demo they gave us to actually become competitive.
Funny how people are talking about DX12 performance like theres anything currently to actually go by that isn't biased or just a junk badly optimised console port like Hitman which is DX11. The true DX12 games and getting the most out of DX12 is going to take more than 1-2 years just like the DX11 adoption took a long time, by the time real DX12 games come out the 480X isn't going to have the grunt. This argument of AMD having better future performance is kinda funny as its based on nothing but marketing and not really reality at this time based on what we have. And all these assumptions are also based on Nvidia not making any software improvements on there side.
I would wait for Vega if I were you hopefully they managed squeeze and extra 50% perf/per over the Polaris 14nm demo they gave us to actually become competitive.
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There is some ludicrous amounts of overhyping DX12 going on.
Most 980's will boost to 1400Mhz+, if not out of the box, then with a 10 second effort in MSI Afterburner.
But whatever man. Let people make their decisions. It'll be a downgrade in most games, but hey, his choice.
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And we're off, told you the bashing would start! Stay strong brother don't let them grind you down!!
Seriously though, it's his choice, leave him be, just respect his opinion and decision, it has zero effect on your life and situation
Seriously though, it's his choice, leave him be, just respect his opinion and decision, it has zero effect on your life and situation
hate to break it to you, but DX12 games will cascade down way faster than you think, the whole microsoft line up this year and next year is coming to PC, Dice integrated DX12 to frostbite, first game will be Battlefield 1 and then all EA games using frostbite will have DX12 from now on, maybe not masseffect andromeda, because that games was in developement for like 5 years,square enix already started with tomb raider, hitman, deus EX, only major publisher left is ubisoft(although there are rumours for watch dogs 2 to be dx12) and activision, the transition period from old to new console is done, and last E3 showed how game evolved compared to what they used to show in 2014/2015, most Devs moved to async compute, and latest news win10 over took win7 on steam, i wouldn't be surprised if the majority of games released in 2017 are dx12, 2018 definitly will ( triple A that is )
some ppl will stay in denial untill they will start seeing their card being out performed by a cheaper card in less than a year, in almost every game they play.
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Traditionally that would favour the card with more pure grunt?
So if we are only going to get junk for the near future (everyone says no real dx12 games anytime soon) then it is a very good idea to purchase a relatively cheap card that does these junk ports very well?