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WHICH RX480

The £199 Sapphire 4GB RX480s are perfectly priced as far as i'm concerned. You get a decent budget card for that can play most things at max right now (at 1080p) and will last a few years.
 
The issue for me is that the 1060 has 6gb. So I think that 4gb (matching the last gen 970) will become the bare minimum rather than the norm. But the £80 gap on the msi card is silly. I think that price is inflated due to low availability and that price hopefully will stabilise quite a bit lower than that.
 
danlightbulb said:
The issue for me is that the 1060 has 6gb. So I think that 4gb (matching the last gen 970) will become the bare minimum rather than the norm. But the £80 gap on the msi card is silly. I think that price is inflated due to low availability and that price hopefully will stabilise quite a bit lower than that.
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The £80 gap for the MSI is silly. I have one and it's great (also extremely quiet) but that's a Hell of a price jump. I think it's mainly supply and demand - people want the MSI ones.

But regards your first point, I think 4GB will be the minimum in the near future (i.e. there will be a sharp drop-off performance below that), but I don't think it will be the "bare minimum" in the sense that it only just copes. It will be fine. The reason being that there will be an enormous number of such systems out there. Just because 4GB is a baseline and 12GB is a top-end, doesn't mean that the middle is 8GB. The median might be, but that's not the same as the mode being 8GB. With vast numbers of 4GB cards out there in use, they'll be well cared for by game developers. It's the ones below that which will be increasingly rare where your needs will be disregarded.
 
Quite a few >4gb cards already in the steam hardware survey. We could see >4gb being required for those 1080p ultra settings in a fairly short space of time. It's a risk I think, if buying 4gb now that there is plenty of choice around in 6gb and 8gb cards.
 
I have powercolor PCS+ 290 and the thing is a beast - I've been able hit 1150 easily - I'm looking at snagging powercolor 480 soon - slight upgrade and more memory....as I don't think we've seen 480 completely stretch its legs yet
 
meldarthx said:
I have powercolor PCS+ 290 and the thing is a beast - I've been able hit 1150 easily - I'm looking at snagging powercolor 480 soon - slight upgrade and more memory....as I don't think we've seen 480 completely stretch its legs yet
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Doesn't make much sense as an upgrade, there's hardly anything between them in DX11 so you'd only really see gains in DX12.
 
Minstadave said:
Doesn't make much sense as an upgrade, there's hardly anything between them in DX11 so you'd only really see gains in DX12.
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I want to test the differences - plus I can move 290 to my other system and 7870LE to my 3rd system; 290 aged extremely well but 480 is a small upgrade and also ram upgrade from it - but if we hear about Vega soon I'll hold fire for vega.....plus its a new toy ;)
 
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