That's right...no-one said you need watercooling......but overclocking headroom so far seems to be tight on the RX480 yet we all know from experience its plentiful in the 970/980.

With the much needed price reductions from Nvidia on the GTX970/980 it's still the better card to opt for at the moment. Question is.....is the RX480 really a breakthrough or just more of the same from AMD? The gaming benchmarks aren't the massive breakthrough nor bang for buck differential that were hinted at especially when Nvidia reduce their prices due to the competition.

Is is enough to sway game developers to use this instruction set as the PC benchmark....? Obviously not. My personal thoughts are that whilst AMD are back in the game in the mid-range segment their top end card in 12 months time is just going to get trumped again. Is bang for buck enough to get PC market share....? Or are game devs going to continue the current trend and use the highest spec Nvidia cards to promote their titles and subsequently advertise the green camp as the best gaming option?