rx 470 vs. rx 480

[Lilninjsways]

I bought a rx 470 Saturday cause it was somewhat on sale plus it came with some pretty good stuff but today neweggs having a flash sale with the 480 $5 more than what I paid for the 470 now the 470 did come with a Xbox one elite controller and hit man first season and the 480 comes wit nothing is it worth it to return my 470 for a 480? or no?

[Matt_98]

3 minutes ago, Lilninjsways said:

I bought a rx 470 Saturday cause it was somewhat on sale plus it came with some pretty good stuff but today neweggs having a flash sale with the 480 $5 more than what I paid for the 470 now the 470 did come with a Xbox one elite controller and hit man first season and the 480 comes wit nothing is it worth it to return my 470 for a 480? or no?

 

the performance bump to the 480 wouldn't be worth it considering the free shiz you got with the 470

[Lilninjsways]

3 minutes ago, Matt_98 said:

the performance bump to the 480 wouldn't be worth it considering the free shiz you got with the 470

but if there was no free stuff then yes haha?

[Matt_98]

1 minute ago, Lilninjsways said:

but if there was no free stuff then yes haha?

yse it would be worth it then

[Droidbot]

you can OC the 470 a little bit to push it near the 480, considering most 470s are just 480s which couldn't handle higher clocks

[Lilninjsways]

3 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

you can OC the 470 a little bit to push it near the 480, considering most 470s are just 480s which couldn't handle higher clocks

ok thanks!

[Zyndo]

12 minutes ago, Matt_98 said:

the performance bump to the 480 wouldn't be worth it considering the free shiz you got with the 470

~20% performance boost on the 480 over the 470 isn't worth it for a couple extra bucks?

@Lilninjsways I don't know about you, but that definitely sounds worth it to me

[dragoon20005]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

you can OC the 470 a little bit to push it near the 480, considering most 470s are just 480s which couldn't handle higher clocks

this is wrong here

 

the 470 has a few of the shader cores disabled due to the disable cores being unstable and can go wonky if you force them with a modded vBIOS

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, dragoon20005 said:

this is wrong here

 

the 470 has a few of the shader cores disabled due to the disable cores being unstable and can go wonky if you force them with a modded vBIOS

yeah, it's like 1060 3GB vs 1060 6GB 

it's a little slower, got those extra cores disabled, etc. 

[Lilninjsways]

2 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

this is wrong here

 

the 470 has a few of the shader cores disabled due to the disable cores being unstable and can go wonky if you force them with a modded vBIOS

I don't like overclocking anyways

[Matt_98]

3 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

~20% performance boost on the 480 over the 470 isn't worth it?

@Lilninjsways I don't know about you, but that definitely sounds worth it to me

 

but he got an xbox elite controller with the 470 they are about £100

[Zyndo]

1 minute ago, Matt_98 said:

but he got an xbox elite controller with the 470 they are about £100

then i guess the question for you is "which is more valuable? 20% more fps or an Xbox Elite controller".


I'm still rolling in favor of the fps boost. but to each their own.

[dragoon20005]

2 minutes ago, Lilninjsways said:

I don't like overclocking anyways

vBIOS modding is a lot more risky and you can just killed/brick a GPU

 

and all you get is a dead paperweight

[Lilninjsways]

2 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

then i guess the question for you is "which is more valuable? 20% more fps or an Xbox Elite controller".


I'm still rolling in favor of the fps boost. but to each their own.

 

4 minutes ago, Matt_98 said:

but he got an xbox elite controller with the 470 they are about £100

I'm honestly on a SUPER budget rn ?? so if I ever buy a new graphics card it will be a while due to my crappy cpu then after that I will upgrade to a beast so yeah

[Matt_98]

4 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

vBIOS modding is a lot more risky and you can just killed/brick a GPU

 

and all you get is a dead paperweight

 

I like paperweights there very useful 

[dragoon20005]

Just now, Matt_98 said:

I like paperweights there very useful 

i see that your RX480 is listed as dead

[Matt_98]

2 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

i see that your RX480 is listed as dead

yep, need to change that my new one arrived.

ps. I didn't kill it. it killed itself