Hello everyone!
So i'm targeting the true gurus of GPUs on this site. I'm building my first PC and all the components have been bought except the GPU. First I have to say that at this point after studuying all the new GPUs including custom cards, even considering the prices I would prolly go with the 1070. But as it stands I have bought a freesync monitor already and want to believe that the technology is worth having (my gaming is mostly CS:GO) so I'm stuck with AMD.
So after reading all the possible reviews, benchmarks and so on about the 480 as well as 1070 and 1080 there's couple of big questions I have about the specs.
rx 480 has nice amount of shader units although I have understood that those can't be compared to Nvidia numbers, because of the different architecture. But the one question I am yet to find an answer is why does the new rx 480 have 32 ROPs, which is the lowest number in any GPU compared to last gen AMD cards as well as any recent nvidia card. And more importantly, how does it effect performance as I have understood it's mostly responsible for AA which is off anyway in many games where you want a high fps number. But even if it's not THE most important spec it's prolly a big reason why rx 480 is doing surprisingly bad on benchmarks (comparing to r9 390 and gtx 970/980), because those are done with ultra settings. Am I right here?
The other number where rx is lacking is the compute units which is 36 in 480, right? So that would feel like a big compromise as well regarding power of the GPU.
So could some expert give me a round up of the matters I've discussed here and especially what I'm supposed to think about it. As I said after inspecting everything I would really like to go with a 1070/1080 and probably with a gsync monitor but that combination would add ~500$ compared to my current freesync monitor+ strix rx 480 (when it arrives). So should I just be happy about the money saved here or has AMD done really unfortunate compromises with their new card?
My own opinion atm is that allthough I'm now "stuck" with AMD because of the monitor I've already bought and the money saved, the rx 480 really feels like a fixed-term solution. Ofc there the possibility to go crossfire if the power is not enough. And to those going to say you need zero power for cs:go, I will play other games like the rise of the tomb raider so power is appreciated to some extent. And by fixed-term I mean much shorter time than with 1080 or 1070.
Thank you in advance for everyone and although every answer is appreciated I also would like to hear about the decisions made by AMD and how those effect.
So i'm targeting the true gurus of GPUs on this site. I'm building my first PC and all the components have been bought except the GPU. First I have to say that at this point after studuying all the new GPUs including custom cards, even considering the prices I would prolly go with the 1070. But as it stands I have bought a freesync monitor already and want to believe that the technology is worth having (my gaming is mostly CS:GO) so I'm stuck with AMD.
So after reading all the possible reviews, benchmarks and so on about the 480 as well as 1070 and 1080 there's couple of big questions I have about the specs.
rx 480 has nice amount of shader units although I have understood that those can't be compared to Nvidia numbers, because of the different architecture. But the one question I am yet to find an answer is why does the new rx 480 have 32 ROPs, which is the lowest number in any GPU compared to last gen AMD cards as well as any recent nvidia card. And more importantly, how does it effect performance as I have understood it's mostly responsible for AA which is off anyway in many games where you want a high fps number. But even if it's not THE most important spec it's prolly a big reason why rx 480 is doing surprisingly bad on benchmarks (comparing to r9 390 and gtx 970/980), because those are done with ultra settings. Am I right here?
The other number where rx is lacking is the compute units which is 36 in 480, right? So that would feel like a big compromise as well regarding power of the GPU.
So could some expert give me a round up of the matters I've discussed here and especially what I'm supposed to think about it. As I said after inspecting everything I would really like to go with a 1070/1080 and probably with a gsync monitor but that combination would add ~500$ compared to my current freesync monitor+ strix rx 480 (when it arrives). So should I just be happy about the money saved here or has AMD done really unfortunate compromises with their new card?
My own opinion atm is that allthough I'm now "stuck" with AMD because of the monitor I've already bought and the money saved, the rx 480 really feels like a fixed-term solution. Ofc there the possibility to go crossfire if the power is not enough. And to those going to say you need zero power for cs:go, I will play other games like the rise of the tomb raider so power is appreciated to some extent. And by fixed-term I mean much shorter time than with 1080 or 1070.
Thank you in advance for everyone and although every answer is appreciated I also would like to hear about the decisions made by AMD and how those effect.
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