Upgrading from 7950 to Red Devil 480 8GB

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My "lottery winner" overclocked 1250mhz/1400mhz 7950 cooler sadly finally crapped out after 3 & 1/2 years of heavy usage, so I've decided instead of replacing the cooler, now is a good time to upgrade. However, I was wondering if my FX-8320 could possibly bottleneck? I will say it is stable overclocked to 4.3ghz turbo disabled with a passmark score of 9,616. Is that good enough?
 
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you should be fine with a single rx480. you may want to skip the 8gb version though and get the 4gb instead since they perform exactly the same... especially if you are only on a single 1080p monitor. heck even at 1440p the 4gb version still isn't seeing any performance limitations due to its lower vram.
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you should be fine with a single rx480. you may want to skip the 8gb version though and get the 4gb instead since they perform exactly the same... especially if you are only on a single 1080p monitor. heck even at 1440p the 4gb version still isn't seeing any performance limitations due to its lower vram.
 
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i wouldn't suggest an fx 8 core either which will become the limiting factor long before 3gb/4gb cards are unable to perform well with 1080@60. when that time does come then a full upgrade would be required anyways.
 
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i wouldn't either because even an i3 6100 dual core blows away the fx8320E in gaming perfromance, because the single core performance of 8320 is pretty weak. Intel's single core is 70-80% faster than the AMD's, on top of that AM3+ is a dead platform and you need an upgrade.
 
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Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear I have no worries of bottleneck.
But I will say I have a very hard time believing a 2 core CPU with a passmark score of 5400 can come even close to my CPU with a score of 9616 which is slightly higher than the i7 3770k @ 9596.
 
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he is refering to some games where the first two cores running extremely fast are necessary. there are a few examples of the i3 beating or matching the fx 8 core in a gaming load. you should be fine in your case though if you have a good overclock and you arent pushing past a 1080@60 monitor.
 
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