SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!

[humbug]

I just looked, its not a 40 Watt difference at idle anyway.

The GTX 1060 is 5 Watts the 480 15 Watts, a 10 Watt difference. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1060/24.html

This is exactly the sort of hyperbolic nonsense i'm talking about, its madness talking about this crap as tho it was even remotely rational.

I feel like I need my head examined even reading this rubbish.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Its all these newbies joining in the last month or two going on saving billions of pounds in power.

Yes,we saw the same with the GTX750TI and the GTX960 - now they are being thrashed by the R7 265 and R9 380.

But,but saved some watts to run games slower and spend MORE money having to upgrade the blasted cards.

If people were more worried about performance,Nvidia would have to jack it up,but they won't since its easier for them to sell more cards since the older ones are "power consumption" optimised especially under £200.

Now AMD will probably end up emulating this and now people will just have to spend £200+ in the future to get a decent upgrade.

FFS,my GTX660,GTX960 and HD7850 barely broke 200W at the wall gaming with an older generation Core i7 and loads of drives.

My last few PSUs have been 450W units.

Valve powered their first SteamBox with a Core i7 4770 and a Geforce Titan,YES A GEFORCE TITAN,off a SFX group regulated 450W unit.

A SFF unit - not a full sized one.

 

[Bonjour]

Which clearly shows a bog-standard 480 being compared to a massively overclocked Strix 1060. The fact that you have to show an extreme example shows how power efficient the 1060 is!

Its like me pointing out the 1060 uses less than 10 watts (idle) in multi-monitor set-ups, & comparing it to the 480s 40 watts, then claiming the 1060 is 400% more power efficient.

Although in the case of multi-monitor set-ups that is 100% true, that's not representative of the cards performance as a whole. Just like your extreme example isn't reflective of the additional power draw in the 480, which in a system like mine which is on 24/7 costs an extra £50 a year just to keep at idle!

Wait.. it was actually you that purchased an OCd 1060 citing power usage as a reason, then you criticise comparing an OCd 1060 to an RX480.

Good stuff.

 

[humbug]

Its all these newbies joining in the last month or two going on saving billions of pounds in power.

Yes,we saw the same with the GTX750TI and the GTX960 - now they are being thrashed by the R7 265 and R9 380.

But,but saved some watts to run games slower and spend MORE money having to upgrade the blasted cards.

If people were more worried about performance,Nvidia would have to jack it up,but they won't since its easier for them to sell more cards since the older ones are "power consumption" optimised especially under £200.

Now AMD will probably end up emulating this and now people will just have to spend £200+ in the future to get a decent upgrade.

Exactly.

So get the weaker card and save some pennies on power, don't try to rationalise it by comparing it against cards with more fully featured architectures that use pennies worth more power.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Exactly.

So get the weaker card and save some pennies on power, don't try to rationalise it by comparing it against cards with more fully featured architectures that use pennies worth more power.

Its also interesting that all these power consumption and "only care about present performance" warriors are all these newbies who have joined like two seconds ago,and conveniently don't seem to realise we had all these silly power consumption E-PEEN arguments years ago,or even the whole issue of longevity arguments already. Its like going backwards a few years.

I wish AMD and Nvidia launched all their sodding cards,otherwise we are going to have months more of saying the same thing we said years ago.

 

[flowrider99]

Yes but you should really wait, you have a GPU to use and it can't be too much longer.

I know you're right, the 480 is better value that a 470, i dont have a preorder in as i am waiting for stock so i will be lucky to get a 480 before Christmas.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

I know you're right, the 480 is better value that a 470, i dont have a preorder in as i am waiting for stock so i will be lucky to get a 480 before Christmas.

I'd say wait as well, and if not, and you can put forward a bit more the Fury cards are £299 at the moment.

I'd personally avoid the 470 as much as possible in your situation as you have a 380 currently.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wait.. it was actually you that purchased an OCd 1060 citing power usage as a reason, then you criticise comparing an OCd 1060 to an RX480.

Good stuff.

Why doesn't he buy a GTX750TI??

Drop some settings and save loads of power?? I think the GTX750TI consumes 60W less or something.

Plonk in a low power Core i3 6100T in a mini-ITX motherboard and use a pico-PSU with a decent power block.

That would be very efficient indeed.

Playing at higher resolution and settings eats power,so an energy efficient gamer would be looking at lower settings.

Heck,playing Crysis 3 might consume more power than DOTA2.

Might be a good idea to avoid power hogging FPS games too.

Or buy a console.

 

[humbug]

Its also interesting that all these power consumption and "only care about present performance" warriors are all these newbies who have joined like two seconds ago,and conveniently don't seem to realise we had all these silly power consumption E-PEEN arguments years ago,or even the whole issue of longevity arguments already. Its like going backwards a few years.

I wish AMD and Nvidia launched all their sodding cards,otherwise we are going to have months more of saying the same thing we said years ago.

Little do these people realise how much vendor loyalty costs them.
Nvidia do not appropriate them, they just become more untouchable, the more untouchable they get the more they #### those same people over.

Forget about rationality, what about self respect? do they not realise they are acting as Nvidia puppets?

 

[humbug]

@ 9th_Attempt, i agree with CAT, get an XBox One, far more efficient than your rig, it will save you £586 a year.

And help AMD's coffers!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

LMAO now climate change arguments - if you cared that much about the enviroment you would not having a blasted desktop PC would you from a shop called,wait for it....

Then in desperation when they realise they are talking nonsense call everybody who does not agree with them "fan".

Yes,looking at my last three major card purchases they have been,wait for it...
1.)GTX660
2.)HD7850
3.)GTX960

I heard it all now - someone who cares about climate change has a desktop PC and CBA to even switch it off 24/7.

Sounds like another Champagne socialist.

If you actually cared about the environment and the world,people in the western world could do far more to reduce their energy footprint.

Your usage patterns and general lifestyle do far more to reduce energy.

Take an example of this bloke:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843

He lives a frugal,and efficient life and gives away most of what he earns to help people who need it. He actually stands by his convictions.

He probably consumes less energy and produces less waste than most of us and helps far more people in the world.

 

[Nocliptoni]

you know the real funny thing is i had some tin pot thing for a 2nd desktop i had my kids used as a gaming machine reasonable gpu in and cpu and it last for like 6-7 years lol. it was i think £15 .

haha longer than all the proper branded ones i owned

You can get lucky agreed but i do not like to rely on luck in matters electrical .Should something go wrong one of those cheapo PSU's can take your whole system with it therefore i rather tend to to play it safe

 

[N19h7m4r3]

If you're concerned about power usage of a 480 just buy the Powercolor Red Devil and run it in silent mode once it's in stock.

Under gaming load it uses 1W more than a Reference 1060. In Overclock Mode it uses 32W more than the MSI Gaming 1060.
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07...leistungsaufnahme-des-gesamtsystems-anno-2205

It'll also slap around even the GTX 1080 if you use it for video encoding while using less power in Silent mode, and being much quieter and cheaper.

 

[HRL]

Anyone running one of these off a 550w PSU?

Yep, with an OC'd i7, 16Gb RAM, 3 X SSD's and a Nitro OC+ 8Gb.

No problems at all.

 

[humbug]

Oh I'm sorry, my days of teaching school kids how to use computers are over, especially as we now have the internet which you clearly have access too.

But encoding video is impossible on an Xbox, but I suspect you weren't aware of that. Just posting so others don't get confused by your misinformation.

If your encoding Video you would save a lot of power in the long run with the RX 480 given that it is vastly more powerful than the GTX 1060 at compute tasks while using little more power, you would get the job done much faster.

 

[kieran_read]

So on a 24/7 system like mine, and what with £50 a year just being "pennies" to you and all above, I expect you will be crediting my overclockers account with that amount, just to show me how triflingly small that amount is, will you?

No, of course not! Posting nonsense is and always will be, nothing but nonsense! The funny part is that all of the above posters who spout nonsense about how its just pennies or who deny climate change, are the exact ones who made me think about what I would be supporting if I bought AMD again. They have in fact alienated me away from AMD, so I am happy they did that!

My point was that AMD have messed up. They have taken a ton of good will and wee-weed it away. They had my money. They had my business. My money had been sitting with Overclockers for a month, but there was no word of when the product would arrive. I have been an AMD (ATI) customer for years, and havn't bought NVidia since my 7600 GT!

If AMD had delayed launch and maybe talked to the AIBs and been better with comms, they wouldn't have had to rely in 'fanboy' posters to do their work for them, which has also backfired in spectacular fashion too! All thanks to posts like yours! Cheers matie-boy!

No one is saying £50 is pennies people are disputing your numbers

The really pathetic thing here is the arguing over a few watts of power.

At 40 Watts it would take 25 Hours to get to 1Kw Hour @ 15 Pence it would take a full year of constant running to cost £5.10 more than the 480, not £50, where did you get that idiotic number from?

Just stop, the power consumption difference is nothing in real terms.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If you care so muched about saving energy for video encoding you could use a cloud video encoding service!

I know mates who have used cloud rendering services for 3D work - very efficient indeed!

 

[humbug]

If you care so muched about saving energy for video encoding you could use a cloud video encoding service!

I know mates who have used cloud rendering services for 3D work - very efficient indeed!

Or that, yes...

Or get an RX 460, about the same compute performance as the 1060 with less power.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Or that, yes...

Or get an RX 460, about the same compute performance as the 1060 with less power.

In his last thread he said Nvidia was 1000000000000000000X better for video encoding.

I got to say the timing of some of these new members is very interesting.

 

[Yutang13]

Its all these newbies joining in the last month or two going on saving billions of pounds in power.

Yes,we saw the same with the GTX750TI and the GTX960 - now they are being thrashed by the R7 265 and R9 380.

But,but saved some watts to run games slower and spend MORE money having to upgrade the blasted cards.

If people were more worried about performance,Nvidia would have to jack it up,but they won't since its easier for them to sell more cards since the older ones are "power consumption" optimised especially under £200.

Now AMD will probably end up emulating this and now people will just have to spend £200+ in the future to get a decent upgrade.

FFS,my GTX660,GTX960 and HD7850 barely broke 200W at the wall gaming with an older generation Core i7 and loads of drives.

My last few PSUs have been 450W units.

Valve powered their first SteamBox with a Core i7 4770 and a Geforce Titan,YES A GEFORCE TITAN,off a SFX group regulated 450W unit.

A SFF unit - not a full sized one.

So on a 24/7 system like mine, and what with £50 a year just being "pennies" to you and all above, I expect you will be crediting my overclockers account with that amount, just to show me how triflingly small that amount is, will you?

No, of course not! Posting nonsense is and always will be, nothing but nonsense! The funny part is that all of the above posters who spout nonsense about how its just pennies or who deny climate change, are the exact ones who made me think about what I would be supporting if I bought AMD again. They have in fact alienated me away from AMD, so I am happy they did that!

My point was that AMD have messed up. They have taken a ton of good will and wee-weed it away. They had my money. They had my business. My money had been sitting with Overclockers for a month, but there was no word of when the product would arrive. I have been an AMD (ATI) customer for years, and havn't bought NVidia since my 7600 GT!

If AMD had delayed launch and maybe talked to the AIBs and been better with comms, they wouldn't have had to rely in 'fanboy' posters to do their work for them, which has also backfired in spectacular fashion too! All thanks to posts like yours! Cheers matie-boy!

Dude come on, really? You seem so hung up on using less power to save money and reduce climate change. Then why are you discussing gaming graphic cards? and why is your system always on?.