radeon 480 or 1080?

[Lucas9825]

Debating on which gpu I want to get for my new build, Should I purchase the aftermarket 1080 or the radeon 480?

 

I'd like the most powerful one.

[DXMember]

umm... you're deciding between a $700 and a $200 product...

what?

[typographie]

Well, the GTX 1080 is three times the cost and likely about twice as fast as the RX 480. The 1080 is a brand new high-end card, whereas the RX 480 is aimed at the middle of the market. There's quite a difference between the two.

 

What sort of gaming do you want to do, at what resolution and what framerate?

[Dackzy]

480 is mid end, 1080 is high end.

2x 480 was shown to be a bit better than the 1080, but I will take that with a grain of salt.

The 480 has way way better support for dx12 than what any of the 1000 series will have.

[Lucas9825]

1 minute ago, typographie said:

Well, the GTX 1080 is three times the cost and at least twice as fast as the RX 480. There's quite a difference between the two. The 1080 is a brand new high-end card, whereas the RX 480 is aimed at the middle of the market.

 

What sort of gaming do you want to do, at what resolution and what framerate?

Im aiming on doing high end gaming. play through. 144hz 1080p.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

480 is mid end, 1080 is high end.

2x 480 was shown to be a bit better than the 1080, but I will take that with a grain of salt.

The 480 has way way better support for dx12 than what any of the 1000 series will have.

bit worse*

How do you know?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

umm... you're deciding between a $700 and a $200 product...

what?

Yeah... the 480 is at an excellent price for the minimum VR spec, but the 1080 is WAY above that spec for a much higher price. Wait for the higher end AMD cards if you want to compare one to the 1080. 

[Djole123]

If you can drop 2 480's (see what I did there?) in your system, they will absolutely pay off.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

bit worse*

How do you know?

the 1000 series is basically a modded version of 900 series with a die shrink and they are in no way optimized for DX12 or async compute

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, ONOTech said:

We're not sure how a single 480 performs so we don't know

they perform like a 390/390x

and thats about 50% as powerful as a 1080

[typographie]

3 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

Im aiming on doing high end gaming. play through. 144hz 1080p.

We'll know better once real benchmarks start appearing, but my instinct is that there's really no such thing as overkill if you want to continue playing brand new games at or around 144 FPS for the next few years. Get the fastest thing you can afford. I don't think you'll want a midrange card like the RX 480 for that.

[xgn]

Wait for polaris to be released so you can see real benchmarks

[SeanAngelo]

8 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

Debating on which gpu I want to get for my new build, Should I purchase the aftermarket 1080 or the radeon 480?

 

I'd like the most powerful one.

dude, you're comparing a $700 card to a $200 card.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

The only benchmark is AoTS, which is more than likely, best case scenario. 

 

We have an idea (ranging from 390 up to the Fury), but it's still hazy. I doubt it can drive 144Hz.

yeah true, AoTS is pretty much an AMD card favourite

regular games the 480 would probably perform worse than 50% a 1080

[Tedol]

rx... or r9 490-490x will be announced in 1-2 months... so... that card will compete (490 and 1080) 

[DioOmicida]

Comparing two different class of cards. 

[Fulgrim]

4 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

The only benchmark is AoTS, which is more than likely, best case scenario. 

 

We have an idea (ranging from 390 up to the Fury), but it's still hazy. I doubt it can drive 144Hz.

In the livestream, they had DOOM maxed out @1440p with 60+fps, similar to the GTX 980's performance.

[Lucas9825]

1 minute ago, DioOmicida said:

Comparing two different class of cards. 

Yes I know Im comparing a 200$ card vs 600.

 

I've just heard that the 490 will compete with the 1080 pretty well and didnt know if it was true or not.

[Dackzy]

5 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

The only benchmark is AoTS, which is more than likely, best case scenario. 

 

We have an idea (ranging from 390 up to the Fury), but it's still hazy. I doubt it can drive 144Hz.

Yeah because it uses DX12 and Nvidia cards are not good that.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

HOLY SHIT GUYS WAIT FOR THE FUCKING BENCHMARKS TO COME OUT.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Fulgrim said:

In the livestream, they had DOOM maxed out @1440p with 60+fps, similar to the GTX 980's performance.

No, a 970 pulls over 100 fps in Doom. I know because my buddy plays Doom.

[FloRolf]

9 minutes ago, Lucas9825 said:

Im aiming on doing high end gaming. play through. 144hz 1080p.

1080p

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1080p

 

 

[DioOmicida]

1 minute ago, Lucas9825 said:

I've just heard that the 490 will compete with the 1080 pretty well and didnt know if it was true or not.

We hardly have any information on either 4xx cards.
Let us just wait and see. Id just pick up everything but the gpu. 

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

1080p

1080p

1080p

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1080p

 

 

Yep OP move a res up it will look so much better.

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, DioOmicida said:

We hardly have any information on either 4xx cards.
Let us just wait and see. Id just pick up everything but the gpu. 

No, we know tons.