Video Card platform question

Does it matter any more if a computer has an Intel CPU and that it should run a Nvidia video card?

Is it okay to run a newer Radeon video card on an Asus Sabertooth P67 B3 board with 16 GB RAM and and Intel i5-3570k CPU?

I was looking at the GTX 1050Ti video cards, but then read that the RX480 outperforms the 1050Ti card, so I want to make sure that I can get my wife a good video card for her system to play World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth when it gets released.

Thanks!

No it shouldn't matter, I am currently running GTX1070 on Asus P8Z77-Pro with my i5-3570k, the RX480 shouldn't be an issue.

Edit, I think you might have an issue finding a RX480 at a decent price though, unless you bought one before the mining boom.

You can use either gpu brand with either cpu brand. There's no restrictions on that

And yeh, I'd say the RX480 will outperform a 1050Ti in most games. There's not a lot between them though. The vram amount and resolution you're playing it will be the main difference. If you're playing above 1080p then the RX480 will probably be better as I think you can get versions with more vram than the 1050Ti (I may be wrong).

Thanks for the info on NVidia vs Radeon!

That being said I saw a benchmark that stated for WOW a RX 480 has a slight better FPS than a GTX 1060 6GB. Do you think that since DX12 will be the normal platform going forward, that the Radeon RX 480 or 580 card will be the better choice?

I run an all AMD system now with a Ryzen 5 1400 and a 290x .. I do feel like a dying breed with unmined AMD cards laying around.. but heck there is no need for review sites to even review video cards anymore if we have to pay out the ass to get them..

also feel like a dumbass not buy a Sapphire Fury card they was clearing stock at $269 on newegg a time back.

crazycrave said:

I run an all AMD system now with a Ryzen 5 1400 and a 290x .. I do feel like a dying breed with unmined AMD cards laying around.. but heck there is no need for review sites to even review video cards anymore if we have to pay out the ass to get them..

also feel like a dumbass not buy a Sapphire Fury card they was clearing stock at $269 on newegg a time back.

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I bought my Saphire R9 Fury for $219 at the Egg 13 months ago. Had I known we would be in this situation a year later, I would have bought 5+.

Another thing that I just thought of, is my wife and my Asus Sabertooth mobo's (hers - Sabertooth P67 B3 rev) and mine (Sabertooth TUF Armor FX990 r2.0) have pci-e 2.0 slots. Are the newer video cards that are pci-e 3.0 compatible with the 2.0 slots, and will there be any negatives of running them on our Mobo's?

Yeh all AMD cards going back to the HD7XXX series fully support DX12 via hardware rather than software workaround like Nvidia gpu's. So in that way, the RX480 is a better choice too. I'd get the RX480

I think newer pci-e 3.0 compatible gpu's will probably run fine on pci-e 2.0. This is not something I've tested, but I feel it would just be like running an ssd on a sata 2 interface where it works fine but just with less bandwidth available. The connections are the same.. I'm not sure which gpu's that are out even need more bandwidth than pci-e 2.0 has to offer anyway. But please don't take my word for it

Shooter308 said:

Thanks for the info on NVidia vs Radeon!

That being said I saw a benchmark that stated for WOW a RX 480 has a slight better FPS than a GTX 1060 6GB. Do you think that since DX12 will be the normal platform going forward, that the Radeon RX 480 or 580 card will be the better choice?

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If by WOW you mean World of Warcraft, it's DX11. Unless you're power limited (i.e. anemic power supply) and can get the 480/580 for a reasonable price I'd get that over the 1060 as I believe it's a better card (my opinion). If again you are referring to World of Warcraft, WoW has traditionally been better on nVidia cards due to AMD/RTG driver overhead but since that's been worked on a lot lately it could have parity now. I certainly never had problems running it on my AMD card.