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Historically ATI/AMD cards get better with driver optimizations. It will probably only get better versus the 1060.I agree with Kyle, that it appears to be the top 480 card people can buy....So the Gold award seems justified to me. The power consumption is common knowledge for 6 months now lol and +100 watts is no big deal to me
Kyle and Brent
Why do newer games like The Division get removed from your game test suite while older and less graphically impressive ones like Fallout 4 still continue to remain. btw Division also saw a DX12 patch which shows a nice bump in performance for a few cards like GTX 1080, Rx 480 and Fury X. Division is showing that DX12 could improve the user experience. Removing newer and more graphically demanding games while retaining older less impressive titles does not help when trying to determine the capabilities of these latest GPUs and their architectures in latest apis like DX12. Whats more relevant is you are searching for titles which improve the user experience while running on latest APIs. So its really puzzling to see you leave out The Division while continuing with Fallout 4.
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-12/the-division-dx12-benchmark/
Enjoyed this article. Went red this round upgrading from a GTX 770 to an MSI RX480. Was hesitant to pick the 480 over the 1060 (1060 is still amazing), but with generous rebates (including a discount for BF1) I haven't regretted buying the 480 this time.
Yeah that was one advantage of the Sapphire (relative to other 480 cards), not sure how many other 480 are similar dimensions to the Sapphire 480 models.Good god.... I know they say this is a big card in the reviews, but man is it big damned card. It's like stuffing a size 13 shoe into the case..... Very pleased with this purchase though. I may go with the green versions of this for the other box. Although I think two Strix 1070's or 80's may not fit in a Haf 932 case. I'll put my shoe in there first.
Have you had any issues with crashes? I just bought this card and have had many crashes in BF1 and Witcher 3.
Update: I am getting a new card today. After changing to a 750 Watt power supply, and trying the newest beta drivers and the newest WQHL, underclocking the card, increasing the power limit at stock, etc. Hopefully the card was just faulty and the new card fixes my problems.
Maybe an occasional crash or freeze, one thing I did see initially was this light bloom just on certain BF1 maps. Have not seen that for some time now. Still satisfied with this purchase.
The new card fixed all my problems. Quite weird that Asus would let that slip through the QC cracks, but I know it happens.
I picked up one of these open box at Microcenter for around $180.
Nothing "wrong" with it, but memory had no margin for overclock.
Previous owner(s) may have returned it for that. There's no telling.
At original marked price, I would have been greatly dissapointed.
For what I paid, just plain working was acceptable.
Gave it to a friend (purpose of the purchase) and did not have time to
attempt much in the way of GPU overclock. I will say: did not throttle.
Timespy benched about 200 points better than XFX RS at the same
Wattman settings. I assume the difference was "not throttling"?
All three GPU fans were spinning very quiet under benchmark load.
I could not hear them over standard power supply and CPU fans.
The default core voltage was slightly higher than mentioned the article.
I'm using Crimson + Wattman, have not tried the ASUS tweak driver.
It is a long and heavy card. Maybe worth your time to support the free
end with a wire sling or something.