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[*Glucifer]

The server looks beautiful compared to my old Acer 900p TN monitor. 1440P IPS is great. I even overclocked my 4790K to keep the frame rate up higher. Its fantastic. I'm running a RX 480 and still waiting for Vega, but I plan on staying here even with my upgrades.

[*Tomekk]

I'm running an RX 480 too, but I'm probably going to sell it for double the purchasing price and get a 1070 instead. They're in real high demand due to the cryptomining craze.

[*LiquidDreamer]

Im waiting for the Etherium craze to die off (thanks Russia!), then upgrading to a 570 or so... I got this 470 for so cheap it was damn near criminal.

I can't roll with Nvidia hardware. It ages terribly, a 7900 GS was the last card I bought... back in the Nwn days, hehe.

[*Plaxy100]

Im waiting for the Etherium craze to die off (thanks Russia!), then upgrading to a 570 or so... I got this 470 for so cheap it was damn near criminal.

I can't roll with Nvidia hardware.  It ages terribly, a 7900 GS was the last card I bought... back in the Nwn days, hehe.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nv ... 3609vs3923 470 is already an obsolete card and the 1070 ((not even the top end Nvidia card outperforms it. who isn't aging well again?

oh and how bad has AMD gotten? Herehttp://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nv ... 3639vs3923 comparison test to Nvidia's Budget card, has comparable output and is even 100 dollars cheaper.

[*edmaster44]

Yo dawg, i'm rocking two 1080's let me tell you how super fly it is, rocking a nice and i'm rocking LG 27UD68-P 27-Inch 4K UHD IPS Monitor with FreeSync, Super fly dawg!

[*Tomekk]

470 is already an obsolete card and the 1070 ((not even the top end Nvidia card outperforms it.   who isn't aging well again?

oh and how bad has AMD gotten?  Herehttp://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nv ... 3639vs3923  comparison test to Nvidia's Budget card,   has comparable output and is even 100  dollars cheaper.

Using random numbers from Userbenchmark is almost as bad as thinking GPUBoss is relevant.

The 480/580 trades very well with the 1060 Ggb version in DirectX12/Vulcan (usually winning)... and the performance deficit is not really noticeable in DX11 for most users either (average 3-5 FPS; using Project CARS as a bad example just skews the results). You were trying to make the Radeon card look bad by using a Userbenchmark score where it wins, 10 points.

The 1060 is not 100$ cheaper either, the two cards normally cost roughly the same (depending on manufacturer) amount, but Polaris GPUs are being brought up like candy by cryptominers and are thus in high demand with low availability... cue price gouging; cue the end user buying a 1060 and having almost the same end user experience. What a terrible thing, indeed.

Finally, comparing it to a 1070 is stupid. Its a card in an entirely different price bracket and is by far not obsolete as not everyone has a 1440p/144Hz monitor. 480/470 are budget cards, and the 470 is the absolute king of price/perf and is an easy choice for the average user.

As for aging hardware... you should look up the 780 Ti and 290X in 2013 and again in 2017... one of them has gotten noticeably worse when the hackjob driver code was removed from the kernel and the other is holding up better than 4 years ago. :P

@Liquid: No point hoping over to a 570 from a 470... its just an overclocked GPU rebrand. Try undervolting (reduce mV) and overclocking (increase core frequency) in Wattman until you find a stable configuration and you get roughly the same results. I got my 480 from 1320Mhz @ 1150 mV to 1345Mhz @ 1090 mV, reducing the power consumption by about 20-30% and the average temperature by 10. If you're feeling bold, you can even try flashing the GPU BIOS to think it's a 570, but that's a risk. :P

@Ed: You do know Freesync does nothing with Nvidia cards, right?

[*Glucifer]

Ya. There is no way I would sell my RX 480. I already sold one before the crypto contagion outbreak, but that was so I could buy a smaller sized RX 480 (I had the powercolor red devil).

Freesync is way too useful for me (in my other games) and I am gaming at 1440p, so, a 1070 would not be a big enough jump in performance to justify giving up freesync @ 1440p. Another nice feature is Radeon Chill. Radeon Chill is great during the Summer. Otherwise, I'd consider using a Fury.

[*LiquidDreamer]

Im waiting for the Etherium craze to die off (thanks Russia!), then upgrading to a 570 or so... I got this 470 for so cheap it was damn near criminal.

I can't roll with Nvidia hardware.  It ages terribly, a 7900 GS was the last card I bought... back in the Nwn days, hehe.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nv ... 3609vs3923 470 is already an obsolete card and the 1070 ((not even the top end Nvidia card outperforms it. who isn't aging well again?

oh and how bad has AMD gotten? Herehttp://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nv ... 3639vs3923 comparison test to Nvidia's Budget card, has comparable output and is even 100 dollars cheaper.

The 10xx series is powered by Nvidia's high end gpus, the rx 4xx and 5xx (a higher clocked rebrand) is their mainstream GPU, as ed said, Vega is their high end gpu. The 1050ti is Nvidia's budget card.

Take a look at this techspot article, A look back at the 780ti, that was dat hotness when i dropped.

Besides, I got another 3-5 years out of my gpu, thanks consoles!

[*Glucifer]

Since the 5xx series is just a rebrand, you can (in some cases) simply flash the bios of a 470/480 and get a 570/580. Depending on what AIB partner you got your card from, your results will vary.

Some 5xx cards are binned though. Therefore, flashing a Sapphire RX 480 to a Sapphire RX 580 may produce unwanted results. Depending on how one does on the silicon lottery and what bios they are flashing to may make all the difference. In my case, I have a Gigabyte. There is no reason to flash this one. I am undervolting it anyway.