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SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!
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Are these all 8GBs or anyone had a 4GB shipped out as well?
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Mine's an 8
My system will be interesting , i am going to move my R290x to another slot , i want to see how well they play together.
My system will be interesting , i am going to move my R290x to another slot , i want to see how well they play together.
Not surprising really. That's a long video to answer a question that didn't need answering! It barely reaches the level of a 1070 (less than £400) and 2 of those Strix cards are £580. Two Sapphire 480s are £500. You'd be mad to do it.
This is exactly why I have defended Nvidia's decision to disable SLI with 1060 in other threads. They're stopping people from making bad economic decisions.
Yeah not that much, and out of the box it's one of the lowest AIB cards as well with a boost of ~1300,
The XFX one is list at 1338Mhz so I wonder how it will do in reviews.
Although so far, despite its length the Powercolor looks to be the most well rounded card for performance to noise.
This German reviewer managed to get the Powercolor Red Devil stable at 1.42Ghz!
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.ph...radeon-rx-480-red-devil-im-test.html?start=18
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There are good reasons for not having SLI but the idea that Nvidia is looking out for the customers pennies is ridiculous.
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Spot on.
I didn't say it was intentional. I said it's stopping people from wasting money. It begs the question though, why have they done it?
Or the fact that two 1060 in sli will beat their new Titan x for about a third of the cost?
How could you possibly know that? New Titan X absolute performance (i.e. FPS in games) isn't even known yet. You also expect it to be £1500?
I say it's exactly the same thinking that had Intel removing the ability to overclock from most of their chips.
They are protecting sales of more expensive products by crippling the ability of cheaper products to compete.
And they feel they can get away with gimping their lower tiers because they do not have enough competition.
They are protecting sales of more expensive products by crippling the ability of cheaper products to compete.
And they feel they can get away with gimping their lower tiers because they do not have enough competition.
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This. They also would have released the 1060 at a higher price so as not to smash the price/performance of the 970/980, but they had to release it at a good price otherwise the RX480 would have killed Nvidia. AMD forcing them to lower the price would have made it competitive with the 1070/1080, had it been able to sli.
Let's assume 2x 1060 would be just a little bit faster than 1x 1070 given 2x RX 480 is slightly slower than 1x 1070 in most games. I would say that's a fair assumption.
Two 1060s cost £480-£500. One 1070 costs £400 or less.
It doesn't really compete anyway.
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I think they know multi gpu support is getting better, and 2 years from now a lot more games will be capable of showing something near the 1080 performance that dual 480's are capable of. But maybe I'm a bit too optimistic.
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Everything about the 1060 is a budget card. Nvidia must be making a pretty penny on it quite frankly. The PCB is significantly cheaper, has less components, doesn't need as good a cooler etc. AMD's card seems expensive, and yet still can't keep up in the large majority of things. In the future... maybe... but right now, no.
So.. no SLI fingers or support? Cost cutting.
So.. no SLI fingers or support? Cost cutting.
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Honestly, if you can get them for the same price and gaming is your thing, the 1060 is better, basically any price difference puts them on even ground price/performance wise currently with the 480 looking better in the future. Both cards are amazing.