barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 9y 10m 14d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/06/16 07:13 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:13 AM yeah I was looking at upgrading my aged but trusty 6870 to a GTX980TI but will be waiting for 2x RX480's. 100w each they claim so no need for 1kw power supplies either. AMD is definitely targeting market share with this release. I expect their new flagships will be announced soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 15y 10m 10d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 18/06/16 07:24 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:24 AM Oh and VR gaming is really what I'd be wanting to buy for when I upgrade. Vid cards need to pump out 90 frames per second to avoid nausea from what I've just read...and do it for each eye of course. These new cards all have VR in mind so should work well - so keen for scary gaming in VR. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 10y 9m 6d Gender: Not Telling Posted 18/06/16 07:26 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:26 AM stever's computer/graphics card advice > everyone else's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 15y 10m 10d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 18/06/16 07:33 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:33 AM Nah... I'm not that up to speed with AMD's offerings or tech in general, will definitely look at those RX480s. If they don't have compatibility issues and can do good quality VR gaming on the cheap they would be awesome! Low power use is awesome too. I'm just scared of bugs. Article saying wait a couple months for prices to drop. Won't change your mind if you're baller enough to be a dual 1080 buyer though http://www.cnet.com/au/news/nvidia-gtx-1080-vs-1070-vs-amd-rx480-gpu-price-availability/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 9y 10m 14d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/06/16 07:39 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:39 AM They are marketing then as getting "good VR" to 100 millions users. By good vr they mean proper not some android phone sh*t 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,972 Member For: 10y 7m 9d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 18/06/16 07:39 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:39 AM Tax time is the "only" reason I'm jumping now. Made more sense to buy now than in a couple of months 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 9y 10m 14d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/06/16 07:44 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:44 AM some may argue that 2 1080's >better than 2x rx480's which is a no brainer. 2 rx480s should still be around half the price of a single 1080 though. You could probably get 4 but that's a similar scenario to a million cpu cores/threads that dont get utilised. A better single card will always be better than cheaper multi setups that may perform equally in particular scenarios/games Not something that's likley to change as the problem with optimising games for multi gpu's is not everbody has them or wants them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 15y 10m 10d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 18/06/16 07:48 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:48 AM (edited) Yeah I'd be annoyed if I had to turn off a card I paid for in order to run anything, at a lower performance level than I had invested in the hardware to support. ...unless the twin card set up was half the price of a single beast card and performance was still high at full quality! It would be like bypassing a turbo in a twin set up, just so I could get traction because the tyres I'm playing with were ill suited to the surface. Even if I win the drag race, I'd know I could have smashed it outta the park if I ran all my hardware. Edited 18/06/16 07:50 AM by -Stever- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 11y 5m Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 18/06/16 07:51 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:51 AM Great read fellas I'm not an amd fanboy by any means I don't like Intel chops though for the sheer reason of cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 9y 10m 14d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/06/16 07:51 AM Share Posted 18/06/16 07:51 AM dont need to be disabled just may not get completley utilised. Definitely seeing way more support for 2 way setups so the 2 vs 1 is getting much more viable but honestly only ballers roll 4 4x rx480' at 100w each and all those pcie power connecters needed meaning probably getting a bigger psu than required seems like false economy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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