Amazon are notorious for delivering ahead of their initial estimates, they take cash on dispatch (unlike most) and therefore I don't see the risk of ordering for the cheapest price around.

If you need it tomorrow it's not for you. If you want a foot in the door and are happy to wait a week or three, why not. Can always cancel it.

By all means find and post a cheaper one.

Has anyone been successful in ordering/recieving this?
Took a punt and ordered 3 weeks ago but haven't heard any status so far.

Why not use €16 free credit?:)

hotukdeals.com/dea…645

Whichever you dont own.

ill give you that, nothing tops kfc pepper mayo :wink:

Not irrelevant is you're happy at 1080p, they'll do ultra settings at a decent clip.

As for the comparison, I'd say the 1080Ti we have is KFC, full of goodness and best of breed, the rest are happy with Cottage and Dixie chicken... Tastes alright I suspect but won't ever reach the heights of KFC.

Blew my own mind right there.

youtu.be/ULo…WUg

They are both irrelevant. Id say that AMD is the Whimpy of food establishments, where Nvidia is your Burger King. Nobody ever wants to go to Whimpy :smile:

Right, so does that make the 480, or the 580 irrelevant? Which is it?

Nobody would waste money doing that, its just a later process 480 chip.

There's certainly diminishing returns, but that exists at all price brackets and resolutions. Like for instance stepping from an RX 480 to RX 580.

I guess I would have to turn settings down if I was using a big 1440p panel,but as I am quite happy with a 24 inch asus 1080p jobby I really dont need anything faster than the rx480. Many people enjoy pc gaming,but the vast majority do not use £500 plus graphics cards and £300 monitors,as it adds less and less to experience the more you spend.
The game is either good or it isnt.

elite yes, irrelevant no. Just because he wont or can't pay for one, not irrelevant.

There's certainly a place for the Ti, just like any other GPU on sale.

I have a Ti myself, but you come across like you're elite. I'm sure the majority of people PC gaming have the means to buy a Ti or even two, but common sense or differing priorities prevent them doing so.

There's no reason to speak down to someone to justify your own decisions, none at all. Unless of course you are trying to rationalise why you spent £1300-1400 (the price of a top tier gaming rig for many) on GPU's which don't even scale properly, if at all, across many titles.

babeltechreviews.com/gtx…/3/

"an irrelevant nonentity as the 1080 TI is", i happen to love both my 1080 ti's and they power through my graphics with everything turned on, while im sure you are living with all your settings turned down to low. I enjoy the visuals the developers created, while you look at a cheaper watered down version.

Dunno. But if I could have bought an 8 gig RX 480 Sapphire card for £220,believe me,I would have bought one.
Sapphire cards last a LOOOOOOONG time. I have an HD 5850 toxic with arctic f9 pwm case fans zip tied on the heatsink. It has windows 10 drivers, done 10k hrs in star trek online alone.And I got it used.
Unlikely you would return the pulse rx 580.

Comments like this just make me laugh.
(Too 'mid tier')
The RX 480 was designed for 1080p gaming. (granted,it started off a lower power format design,but 1080p is what it is for)..
'Disappointed for the last 15 months';
I wanted a GTX 970 ish card for under £200 and had to wait over 2 years..
The 960 cards were a JOKE,and nothing in between.
The rx 5's are simply later, better binned chips than 4's. Nothing to gain above 1350 mhz. and better coolers (check out early rx chips frequencies.)
Eventually, the lowest vega card will likely draw attention.
(8 gig ddr 5 and lower spec gpu chip).
The high end flagship will cost a packet and be as much an irrelevant nonentity as the 1080 TI is.

I've never bought from Amazon in another country, what's the returns policy, can you still return within 30 days?

To further underline how wrong Nate is:

pcgamer.com/amp…up/

Not really, they won't be cheap as demand will dictate. Plus, they've been thrashed their entire lives 24/7, a 6 month old mining card will have the equivalent of 5 years of typical usage, but under stress.

Unless they have a transferable warranty like EVGA, I wouldn't touch it with yours.

Reports are surfacing that there is a huge dump of used mining cards (e.g. 480s and 470s) coming back into the market.

That should drastically reduce prices, big wins for consumers who just want a card.

That said, this is a good price, but look for it to drop further.

If its faster than 1080 you can bet your boots it will be more expensive than a 1080. Fury X was what? £50 cheaper than 980ti and not as good in most games.

Those 4gb versions on here for £150 odd were the basic twin fan asus or ggbite , and they were from an iffy batch. Some of them had to be sent back,disappointing the customer.
£218 for a Sapphire twin fan is a good price indeed. The 'pulse' is missing features found on the 30 quid dearer Nitro, here is a good review.
kitguru.net/com…ew/

does this confirm your position?
capitalistexploits.at/201…ca/

Get a 1060 is you're using HW encode with Cuda.

I remember 4GB RX 480 for just over £150, so 3GB GTX 1060 could be priced close to that at some point, but I never seen 8GB 480 or 6GB 1060 under £200.

Do I take a punt at this or wait for 1060 6GB prices to drop... :neutral_face: advice?...
Ryzen 1600 CPU and primary use will be Premiere Pro....

It would be worth ordering one of these,and if it goes through at some point soon, and you decide you dont want it,auction it on ebay and get ~ 270 plus..
For those asking if this card is worth the price? Sure.
Its a monster 1080p gaming card,(all games on ultra settings)
It will run 1440p at reasonable settings,particularly on freesync monitors,and thus there are occasions when 8 gig is preferable to 4 (it will never need all 8 gig tho).
580's have slightly higher clocks in recognition of the fact the chips have improved a very small amount, but they still give best power consumption at 1300 mhz ish.
(under volt it)
580's have better (quieter) coolers than 480's.
I paid 195 for a 4 gig nitro 480. I would have chosen 8 gig if it was 220 quid,not 240.

Find a better price for something you can order and have a good chance of receiving.

Posting a deal would be a start, keeps the site ticking over.

Every mid range card is out of stock world wide right now or double the price of what its worth...even this one in france....will likely be the end of aug before new ones come out so dont really know why this is here

I think the 1080Ti price/performance is incredibly good TBH.

Definition of ICOs >

investopedia.com/ter…asp

Related article regarding Ethereum price drop >

investopedia.com/new…cal

R9 Fury was 2 years ago? Wow i'm getting old.

tomshardware.com/new…tml

Not been updated for 1-2 weeks but gives you an idea on how pricing has changed here. The RX570 and RX580 are almost going for double the price. Price here seems reasonable if they ever deliver.

I can handle 350-400RRP, but in reality will wait for deals putting them in the 300-350 range.

The one disappointing thing about vega - if the rumours are true - is a return to massive tdp. It means they are already heavily overclocked out of the box. It makes some sense though. AMD has to show performance and wow back some customers, though, since their last "high end" card (R9 Fury series) came out over 2 years ago, and NVidia has really regained the 'best performer' title and has a big lead at present (hence the ridiculous pricing of their highest card)
My 750W PSU can handle a hotter card, as can my case, but when I consider my power bill I'd really prefer it wasn't 300W+. Either way, I still prefer AMD over Nvidia, as I've been unimpressed with the price to performance ratio each time a new card is released by Nvidia.
Fingers crossed for good news come August

Does this deal really deserve so much heat?
All it represents is a return to normalcy of GPU pricing.

Prior to the price hikes a good price on a 480 8GB/1060 6GB was sub £200; the best being as low as £150.
Granted the 580 is a slightly better card, however I don't think that makes £218 a good price when:
- It's an imbalanced spec; the 580 will never have enough compute performance to utilize 8GB at high FPS.

Can't believe I sold my 480 for just £230 earlier in the year... but I did get the ebuyer 1070 offer in Feb (I think) for under £300 so I guess it works out about the same overall. As I'm not gaming at the moment perhaps I should bank the cash and just get a card when I need it as prices surely must drop again in a few months?

I'd love to believe they'll hit that price point, and maybe they will for the lower 8GB SKU, but I'm fully expecting the 64 ROP Vega line to come in at £500+, which is 1080GTX money.

I'd look at switching from my 1080Ti if they hit the right price, but, 300W when running at full tilt? I don't plan on ripping out my PSU.

I'd hazard a guess at £450 for 56 ROP and £550 for the 64 ROP.

Yes, order if you can wait.

I think you've missed the point there. He's saying the mining craze has passed (which it has) not that you can't still make money on the price of ETH and the like. Like all cryptos they get harder and harder to mine, and ETH passed a threshold recently that made it much more difficult.

"People making money from virtual currency" is the sentence to be wary of. Most miners won't make money or enough for it to be worthwhile. Best thing to do is just buy the currency as long as you can afford to lose the initial investment. Ethereum was £276 or so a couple weeks ago, then there was the Korean hack and it got dumped down to around £146, it's been going back up since slowly. If you'd picked the right moment in the past couple weeks you could easily have made much more money than any mining would have given you. Miners are now dumping GPUs so the prices on GPUs will come down. Again if you'd played it right you could have made money selling the GPUs as well. There's no such thing as easy money with trading currencies but it's obvious from the volatility that if you timed it right you could have made some decent money.

I didn't buy at £146 as I was hoping the currency would dump down even further. It might be time to buy now it might not, something could easily happen next week and wipe the currency price right out. The trend for successful crypto currencies over the long term has been on the up. I'd buy in at some point I think but only with money I can afford to lose.

I have noooooooo idea what you are all going on about in truth.

All I want to know is is this card worth the money?

Reserved for wise comment when people start screaming about how many Pounds it really took to buy those Euros when Amazon finally take the payment in a few weeks.

Thanks a lot! Just never used it before and heard people complain about issues while using it.

You'll be charged the GBP rate for the price you ordered at at the time of dispatch.

Why would you pay with a UK card though? Use Revolut or Monzo, 15 minutes work and you're setup for good.

On this deal alone it'll save you £10 or so.

DOES anyone here know if I buy with my UK card, going through currency conversion, how does Amazon deal with that? Will they still not charge me until they're ready to ship? or will they charge me immediately at the market set conversion rate?

This interested me when I read about it yesterday:

engadget.com/201…es/

LOL, clueless. Please don't ever invest your money in shares or currency.

BTC/ETH and all of the others are still WAY above centralised currencies, 2500% growth in under a year?

futurism.com/cry…uy/

Perhaps it's people like you selling their GPU's after all :smile:

Mining is dead, well for the by time being:

hexus.net/tec…op/

Somebody also blamed high GUP prices on high memory costs ..Also I think the miners now need 4gb+ cards because the XXXX has to fit in memory ?? :face_with_monocle:

No, it says free delivery in France. The price of the deal includes standard postage to the UK.

It says delivery in mainland france

People will blame Nvidia for keeping GPU prices high but the real blame lies with AMD's inability to produce a worthy rival to Pascal cards. Vega is a total disaster from all things seen thus far, making these cards more expensive than they could be coupled with the little mining boom recently

Heat! Got a 4gig RX480 a while back for £150 with doom and been very happy with it in my budget set up alongside a G4560 chip.

Not sure how much better these are but heat for the price!

There's always another currency. The boom people refer to is ETH, but there's like 20 alt coins now, and at any one time people will need GPU be it AMD or Nvidia.

They wouldn't make mining specific GPU lines if there wasn't a CONSTANT need.

There is no mass dumping of GPU's right now, and I've seen no evidence at all to support that.

I really hope the end of the boom of this new currency people are mining is the start of a price drop to what many of these cards should've been months ago. I was hoping to get a 1070 at some point, but they're still in an awful price range.

They won't drop beneath this price anyway. So just comes down to preference of card.

Is it ever not worth making some cash? Ideal is you have a FVF offer.

It worth getting and selling my msi rx480 on ebay? They seem to go on ebay for about 300£

If the spike in the mining currencies is over (for the time being) its best to wait mid august,

ps this is the pulse version

Took a punt will sell my gtx 970

If anybody orders one, keep us updated on your delivery estimate. I'll update the OP so people have an idea of the wait time.

Aside from the fact that's a completely different pocket the money is landing in?

Their mining based cards will be released fairly swiftly and should hopefully stop this happening in the future.

The manufacturer's don't appreciate the mining craze either, it destroys the market, floods second hand markets with current SKU's and causes imbalance with pricing.

Yes they're selling them, but it's not good for controlling the market through supply and demand.

AMD and Nvida don't need to up their prices when retailers are doing it anyway.

They are being snapped up for mining of Ethereum. People making money from virtual currency. Hence no one has stock. Some GPU are going for double their normal price. It's crazy. Note it's only certain models. I think they need 4-8gb memory for them to be useful for the above. So 2gb models could be much more cost effective. I am Suprised AMD and Nvida don't up their prices.

Wut?

Ryzen is definitely not a dud. And their graphics cards aren't bad unless you are a very professional player.

what do you expect from a company which is Always Making Duds

amd, eeeuuuww. vega is as flop, and so is this, a re badged 480.

I've got a 480, it's a good card, using it with OR and everything runs perfect.

Is this the start of a flood ? As (reportedly) the mining fad is over ..
Good price tho for an 8gb ...

You didn't read the post then?

and.............out of stock :disappointed:

GPU prices are still through the roof, but this seems a reasonable price for a decent GPU.

Currently showing OOS but can be ordered, Amazon take cash only on dispatch. Looking at Partpicker these are still £280+, so hopefully represents a decent deal for those wanting one.



For an 8GB card this was the price of a 480 prior to huge inflation.

Per usual:
Order by choosing to pay in EUR, use a payment method with no fee like (download) Revolut or Monzo, top them up in GBP and they'll convert it for free.

True
However amd has to undercut Nvidia if they want to hold the better than 1080 crowd. They'll have to position it at a price between 1070 and 1080 (that sell for £300-£400 at lowest retail).

Samsung recently upped their hbm2 output, and hbm2 is cheaper to produce than hbm (albeit a bit worse spec'd from what I've read) so it should be cheaper. Would be nice to see gddr5 finally retire

£299? Struggling for under £500 IMO, HBM isn't cheap.

Nvidia all the way.

I upgraded from my 290 to an r9 nano
it's better that's for sure
but I'm still waiting on vega

480/580 was too mid-tier for my liking. Been disappointed by amd's gpu offerings for the past 15 months. Hoping vega fits the in-between 1080 and 1080ti slot they're advertising... just worried on price. Fingers crossed for 299

Old news, check the past 5 days of the currencys detailed in the article

I understant, but it actually is a rebadged 480 with increased clocks. I have an r9 290 and am waiting for vega still.

Get yourself invested on AIM.

Bushveld Minerals, I've been invested for a few year now..

They recently bought a vanadium mine, and paid the debt raised on this off from the profits in it's first 2 months, so not only are they debt free.. They're a "cash elephant", with a quarterly report due next month. They bought it off Evraz, who wanted out of South Africa. So they practically gave it away.

Google "Vanadium", and energy storage. The way the market is now, this will be a boom in a few years. Buishveld minerals are currently mining atleast 3-4% of the vanadium in current world output due to said mine.

Not to mention, the vanadium price keeps rising due to an incoming shortage (up 10% in a week in Europe, china are still ahead of this so will likely catch up). Should also be Dividend paying in a couple of years.

Anyway enough of that, I was looking at ETH mining last month - not for me.

Sold mine within 10 minutes on ebay last month, £279,then fees,paypal and postage to take out, Could have asked for higher looking back but still happy to have made a profit on a second hand card.

Or, just top-up your Revolut directly with EUR with today's actual rate.