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oodles2do on 30 June 2016
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Pemalite said:
oodles2do said:

So, the 970 OC will perform better than the 480 but consume more power?

There's no rush at all for me, my new PC hasn't even arrived yet. I'd rather get a newer card because obviously it'll stay relevant for longer but if an older card outperforms it then surely that'll stay relevant too?

I'll only be using it at 1080p and and willing to downgrade settings to get it to around 60 fps too.

In the majority of games today, yes the Geforce 970 will be faster.

Games of tomorrow (Aka. Direct X 12) is another matter entirely, where the Radeon 480 should have the edge...
The question you need to then ask yourself is... Does the Radeon 480 give you acceptable performance in every game that you are willing to play today? And is more performance in tomorrows games more important?

You can't ignore the fact that Polaris is new, it uses a new architecture... So expect performance gains thanks to improved drivers going forward.

I would revisit all this once you get your new PC and you start looking at GPU's, there might be price shifts soon which might change things for you... And there should be some custom Radeon 480's by then too, Hopefully one with dual PCI-E power and voltage adjustments.

I agree with waiting for 3rd party cards, this PC is the first that I've custom configured and I don't really know much about motherboards. What do I need for dual PCI-E power? Is that simply from the power supply? The board that I've had to go for (to stick to the configurator on the website) has 1 PCI-E slot for GPU's.