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Usually dispatched in two to three weeks?

payday just a day away :disappointed:

Ordered... but i dont need it? Oh, well.

Would be nice if they were actually selling these rather than pre-order.

Price is coming back down, but stock isn't easy to find.

Great price, got mine for £209 and loving it.

Paid more than that for a Nitro+ 470

Hot

Good card but don't overlook the 970 still a good card can be had for £170

Thank you for the support :smile: I almost dont play games, but that doesn't matter, right? I will at least appreciate the full sized displayport.

im looking to build a gaming PC, where does it lie in spec and what are you using it with?

I have a msi r9 390 is this any better?

970 all day over this !

Excellent deal, nice one OP!

Thank you. I'd been wanting one of these (for the right price) :smiley:

Also the memory (at users own risk) can unlock to 8gb :smiley:

Well it all depends whether or not it has the 8 samsung memory chips on the board, if it has then happy days :smiley: This will of course invalidate your warranty!

​No custom cards can be flashed to 8GB, it's just reference ones.

Custom? You mean Retail? And I beg to differ.

I mean custom as in not reference design like the Nitro+ isn't. Reference RX480s look like this. If these have the Samsung Ram then it is probably flashable to 8GB.

You can beg to differ all you want but can you link me to one example of someone flashing a 4GB custom card (so it doesn't look like the picture I linked) to 8GB?

Don't buy this card if you expect to be able to flash it to 8GB, it won't work.

+1

GPU-Z screenshot from the very card. It uses SK Hynix chips.

I guess they haven't read reviews and studied the benchmark results.

Hopefully these will continue to drop in price with the run up to Christmas, especially with the introduction of the competing 3GB 1060 cards. The cheapest I can find the 8GB version of the RX 470 OC Nitro is £220, around £30 more. The cheapest I can find the MSI AMD Radeon RX 470 GAMING X is £217.The 8GB version of the RX 480 Nitro seems to be £260. I appreciate the advantage of the 8GB cards but I find it hard to reconcile the current price difference. Have some more heat.

And....ordered, top work OP.

Will an i3-6100 bottleneck this?

RX 480 4GB not bad card for money : )

I have looked my self to get 2 of them for crossfire - on paper will look very good 2 x card some games scales very well but the issues is drivers and studering etc ... This what holds me to get AMD cards Thinking to leave AMD got to NVIDIA

Thinking maybe
2 x GTX 980 for £250 x 2 but then you can get GTX 1080
2 x GTX 970 4GB for £170 x 2 But then GTX 1070 for same money

I have PS4 and old crossfire HD 7970 and day to day Im more happy to play on PS4
Yes PS4 up scaling everything to 1080 p maybe 30 fps + but games experience PS4 I think for the price is very good
Now next year xbox scorpio "4K" coming + PS 4.5 as well so does it worth to buy 2 x RX 480 ??? for nearly £400 pounds ?

HD 7970 the GPU is very powerful the problem is ram only 3GB it cannt do ultra high details on 2k

Maybe will stay on PS4 as steam games can not be traded like PS4

+ next Year PS4 can be traded to xbox scorpio etc ..... So I can get some money back .

What I mean PS4 better for money value Games can traded , and bought second hand

I have currently a HD7970, is this or the 8gb rx worth upfrading to?

Just doing a build atm. Going to have Core i5-6500 3.2GHz. I had budgeted for GFX at £250 or thereabouts but now wondering if I should get this card & spend the saving on a bigger SSD, or maybe a Kraken watercooler (I won't be OC the cpu - it's just that I find air coolers rather cumbersome & ugly). Had I intended to OC I would be going for the 6600K chip instead.

Any thoughts? More expensive GFX card or spend elsewhere?

Damn too late ! it's up to £223.20 + £5.28 delivery :disappointed:

The 1060 isn't a better GPU really. The thing to do is to avoid the GTX 1060 3GB which is not only slower (less shaders) but 3GB is really pushing it already in 2016 and will probably age poorly.
Both this and the 1060 perform about the same. Certainly no more than ±10% unless in some game which heavily favours one architecture or the other (Doom running Vulkan for AMD, or similar outliners which favour Nvidia). Actually, Computebase.de recently did a custom 480 vs custom 1060 and the average was 5% in favour of the GTX1060. Since the GTX1060 3GB is best avoided, and dual fan* 6GB versions are ~ £240+ this is good value.
* dual fan is a bit less relevant for the GTX1060 since it does use about 40W less power, but the cheaper single fan GTX1060 look a bit too cheaply made to me.

Back up to £209.99

would this be a good upgrade from a GTX 750ti 2gb - playing games at 1080p ?
Thanks.

The 970 won't see you out at the highest settings for the next year, even at the best case scenario. So you'd be spending £140 on a card with 3.5GB memory and offering poor performance at high settings with the latest games:



And that's in DX11 mode, where the 970 used to excel. It can't take advantage of any perf advantages in DX12 or Vulkan either.

So if I'm spending £140 (it's still £140, fair bit of money for an old card) you may as well spend another £40-50 for a 4GB 480 that will last you a couple years. Getting a 970 now is not the best advice unless you only do light gaming.

Just advice if you you want to save money just get PS4 with 1TB or 500GB and replace HDD to 1-2 TB

Now for PC gaming you need to buy GPU by your monitor resolution

if you have 1080p monitor why waste money on 100 fps graphic card if you can see only 60fps anyway this is 60Hz monitor refresh rate as well
If you can run your games native res monitor with your GPU at 60fps average frame rate this I think the best experience

So most of you will have 1080p monitors and 60 Hz Why you want GPU 200 fps + just for ...?

Now 4K gaming is for rich children or if you have lot of money and do not know where to spend

I've had a flubit price offered at £183.92 delivered. I'm thinking I'll be having it at that.

I'll be playing stuff like fallout 4 & witcher 3 on a 24 or 27" 1080 monitor

I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying just that showing that particular benchmark on the topic of nvid vs amd is a little biased as that game was built using a modified Glacier 2 engine which heavily favours amd cards. Just sayin

I've noticed in the amazon spec it's rated at 500W

I've got the EVGA 650 GQ power supply. Will I have any problems? It'll be a core i5-6500, Samsung 850 SSD, 2TB HDD, DVD re-writer, card reader, & a few fans/led's

Well, I don't think the 970 used to excel in DX11 mode in AMD-sponsored games, did it? Or did you not know DX:MD was AMD-sponsored?

Eh? Wouldn't that be game-specific, depending on the DX11 bottleneck? Otherwise, how did the 970 get a ~25%+ performance boost from the DX12 patch for Total Warhammer? http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-benchmarks-strike-fear-into-cpus/

I don't mean to be picky, but given the fact that Nvidia's memory management is more efficient than AMD's, surely you'd have to agree that 3.5GB of full-speed VRAM on a 970 is roughly equivalent to 4GB on a 470 or 480? Or had you also not come across the differences in their memory allocation before?

As a result, there's no real advantage in choosing the 4GB 480 in real-world VRAM usage. They have similar performance in games, the 480 often has an advantage in most DX12 titles but also consumes more power, and is about 20-30% slower in SteamOS or Linux. If there's such a thing as a £140 970, then I can absolutely see why someone would take that over a £185 4GB 480 - similar performance and broader compatibility and a 25% price saving.

I haven't seen this fabled £140 970, though. So I like the 4GB 480, albeit at closer to £150 (a bit like this), where seeing it start to be handicapped by its memory next year would be much easier to swallow for the price. At a whisker off £200, though? Not good value. That's where the 8GB 480 should be.

Thanks! :smiley: I'll try to hold out abit longer with mine, it has been randomly stopping lately in game. Apart from that i have bern quite satisfied although its getting old..

PS 4.5, now i've heard it all.

the comments on here about waiting a few months until these drop further. because of the drop in the pound these have gone up by £30!