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ASUS ROG STRIX OC Radeon RX480 AMD Gaming Graphics Card 8GB & free Doom - £209.99 @ Scan
£209.99Scan Deals
Cheapest RX 480 strix I've seen. Worth the extra £30 over the Asus dual OC for a much better cooling solution, much more pleasing aesthetics and don't forget about the RGB lighting ;). This is a great card for £209.99, it also comes with a Doom digital code.
Would prefer a smaller card (if I was in the market for a card this weak)
It may be the best 480 8gb out there, but that's the problem. The 480s do NOT overclock very well.
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OCing the Strix results in less than reference 1060 6gb OC.
Once you start adding a few quid to the cost of a 480, it's value quickly goes down. You can't push the card, so why have an exotic cooling solution?
Its as simple as this, if you don't care about backplates and RGB lighting the get the dual, but if you want those things for your specific build you have to pay £30 extra. Some people will happily pay for those features.
Exactly, the Asus Dual OC would look terrible in my build X).
I've seen different reviewers get much better overclocks out of the RX 480. It may be true you can't get a whole lot more out of it, but take the gigabyte rx480 for example and look at the temperatures of that even with a custom fan curve before overclocking.
Care to provide a link? I've not seen anything over 8% in game performance. I've seen a 11% theoretical OC, but it never translates to game performance (from what I've seen).
i bought the 4gb dual for £150 and can confirm its not a looker! But it should do the job until AMD release their top end cards (need it for freesync)
There you go, i've seen higher than this as well bit-tech.net/har…/11
I mean, do you refuse to actually look before posting?
I mentioned that I've seen 11% theoretical OC (These guys say 12% theoretical OC).
But did you actually look at the benchmarks provided?
There are 2 cards here tested over 2 games!
Sapphire and Asus cards.
Sapphire goes from 60/55 + 48/44 = 9% (With HUGE rounding errors).
ASUS goes from 53/51 + 42/39 = 5% (with HUGE rounding errors).
So, are you seriously willing to contest this as 'higher than 8%' with the amount of rounding error? These are whole numbers being used, and over 2 games. Seems almost *perfectly* aligned with what I've said (8% games, 11% theoretical).
The conclusion page just echoes my words:
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"the 8GB card improved by between seven and 11 percent"
I mean, again, you made an assumption that a 12.3% mhz bump will mean 12.3% theoretical benchmark improvement.
It doesn't, look at your own source... 6094/5633=8.1% for the Sapphire and 5981/5566=7.4% for the ASUS in theoretical benchmark improvements.
Do... You get my point yet?