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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

Rainbow six siege, 1080p.

 

The Msi armour? I like the colour scheme, if not the regular gaming one?

MSI armor is fine though bit on a low end

I don't think Fury is really needed for R6S really. You are fine with an RX 480. Is it a 4GB or 8GB btw

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Right now I'm using a GTX 970, and I have a free sync 144hz monitor, in the game I mainly play the 480 beats the 970 and it'd be a flat swap. Or should I try going for an r9 fury for 50$ more?

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What game exactly? What resolution is your monitor?

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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

Right now I'm using a GTX 970, and I have a free sync 144hz monitor, in the game I mainly play the 480 beats the 970 and it'd be a flat swap. Or should I try going for an r9 fury for 50$ more?

well I was looking at the fury 4gb hbm and it's 259usd and trades blows with a 1070 and nearly beats a 1080 in directx12 and vulkan titles. https://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-11247-03-40G/dp/B0196LWL3W/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1480554704&sr=1-1&keywords=r9+fury&linkCode=sl1&tag=sciestud09-20&linkId=7e91402f44ccc4dc012c7f4c27e97f72

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A flat swap? As long as it's not a garbage model, that's a good deal since a 480 is a bit faster than a 390x.

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6 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What game exactly? What resolution is your monitor?

Rainbow six siege, 1080p.

 

6 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

A flat swap? As long as it's not a garbage model, that's a good deal since a 480 is a bit faster than a 390x.

The Msi armour? I like the colour scheme, if not the regular gaming one?

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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

Rainbow six siege, 1080p.

 

The Msi armour? I like the colour scheme, if not the regular gaming one?

MSI armor is fine though bit on a low end

I don't think Fury is really needed for R6S really. You are fine with an RX 480. Is it a 4GB or 8GB btw

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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

Rainbow six siege, 1080p.

 

The Msi armour? I like the colour scheme, if not the regular gaming one?

It's a decent model. Gets the job done. I see you have your 970 OCed though. If you want to OC, you'd be better off getting the GTR, gaming x or strix. The nitro is good too if you're okay with a bit of noise.

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10 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

Right now I'm using a GTX 970, and I have a free sync 144hz monitor, in the game I mainly play the 480 beats the 970 and it'd be a flat swap

Yep, get the 480. It is a bit faster than the 980.

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1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

It's a decent model. Gets the job done. I see you have your 970 OCed though. If you want to OC, you'd be better off getting the GTR, gaming x or strix. The nitro is good too if you're okay with a bit of noise.

Yeah, with my 970 oc'd where it's at it performs similar to the stock 480. And is gigabyte any good?

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3 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

Yeah, with my 970 oc'd where it's at it performs similar to the stock 480. And is gigabyte any good?

No gigabyte is trash

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

No gigabyte is trash

For AMD. For Nvidia, they are among the best....

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3 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

Yeah, with my 970 oc'd where it's at it performs similar to the stock 480. And is gigabyte any good?

Nope. Worst 480. Uses worse PCB components than the reference 480 and the cooler is garbage.

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1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

For AMD. For Nvidia, they are among the best....

The one you said had huge amount of coilwhine?

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*Go with the Fury

*It has better floating-point performance, more shading and texture units, HBM memory and 20 more compute units than the 480.

All in all you should get around 10-15 fps boost depending on the game you're playing versus the 970.

On the other hand rx 480 can have 8gb vram but if you're planing on playing just 1080p you will be fine with 4gb vram.

*Here is another idea why not wait for amd vega gpus.. 

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

The one you said had huge amount of coilwhine?

The 1050,1050 Ti,1070 and 1080 G1 don't have coil whine. The 1060 G1 (rev 1) has coil whine, but it is the exception rather than the rule...

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the fury is less than 259 before rebate today. ( 255 )

the 480 is faster than the 970. by a decent margin depending on the game ( 20% or so )

the fury is faster than both but is more power hungry.

it's a toss up.

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3 minutes ago, greeatzy said:

*It has better floating-point performance, more shading and texture units, HBM memory and 20 more compute units than the 480.

And consumes 2x the power..... Not really worth it for 1080p, as the 480 and 1060 are on par with the Fury (at 1080p)

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2 minutes ago, LabRat said:

the fury is faster than both but is more power hungry.

 

At 1080p, it is not much faster than the 480 and 1060... 

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1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

At 1080p, it is not much faster than the 480 and 1060... 

kinda funny it runs that way on some benchmarks. when you hit 1440p and up it pulls ahead. but I guess you gotta think it out..??

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3 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

At 1080p, it is not much faster than the 480 and 1060... 

 

3 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

At 1080p, it is not much faster than the 480 and 1060... 

Is it not?

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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

 

Is it not?

When both are at stock, the Fury is 5% faster and consumes almost 100% more power.... If you overclock the 480, you can get it on par with the Fury and you have 2 times the vRAM capacity...

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4 minutes ago, LabRat said:

kinda funny it runs that way on some benchmarks. when you hit 1440p and up it pulls ahead. 

It does, because of its 4096bit memory bus...

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5 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

It does, because of its 4096bit memory bus...

Stares at the current 384bit of my 970.. On paper it's like 10x better! Lol

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1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

Stares at the current 384bit of my 970.. On paper it's like 10x better! Lol

IMO, get the 480 8GB, it is a decent upgrade from the 970....

It's just like going from 3.5 to 4 (badjokesftw!)

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3 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

IMO, get the 480 8GB, it is a decent upgrade from the 970....

It's just like going from 3.5 to 4 (badjokesftw!)

Yeah, and the freesync, and I'm fed up with nvidias bullshit at this point. I've been going Nvidia only, and I wanna see what AMD is like.. I like the Nvidia control panel, but the sli thing is just, no. I used to keep Nvidia for shadowplay, but now it's a hassle to use, and I can't even use it, simply because it just stops responding and either corrupts the file and takes hours to actually stop it or it will just tape a black image.. But I can just use obs, which is hard to figure out. Lol

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