Been stuck with nothing but Dota 2 on 800x600 on my 1080p panel on the stupid onboard Intel HD graphics.

Kinda wish i stuck with my R9 290 a bit longer

This post has been edited by area61: Mar 31 2016, 01:40 PM

been scouring garage sales for past gen high ends but all seem to be over priced like shit

i was hoping with polaris/pascal around the corner, i'd be a good time for used gpu sale, how i was wrong

Bro thats a bad deal

You made a wise decision

I can buy a used car for that amount of money

Based on what i read, Polaris 10 is going to be R9 480 and Polaris 11 is going to be R7 470.

Are they ditching R9 490?

quote from Guru3d

Why is Polaris10 bigger than Polaris11 but Vega10 is smaller tan Vega11?
also i believe that Vega11 will b dual gpu Vega10

This post has been edited by area61: May 11 2016, 09:31 PM

I can finally feel good I sold my R9 290 for the starting price of Polaris.

Although not much difference in performance, RX 480 should sell like hot cakes as its more than capable to handle 1080p which is the most common resolution.

Noticed that the actual PCB is shorter than the cooler. Another Nano like GPU maybe?

Well on the plus side, its a 6-pin connector, not 8 pin like the 1070's. My take is that the Radeons will cap at 150W but the GeForces will sip a minimum of 150W.

Also I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the AIBs for nVidia will sell Pascal with 8+6pin as it looks like the GeForces seem to throttle a lot and not able to sustain its boost clocks for long gaming sessions. This means that the AIB GeForces wont be sitting at 150~180W as the Founder Edition cards.

Polaris on the other hand, I believe wont throttle as much.