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A bit too optimistic.
 
GTX 1080 is about 80% faster than 980. Also, the 1080 competes with much faster gddr5x vram. 
The 1060 will presumably be half a 1080 (1280 CUDA vs 2560).
The 1080 has seen a +10% price increase, while the 1070 is at +15%.
 
GTX 1060 has more chances to be between 970 and 980 at 230-250$ than what you claim.

Well, that Nitro cooler will be overkill, suficient for the most extreme OC possible. In the 380 series it is one of the best among all partners and capable to keep a 180W gpu with an OC of about 25% at sub 80ºC without needing fans to be at 100%.
I only hope Sapphire puts bearing ball fans to rest for good.
 
About the aesthetics, not the best but personally better than some horrors found in the new GTX 1000...

i7 6650U only cost 22$ more than the i7 6500U, and then you have the i5 6260U that costs 89$ less,  both having the HD 540, which twice the amount of EUs and EDRAM.
 
It is well known that the issue doesn't come from bad cooling solutions, but the fact that when the cpu and gpu are both working at the same time, they throw more than just 15W, so if configurated at that TDP the APU downclocks.
Prime95 doesn't show throttling issues.

15W they say, throttling they hide.
http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/amd-carrizo-fx-8800p-benchmarks-15w/
 

There are far better examples:



 
 
Once you switch to live tiles based experience, both Android and iOS feel so clunky and rudimentary it is very hard to go back to them, despite all the little things of W10M.

There are far better examples:



 
 
Once you switch to live tiles based experience, both Android and iOS feel so clunky and rudimentary it is very hard to go back to them, despite all the little things of W10M.

" Thus, we need to be more focused in our phone hardware efforts."
"We always take care of our customers, Windows phones are no exception. We will continue to update and support our current Lumia and OEM partner phones, and develop great new devices."
 
Words of Terry Myerson say internet is full of dickheads who don't even have the minimum comprehension capabilities to understand what someone says.
 
Fact: MS won't stop developing hardware for W10 Mobile.

AMD said Zen will have around 40% more IPC than their newest architecture, which is Excavator. This puts the IPC between Ivy Bridge and Haswell.
Then Zen will have a maximum rated TDP of 95w, so we can expect 8 core with SMT to have low speeds to be in that range.
 
People think Zen will be the next big thing, but the only big things in the near future will be facepalms...
Zen will be more of a close gap to intel rather than a new king.
 
 
 

- Sapphire gets the golden chips and it's the best brand for Tonga, although their fans are pretty noisy at high speeds.
- MSI is the second best brand for Tonga. Very high OC, good cooler and quiet fans. But it is the most expensive.
- XFX is a step down of Sapphire. Temps and noise are similar, but they don't overclock as high as Sapphire. Comes into 3rd place.
- Asus has similar temps and noise than MSI, but doesn't OC as high as Sapphire or MSI. Also, some of their products come with wrong fan profiles that you might need to adjust.
- Powercolor is a similar brand than XFX. They usually have one of the best prices out there, and the PCS+ coolers are one of the best.
Sadly, for the 380 non-X they use an insufficient cooler paired with toy fans that make it one of the worst options. Then you look at their 380x version and you see the best stock cooler for Tonga.
- Gigabyte has one of the best coolings for Tonga, but locked voltages and wrong voltage profiles make it unworthy. If only they didn't screw it up...
 
If you don't care about noise get Sapphire.
If you don't care about price get MSI, best overall and best compatibility with Afterburner (best software for AMD).
If you want a decent product at a good price get XFX
If you prefer a renamed brand without spending that much go for Asus.

Ei!
 
I am kind of hoping to get the 5930k new on amazon for a very sweet reduced price if this is the case. But I still hope to get nice performance and reduced heat (TDP looks the same even in 14nm...) So, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. 
 
Bona nit!

It will be worth to upgrade only if Broadwell-E can OC like Skylake. Broadwell-E will have around 3-5% more IPC than Haswell-E, so the 6850k at 4.5GHz should do as good as a 5930k at 4.65-4.7GHz.
If these new i7 can reach 4.7-4.8GHz without needing custom loop they will beat Haswell-E pretty easily. If they overclock like the 5675c/5775c they will be quite disappointing.
 
In any case, disfruta-ho

Wow very comprehensive! Thanks!! I might go for XFX  maybe the MSI. 

I don't understand the hate towards the new Opera, which has improved a lot since they started releasing Opera 15 and it's pretty similar to this new Vivaldi. Been using it since then and I don't find any true reason to change.
 
Vivaldi has only a few better things: Full personalized UI, tab folders and full tab bin.
Personally neither of these 3 are worth to change. If stock design is good you shouldn't need to change many things, which I've had in Vivaldi. Tab folders is not an issue for me, I'm not a guy that has opened 40-50 tabs at the same time. Only full tab bin is worth to upgrade, but the speed dial in Opera is so good it's even faster than the bin.
 
Then, Opera does a few things better. Speed dial is miles ahead. Synchronization, it even does it for passwords. The UI style is more polished with more elaborated menus of less aggressive colors. More shortcuts with the right button, like pin to speed dial or bookmarks, full screen or save as. Enlarged UI for tablet mode. Developing a native adblock.
 
Moreover, Vivaldi has 3 big issues:
- No download manager enabled. Seriously?? 
- UI with issues with letter tab size and high resolutions, color scheme too intense and tiring, no animated backgrounds, annoying and useless panel that cannot be disabled, very little old style hamburger menu...
- Clunky Speed Dial with too large tiles than show full miniatures of the webpage, limited columns of tiles and bad folder management.
 
Vivaldi is not that good and Opera is not that bad, but nostalgics will have a biased beauty eye for Vivaldi and a skewed one for the new Opera.

That's not true. 960 needs to be at 1400MHz to match stock Tonga (970MHz). From here the 960 can go up to 1500-1550 (+7-10%) and Tonga to 1150-1175 (+18-21%).
 
To OP, from what you said the 380 will be better. It outperforms in pretty much all games from the past 1.5 years. And from the little we've seen of dx12, the difference between 380 and 960 becomes even bigger.

Lool how much BS we can find here...
 
3 false things:
- Average power consumption between 380 and 960 is more 50-70W than 100.
- There's no country with such price of $0.25kWh. Most expensive countries have it around $0.15kWh.
- Typical gaming time over a year is no way near those 5 hours every freaking day. 20 hours/week is a much better average.
 
With those more reasonable numbers instead of your silly and disproportional I-make-Nvidia-good numbers, the extra you pay over a year for a 380 is about 10$ more. 

Funny you compare the biggest 380 out there with the tiniest 960, we need more biased opinion:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3493/club-3d-r9-380-royalqueen-oc-4-gb.html 
20.7 cm
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3550/gigabyte-r9-380-windforce-2x-4-gb.html
23.4 cm
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3391/powercolor-pcs-r9-380-4-gb.html
20.7 cm
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3359/sapphire-r9-380-itx-compact.html
17 cm
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3441/xfx-r9-380-double-dissipation-4-gb.html
23.4 cm
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3358/sapphire-nitro-r9-380-4-gb.html
23.7 cm
 
 

Lool how much BS we can find here...
 
3 false things:
- Average power consumption between 380 and 960 is more 50-70W than 100.
- There's no country with such price of $0.25kWh. Most expensive countries have it around $0.15kWh.
- Typical gaming time over a year is no way near those 5 hours every freaking day. 20 hours/week is a much better average.
 
With those more reasonable numbers instead of your silly and disproportional I-make-Nvidia-good numbers, the extra you pay over a year for a 380 is about 10$ more. 

- In Haswell, Haswell-E, Broadwell and Broadwell-E vccin is NOT vcore. Vccin is the voltage for the FIVR and vcore is the actual voltage going through the cores.
- There's no a true maximum safe voltage. Each cpu will degrade differently at a same voltage, even some will die with no apparent dangerous voltage. 
- The only way to prevent degradation is to have the components in a super-conductive state, which requires temperatures near 0 K. This is technically and practically impossible, so we can assume degradation is impossible to avoid. Even at idle at 0.1v the cpu is degrading (at a minuscule rate but it is still happening).
- Temperatures and, consequently, cooling solution are a key part to prevent degradation. 1.3v at 90ºC is more dangerous than 1.5v at 60ºC. Temperature affects directly and indirectly the electromigration. It is a divisor in the formula used to calculate the time to failure from electromigration and an exponent to calculate the conductivity of a material, which is used to know the current density which is also a divisor in that formula.
 
People are too scared about voltage and degradation. There's tons of people freaking out because you exceeded 1.35v, or people think degradation happens in a matter of months.
The true is that if proper cooled, latest cpus can handle high voltages without issues for extended periods of times, and the only true way to kill or severely degrade a cpu is to go insane with the voltage in air/water.

- In Haswell, Haswell-E, Broadwell and Broadwell-E vccin is NOT vcore. Vccin is the voltage for the FIVR and vcore is the actual voltage going through the cores.
- There's no a true maximum safe voltage. Each cpu will degrade differently at a same voltage, even some will die with no apparent dangerous voltage. 
- The only way to prevent degradation is to have the components in a super-conductive state, which requires temperatures near 0 K. This is technically and practically impossible, so we can assume degradation is impossible to avoid. Even at idle at 0.1v the cpu is degrading (at a minuscule rate but it is still happening).
- Temperatures and, consequently, cooling solution are a key part to prevent degradation. 1.3v at 90ºC is more dangerous than 1.5v at 60ºC. Temperature affects directly and indirectly the electromigration. It is a divisor in the formula used to calculate the time to failure from electromigration and an exponent to calculate the conductivity of a material, which is used to know the current density which is also a divisor in that formula.
 
People are too scared about voltage and degradation. There's tons of people freaking out because you exceeded 1.35v, or people think degradation happens in a matter of months.
The true is that if proper cooled, latest cpus can handle high voltages without issues for extended periods of times, and the only true way to kill or severely degrade a cpu is to go insane with the voltage in air/water.

Go for the 380 4GB, best value of both. Another good option is the 380x if you catch it at a good price.
 
MSI is one of the best assemblers btw.

For a 380 you will start to need an i5 4460/6400. I wouldn't recommend an i3, games start to push 4 true cores easily once you play with high/ultra settings, which a 380 is aimed for.

Have had an old hd5650, a Nvidia in a laptop for several years and now I have a 285 (which is the same as the 380).
- I've had more issues with Nvidia drivers than AMD, specially in terms of performance. With the Nvidia I was more than a year stuck with the same old driver because the newer ones were giving me less performance.
With AMD this hasn't happened, and is not like the little experience I had with the old HD. Performance has been very consistent since late 2014, and with the new Crimson I've experienced a lot more smoothness (something AMD has lacked in the past). Crimson is a real step up.
On the other hand, Nvidia has had tons of hidden issues this past year, or performance downgrades is less known games, specially with the introduction of Windows 10.
- AMD and Nvidia failure ratio is similar. AMD got bad fame due to a bad batch of HD7000 and some issues with previous gpus and cheap manufacturers, but nowadays they're fine. In fact, Nvidia has had more issues in the recent past in form of coil whining.
You shouldn't take an entire brand as bad for a bad product you had. Gpu's are very complex electronic devices, so it is normal their failure ratios are much higher than cpus or ram.
 
In conclusion:
- Nvidia delivers a more refined software environment, with more settings to play with, and the expectations of day 1 performance. But at the same time, there have some annoying issues they shouldn't exist with such brand. 
Another bad point is their gpus get outdated very quickly, and Nvidia is prompted to jump to the new architecture and build the drivers around it, with the previous generations being outperforming by a lot for no apparent reason, and even losing to the same AMD chips once they were competing (example are GTX 760 now struggling to surpass a 270x when it was facing a 280, or the 680 that was winning a 7970 when launched and now is performing around 10-15% less, or even the 960 that was winning the 285 at lauch and now is being beaten by a 380 by a 10%).
Expect Maxwell to fall miserably when Pascal is launched, specially the 960 with the tiny 128bit bus and the 970 with the 3.5GB issue.
 
- AMD delivers a less refined product, but more robust in terms of hardware. You get more raw power, but less software extras. This raw power allows the gpu to live longer and stand newer games for more time. But their gpus consume more power and run hotter, requiring larger coolers and fans at higher speeds, and, while they're getting better, their software support is still not as good as Nvidia.
 
The future is bright for both brands. Nvidia has a true monster with Pascal, and with their experience of driver polishing and the low power achieved with Maxwell they can have a really shiny performance in DX12. AMD sees in DX12 the solve of their cpu bottleneck of DX11, and we've already seen that GCN sees a huge bump in performance with it, making gpus that are 3-4 years old performing extremely well. And with the new Polaris is supposed to put all this experience of GCN to the next level, plus solving the power consumption issue.
 
But concreting in the 960vs380, the 380 is a better choice in pretty much all aspects. Not only it performs better, with DX12 the jump becomes wider, so much to a point where with a 960 you might need a lower setting level to get the same fps than with a 380 (like it already happens in the Hitman Beta).
Software is in both very good and stable, and it's not like in the past where Nvidia had tons of tools they were impossible to get with AMD. GeForce Experience? Raptr. Shadowplay? PlayTV or OBS. DSR? VSR. TXAA? SMAA, FXAA, built EQAA... Gameworks? GPUOpen. Gsync? Freesync.
The only reason I find to get a 960 is if you use software that takes advantage of CUDA or if you play some bad optimized games where you get crazy more performace with the Nvidia one (Project Cars I'm looking at you).

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Also, in Spain it will cost 700€ the S7 and 800€ the S7 Edge (same prices as the S6).

My best is a GT525m. Came at only 475/900MHz and could do 720/990MHz with stock voltage.
Then it comes a r9 380 Nitro I had for a few days. 1200/1625 stable and passed Firestrike at 1275/1625.
ANd finally my actual r9 285. 1120/1580 with modded bios and I still get random idle core and memory crashes...