That will give plenty of older GCN SKU owners something to look forward to with only GCN 1.0 not getting as much gaming support while the newer GCN generations up to and including VEGA will have extended lives with more improvements to be had as the Vulkan/DX12 APIs come into their own. Let’s continue to benchmark AMD’s GCN based products back to at least GCN 1.1/2nd generation once Vega arrives. So sure if you are DX11 gaming mostly then stay there but those that have AMD’s GCN based GPUs will mostly be getting some extra life from the newer graphics APIs.Īnd once again the folks that are trying to compare the RX 480 mainstream to the GTX 1080 flagship(Costs way more $$$$) are not doing any good.

They are at each other, the Nvidia and AMD folks, But “to see how it performs in the games which matter to you” may vary as the entire Graphics API ecosystem is and will be converting over to Vulkan/DX12.

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Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web: Check out the highest overclock and fastest performance we’ve ever achieved to date with and AMD Radeon RX 480.' 'We put the ASUS ROG STRIX RX 480 O8G GAMING video card through the wringer to find out how well this video card performs and overclocks against a highly overclocked MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X video card. Check out the full review to see how it performs in the games which matter to you. The bump in frequency helps narrow the performance gap between the two cards, but it doesn't make this RX 480 a clear winner. The card does come at a premium, roughly $50 more than a stock card which makes it more expensive than NVIDIA's GTX 1060. It ships with a GPU clocked at 1310MHz in GAMING mode and 1330MHz in OC mode, ard|OCP reached a stable 1410MHz GPU and 8.8GHz VRAM when manually overclocking.

ASUS went all out with the design of the ROG STRIX RX 480 O8G GAMING card, almost nothing on this card remains a stock part from cooling to power regulation.

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