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Dear experts,
My current config:
i5 4460
4x4 DDR3 1600
B85 mobo
GTX 770 Asus DCII OC
Corsair Rm650

As the warranty for my Geforce has ended I was wondering if I shouldn't do any upgrade.
My budget allows me to exchange for:
GTX970 (second hand)
GTX1060 3GB (6gb too expensive)
RX470 (new)
RX480 (second hand but with long warranty).

Is any of these positions a real upgrade? Or shall I wait and save for full 1060 or even 1070 when it becomes cheaper?

I play 1080p mostly RPG games (Fallout, Skyrim, Witcher, Diablo).
 
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I am really considering the RX480, but there is a significant difference between 8 and 4 gig version. I was wondering if there are any differences like for example in GTX1060, or this is just ammount of Vram.
Then I found some rumours that they are using different memory chips for 4GB than for 8 GB.
Is this true?
 
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In the specification table in your link they are showing that in 4G version memory runs at 7Gbps, and in the 8G version it runs at 8Gbps. Maybe this is it?

 
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Ok. Thanks a lot.
Now I know that the true upgrade would be GTX 1060 6g or RX480 8G.
Unfortunately I don't have budget for any of them so I'll wait until the price will drop a little.

 
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I do apologize....I was being a moron :pt1cable: What I meant was performance in certain instances. Having 8GB over 4GB is not going to benefit you that much. If you game at 1080, 4GB will be more than enough, as soon as you go higher than 1080 the 8GB card will be of benefit . But please don't take my word for it.:) Here are 2 links :
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3144782/480-4gb-8gb.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3078458/480-4gb-8gb.html

Hope this help.
 
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Why did you have to go there.... T.T
It's essentially the same as the 680 which I owned, which is a little faster than the 960.
A 770 to a 970 isn't that big of an upgrade imo, it would be the same if he was upgrading to a 1060 3GB, it isn't 'Nvidia fanboy speak', put your bias aside and look at the figures for once....
 
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I did not go there ...you did. you said the RX480 is not much of an upgrade, but funny enough you recommended a 1060?! But from ALL the benchmarks I have seen there is not much difference between the 480 and 1060...yes the 1060 leads in most of the benchmarks butt only by 5-10%. So please practice what you preach. The 480 is WAY better than the 770 , bechmarks here :

http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2665-gtx-770-in-2016-benchmark
http://hwbench.com/vgas/radeon-rx-480-vs-geforce-gtx-770

 
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I recommended a 1060 6GB because it performs 10% better, making it a total 40% improvement.
It is more justifiable as a minimum mark for an upgrade, note I said 1060 or 1070?
If you want to keep screaming on about how i'm a biased fanboy go ahead, AMD simply don't have any high performance cards above the 480 right now, what else do you want me to recommend lol.

 
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Went through this exact scenario a few weeks ago, went with rx470, there's not enough difference in 470-480 to warrant the extra money for me, in fact an oc'd 4gb 470 will clip the heels of an rx 480. As for not being an upgrade for a 770 that's absolute rubbish, my rx470 smashes my old 680 into the dirt.
eg (very roughly) Doom 680-medium-25-40fps, 470-maxxed-90-120fps, GTA 680-medium-40-60fps, 470-maxxed nearly-60-80fps, bf4 same story medium to max with a bit more frames. Relive has less performance drop than shadowplay but don't know if that's the software or the cards, the 1060 here is much more expensive again than the 480 so I couldn't consider that either.
 
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Guys,
Friend has Sapphire R9 290 TriX. I can have it in exchange for my GTX770 (for additional 20$). Worth going for? More vram, wider memory bus..
On the other hand will my PSU handle it in case I decide?
Any advice appreciated
 
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Hi again,
unfortunately I wasn't quick enough and this R9 290 had been sold. But there was other opportunity - GTX 780 (OC Windforce3 version from Gigabyte - unfortunately not GHz edition). I went for it and with it I'll wait until I'll have enough budget for RX 480 8G or 1060 6G.
I think the 780 is more future proof than 770 due to higher amount of vram and higher memory bus. Please correct me if I am wrong as not all benchmarks are showing this. The package comes tomorrow and I still can resign if I change my mind.

The cost of this change is also arround 20$.
 
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