2016 GPUs 1070/1080 and 480/490

[ECA]

Zotac Geforce GTX 1070 AMP Extreme 8GB GDDR5 Dual-link DVI HDMI 3x DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card - Ebuyer

Alternatively I could spunk on this. And sell my 970.

 

[Wij]

Seems a lot for a 1070. You can get a basic 1080 for £520.

 

[ECA]

No you can't.

Even if you could, that would be 27% more expensive for 0 ( GTA V @ 1080p ) frame advantage to 10-15fps on some games. ( I'd say around 10-15% performance advantage average ).

 

[ECA]

EVGA FTW is the cheapest decent 1080 I could find and that's £600 the zotac amp ext is £615.

That's 50% cost ( zotac>zotac 1080s ), for 10-15% performance.

Bang for buck the 1070 is a much better proposition.

 

[Wij]

Ah, prices have gone up I see. This is the cheapest I see now:

KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 "Reference Blower" 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (80NSJ6DHK5VK)

Was definately one for £520 a week or so ago.

 

[ECA]

Nevah. Maybe you saw $620 somewhere

If anything the reference blowers have dropped a bit.

 

[BloodOmen]

480s in crossfire are apparently destroying 1080s.

Aye, I've seen some of the results BUT only games that has great support for CF.

 

[Wij]

Nevah. Maybe you saw $620 somewhere

If anything the reference blowers have dropped a bit.

Should have screenshotted it but there was

 

[ECA]

Soooo £409 for the zotac amp extreme 1070, or £614 for the zotac amp extreme 1080.......
Urgh

brain says 1070, scumbag brain says 1080.

 

[TdC]

lol ECA. I'm in the same boat tbh. with my SLI'd 970's I'm looking at ~40FPS in Dark Souls 3 and ~50FPS in DOOM. WOT have done some kind of micropatch and I've lost my 25FPS advantage and am back on ~60...which is fine except when my G-Sync turns off and I get odd tears and stutters

I'm wondering if I could get a stable 50 à 55FPS on a single 1070, like all the time. in that case I'd be sold.

 

[BloodOmen]

Soooo £409 for the zotac amp extreme 1070, or £614 for the zotac amp extreme 1080.......
Urgh

brain says 1070, scumbag brain says 1080.

Just get the 1070 and overclock it tbh

 

[fettoken]

Soooo £409 for the zotac amp extreme 1070, or £614 for the zotac amp extreme 1080.......
Urgh

brain says 1070, scumbag brain says 1080.

The question is, one 1080 right away now, or 2 x 1070 in semi-short-succession for future-proof pc-gaming. Can you survive on one 1070 now?

 

[Gwadien]

Are Nvidia still more widely supported than AMD cards though or are those days gone?

 

[ECA]

Just get the 1070 and overclock it tbh

The one I linked is already factory OCd and one of the highest factory OCs out there as well.

Are Nvidia still more widely supported than AMD cards though or are those days gone?

There's been a FEW gameworks games over the past few years that have been shit for amd ( project cars, witcher 3), not too many. AMD has better performance across the board in DX12 games - which are starting to come through. ( Rise of the tomb raider, hitman, etc ) but battlefield one is DX12, so we're starting to see more and more switch over. I think 12-24months and DX12 will be the norm for released games.

 

[BloodOmen]

The one I linked is already factory OCd and one of the highest factory OCs out there as well.



There's been a FEW gameworks games over the past few years that have been shit for amd ( project cars, witcher 3), not too many. AMD has better performance across the board in DX12 games - which are starting to come through. ( Rise of the tomb raider, hitman, etc ) but battlefield one is DX12, so we're starting to see more and more switch over. I think 12-24months and DX12 will be the norm for released games.

Aww ok, I didn't check the link Zotac one though! thumbs up.

 

[Embattle]

Are two RX 480s faster than a single GTX 1080?

 

[Embattle]

Single - AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB Review
Crossfire - AMD Radeon RX 480 CrossFire Review

 

[BloodOmen]

Erk

AMD’s Radeon RX 480 may be too powerful for its own good

 

[ECA]

Already been mentioned, and debunked.
It's an issue with some motherboards using incorrect settings - not the 480.

 

[ECA]

Preordered the 1070 amp extreme, it clocks at >1900mhz boost, so 20% over the factory, and requires 2x8pin for the extra power.
Should come damn close to a reference 1080.

 

[TdC]

do tell how you get on with it plx chumlar. I'm unsure as that edition is "only" 13 euros cheaper than the cheapest 1080 I could find on an NL pricewatch site. that said it's still a hundo and a half cheaper than the average 1080...

 

[BloodOmen]

Almost fucked my motherboard, yay!

Kids were shouting and yelling and I totally forgot about the clip holding my GTX in place on the board itself, yanked the GTX 780 out a long with the motherboard mount that you plug cards into, bent most of the pins... thankfully it didnt blow up or short out when I turned it on having to use one of the other slots for my 480 now.

 

[ECA]

do tell how you get on with it plx chumlar. I'm unsure as that edition is "only" 13 euros cheaper than the cheapest 1080 I could find on an NL pricewatch site. that said it's still a hundo and a half cheaper than the average 1080...

That makes me sad, it's £150 cheaper than a reference 1080 for me.

 

[Wij]

My 1080 still hasn't arrived

 

[BloodOmen]

pleased with the 480 so far going to wait for some more benchmarks before I buy a second 480 for CF though.

 

[Embattle]

Retail RX 480 4GB to 8GB Memory Unlock Mod Works

 

[caLLous]

Nvidia GTX 1080, 1070 Display Port Incompatible With Vive HMD

Oops.

 

[Raven]

That's only the basic model. Proper ones appear to work.

 

[dysfunction]

Or should perhaps wait for this

Nvidia Pascal-Based Titan 50% Faster than GeForce GTX 1080

 

[ECA]

Yeah except that'll be £1k+