Sell new gtx 970 to buy rx 480?

[tatavoalvim]

So, I just bought a GTX 970 G1 Gaming and i havent even used it yet so its new. I didnt know about the rx 480 so i just bought the 970. Should I sell the 970 and buy the sapphire rx 480?? Or should i stick with the 970?? I live in brazil and the prices are basically the same so i wont need to pay any extra money. Any advice is appreciated..

 

[demoth]

You do not want a reference version of the 480 regardless and the 1060 will be out when good RX 480s are priced normally so either keep the 970 or try to return it when you have more options in a few weeks. Performance wise, depends what you want to do. If you ever plan on using that card in an SLI setup for 4K one day, neither the 970 nor the 480 will cut it even for a decent 40 FPS with an adaptive sync monitor.

 

[JohnHank21]

I would sell the 970 and get the new gtx 1060 its way better than the rx 480! and its better than the 980. its $250 USD and the founders edition is $300 USD. The Rx 480 is the same price at the 8gb version. The 1060 has 6gb but its way better. But i would keep the 970. Its better

 

[coozie7]

Keep the GTX970, the RX480 isn't much faster and only the reference 'blower' cooled cards are available right now, you, on the other hand, have an excellent GTX970 and will lose a fair bit of money selling it, even new.

@ JohmHank21: How do you know the GTX1060 is 'way better' when it isn't even released yet?

 

[17seconds]

The difference between AMD and Nvidia goes much deeper than performance and price. A swap to AMD means a switch to a different ecosystem, driver support, graphics options and software extras. In addition to things like PhysX, the GTX 970 just has more to offer in terms of graphics settings, support, and software.

 

[demoth]

Well, the texture fill rate on the 1060 is pretty much half of that on the 1080 and somewhere closer to between the GTX 970 and 980. Seeing how the Titan's rated specs and actual performance relative to the 1070 shows certain gains for Pascal, it can be speculated the 1060 will fall between the 980 and 980ti in performance. Based on current card resources usages, 4GB is now too small, 8 GB is now overkill and 6 GB is good for 1440P. For 4K, which is now being pushed, SLI 1080s is probably entry level when talking smooth FPS in new titles at high settings and that is with a gsync monitor preferably.

 

[Old Soul]

I just took back my rx 480 after the excessive power drain kept making the whole system crash when I increased the graphic settings on a game, only to find online that it's a fault of the rx 480's design, not that particular card. That's really not something that should be able to happen. As one of those crashes buggered my operating system so hard I had to wipe the disk just to be able to reinstall windows, I'm never going back to the rx 480 even if they patched it and put it on sale. Perhaps that was just unlucky but I'm really biased against them now.