Originally Posted By: Remon
When you consider dx12 performance, 480 is again the better card. And actually the 480 right now is the best perf/$ card out there. Unfortunately, techpowerup is broken, when it'll start operating well, there's a graph there that shows the 480 first in bang for buck, with both the 4 GB and 8 GB configurations.


Whilst I don't disagree with what you're saying there, performance per dollar is only valid if budget is your main driver. Overall performance is of much higher importance to many people and the GTX1070 also offers fairly pretty good value especially as it offers almost twice the level of performance across almost every game .....saying that if the GTX 970 is the most popular gaming GPU the RX480 isn't going to be of much benefit even at the relatively low cost so are big numbers going to be shifted? To anyone with a lesser card with a budget looking to upgrade its obviously a no-brainer though.

I would also add that it's far too early to be claiming a certain card/manufacturer is a winner in terms of DX12 when there are only a few titles that utilise it together with Nvidia's obvious driver problems. It's not all about Async Compute either when Nvidias performance drops off in DX12 titles when not even using it. It will be interesting to see how the GTX1060 fits into the rankings and price point but hopefully it benefits everyone and the competition drives prices further down.


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