RX 480 or 1070?

[Willtech36]

Hewo~..

 

Recently been browsing, and well.. I plan to sell my 970 to my brother meanwhile I can upgrade into eaither Crossfire 480 RX or a 1070, but not sure. Since my main monitor is 144, and only seen HDMI on the AMD card,  yet this might be delayed until August, to see the other coolers instead of reference cards of the 480 at first!

 

But I've seen Nvidia as always being the more, long lasting card and such due to my bad past with AMD cards before! Had a 7970 Powercolor, that died 2 months after I bought it sadly! And had several blue screens while playing!

 

I do play some of the modern games but most be released next year that I got my eyes on.

 

Advisors, ADVISE me!

[SeanAngelo]

3 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

Hewo~..

 

Recently been browsing, and well.. I plan to sell my 970 to my brother meanwhile I can upgrade into eaither Crossfire 480 RX or a 1070, but not sure. Since my main monitor is 144, and only seen HDMI on the AMD card,  yet this might be delayed until August, to see the other coolers instead of reference cards of the 480 at first!

 

But I've seen Nvidia as always being the more, long lasting card and such due to my bad past with AMD cards before! Had a 7970 Powercolor, that died 2 months after I bought it sadly! And had several blue screens while playing!

 

I do play some of the modern games but most be released next year that I got my eyes on.

 

Advisors, ADVISE me!

1070, non reference though.

[Willtech36]

2 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

1070, non reference though.

Looking at the STRIX of course that is. If I'd buy 1070.

[SeanAngelo]

5 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

Looking at the STRIX of course that is. If I'd buy 1070.

thats a good card!

[Willtech36]

1 minute ago, SeanAngelo said:

thats a good card!

Yeah, but quite expensive at 530 euros!

[SeanAngelo]

1 minute ago, Willtech36 said:

Yeah, but quite expensive at 530 euros!

damn, what are the cheaper ones?

[Willtech36]

1 minute ago, SeanAngelo said:

damn, what are the cheaper ones?

Reference card rests at 499 Euros.

 

[iiNNeX]

Using the search button helps... this has been discussed about 100 times in the last week or so..

 

GTX 1070 is in a totally different league compared to the RX480 so it's hardly a Comparison. 

 

Let your wallet decide.

[Willtech36]

1 minute ago, iiNNeX said:

Using the search button helps... this has been discussed about 100 times in the last week or so..

 

GTX 1070 is in a totally different league compared to the RX480 so it's hardly a Comparison. 

 

Let your wallet decide.

Well, was not single 480, would be two of them in that case!

[Imakuni]

12 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

plan to sell my 970 to my brother meanwhile I can upgrade into eaither Crossfire 480 RX or a 1070, but not sure.

The 480 isn't an upgrade. It's pretty much the exact same thing as a 970, with an AMD sticker on (and a lower price tag).

 

If you want a real upgrade, aim for a 1070. As said, any non-reference 1070 will do. I vote the G1, but EVGA's cards or the Asus strix are also other good options.

[Willtech36]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

The 480 isn't an upgrade. It's pretty much the exact same thing as a 970, with an AMD sticker on (and a lower price tag).

 

If you want a real upgrade, aim for a 1070. As said, any non-reference 1070 will do. I vote the G1, but EVGA's cards or the Asus strix are also other good options.

Yeah, but also, I would not buy a single 480, would Crossfire them in that case! Or but I do not like the heat output that we see on those 480 reference cards!

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, iiNNeX said:

Using the search button helps... this has been discussed about 100 times in the last week or so..

 

GTX 1070 is in a totally different league compared to the RX480 so it's hardly a Comparison. 

 

Let your wallet decide.

He said crossfire 480s

 

Anyway I went with a 1070 (FE) and it seems like a fairly powerful. Definitively can drive 120+hz at 1080p, only very intense games like Witcher 3 might require lower details to achieve consistently high framerates but still fairly nice.

 

480s in crossfire are also quite good but if you factor in the fact that you need a crossfire motherboard, decent case with good airflow, significantly better PSU to run and and that many games, specially while new, don't properly support crossfire, single 1070 sounds better to me. But crossfire 480s are perfectly viable if you already have all this covered.

[Willtech36]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

He said crossfire 480s

 

Anyway I went with a 1070 (FE) and it seems like a fairly powerful. Definitively can drive 120+hz at 1080p, only very intense games like Witcher 3 might require lower details to achieve consistently high framerates but still fairly nice.

 

480s in crossfire are also quite good but if you factor in the fact that you need a crossfire motherboard, decent case with good airflow, significantly better PSU to run and and that many games, specially while new, don't properly support crossfire, single 1070 sounds better to me. But crossfire 480s are perfectly viable if you already have all this covered.

Yeah, and while the RX 480 already rests at 300 euros, them better cooling ones will most likely cost even more so it'd be eaither 530 or 680 So might go for the STRIX 1070 after this month! If my brother still be interested in buying my 970. Unless 970 and 1070 is able to work together, though, that might be waste, as the 1070 will run down to the speed of 970 I think.

[EdwardBrown]

21 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

Hewo~..

 

Recently been browsing, and well.. I plan to sell my 970 to my brother meanwhile I can upgrade into eaither Crossfire 480 RX or a 1070, but not sure. Since my main monitor is 144, and only seen HDMI on the AMD card,  yet this might be delayed until August, to see the other coolers instead of reference cards of the 480 at first!

 

But I've seen Nvidia as always being the more, long lasting card and such due to my bad past with AMD cards before! Had a 7970 Powercolor, that died 2 months after I bought it sadly! And had several blue screens while playing!

 

I do play some of the modern games but most be released next year that I got my eyes on.

 

Advisors, ADVISE me!

The RX 480 has three displayport and one hdmi.

[KearneyMC]

1 hour ago, Willtech36 said:

Yeah, but quite expensive at 530 euros!

Why not get 2 XFX Rx 480s for 492 Euros 

 

[Imakuni]

8 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

Yeah, but also, I would not buy a single 480, would Crossfire them in that case! Or but I do not like the heat output that we see on those 480 reference cards!

Woops, didn't realize it was CF. It's such a stupid idea that my brain automatically refutes it. My bad for not reading it properly.

 

But yeah, don't do 2x 480. Go for a single 1070.

[Misanthrope]

5 minutes ago, Willtech36 said:

Yeah, and while the RX 480 already rests at 300 euros, them better cooling ones will most likely cost even more so it'd be eaither 530 or 680 So might go for the STRIX 1070 after this month! If my brother still be interested in buying my 970. Unless 970 and 1070 is able to work together, though, that might be waste, as the 1070 will run down to the speed of 970 I think.

No actually it would be multi gpu not direct SLI so they'd both run at their speeds, but at 1080p even with high refresh rates you won't really need anything else for a while witha 1070.

 

Also I personally don't have good experiences with Asus cards and many do not either, I'd choose a non founders EVGA if at all available to you but that's just me.

[Willtech36]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

No actually it would be multi gpu not direct SLI so they'd both run at their speeds, but at 1080p even with high refresh rates you won't really need anything else for a while witha 1070.

 

Also I personally don't have good experiences with Asus cards and many do not either, I'd choose a non founders EVGA if at all available to you but that's just me.

I guess, but my experience with ASUS have been well though! And kinda fits my ASUS theme for it all   But yeah, might go with 1070 if my brother buys my 970, as it costs 280 in store, I sell it for 150 to him.. So that will ease his 760 some, and me being more future proof!

[Willtech36]

5 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Woops, didn't realize it was CF. It's such a stupid idea that my brain automatically refutes it. My bad for not reading it properly.

 

But yeah, don't do 2x 480. Go for a single 1070.

What I thought, as most say, go for better single GPU.

[iiNNeX]

14 hours ago, Willtech36 said:

Well, was not single 480, would be two of them in that case!

Ah my bad, well either way 1070 is still a better choice. Crossfire has enough issues as is (SLI not far behind).

 

 

[Simon771]

GTX 1070 all the way.

 

RX 480 have some issues with pci power draw ... so with 2 of them in your system ... oh well that would be bad for your motherboard.

RX 480 crossfire will have scaling problems

heat problems

more power draw

more noise

more cost

 

The only benefit you MIGHT get from crossfire rx 480, is up to 15% better performance than gtx 1070, but only in few games where optimisation for crossfire is up to date.

There are tons of games that don't even support crossfire or SLI, so another problem right here.

 

It's better for you to get gtx 1070, and in the future you can always buy another 1070 and have it in SLI for 4K resolution. 

For now gtx 1070 is you best bet!

[Willtech36]

On 2016-07-08 at 9:42 AM, Simon771 said:

GTX 1070 all the way.

 

RX 480 have some issues with pci power draw ... so with 2 of them in your system ... oh well that would be bad for your motherboard.

RX 480 crossfire will have scaling problems

heat problems

more power draw

more noise

more cost

 

The only benefit you MIGHT get from crossfire rx 480, is up to 15% better performance than gtx 1070, but only in few games where optimisation for crossfire is up to date.

There are tons of games that don't even support crossfire or SLI, so another problem right here.

 

It's better for you to get gtx 1070, and in the future you can always buy another 1070 and have it in SLI for 4K resolution. 

For now gtx 1070 is you best bet!

Yeah, aiming for the 1070, but depends on my brother if he wants to buy me 970 or not, as I sell it to him 100 euros cheaper, as it is 260 from the PC vendors around.

 

But also, unsure about my motherboard and CPU itself. Quite old ones, just hopefully they last like, for longer time, not sure how well they do with the new GPUs!