It was a little cheaper the other day, but still approx £200 for the better than reference 8gb Nitro+ at French Amazon if you have a no fee card. Very nearly going to bite at these prices
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notos
3 Dec 165#4
Christmas gifts to all his gaming mates
neblogai to neiiilers
4 Dec 164#19
480 is faster in most new games, while 1060- in old games. This Sapphire Nitro+ is great, as it runs at higher clocks than reference RX480, and it has proper cooling on all card components, including VRAM chips. In terms of which card to choose- RX480 is definitely better if you can pair it with freesync monitor. 1060 can not be paired with it, while similar g-sync monitors cost 100-200 pounds more for same experience. AMD is also 'the good' company, with many open standards and good performance even on older cards. nVidia is considered the 'greedy' one, with closed garden G-sync and Gameworks, and rumors that they constantly nerf their older hardware just to sell the new generation of cards. However, 1060 is more power efficient than this 480, using ~50W less in gaming.
BurkusCat to swiftez
3 Dec 164#16
A good Winter card LOL
GonnaBeThatGuy
4 Dec 163#23
You can continue living in denial if you want but it's common knowledge that NVIDIA has been involved in a lot of anti-competitive practices over the years.
They pay off games developers to implement their software frameworks (like NVIDIA GameWorks) not just to give them an edge over AMD but to effectively sabotage the performance of AMD cards.
They make everything proprietary because NVIDIA only looks out for NVIDIA while everything AMD makes is open source for the sake of the gaming community, such as FreeSync and Mantle (which later evolved to Vulkan), etc.
NVIDIA went as far as updating their drivers to disable your NVIDIA GPU when an AMD card is detected in the same system (for example if you want to use an AMD card for graphics and an NVIDIA card for PhysX). Who does that? Scum, that's who.
Who knows, maybe AMD turns into scumbags and NVIDIA turn into saints the moment AMD overtakes NVIDIA in market share but at the moment the underdog is the one to support unless of course you're hoping for poor competition, more expensive cards and much smaller performance upgrades with each upgrade.
Look at Intel vs AMD in the CPU market. Without much competition from AMD, Intel has been lazing about, each generation barely more powerful than the last and we're all still stuck at four cores for mainstream CPUs.
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Walrusbonzo
3 Dec 162#1
Great deal. Ordered 4, total cost of £842 delivered. Basically that's £120~ saved over the best UK prices I can find.
EDIT: Max order of 4.
hamzahuk to Walrusbonzo
3 Dec 161#2
What you going to do with 4?
Punish3r
3 Dec 161#3
rx 480 4 way crossfire
notos
3 Dec 165#4
Christmas gifts to all his gaming mates
brian129
3 Dec 16#5
Thanks op. Ordered one after receiving a faulty one from Amazon Warehouse today. Hope this one will work fine.
Walrusbonzo
3 Dec 161#6
Ethereum crypto currency mining.
malachi
3 Dec 162#7
Do you still get Sid Meier's Civilization VI with this?
ukez
3 Dec 16#8
Nice deal (Finally)
neiiilers
3 Dec 16#9
Hey guys.
480 or 1060? In what terms should I compare the 2 and decide by then.
SaleChaser to neiiilers
3 Dec 16#10
The 1060 outperforms the 480 in most games but you cant SLI 1060's if you wanted to where as you can XFire with 480's.
neblogai to neiiilers
4 Dec 164#19
480 is faster in most new games, while 1060- in old games. This Sapphire Nitro+ is great, as it runs at higher clocks than reference RX480, and it has proper cooling on all card components, including VRAM chips. In terms of which card to choose- RX480 is definitely better if you can pair it with freesync monitor. 1060 can not be paired with it, while similar g-sync monitors cost 100-200 pounds more for same experience. AMD is also 'the good' company, with many open standards and good performance even on older cards. nVidia is considered the 'greedy' one, with closed garden G-sync and Gameworks, and rumors that they constantly nerf their older hardware just to sell the new generation of cards. However, 1060 is more power efficient than this 480, using ~50W less in gaming.
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They pay off games developers to implement their software frameworks (like NVIDIA GameWorks) not just to give them an edge over AMD but to effectively sabotage the performance of AMD cards.
They make everything proprietary because NVIDIA only looks out for NVIDIA while everything AMD makes is open source for the sake of the gaming community, such as FreeSync and Mantle (which later evolved to Vulkan), etc.
NVIDIA went as far as updating their drivers to disable your NVIDIA GPU when an AMD card is detected in the same system (for example if you want to use an AMD card for graphics and an NVIDIA card for PhysX). Who does that? Scum, that's who.
Who knows, maybe AMD turns into scumbags and NVIDIA turn into saints the moment AMD overtakes NVIDIA in market share but at the moment the underdog is the one to support unless of course you're hoping for poor competition, more expensive cards and much smaller performance upgrades with each upgrade.
Look at Intel vs AMD in the CPU market. Without much competition from AMD, Intel has been lazing about, each generation barely more powerful than the last and we're all still stuck at four cores for mainstream CPUs.
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EDIT: Max order of 4.
480 or 1060? In what terms should I compare the 2 and decide by then.