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Worth upgrading?
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It's not worth upgrading to a 'last gen' GPU. NVidia have a tendency to drop their last gen like a hot stone, there are lots of stories on the internet about this, so if you are going to switch to NVidia then either a 1060 or 1070 is the minimum I'd look at.
Saying that, from an early benchmark just released, it looks like the 1060 is ~5% slower than the new rx480 from AMD.
Saying that, from an early benchmark just released, it looks like the 1060 is ~5% slower than the new rx480 from AMD.
It's not that dramatic, come on
I'm a 980Ti SLI user here, and have zero intention of upgrading for a good while. I also did the same with 780Ti SLI. Previous gen cards are not dropped like stone. Minor driver advancements give a boost to the latest gens, but it never amounts to anything worth worrying about in my experience.
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Well my 780 still seems to work ok with the latest drivers 
There just comes a point where driver optimisation reaches its limit.
There just comes a point where driver optimisation reaches its limit.
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Id say get a custom 480 once they release, early indications are not looking great for the 1060 and it could well be over £250 also....
if you often reach memory limit on the games you play, or have more DX12 titles to play in the future, it's worth the upgrade.
if not you can save up for 1070, or wait up for 490.
Optimization definitely stalls once new cards come out for Nvidia, no doubt about that, but it's not the end of the world, it just makes AMD look better long term - whether to go for short term max performance or overall performance for longer, is a question as old as humanity itself. Personally, I lean AMD, but I have a GTS 450 in an old PC back home and it's trucking along mightily in most popular MP games (CSGO, DotA 2, PoE, etc.), very satisfied with it when I go back.
See http://www.babeltechreviews.com/nvidia-forgotten-kepler-gtx-780-ti-vs-290x-revisited/3/
See http://www.babeltechreviews.com/nvidia-forgotten-kepler-gtx-780-ti-vs-290x-revisited/3/
I usually upgrade when it struggles to run games on max settings really, I game at 1080 right now with a planned upgrade to one of the super wide 27" monitors but no 4k on the horizon yet.
so 480 is the recommended one by the sounds of it then? how is the support then? driver wise in regards to it running the latest games properly? with my 285 I couldn't play just cause for a good few weeks due to AMD driver issues so I'd rather not have that repeat it self.
so 480 is the recommended one by the sounds of it then? how is the support then? driver wise in regards to it running the latest games properly? with my 285 I couldn't play just cause for a good few weeks due to AMD driver issues so I'd rather not have that repeat it self.
AMD drivers been great for quite some time now, and you can't really avoid occasional issues from both vendors anyway.
if you are going to pick one i would suggest Sapphire Nitro 480, dont get the reference one.
I'm not surprised you found a few niggly issues with new games on a 285, the 290 also had less performance than usual when Doom released. Their newer cards did not suffer the same way.
You should find AMD's single GPU support to be excellent on the 480 though. They really have a tight grip on optimising their latest GCN architecture. I would be surprised if the 480 does not start to seriously pull away from the 970 with future DX12/Vulkan games. The 970 will really not age well in future games compared to the 480.
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