Leaked benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 480 hits minimum VR spec for $199

[JEMC]

DemoniOtaku said:

JEMC said:

Checking out the reviews, it turns out that it does.

TechPowerUp has a section in its review for Performance per dollar (note that they also have a 1060 with a third party cooler and overclocked)

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1060_Gaming_X/26.html

The MSI GTX 1060 is $289, and the Founders Edition is $299, so yes, the 480 still gives better performance x dollarthan those two cards. But if you can find a 1060 at $249, that will be the card to get.

Nah only the Mini 1060 are at that price, not that I overclock that much, but I like to have the option...  compared to the reference Rx480 even the personalized models lose... and I just found a 24" monitor at 144hz with FreeSync that i want... So, as FreeSync only works with AMD cards.. when I change monitor (Monitor with Nvidia G-sync are about 100$ expensiver) I will change to a AMD GPU arround the end of the year... the prices should be stable and cheaper.

Only the mini? The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE is $249.99 at Newegg (obviously, it's out of stock now).

But I agree with you about FreeSync and G-Sync.  Freesync monitors may have a lower range of frequencies, but every month there are more and more of them and offer better value than G-Sync ones.

shikamaru317 said:

^It's funny, LinusTechTips on Youtube has the RX 480 beating the 1060 in price/performance in every game they tested, which is contrary to TechPowerUp's price/performance chart that JEMC posted above:

3:56 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4S5ZaXdgE

Not sure what is causing the discrepancy. Could be Linus used the cheaper 4GB 480 for their tests, could be down to the silicon lottery, could be the games that Linus tested (though they were all DX11 games so I don't think that's it). 

In that video, Linus is only using 4 games while TechPowerUp used 16. And then there's other things that have an impact in performance like the CPU used, for example.

Still, I used that TPU chart to show that the 1060 offers good/great value for its money (unlike the other Pascal cards). And again, this just reinforces my opinion that it's worth checking more than one review to see the whole picture.

DemoniOtaku said:

For next year the difference in performance on DX12 and Vulkan will be more notable, because more and more games will use, this same year, a big mainstream game like Deus Ex will use DX12 a LOT.

 

And the 1060 doesn't support SLI, but 480 does support Crossfire.. some mid level snthusiast would like that.

That's something that we'll have to pay attention, because the lack of SLI could have a real effect. There are many mid-level gamers that are used to get two x60 cards and SLI them to get close to x80 performance, but for less. Will they get a 1070? Will they go AMD? Will they shop for a used 980/980Ti card?