Which graphics card? AMD/Nvidia

[Ungari]

No thanks, not selling my beastly card! I'll keep it some more years..

Sold yours yet?

I'm really leaning towards a Dual Polaris Twin Nitro+ rig!
I haven't decided whether to buy another Nitro+, and go Crossfire for performance at much less cost than Nvidia is fleecing their worshipful customers for.
Or, I might liquidate it to purchase a Vega card, or, I might put it into a used parts build that I will sell as a whole tower. The problem with used parts builds are that you must stay within a certain price threshold and the Nitro+ would certainly break that barrier.
Lastly, I might be able in the future to combine both cards into a Vega-Polaris Hybrid.
DX12 isn't quite there yet, but if the RX 490 is high binned Polaris, and I think it is, then a RX480/RX490 rig.

BTW The reason I think the 490 is Polaris is something AdoredTV just said in his latest video that his next video will be news that has nothing to do with Vega or Zen.

 

[cdawall]

I'm really leaning towards a Dual Polaris Twin Nitro+ rig!
I haven't decided whether to buy another Nitro+, and go Crossfire for performance at much less cost than Nvidia is fleecing their worshipful customers for.
Or, I might liquidate it to purchase a Vega card, or, I might put it into a used parts build that I will sell as a whole tower. The problem with used parts builds are that you must stay within a certain price threshold and the Nitro+ would certainly break that barrier.
Lastly, I might be able in the future to combine both cards into a Vega-Polaris Hybrid.
DX12 isn't quite there yet, but if the RX 490 is high binned Polaris, and I think it is, then a RX480/RX490 rig.

BTW The reason I think the 490 is Polaris is something AdoredTV just said in his latest video.

I may or may not know what those look like

 

[Ungari]

I may or may not know what those look like

Sounds mysterious. What?

 

[cdawall]

Sounds mysterious. What?

I have a pair of nitro+'s

 

[Joe Compton]

Will a 480 nitro+ OC be good enough for me? 1080p at 60+ FPS on ultra, don't plan on going 1440p at all with this card

 

[Ungari]

I have a pair of nitro+'s

That's awesome!
You are getting GTX 1080 AIB performance and beyond for about 2/3 the cost!
Thanks to Raja for allowing us to do this.

 

[cdawall]

Will a 480 nitro+ OC be good enough for me? 1080p at 60+ FPS on ultra, don't plan on going 1440p at all with this card

Yes, they work great at that resolution.

That's awesome!
You are getting GTX 1080 AIB performance and beyond for about 2/3 the cost!
Thanks to Raja for allowing us to do this.

Eh I am back down to a single card thanks to GB not being able to provide me a board that can handle xfire for shit. Any bump in wattage past completely stock and it shuts down. Works fine with the same PSU and a different motherboard, may have to go to EVGA to fix this.

 

[Joe Compton]

Freesync has definitely swayed me towards an AMD card, I just keep changing my mind all the time. I do want to make the most of Freesync though, and as the card is only £250 it's got a pretty good price/performance ratio. I'll just get a GSync monitor and Nvidia card the next time I upgrade my PC. Regardless of what I think now though I'll still be waiting to see what AMD come out with soon. I won't be here (my student house) over Christmas anyway so won't be gaming, so I can easily wait until after Christmas/Early Jan to buy my card.

 

[Ungari]

Freesync has definitely swayed me towards an AMD card, I just keep changing my mind all the time. I do want to make the most of Freesync though, and as the card is only £250 it's got a pretty good price/performance ratio. I'll just get a GSync monitor and Nvidia card the next time I upgrade my PC. Regardless of what I think now though I'll still be waiting to see what AMD come out with soon. I won't be here (my student house) over Christmas anyway so won't be gaming, so I can easily wait until after Christmas/Early Jan to buy my card.

Why not buy both a GSync monitor and Nvidia card, and also a AMD card to go with the FreeSync monitor, then do a comparison of the price/performance on the game you like to play at 1080p?
That is when you aren't playing on your console, of course!
You could do a 3-way comparison including your experience on your console.
At the end of the day, you might decide to replace your current console.
Then you would have to choose between a PS4 PRO, or an XBOX SCORPIO?

 

[Ungari]

Yes, they work great at that resolution.



Eh I am back down to a single card thanks to GB not being able to provide me a board that can handle xfire for shit. Any bump in wattage past completely stock and it shuts down. Works fine with the same PSU and a different motherboard, may have to go to EVGA to fix this.

By that, do you mean purchase an EVGA mainboard?

 

[monim1]

I am using the R9 Fury X. You can take it as an another option. It is almost same as R9 Fury but R9 Fury X has higher 3Dmark graphics score.

 

[eidairaman1]

Just run with the 480, when something comes out better you can always sell it.

 

[cdawall]

By that, do you mean purchase an EVGA mainboard?

Yea I need matx. So evga, gb and asrock are the only three with x99 boards and the asrock is a pos.

 

[RejZoR]

I'm really leaning towards a Dual Polaris Twin Nitro+ rig!
I haven't decided whether to buy another Nitro+, and go Crossfire for performance at much less cost than Nvidia is fleecing their worshipful customers for.
Or, I might liquidate it to purchase a Vega card, or, I might put it into a used parts build that I will sell as a whole tower. The problem with used parts builds are that you must stay within a certain price threshold and the Nitro+ would certainly break that barrier.
Lastly, I might be able in the future to combine both cards into a Vega-Polaris Hybrid.
DX12 isn't quite there yet, but if the RX 490 is high binned Polaris, and I think it is, then a RX480/RX490 rig.

BTW The reason I think the 490 is Polaris is something AdoredTV just said in his latest video that his next video will be news that has nothing to do with Vega or Zen.

If AMD plans on stacking two RX480 cores on a single PCB, they sure as hell have to work on driver improvements to support that, otherwise it's not going to appeal to the masses. While DX12 and Vulkan future is great and all, you have to also assure CURRENT and OLDER stuff works well. If it doesn't, people will just take a piss at it and it'll be a commercial failure.

Only reason why people dealt with poor performance on top of the line dual GPU solutions like R9 295X2 is because that was cream de la cream top of the line niche product bought by tiny minority of people who want the best one can get even at expense of occasional problems because the thing is so exclusive. Something masses just aren't ever going to accept.

 

[Komshija]

Will a 480 nitro+ OC be good enough for me?

Yes. More than enough.

 

[P4-630]

Yes. More than enough.

That is without any MSAA then @1080p, not really ultra to me....

 

[Komshija]

That is without any MSAA then @1080p, not really ultra to me....

High MSAA or SMAA drain a lot of GPU power without real benefits. That's why many games on default ultra or similar settings have low-to-medium MSAA or SMAA. Most notable examples are Far Cry, Crysis and Hitman series. Even GTX 1070 would bother with MSAA 8X or 16X in some games @ 1080p.

 

[Ungari]

If AMD plans on stacking two RX480 cores on a single PCB, they sure as hell have to work on driver improvements to support that, otherwise it's not going to appeal to the masses. While DX12 and Vulkan future is great and all, you have to also assure CURRENT and OLDER stuff works well. If it doesn't, people will just take a piss at it and it'll be a commercial failure.

Only reason why people dealt with poor performance on top of the line dual GPU solutions like R9 295X2 is because that was cream de la cream top of the line niche product bought by tiny minority of people who want the best one can get even at expense of occasional problems because the thing is so exclusive. Something masses just aren't ever going to accept.

I'm considering purchasing another Nitro+ to run in Crossfire, I do not want a Dual GPU card.
This rumor of the coming RX 490 as nothing more than a Dual GPU on a single PCB persists even though it makes no sense as AMD actually promotes the use of SLI/Crossfire, and had been selling Dual GPUs mainly for the commercial market.
Now that more information has come out about the low TDP and clock speed capabilities of top binned Polaris, it has become clear that if yields had been greater, a consumer RX 490 would have been possible at launch. With refinements to the production process, the coming RX 490 could very well be a single GPU Polaris card.

 

[RejZoR]

Well, only card it would go against is GTX 1070. Is AMD ready for that without the Vega?

 

[Nergal]

My guess is that the 490 will perform a little bit below the 1070 in new games, but cost like a 100 bucks less

Seeing current speeds an pricing, I think thats a good estimate


So @OP:

your plan is rock solid

Wait, because apparently you can, on the zen/490 release

go from there (but really, even then the 480 may be your best bet)

cheers

 

[blued]

Currently @ the $400 mark gtx 1070 is a no brainer. Below $300 its a toss-up rx480 vs gtx1060 (6gb). Always better to go single card than multi-GPU. Re waiting for future cards, only makes sense if they're soon to be released, not months away.