Buy RX 460 worth it?

[MrAlanSmith]

I have a HD 7950 and it's getting on, Worth it?

From google..

"In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon RX 460 4GB are marginally better than the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Gigabyte WindForce Edition. ... As a result, the HD 7950 exhibits a 35.3 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the RX 460"

" HD 7950 exhibits a 35.3 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the RX 460" What does this mean?

Should i do it?

 

[madmatt30]

NO you shouldnt do it,its not an upgrade.

 

[MrAlanSmith]

NO you shouldnt do it,its not an upgrade.

Its for amd freesync ....I have a monitor with it but this gpu doesnt support it

 

[madmatt30]

I can understand wanting to make use of freesync - however actually downgrading a card is not the way to do it.

The rx 560 may just about be worth it becuase its closer to the 7950 performance wise,its still slightly weaker though.

Whats your actual monitor model & system specs??
How much do you have to spend??

You would actually be better off negating freesync & buying a 1050ti if budget allows it.

 

[MrAlanSmith]

So don't use amd freesync?, I was thinking about buying a 1050 ti, I was looking at it but i really want amd freesync, People are saying it's worth it so this means sell my HD 7950 and my amd freesync monitor and buy another monitor and a 1050 ti

AMD 6300 (Yeah it's getting on but i like it)

SSD 840 250GB

Toshiba HDWD110

AMD HD 7950 3GB

I'm not rich, I'm getting by but if i sold my GPU and monitor i could get around £90 - £100 and around £85 - £95 for AOC G2260VWQ6

I don't know what to do haha.

 

[madmatt30]

Why would you sell your freesync monitor ?? You mean you cant afford a 1050ti without doing that??

Theres no reason you cant use a 1050ti on your current freesync monitor.

 

[MrAlanSmith]

I don't think you get me, I bought this monitor for the AMD freesync but the amd hd 7950 does not support it... My mistake, This is why i did a search and i found RX 460 but i did a google search and HD 7950 was stronger, Pretty much better, I was gutted because the AMD GPU what supports amd free sync is weaker or too much money, I have a £150 for a GPU then i found the 1050 TI but i want AMD free sync but i have only a budget of £150, I could sell my HD 7950 for around £100.

Does the HD 7950 have zero core technology for the fan? means 1 fan only spins then starts going when going past 50c?

 

[madmatt30]

I don't think you get me, I bought this monitor for the AMD freesync but the amd hd 7950 does not support it... My mistake, This is why i did a search and i found RX 460 but i did a google search and HD 7950 was stronger, Pretty much better, I was gutted because the AMD GPU what supports amd free sync is weaker or too much money, I have a £150 for a GPU then i found the 1050 TI but i want AMD free sync but i have only a budget of £150, I could sell my HD 7950 for around £100.

Does the HD 7950 have zero core technology for the fan? means 1 fan only spins then starts going when going past 50c?

As far as I know the older 7950's never incorporated zero fan profiles.

You would be very very lucky to get close to £100 for a 7950 unless you were selling to someone who was very very desperate for a card for mining.

What monitor do you actually currently own then ??

You have a £150 cash budget for a card now this minute ?? Or with the money you'd get from selling the 7950??

The issue with even considering a lower end 460/560 is that a lot of the time they will run fps below the freesync threshold which on most cheaper monitors is 48htz - this would make it entirely worthless.

Freesync is nice to have in the right scenario with the right system,which is not your case.

The fact is you dont pay extra for a freesync screen anway,theyre priced the same as non freesync models generally.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with running a 1050ti on a 75htz freesync sceen & just using nvidias adaptive vsync or fast sync option.

No its not as good as hardware based freesync but youll be getting better performance.

 

[MrAlanSmith]

I don't think you get me, I bought this monitor for the AMD freesync but the amd hd 7950 does not support it... My mistake, This is why i did a search and i found RX 460 but i did a google search and HD 7950 was stronger, Pretty much better, I was gutted because the AMD GPU what supports amd free sync is weaker or too much money, I have a £150 for a GPU then i found the 1050 TI but i want AMD free sync but i have only a budget of £150, I could sell my HD 7950 for around £100.

Does the HD 7950 have zero core technology for the fan? means 1 fan only spins then starts going when going past 50c?

As far as I know the older 7950's never incorporated zero fan profiles.

You would be very very lucky to get close to £100 for a 7950 unless you were selling to someone who was very very desperate for a card for mining.

What monitor do you actually currently own then ??

You have a £150 cash budget for a card now this minute ?? Or with the money you'd get from selling the 7950??

The issue with even considering a lower end 460/560 is that a lot of the time they will run fps below the freesync threshold which on most cheaper monitors is 48htz - this would make it entirely worthless.

Freesync is nice to have in the right scenario with the right system,which is not your case.

The fact is you dont pay extra for a freesync screen anway,theyre priced the same as non freesync models generally.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with running a 1050ti on a 75htz freesync sceen & just using nvidias adaptive vsync or fast sync option.

No its not as good as hardware based freesync but youll be getting better performance.

AOG G2260VWQ6 75 and I don't have £150 right now but that is my budget i can go to, I'm not rich but i love to upgrade, HD7950 will get me £100, People are selling it for £100 - £120 and on ebay, Lowest is £100 on ebay and there is no point on Amazon haha £300 lol

So you are saying buy a 1050 TI, Sell my HD 7950 and keep my monitor?...