Turkish said:
I'm going with the 1080 for now, mainly because of the power requirement of the Vega. If the Vega was 180w it would be a no brainer.
JEMC said:
I'd tell you to wait for Vega to launch and see how it actually performs, and then decide which one you should get. After all, it launches in only 5 days. Of course, that's if you can wait and card prices don't change until then (which probably will because of miners, sadly). Otherwise, get the 1080.
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Should I risk gaming with a 295w gpu/90w cpu on a 500w psu?
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The problem is that we still don't know the real power draw of Vega 64, only what AMD said. Polaris 10, the RX 480, ended up using more power than what AMD said...
In any case, it will also depend on the rest of the hardware in you PC: what kind of RAM (nº of modules and capacity), nº of HDDs and fans, etc. Given that only you know that, you could try one of those PSU calculators sites to see how much headroom you do have. Here are a couple of them:
http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/
https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator
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