SwissArmyDruid posted:

Hell, my first proper video card was a GeForce MX440. That poo poo was practically passively cooled, with how small the heatsinks were. And the reference models were!

Ihmemies posted:

Since 2008 I've had a 4850, 6950@6970 and a GTX 970.

Before I think I had a 7800gt maybe? It burned. And a Geforce4 ti4400, Geforce 256, voodoo1, some s3 crap. I don't upgrade very often.

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

Godspeed 980 Ti Hybrid on SA-Mart

mobby_6kl posted:

Norm from Tested plugs a card into the Razer Core, and some other questions are answered as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGFRoWj0YOw
It's a pretty slick process and compared to a regular enterprise-level docks it's not that expensive when bought with their laptop, but still.

Paul MaudDib posted:

You can get a 950 for $120 AR. Shortie single-fan card, dunno if that helps or hinders you.

Or, you can get a 960 for $150 AR with ROTR.

If that's the performance level you need then those cards are fine for the cost. They're not as futureproof as trying to track down a 780 Ti or 290/290x for <$200 with 3 GB or 4 GB of VRAM but it's fine if that's what you want to do with it.

snuff posted:

I agree brand loyalty is stupid, but monopoly is only beneficial for nvidia and if you look at how the GTX 970 and R9 390 are price/performance wise (that is, very much on par with arguably the AMD card being the better deal) and the real world sales numbers probably being 5 to 1 for the nvidia card it's a drat shame that nvidia has such a firm grip on consumers.

EoRaptor posted:

This is because the price cuts reinforced the idea that the 970 was better value. By cutting the price, AMD admitted their card wasn't as good, and since price segments are set by income, not by the value of the item being purchased, the 970 ran away with its target market.

People might be predictable actors, but they are not rational actors. Anytime somebody talks about people being rational actors, punch them in the face, that poo poo shouldn't be tolerated.

SlayVus posted:

With how retailers are selling these cards, it really makes you wonder what's coming. 980 Ti for the price of a 980, what kind of world are we living in.

FaustianQ posted:

Sorry for nearly spamming the thread at this point, but asking for a friend who's budget is really low and ebaying a card: low profile R5 240 vs HD7570? Replacing their current setup isn't an option, and they're running an HD5450 so literally anything is better (it's chugging on 1080p and flash games, let alone a handful of steam games they play), but I'm iffy on recommending a R5 230 (or any VLIW card) or GT 720, but they'll get more oomph out of the 7570 compared to the R5 240. Budget is 40$.

FaustianQ posted:

Never seen a low profile GTX 460?

Zero VGS posted:

It sucks a bit because AMD is kinda doing the "right thing" by trying to prioritize affordable low/mid-tier cards for the 99%.

xthetenth posted:

Why compare to the 950? The 960 is a better comparison, and even then it's a mediocrity that came out later and was overpriced. The 970 was a good card that came out without its weaknesses being known and with its competition being severely misrepresented in benchmarks. It's one of the most successful launches of all time.

However, if that's all NV has and AMD owns the lower end for a while that's a lot of low end GPUs they're making the new version of. It's also a return to mobile where basically any market share they get is a gain.

Binary Badger posted:

Welp, the great dumping has begun, Micro Center is hawking MSI and EVGA Superclocked 970's for $250..

Twerk from Home posted:

A sane prediction: 290X/970 level performance for $200.

Ms. Chanandler Bong posted:

Not following that closely, but I take it the prices of current gen high end cards will fall off an absolute cliff in the next couple of weeks?

MaxxBot posted:

Yeah I had hopes for Broadwell-E having an affordable 8-core but it looks like they're not decreasing their per-core prices at all and the top end Broadwell-E part is like 75% as expensive as a Xeon . Given Intel's pricing trends I'll probably be looking to the Zen as well, Intel is just getting too greedy.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

didn't reviewers say that the FE at 100% fan speed is almost as loud as the 290x at 100%?

repiv posted:

(fixed your broken hotlink)

Jesus christ who thought that was a good idea


The Zotac has two, you can see them through a cutout on the backplate shot. Not sure if it's 8+6 or 8+8 though.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

http://videocardz.com/60253/amd-radeon-r9-480-3dmark11-benchmarks

Salt heavily, folks. Writer acknowledges that they're putting out unverifiable information by commenter demand.



AMD Polaris 67DF:C7 - Theoretical 480X
AMD Polaris 67DF:C4 - Theoretical 480

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Shorty board confirmed. Blower fan intakes from both sides.

Lungboy posted:

~£170 for the new AMD card to max out everything on my U2412M sounds like a good plan to me, coming from a gtx560. Even my wife couldn't complain about that, right?

xthetenth posted:

The only other game I can think of that uses over 4 GB VRAM without some really nuts settings is rise of the tomb raider, and that game actually uses VRAM and RAM semi interchangeably for a lot of data and runs fine on a Fury.

snuff posted:

I like it, Sapphire always make these heavy solid looking cards none of that RGB dragon bullshit.

HalloKitty posted:

I don't get it, what's wrong with it? It looks alright, it's not covered in XTREME ~GAM3R~ poo poo.


The ultimate "card with a woman on it" has to be the ASUS 4870X2, which is basically completely covered in the image of a woman.

I remember that card coming up before from similar conversations, never had one myself. I would say you couldn't get away with marketing like that now, but that would be a horrible lie, you absolutely could.

Don Lapre posted:

Wow, feel bad for all the 1070 owners

NewFatMike posted:

Power draw could pick up by a lot and AMD said they were focusing on efficiency?

I'm an unabashed AMD apologist though.

FaustianQ posted:

It's likely both of these reasons actually. There is probably a lot of binning going on with Polaris 10, so you'll get your 189$ RX480 4GB at 1080 which sips power, a 219$ RX480 4GB @ 1266Mhz, a 249$ RX480 8GB @1266Mhz and some guaranteed headroom, and 279-329$ RX480 8GB models which either come factory overclocked to ~1400Mhz or can overclock to ~1400Mhz or higher.

The 1070 will be okay unless 1400Mhz is a standard OC and it can hit something like 1.6Ghz reliably, in which case why wouldn't Nvidia price drop the 1070?

EdEddnEddy posted:

Had to catch up but on the old GPU Purchase and Box Art, I have been pretty lucky to get some boring box art paired with some rather ok cards.

First 3D card came with my families HP Pavilion 8180 which was a ATI Rage II with....Some Ram (maybe 4mb) and played Mechwarrior 2 Mercs somewhat well. Was mind blowing coming from a Pentium 66 with 16MB ram before even though that played Top Gun rather well with good graphics at 640x480 in the day lol.

First GPU Purchase was a Diamond Monster Fusion PCI



This thing was great that even though it had a few issues with the Voodoo 2 sort of driver issues as it was a 2D/3D card where the Voodoo 2 needed a 2D card to work (which I ended up getting from a buddy and paired it with that Rage II down the road). It ran fast as hell back in the day on that P2 266.

When I built my first rig in 2000 with a P3 933, The PCI limit on that Banshee was painfully visible as the latency showed 60FPS more like 25 in the way it had to take turns with the GPU/Audio/Modem/Whatever else at the time.

Twerk from Home posted:

Man, I had no idea that Half Life still had a software renderer. By the time I got around to playing it I had a Geforce 2 MX.

FaustianQ posted:

Also my bet on the SP count for the RX470 is 1792SP, which should put it, based on the RX480, just below a 970. Also means there should be 512SPs between each card.

Hubis posted:

AMD doesn't want perf numbers to come out because they want it to be harder for NVIDIA to scoop their launch by announcing 1060 at the exact perfect Perf/$ level to make the 480 irrelevant.

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

The way it seems to go they get small amounts in all the time, vs large batches. Sometimes it's daily.



The easiest way would be 3d Mark scores, but your situation gets a little grey when you add SLI to the mix. I highly highly doubt you'll find SLI 760's in benchmarks today which would be the most concrete information of course but 3dmark will get you close enough. Synthetics get a little heat for being inaccurate real world but its close enough and certainly a valid way to compare cards.

HalloKitty posted:

The core clocks drop as expected on AMD GPUs, but the memory clock does not, and stays unnecessarily high. From my experience, anyway.

Icept posted:

So I decided to make a bad decision:

Motherfucker is heavy compared to the ol' MSI 970 4G. Anyone have a comparison or benchmark with the 970 they want done before I put this into place?

And yes, the "Super" is a nice little sticker on the box

Enos Cabell posted:

How noticeable of a jump is a 980ti over a 970 at 1440p? My old 1080p gaming monitor died, and my 970 just isn't keeping up now that I'm using a 1440p display. I'm planning to get a 1080 once the dust settles a bit, but the idea of getting an EVGA 980ti now and then doing a step-up to a 1080 is pretty tempting.