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GTX 1070/RX-480 Worth Waiting For?
My friend's selling me his 970 for a rather cheap price and I'm thinking of getting get it. But, with the 1070 and RX-480 releasing in a few weeks, I was wondering if I might benefit more from waiting for either of the two to release, or am not losing much if I got the 970 for, let's say, around $170?
My monitor's resolution is 1080/60hz, by the way, but I might upgrade to something like a 1080/144hz (if one ever does get released) in a few months or a year.
My monitor's resolution is 1080/60hz, by the way, but I might upgrade to something like a 1080/144hz (if one ever does get released) in a few months or a year.
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It's not at all clear how soon the GTX 1070 will be available. It nominally launches on June 10, but we don't know if it's really going to be available then or if it will look like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709 601201888
I think you should consider a 4K monitor or 4K TV instead of 1080 monitor.
480 if money id tight, 1080 if it aint... simples.
Thanks for the suggestion. I might just wait. Also, 4K's not really my thing. At least, not for gaming.
With the Radeon RX-480, it's not clear. My guess is that it will probably be faster than a GeForce GTX 970, and it might be a lot faster than one, but it also might not. It's also going to be more expensive than $170; AMD has said it will start at $200, presumably for the 4 GB version. It launches on June 29, but it's not at all clear whether that will be a hard launch.
Don't expect to be able to get a new GeForce GTX 970 for $170 soon or ever. Nvidia surely has a lot more information about when Pascal cards will be available than they've announced publicly, including for lower end Pascal cards than the GTX 1070. They'll try to discontinue production of the GTX 970 when they need to so as not to have a ton of inventory that they they have to stick clearance prices on.
I really do hope that the reviews for the RX480 are released in a week or two.
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We don't know for certain that the RX-480 will be a hard launch. But considering that it's coming nearly six months after AMD publicly showed off the cards, that's plenty of time to fix problems and accumulate inventory ahead of launch. It's possible that Global Foundries will have trouble building the chips with acceptable yields, and that could cause delays, as happened with Llano in 2011.
So, it's not certain, but yeah, we do know a good bit more about the when for AMD than we do (and I would say, still do) from nVidia.
Anyway, thanks for explaining.
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Eight cards listed at the moment, all out of stock. That's 6 GTX 1080s and 2 GTX 1070s. What I think is interesting about it is that there's not a single founder's edition card of either there. That means that other cards have started to show up, but it also means that New Egg hasn't received shipment of a single founder's edition card of either in the last couple of weeks or so, as they take down a listing if it has been continuously out of stock for long enough.
Don't get your hopes up about card at MSRP being imminently available, though. All but one of the listings has a price closer to the founder's edition than to the non-founders MSRP. One is actually more expensive than a founder's edition card.
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