RX 480 - How do you rate it

NAM wroteguys why are we still comparing by performance and not by performance per dollar ?!!!!

The same reason most of us drive cars and not small 200$ motorcycles: performance per dollar is just one small factor in the grand scheme of things you also have to consider the following constraints:

1- You desktop will only fit one type of cards, and when you buy it you have to stick with it for 1 to 4 years... you won't remember in 2 years that you saved 50$ on the card, you'll only be seeing the bad performance you're stuck with(I am not judging the rx480, I'm just saying as a general case).

2- Some people have a performance goal in mind, they either want to get twice the performance they have in their current card by upgrading or they want to be able a specific game at a specific graphics setting with a minimum expected fps, and the card will either fail at that or succeed, its price is not a factor in that goal. As people are discussing, you wouldn't buy it as an upgrade for gtx970 and above.

3- in my case, I have a size constraint. My desktop only fits a 22 centimeters card and only has one six pin power connector. And since I am not willing to change my desktop yet(unless I find a buyer) and I don't want to throw more money at this desktop changing its power/case since it already swallowed a lot of money as it is, my goal is to get the absolute best 22 centimeter card to help me hold out another year or 2. So far it is looking like that card will be the evga GTX 1060

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NAM wroteguys why are we still comparing by performance and not by performance per dollar ?!!!!

The same reason most of us drive cars and not small 200$ motorcycles: performance per dollar is just one small factor in the grand scheme of things you also have to consider the following constraints:

1- You desktop will only fit one type of cards, and when you buy it you have to stick with it for 1 to 4 years... you won't remember in 2 years that you saved 50$ on the card, you'll only be seeing the bad performance you're stuck with(I am not judging the rx480, I'm just saying as a general case).

2- Some people have a performance goal in mind, they either want to get twice the performance they have in their current card by upgrading or they want to be able a specific game at a specific graphics setting with a minimum expected fps, and the card will either fail at that or succeed, its price is not a factor in that goal. As people are discussing, you wouldn't buy it as an upgrade for gtx970 and above.

3- in my case, I have a size constraint. My desktop only fits a 22 centimeters card and only has one six pin power connector. And since I am not willing to change my desktop yet(unless I find a buyer) and I don't want to throw more money at this desktop changing its power/case since it already swallowed a lot of money as it is, my goal is to get the absolute best 22 centimeter card to help me hold out another year or 2. So far it is looking like that card will be the evga GTX 1060

I will soon receive my freesync monitor and i don't have any case limitations .. i think i will get my first AMD card .. i know this might not be a big upgrade from my 970 (which i sold for 280$ a while back) but it will serve me well XD

anayman_k7 wroteThe nice thing about AMD Polaris is it will get better with time, it is true that majority of current games are a DX11 titles which gives an 8% lead to the GTX1060 but from today the RX 480 has a 18% advantage in DX12/Vulkan, with time it should improve and more games using these APIs will be launched

Well mate I am still skeptical about that, more AAA games need to validate , knowing that Pascal is showing resilience in Direct X 12 compared to the lackluster performance of Maxwell, the 1060 goes along with the trend. If r10 480 beat in in upcoming direct x 12 titles , the gain will be very narrow.


GTX 1060 vs RX 480 DirectX 12 & Vulkan Testing (Joker Production)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoanTrMenI