The best RX 480

[BigAtom47]

The title says all.

My motherboard supports Crossfire so I refuse to buy a 1060. I want to know which RX 480 is the best with a 300$ budget.

[Squibbies18]

Just now, BigAtom47 said:

The title says all.

My motherboard supports Crossfire so I refuse to buy a 1060. I want to know which RX 480 is the best with a 300$ budget.

the msi gaming X and the XFX GTR are the best RX 480s

[Guest]

1 minute ago, BigAtom47 said:

The title says all.

My motherboard supports Crossfire so I refuse to buy a 1060. I want to know which RX 480 is the best with a 300$ budget.

• Gaming X from MSI
• GTR from XFX
• Asus ROG Strix from Asus

 

[Enderman]

You shouldn't do crossfire anyway. When you can afford a second 480, just sell your 480 and buy a better single GPU.

[BigAtom47]

Just now, Squibbies18 said:

the msi gaming X and the XFX GTR are the best RX 480s

I have very good temperatures on my system and I pretend to overclock. Can you give me a comparison of the temperatures and the stock clock in both cards?

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, BigAtom47 said:

The title says all.

My motherboard supports Crossfire so I refuse to buy a 1060. I want to know which RX 480 is the best with a 300$ budget.

Is that $300 USD in the US?

In any case, the XFX GTR is probably the best to buy at around $250 for the 8GB version

but the ASUS Strixx 480 is the most overbuilt for overclocking and air cooling, wouldn't exactly recommend that one due to price

[BigAtom47]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

You shouldn't do crossfire anyway. When you can afford a second 480, just sell your 480 and buy a better single GPU.

I don't pretend to do Crossfire right now, I think in a couple months when I have the money.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, BigAtom47 said:

I have very good temperatures on my system and I pretend to overclock. Can you give me a comparison of the temperatures and the stock clock in both cards?

Temps are going to be the same the only real difference will be in fan speed since the gaming X has larger fans and it would run a bit quieter, but the GTR I believe has the better PCB for overclocking

Buildzoid's XFX GTR hit 1560mhz core on water with a modified bios, don't remember the memory clock, this channel has PCB breakdowns on a lot of the 480s

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrwObTfqv8u1KO7Fgk-FXHQ/search?query=480

 

 

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, BigAtom47 said:

I don't pretend to do Crossfire right now, I think in a couple months when I have the money.

That's what I mean, in a couple months instead of buying another 480 just sells yours and buy a better single GPU.

[NTDaws]

XFX GTR 8GB RX 480.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

That's what I mean, in a couple months instead of buying another 480 just sells yours and buy a better single GPU.

Apparently there's a fun factor to running 2 GPUs

Also you could try to top the Crossfire 480 charts on firestrike

 

11 minutes ago, BigAtom47 said:

The title says all.

My motherboard supports Crossfire so I refuse to buy a 1060. I want to know which RX 480 is the best with a 300$ budget.

Wait are you building a new PC? or do you already have a PC? if so what's your CPU?

[Squibbies18]

5 minutes ago, BigAtom47 said:

I have very good temperatures on my system and I pretend to overclock. Can you give me a comparison of the temperatures and the stock clock in both cards?

the both have the same core clock 1120Mhz but the XFX has a higher boost clock 1338MHz to the MSI cards 1316Mhz. The MSI card can go up to 73 degrees under load and the XFX card is pretty much the same

[BigAtom47]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Apparently there's a fun factor to running 2 GPUs

Also you could try to top the Crossfire 480 charts on firestrike

 

Wait are you building a new PC? or do you already have a PC? if so what's your CPU?

I have an i5 6600k overclocked to 4.5 GHz

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Apparently there's a fun factor to running 2 GPUs

Also you could try to top the Crossfire 480 charts on firestrike

It's better to have a single high end GPU than two low end GPUs.

In almost all games a single GPU will eprform better.

You also don't need to deal with extra heat, power consumption, multi-GPU issues, noise, etc etc etc.

[Streetguru]

Just now, BigAtom47 said:

I have an i5 6600k overclocked to 4.5 GHz

Should be fine then for all but the most extreme of 144hz gaming, although you may want to consider Upgrading to Ryzen 7 over an i7 in the future to get the extra cores

 

what's your display?

[BigAtom47]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Should be fine then for all but the most extreme of 144hz gaming, although you may want to consider Upgrading to Ryzen 7 over an i7 in the future to get the extra cores

 

what's your display?

1080p 120Hz

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It's better to have a single high end GPU than two low end GPUs.

In almost all games a single GPU will eprform better.

You also don't need to deal with extra heat, power consumption, multi-GPU issues, noise, etc etc etc.

Some people just don't care and want to play with running 2 GPUs

about 30% of the time you get really nice scaling and performance you wouldn't have otherwise

I can almost recommend 480 crossfire simply due to it's pricing, if crossfire doesn't work then you only have a $200 GPU sitting idle

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, BigAtom47 said:

1080p 120Hz

Suppose you might need crossfire'd 480s to try and max it out, although you will be CPU limited in some titles from hitting 120fps

I'd probably suggest just saving up and then upgrading to Ryzen R7 rather than getting a 2nd 480, assuming Ryzen's performance is solid

Like in GTAV even assuming 100% scaling you wouldn't really hit 120fps

Some more benchmarks for 120hz gaming

 

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Some people just don't care and want to play with running 2 GPUs

about 30% of the time you get really nice scaling and performance you wouldn't have otherwise

I can almost recommend 480 crossfire simply due to it's pricing, if crossfire doesn't work then you only have a $200 GPU sitting idle

Unless you only play triple A games made in the past few years, it is FAR less than 30%.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Unless you only play triple A games made in the past few years, it is FAR less than 30%.

DX12/Vulkan should help with adoption as well, but he should upgrade his CPU potentially if 120hz gaming is his goal

Mankind divided has some pretty great scaling added in it's DX12 mode

https://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/DX12-Multi-GPU-scaling-and-running-Deus-Ex-Mankind-Divided

[BigAtom47]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Suppose you might need crossfire'd 480s to try and max it out, although you will be CPU limited in some titles from hitting 120fps

I'd probably suggest just saving up and then upgrading to Ryzen R7 rather than getting a 2nd 480, assuming Ryzen's performance is solid

Like in GTAV even assuming 100% scaling you wouldn't hit 120fps

Ok, so I buy the 290$ XFX RX 480 and I save the money for an i7, right?

[Streetguru]

Just now, BigAtom47 said:

Ok, so I buy the 290$ XFX RX 480 and I save the money for an i7, right?

It's only $250 I think unless there's taxes/shipping added on, but ya probably the XFX GTR 480 buildzoid has an overclocking livestream as well

 

but not an i7 no, if you upgrade to an i7, you're spending $300 to get hyperthreading and that's literally all you get, about 50% more multi-threaded performance, not worth it IMO

 

With Ryzen R7 you're getting 8 cores/16 threads, so 8 real cores vs 4c/8t, waiting for benchmarks atm, but in games that use 8 threads the Ryzen chip should be faster anyways since it's got the real cores, but if not it's still a far better value than a 4 core i7.

Unless you've got a buyer lined up for the i5 and you're getting like $180 for it. so you aren't spending as much to upgrade to the i7

 

 

[BigAtom47]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

It's only $250 I think unless there's taxes/shipping added on, but ya probably the XFX GTR 480 buildzoid has an overclocking livestream as well

 

but not an i7 no, if you upgrade to an i7, you're spending $300 to get hyperthreading and that's literally all you get, about 50% more multi-threaded performance, not worth it IMO

 

With Ryzen R7 you're getting 8 cores/16 threads, so 8 real cores vs 4c/8t, waiting for benchmarks atm, but in games that use 8 threads the Ryzen chip should be faster anyways since it's got the real cores, but if not it's still a far better value than a 4 core i7.

Unless you've got a buyer lined up for the i5 and you're getting like $180 for it. so you aren't spending as much to upgrade to the i7

 

 

Ok, I'll do that. Thanks for helping.

[Streetguru]

Just now, BigAtom47 said:

Ok, I'll do that. Thanks for helping.

Benchmarks should be out at the latest by thursday this week, but you aren't buying it for a while anyways I guess

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

DX12/Vulkan should help with adoption as well, but he should upgrade his CPU potentially if 120hz gaming is his goal

Mankind divided has some pretty great scaling added in it's DX12 mode

https://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/DX12-Multi-GPU-scaling-and-running-Deus-Ex-Mankind-Divided

DX12/vulcan helps in general not specifically for multi-GPU.