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I wonder how tom's hardware measured the amps at the slot when the video card was plugged in?
The rumors were that it was around the 970 in performance, and with each leaked benchmark we saw it being true, so the rumors were correct and quite frankly for $199 that's not too bad, about $100 cheaper than buying a new 970. We'll just have to see what the price will be for the 1060 as well as it's performance.
I hope AMD still has some time for the custom AIBs to come out before Nvidia releases thier GTX1060s..
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Here is a crossfire benchmark for the RX480.
Looking at current prices in Europe RX480 won't be much cheaper than GTX970 is now on sales. I just feel like it can be good card but again too late for AMD to make any significant changes on the market.
I just think that with single exceptions RX480 will be used on 1080p displays and how it's performing at 2k or 4k isn't really important. 1080p is the most popular screen resolution and I doubt it will change soon.
In the UK the 8GB cards are comparable in price to the lower end of 970 prices, with the 480 8GB starting around £219 and discounted 970s from £200. I just saw the first 4GB card offered on pre-order, and that is £174 and arguably more comparable. Insert 3.5GB joke on the 970 here.
I've been looking at more reviews since yesterday, and the 480 might be comparable to 970 at lower resolutions, but seems to start pulling ahead at higher ones. I still have to wonder if future games make more use of the new features in the latest generation cards, might they start pulling away from the previous generation? That applies to both sides.
1920x1080 is 1080p. 2048x1080 is "2k". They are NOT interchangeable. 2k is also NOT 2560x1440. That is WQHD.
Just as 3840x2160 is UHD-1 and 4k is actually 4096x2160. "4k" TVs usually say UHD 4k so as not to be misleading with the number of pixels. Though 4k is more synonymous with 3840x2160 than 2k ever was with 1080p or 2560x1440. Perhaps im too literal, but when i see 2k, i think the actual res i listed for it, not 1080p and certainly not 2560x1440.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution