Tech Guru wroteDie_Kapitan wrotevegetaleb wrote
Nvidia went too far with their pricings, they think they have the monopoly of the market but ATI can do a difference like back in 4850 times...
The RX 480 is disruptive af. It offers R9 Nano performance (before overclocking) and 4GB of VRAM for $200 (or 8GB of VRAM for $230), meanwhile the GTX 1070 offers 980 Ti performance and 8GB of VRAM for $370, the 480 delivers nearly 80-85% of the 1070's performance for $170 (for the 4GB version) or $140 (for the 8GB version) cheaper.
Nvidia is in a pretty precarious position, as a GTX 1060 that matches the RX 480 will cut deeply into the sales of the 1070.
I great with you , so what do you think to go with 480x Cross Fire (real benchmarks will show the real comparative performance compared to a single 1080) , or stick with a single 1070OC or 1080 Oc , or wait for a 1080Ti and what Vega will offer , I suspect HBM 2.0 will witness a release this year even in Vega.
I'd wait for Vega. While dual RX 480's offer great bang-for-buck as you can pick up two 8GB versions for $460 (you're looking at around $550~$600 in Lebanon), but, while DX12 and Vulkan promise much better compatibility and performance for dual-GPU solutions, they still come with some cons, like higher power usage (not really an issue with Polaris since they only sip power, but 300W isn't somethings that can be ignored either) and compatibility issues in old games, indie games and very new games (you may have to wait a week or so to be able to use CF/SLI). The GTX 1080 is overpriced for what you get and the GTX 1070 is a bit pointless since you can get 80-85% of its performance for slightly north of half the price by going with a 480. Vega will surely have a GPU that beats the 1070 and 1080 in performance (RTG are doimg the same as Polaris with Vega, two GPUs and each has two cards featuring it, but the less powerful Vega GPU won't be strictly for laptops like Polaris 11) and will force Nvidia to lower the prices of the 1080 and 1070 to be able to competent, so you'll have a wider range of video cards to choose from if you wait for Vega (which according to rumors is coming out with Zen in October). Hynix are ahead of schedule with their production of HBM2 that's why we may see an early Vega, GDDR5X wasn't supposed to be launched until August, but Micron were ahead of schedule which allowed Nvidia to launch the 1080 with GDDR5X instead of GDDR5, and RTG won't have make all Vega cards only HBM2 (Vega 11 will likely have GDDR5X memory and Vega 10 will have HBM2 memory) which lowers the supply issue.
EDIT: RTG might be announcing, the RX 470 and RX 480X at E3, as during Computex they said the Polaris price range is $100-$300 and the RX 480 is $200 so they'll most likely announce a competitor for the 1070 (or 1060 Ti, maybe?) and a competitor for the 1050.