people forgets that there are some nice programs with the fan set up that can make any GPU run a lot cooler, also instead of getting stupid cases with the glass look alike, they should get proper one with side fans, 2 at least

MSI target:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=179386.0

​worse performance in dx12 than dx11.

Where have you been? It's been around for days !

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00NFFAW50/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Please provide a link. I'm sure people would love to find a 970gtx at this price.

Still the case at the moment given the price of £179.99 on amazon.(Asus OC 970)

I've just done this, gonna clear the 970 over the weekend. I was incredibly tempted by the 980ti yday which i got a flubit offer for 285, but as i only game at 1080 144hz and only have a 520w psu which would be pushing it i gave it a miss. Absolutely chuffed with this though, £200 - 10 for the paragon code - £140 after fees and postage = 50 quid upgrade !

oos

No longer the case

Virtually no performance difference between this and a 6gb 1060 (some games and benchmarks are higher, others lower, the difference is usually minimal) and only marginally better than the similarly priced 3gb/lower core version. It's a really great price for a 980 but bear in mind heat, power and noise too which are all materially greater vs even the reference 1060 thanks to 16nm vs 28nm fabrication. Add in better DX12 support, and the scales are tipped marginally in favour of the more future proof 1060 of both variants. However this is a great deal!

Why would you bother? A decent upgrade for you is a 980Ti or GTX1070, definitely not a 980.

There's none left.

Doesn't appear to be that much difference between this and my 970:

Same boost clock and only a slightly higher core clock.

People who recently bought a 970 are killing themselves. The silly people they are.

I have ordered the rog Asus 1060 6gb strix should I cancel for this? Does anyone have a link to a good comparison or know that this will out perform the 1060 thanks

amazing price

​no it doesn't haha

similar to a 1060 but this can sli..

​980 has abysmal dx12 performance tho

Seen some reviews that this is a noisy card. Anyone any experience of it?

and can also sli if needed, the gtx 1060 cannot

This or a 1060 gtx?

I don't think a GPU should really be throttling at 80 degrees?

Nvidia cards fail at DX12, see this one be terrible in the future. But the deal is the best there has been for Nvidia. Hot

Will this do dual 4k monitors with 2 in SLI?

That is a good price. I would consider the GTX1070 instead, but it is of course quite a bit more expensive.

Why do i feel like every graphics card deal posted here will get decent amount of heats... judging by what i've seen here,9 deals out of 10 are the case?

does this card have a back plate?

Wow, a bargain. I paid £225 for a 2nd hand 980oc about a month ago off ebay (couldn't find a decent priced 480 in stock).
You won't find any 980s as cheap as this on ebay!

​no it is all for csf!

I don't think he is offering you the 100 for your pocket, if he is, can i half it with you?

Those 10 watts will save you around £0.60 per year! Enjoy! :man:

One Born Every Minute.

Thanks for that! I'll likely just stick with the RX480 then, as even though the 980 is that bit faster, I doubt I'll see much real world benefits whereas a cheaper electricity bill will most certainly be a real world benefit :smiley:

I've been trying to find some comparisons for power consumption between the GTX 980 vs. RX 480 but finding it a tad bit difficult. Could be my Google fu is lacking. Would anyone know if there's much of a difference between the 2 or if the 980 is actually more efficient? I agree that based on benchmarks, the 980 does appear to be faster than the rx 480 and I reckon it'll likely stay that way for this generation.

With the prices like for like now, it's made it into a much tougher decision as to which card to buy.

Does anyone have a good link that explains what the hell the good/latest Nvidia cards are? Because the numbering system absolutely bewilders me.

It is a little expensive for me,

Eek, and the TI is at £300 ish. If it was 220 or a little more, would be my trigger point.

I know! I'm wondering if a room fan will help? Or only play during winter? :smile:

The 8GB 480 isn't £200 yet, though, it's priced against the 6GB 1060, which would be the better buy for most people.

Against a 4GB 480, the 980 is significantly ahead in the vast majority of games. Even in DX12 games on a 480, we only see Hitman pull slightly ahead of the 980 - the 980 is faster in other DX12 games, so it's a bit of a leap to guess that the 480 will be faster in future DX12 games.

£200 is a good price for a 980, but I'd worry about spending so much on a two-year-old architecture today - especially as another £30 gets you a 6GB 1060 with nearly double the performance-per-watt.

(A bit off-topic, but I wonder if deals like this would go as hot if they wrote £200 instead of £199.99, £300 instead of £299.99, etc? :stuck_out_tongue:)

Oh bless your heart.

My mITX system is literally an oven, my R9 390X will hit 94 degrees!

got the 980ti yesterday for £300 is it worth cancelling that for this card or is the extra £100 worth it for the Ti?

I have a prodigy mITX case, so I'd probably run into similar issues. Even with 2 120 spectre pros at the front and dual fan on my noctua, the case heat build up is immense. I didn't expect the 780 to sit at it's throttle temp 80c. Fired up Afterburner with a custom fan profile sorts it out at the expense of more noise, 72c at full tilt.

That's playing the waiting game though, there's only one significant title that uses Vulkan which is DOOM. Also the RX480 eventually runs out of performance against the best offerings from Nvidia. OK we're talking midrange here. It's difficult to say at the moment I say the GTX 1060 edges it unless you're really in to DOOM. I think the GTX1060 6GB is currently the best midrange gaming card, it's hard to predict the future, maybe in a year or two there will be many titles using the Vulkan API, however Vulkan still has a long way to go.

AMD Vega has the potential to shake things up at the high end, however that's a 2017 technology and Nvidia will come back with a revised architecture that will deal effectively with the whole scenario of Async Compute. Async Compute is more complicated than just saying a card supports or doesn't support Async Compute.

This video disolves the myths behind Async Compute >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOGIDMJThto

This or an RX480 8GB ? (Power usage is not a factor for me just want the most powerful/'future proof' card of the two)

This is better than a 6GB 1060 but typically by only 10% but does use nearly twice the power.

Tempted to upgrade my MSI GTX 780 Gaming. Probably not worth the small jump in frames though, and potential fan noise:
NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOegObbYZY