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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Looking at the TechPowerUp GPU database, which is what I mostly use to compare GPUs besides Guru3D (they're the only ones that still include my GTX 1070 in some tests), there's an almost 30% difference in power between the B580 and the 5060Ti 16GB.

That's quite a big gap and it would be unfair to ask the B770 to actually deliver that kind of performance jump but, if Intel can make the B770 be just between 5 or 10% slower than the 5060Ti 16GB and launch it for $350, then it would be a hell of a card that would put Nvidia and AMD in trouble... if Intel can actually produce enough of them.

One can dream, right?

How -is- that 1070 fairing these days?

That's a tricky question.

I mean, you only need to check one of the charts that HoloDust posted to see that it's in the bottom half of them, far from what newer cards can offer. But at the same time, at the 1440p resolution I game on, it's still capable of delivering 65fps on The Witcher 3. Not too shabby!

If you add to this the fact that I don't have many new and demanding games, that I'm perfectly ok playing on medium settings (it helps that games no longer look like two completely different titles if you go from high to low), and that I'm not picky with the fps count (I was a console player for a very long time and 30fps don't bother me at all), the result is that I'm still very happy with it.

But of course, that's a very subjective experience that most people won't share.

That's not to say that I wouldn't mind an upgrade, but cards with 16GB of VRAM without major compromises are still a bit over my budget.

Pemalite said:

Conina said:

Crossfire systems with up to 1000 Watts:

"A 1,000 watt power supply should be the minimum to ensure stable operation. In the case of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, however, even this is not enough - especially when overclocking. We ourselves opted for a 1,600 watt power supply after the system could not be operated stably in extreme situations with a 1,000 watt power supply."

I ran 4x Radeon HD 6950's in Crossfire back in the day, managed that on an 950w Corsair PSU at the time.

The interesting tidbit is that the jump from 3 > 4 GPU's actually resulted in a negligible power consumption increase, but also a negligible performance increase, AMD's drivers at the time weren't capable of utilizing them effectively.

...But I was also gaming at 5760x1080 resolution back then, almost double the pixels of 1440P which was stupidly demanding.

I remember the time you posted a Civ V screenshot captured at that resolution. It was amazing to see so much of the map at the same time.