Rx 480 vs rx 470 oc vs gtx 970

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I was originally going to get the xfx rx 480 for £182 but it was discontinued, which one of these cards should i get there is the sapphire rx 470 oc 4gb and sapphire rx 480 4gb and then there is gtx 970, bear in mind that i dont want to get any card over £200
 
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Look for benchmarks of the games YOU play.
The best card may well differ.
as to vram, I think it should be a non issue.
VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in...
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I dont want to sound rude but i was expecting to find out which one is the best out of the choice of gpus i provided, i will look into the 1060 but isnt vram the most important thing when it comes to gpus?
 
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Look for benchmarks of the games YOU play.
The best card may well differ.
as to vram, I think it should be a non issue.
VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in effectiveness between amd and nvidia cards.
And differences between games.
Here is an older performance test comparing 2gb with 4gb vram.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/
Spoiler... not a significant difference.
A more current set of tests shows the same results:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/page5.html

And... no game maker wants to limit their market by
requiring huge amounts of vram. The vram you see will be appropriate to the particular card.
 
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Pcenthusiast16

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Hmmm, you have really given me alot to think about, here are my specs
I5 6500
Kingston hyper x 2400mhz 2x 4gb
Deepcool 550w gold
I want to play all total wars and have some overhaul mods like 1212ad
Gta v
War thunder
Arma 2 and 3 mount and blade bannerlord
Dark souls
Skyrim and mod the hell out of it
Men of war
Heroes and generals
I have a soft spot for ww2 and ww1 games and definetely medieval fantasy rpg : )
 
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