Just bought myself one of these for £119.99 at Novatech, free delivery. Cheapest I could find elsewhere was £139 delivered from Overclockers. Normally seems to go for around £150, was posted at £159 in June.
Have had no problems running anything on Ultra.
ALSO forgot to add, 3.15% cashback from TCB which brings it down to around £115.36.
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BluesFanUK
28 Nov 151#1
Decent for 1080p at a very good price. I have a Dual-X 270x, though for 4K (even NON GAMING), it's absolutely woeful.
JimmyLevvy2
28 Nov 151#2
Great find. Bargain for this price. 1080p gaming (even playing AAA titles) on the cheap.
WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#3
This, or a GTX 960 4GB?
krisward7955 to WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#4
Depends what for?
JimJamJamie to WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#5
Where have you found a 960 4GB for this price?
dcpp4 to WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#11
The Gtx 960 4gb is a bit faster and should be significantly more expensive.
WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#6
Fallout 4, 1920x1080
krisward7955
28 Nov 15#7
Is personally go with the GTX over this. But I'm sure others would pick the AMD card. If you do any rendering the AMD would be slightly better.
rev6
28 Nov 15#8
Which CPU? NVIDIA would probably perform better, Fallout 4 can use a lot of drawcalls. If you have an AMD CPU, go NVIDIA.
WonkyDoctor
28 Nov 15#9
Xeon X5690
jaydeeuk1
28 Nov 15#10
This likely to do an oculus rift proud?
blank0502
28 Nov 15#12
Would this be an upgrade to GTX 750 ti
ToOn7 to blank0502
28 Nov 15#13
Yes a huge difference.
notavalidaddress
28 Nov 15#14
Typical, bought the VTX3D version for the same price a few days ago.
menzah
28 Nov 15#15
how much better is this than a gigabyte 2gb radeon hd 7870oc?
I'm thinking of doing a ~£500 build next year, and obviously the price of this is perfect.
Would it be good for playing games like GTA V relatively smoothly?
Also, can someone recommend a CPU and motherboard to go with this within the £500 budget?
just bear in mind that everyone talking about "good graphics cards" online is quite heavily biased towards high end stuff.
I built my PC for £600 2 years ago and just got GTA V, and its smooth as anything on an R9 270 and an i3. Haven't played online or installed any mods though so dunno what they'll be like though.
Also, when you say next year.... If its not january then don't buy the GPU now because they've got a huge turnover- there are always price drops around the corner. Get RAM/PSU/case whenever you see them on offer, because they won't change much. mobo and CPU are also worth picking up if you see a good offer
misteranderson
29 Nov 15#25
Just a rebranded 285 so not even a upgrade over the HD7950, HD7870 or faster not really worth 'upgrading' atm, best to wait until full DX12 cards are available sometime next year.
rev6
29 Nov 15#27
AMD GPU drivers have substantially more CPU overhead. The higher the IPC the better. It's much more noticeable on AMD hardware.
Djhaverman
29 Nov 15#28
So you mean low-end CPUs not specifically AMD CPUs then?
rev6
29 Nov 15#29
Even Intel's lower end CPU's (i3's for example) have higher IPC than the FX-8350. So mainly AMD CPU's.
torgul
29 Nov 15#30
I'm stuck between the 4gb version of this card or gtx960 4gb. Which one is better overall for 1080 gaming?
Djhaverman
29 Nov 15#31
You cannot equate IPC to computing performance, that's almost as bad as saying higher clock speed is always better.
rev6
29 Nov 15#32
I wasn't talking about clock speed but OK :smiley:
Djhaverman
29 Nov 15#33
You compared Instructions per Clock to performance. Which is analogous to saying higher clock speed = better performance. Both are incorrect. :laughing:
rev6
30 Nov 15#34
At the level I'm talking about, Intel CPU's have greater core IPC/performance than AMD CPU's clock for clock. That's all there is to it.
Rhythmeister
30 Nov 15#35
You'll not see a massive improvement justifying the purchase if you're gaming at HD resolution :neutral_face:
Rhythmeister
30 Nov 15#36
You'll not see a massive improvement justifying the purchase if you're gaming at HD resolution :neutral_face:
Djhaverman
30 Nov 15#37
I don't understand? Which level? IPC is a very specific thing.
Opening post
Have had no problems running anything on Ultra.
ALSO forgot to add, 3.15% cashback from TCB which brings it down to around £115.36.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_Waterforce/23.html
Edit: ROFL 2GB is actually quicker in most scenarios. Scroll through this video and you will see. 960 2gb vs 4gb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRoANKeQX0
Only an absolute fool would buy 960 or have bought 750Ti
I've got a HD7950, was thinking this card would be cheap upgrade to the latest generation, but is that a bit unnecessary?
Would it be good for playing games like GTA V relatively smoothly?
Also, can someone recommend a CPU and motherboard to go with this within the £500 budget?
I built my PC for £600 2 years ago and just got GTA V, and its smooth as anything on an R9 270 and an i3. Haven't played online or installed any mods though so dunno what they'll be like though.
Also, when you say next year.... If its not january then don't buy the GPU now because they've got a huge turnover- there are always price drops around the corner. Get RAM/PSU/case whenever you see them on offer, because they won't change much. mobo and CPU are also worth picking up if you see a good offer