Radeon RX 480 Devil 8192MB GDDR5 (£229) or Radeon Fury Triple Fan 4096MB HBM (£249) - WHICH TO BUY?

[NeymarX]

I have a i7 4790k and need a gpu and a monitor . i live in the uk and there are a few black friday deals out already! i going to get a freesync monitor for 1440p gaming and one of the above cards. the 8gb is £20 cheaper...does that make it the better deal? thanks

 

[bgunner]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

the fury is more powerful and so it will be able to play games easier at the 1440p resolution.

 

[kansaw]

GTX1080 8GB Vram, GTX1080ti 10GB (?), Titan Pascal 12GB.

Vram trend is up. Something to consider when buying a 4GB card

 

[bgunner]

GTX1080 8GB Vram, GTX1080ti 10GB (?), Titan Pascal 12GB.

Vram trend is up. Something to consider when buying a 4GB card

The trend is up and so is the cost (£548.00). But cost to performance doesn't balance it out quite yet. Eventually the Vram addition will level out and stay stable otherwise we will end up with SSD's on the GPU just for Vram. This will cost so much that consumers wont buy them. In 3 generations they have quadrupled the maximum Vram available on GPU's.

 

[dinin70]

Fury is hbm vram.

While 4gb ddr vram will be bottlenecked with 4gb for 4k, hbm won't. So it's not an issue at all.

 

[atljsf]

fury i would buy, yes, fury uses more watts, so be sure to have a good psu to avoid surprises