So I now have an RX 460 and I currently use a GTX 480 in the daily driver. Should i swap the RX460 into the main system with a Core2 Quad and use it whats your viewpoints
In general... Yes, I would recommend it.
No, if you have a very good reason (like - GTX 480 is for you THE best GPU ever because it can do CUDA/PhysX and other NV only stuff) 😀
What exactly are doing with this PC (games/rendering) ?
What, so both cards in the same system? Asynch GPU compute? I don't know how well that will work, but you can try it.
I'm really looking at an RX 480 but have heard rumors about a 490 coming out before the end of the year...but I don't think I can hold off much longer.
No not both installed, Rx 460 is an rma on a card a friend bought that was doa and he didn't want to mess with it so he gave it to me and I'm rmaing it. When it returns I'll have an rx 460 and a gtx 480 to choose from.
I play games, civ 5, beyond earth, company of heroes nd counter strike source.
wrote:No not both installed, Rx 460 is an rma on a card a friend bought that was doa and he didn't want to mess with it so he gave it to me and I'm rmaing it. When it returns I'll have an rx 460 and a gtx 480 to choose from.
I play games, civ 5, beyond earth, company of heroes nd counter strike source.
Ok wait so the 480 is an Nvidia card? I thought you were referring to the current top of the line Radeon card. I guess bench both, see which is best and put that in your main system. If they are both the same generation Radeon card (Polaris) then go with the higher model number.
No one is the NVidia gtx 480 the 250w monster the other is amd's 70w entry level 4gb card
I would probably go R460, you may still want to bench them but I'd be willing to bet it is faster than the 480, that is a few generations back now. And 250w holy moly you can heat your room with that practically.
wrote:I would probably go R460, you may still want to bench them but I'd be willing to bet it is faster than the 480, that is a few generations back now. And 250w holy moly you can heat your room with that practically.
I can actually at full load it regularly hits 92c
R460 is a budget card but it is faster than the old Fermi at least in raw shader performance which is good enough for 1080p gaming up to a point.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
It is unfortunate how demanding are AMD cards on CPU in recent years. I have Core 2 Quad as well ... RX 460 might not come out as performance upgrade.
GeForce GTX 750Ti is faster than GTX 480, and the RX460 is slightly faster than the 750Ti, I would go for it. Not neccesarily for pure performance, but for the hugely lower power consumption and quieter operation (and better performance 😜).
