I find myself in a bewilderment.
I have been an AMD fanboy ever since I bought my first PC. My tried and true R9 380 has served me well, but now I am in search of a new graphics card.
My mind immediately looks towards the RX lineup, the RX 580 8GB looks promising, giving roughly 39% more FPS than my R9 380 on userbenchmark.com, so I ordered the cheapest one I could find on Amazon. It was dead on arrival, so I returned it and bought another. It had an unbearable coil whine, so I returned it.
I knew I had to spend a little more for quality, so I find Sapphire's RX 580 8GB, which has glowing reviews. I then noticed an odd little thing in Amazon's recommend list. The Zotac 1070 mini.
I checked it out, and it gives roughly 77% more FPS on average than my current R9 380, (again, using userbenchmark.com) and it's only £11 more than Sapphire's RX 580. It blows everything out of the water.
It seems absolutely too good to be true. But I have little to no experience with Nvidia cards.
Is the 1070 mini as good as it says it is?
Would a smaller card like this get unbearably hot?
Why is the 1070 mini the same price as a card which is half as effective?
Should I buy it?
My current rig:
CPU: 5 2600
GPU: R9 380
Motherboard: B450 Tomahawk
RAM: 16G 2866hz Corsair
PSU: 550W bronze 80+
I'm going to be buying a 1080p144hz monitor soon as well. I'd like to be able to play games on medium settings at 144hz with whatever graphics card I'm going to buy.
I found the Sapphire RX 580 8GB on Amazon for £218 and the Zotac 1070 Mini on Amazon for £229.
I have been an AMD fanboy ever since I bought my first PC. My tried and true R9 380 has served me well, but now I am in search of a new graphics card.
My mind immediately looks towards the RX lineup, the RX 580 8GB looks promising, giving roughly 39% more FPS than my R9 380 on userbenchmark.com, so I ordered the cheapest one I could find on Amazon. It was dead on arrival, so I returned it and bought another. It had an unbearable coil whine, so I returned it.
I knew I had to spend a little more for quality, so I find Sapphire's RX 580 8GB, which has glowing reviews. I then noticed an odd little thing in Amazon's recommend list. The Zotac 1070 mini.
I checked it out, and it gives roughly 77% more FPS on average than my current R9 380, (again, using userbenchmark.com) and it's only £11 more than Sapphire's RX 580. It blows everything out of the water.
It seems absolutely too good to be true. But I have little to no experience with Nvidia cards.
Is the 1070 mini as good as it says it is?
Would a smaller card like this get unbearably hot?
Why is the 1070 mini the same price as a card which is half as effective?
Should I buy it?
My current rig:
CPU: 5 2600
GPU: R9 380
Motherboard: B450 Tomahawk
RAM: 16G 2866hz Corsair
PSU: 550W bronze 80+
I'm going to be buying a 1080p144hz monitor soon as well. I'd like to be able to play games on medium settings at 144hz with whatever graphics card I'm going to buy.
I found the Sapphire RX 580 8GB on Amazon for £218 and the Zotac 1070 Mini on Amazon for £229.