GPU Value Comparisons

Neoprod said:
Eish...the Exoc 960 and 970 were consistently the most affordable 9x cards you could get here. Hoping that's just a demand thing with the pricing of the 1070.
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I think Tim from OC3D pointed out that Nvidia have shifted the price points up a notch. So 1080 is pricing where the 980ti was, and 1070 is where the 980 was. It's not just a demand thing. Then if you take the rand value into account it becomes even worse for us here.
 
cerebus said:
I think Tim from OC3D pointed out that Nvidia have shifted the price points up a notch. So 1080 is pricing where the 980ti was, and 1070 is where the 980 was. It's not just a demand thing. Then if you take the rand value into account it becomes even worse for us here.
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So is anyone going to launch cards at the $380 the 1070 was promised at? You're depressing me :(
 
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-1500mhz-overclocking-tool-voltage-control/
Now let’s talk more about what the RX 480 can do in terms of overclocking. Many RX 480 graphics cardsfrom AMD’s Add-In-Board partners will be capable of ~1.4Ghz boost clocks after some very basic overclocking. The cards can be pushed beyond that with voltage adjustments. The “Beast Mode” RX 480 $299 cards that we had talked about two days ago will come with pretty hefty factory overclocks right out of the box and some will be able to hit 1.5Ghz+ on air after some over-volting and fine tuning.

Now, all of these are just meaningless numbers without a performance comparison. So to put it all into perspective, an overclocked RX 480 will actually perform within striking distance of AMD’s current R9 Fury X flagship. At less than one third of the cost. If that’s not a good enough point to end on, I don’t know what is. It certainly looks like AMD may have hit a home run with its 14nm Polaris graphics chips.
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Independent benchmarks should make for interesting reading in the next 2-3 weeks.
 
^Should do. What do you guys think a used 390x or 980 is going to bottom at? I think I'm going to play the waiting game and maybe upgrade my tv and/or monitor to uhd first.

Cheers
 
Gnarls said:
^Should do. What do you guys think a used 390x or 980 is going to bottom at? I think I'm going to play the waiting game and maybe upgrade my tv and/or monitor to uhd first.

Cheers
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I think we will see gtx 980/r9 390x at R5000 soon ,maybe within a month of the rx480 being released.

Some R9 390x cards are going for R5500 on carb at the moment.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
I think we will see gtx 980/r9 390x at R5000 soon ,maybe within a month of the rx480 being released.

Some R9 390x cards are going for R5500 on carb at the moment.
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I do not seeing our local distributors budging though… maybe Fire Sales here and there.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
I think we will see gtx 980/r9 390x at R5000 soon ,maybe within a month of the rx480 being released.

Some R9 390x cards are going for R5500 on carb at the moment.
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Thanks for the advice. I think I'm going to sit tight for a while and see how everything shakes out.
 
For anyone who's interested in a mid-tier gaming PC, I got a Gigabyte 1070 G1 yesterday and ran very few gaming benchmarks. I will get around to 3D mark, but didn't have many hours in the evening to play around.

PC Specs:
MSi Z170a Gaming pro MB
i5 6600k stock for now
16gb DDR4 3200mhz ram
250gb Samsung Evo SSD (boot with some random apps)
1tb Samsumg Evo SSD (has my games etc on it)

The Division: everything maxed, running the ingame benchmark
1080p - I realised I had framerate limited the game to 60fps, so averaged 60fps
1440p - Lowest listed was 45fps, but averaged 60fps due to same limitation above
3860x2160 - Averaged 27fps with a lowest of 25.

GTA V: everything maxed, just did a 4k test here
3860x2160 - Averaged 45fps, lowest seen was 40.1

I've since installed the OC tool and set it to OC mode as well as making a more conscience easing custom fan profile.
I'll re-run the tests tomorrow, including other resolutions for GTA and hopefully 3D Mark IF anyone is actually interested.

Hopefully that gives some insight regarding stock performance on both the gfx card and cpu.
I know the results are few, so not greatly insightful, so apologies for that.
 
This will sound like a justification post, but after reading a couple of the reviews, I'm happy with my 1070 purchase.
I'd like to see what AdoredTV man has to say. While seemingly want AMD to do well, he to me comes across as unbiased.
 
PhreeMe said:
I'd like to see what AdoredTV man has to say. While seemingly want AMD to do well, he to me comes across as unbiased.
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[video=youtube;2IcRF201cEc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IcRF201cEc[/video]
 
ponder said:
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Thanks. I watched that last night as well as a few others.
What surprises me is how well it seems to scale in Crossfire. Well in most games at least.

For anyone looking at 1080p gaming, it seems the most logical choice (looking at DX12 performance as factor as well) for that market.
1440p is not a bad showing, but at that point I feel the argument starts tilting toward the 1070 (this is ignoring budgetary constraints).
 
These reference cards have really ****ty coolers hence the high thermals & dropping of frequencies.

[video=youtube_share;Uvhyrz5oDPo]https://youtu.be/Uvhyrz5oDPo?t=12m[/video]

I would not touch these reference cards due to thermals & power usage with only 1x 6-pin connector.
 
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