radeon rx 480 is the best price/performance video card to get

Man I hate it that lower vram models have also slower memory

>>58436359
for housefires.

>>58436359

I guess if you're poor.

If you're over 22 and have a real job, you should buy Nvidia at the 1070 or 1080 range like a successful adult.

But I agree, 480 is the card to go if you are using your mommy's monthly allowance.

>>58436359
That's great mate. I'll gladly pay extra for a 1080 which lets me actually make use of my 144hz monitor when gaming and has far better driver support and cooling.

>>>/v/

>>58436359
Factor in energy prices.

>>58436462
this meme is gettong old anon

>>58436471

But Im phd physics student and RX480 is most expensive card I ever bought. I cant afford 1070.

We know. Please stop mentioning it. It makes nvidiots uncomfortable and launch into unbeckoned post-purchase rationalization.

>>58436471
or if gaming is just a secondary hobby if don't need to invest top tier money

It can't use gsync though :)

>>58436536
You're a generation behind- the 480 is as energy efficient as the nvidia cards

>>58436359
How many CUDA cores for GPU compute?

I quote from the manual for the software I use "This can leverage either CPU cores, NVIDIA GPU (graphics card) CUDA cores or a hybrid that users both run solely on the GPU/multiple GPUs. AMD graphics cards will not accelerate this process however the software will still run in CPU only mode on such setups"
So on that basis it dons't strike me that any AMD card offers any performance for the work I do regardless of the price.

>>58436568
Then why were they frying PCI-E slots?

>>58436536
Literally 11cents per kilowatthour

I'd still buy a 1060. It's more future proof to get drivers.

>>58436616
Just the usual bad design. Throw in a little 'it only happened to like 2 people who had shitty PSUs' and /g/ hyperbole and you'd have got the impression that a really rare event happened to everyone (and that AMD was finished for the 340th time that year)

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>>58436627

>>58436538
but it's all I have left ;_;

>>58436627
Get drivers that are not perfect at the beginning and that keep improving
Versus
Getting drivers that never get better and get gimped intentionally

>>58436616
they were drawing more power from the PCI-e slot itself than the specification allowed for (75w)

motherboards can usually handle much more than that but it was still a significant risk especially on cheap OEM shit. incidentally we don't hear about that at all anymore so I guess it was mostly a reference model problem.

the overall power draw (slot + 6/8 pin) is pretty good. just about 10w higher than the 1060 and lower than the 970 was. Nvidia still wins there but the difference is so trivial is doesn't matter at all.

>>58436471
If you have a real job you shouldn't waste all that time on gaming. Stop pretending you're earning it, you're just sucking daddy's money kid.

>>58436710
sour grapes

>>58436698
You never hear about it because it was fixed within days of release.

You murica fucks are really lucky with those prices.

>>58436471
I would rather put that $400 into my IRA and watch it grow into over $2000. Because that is the adult thing to do. You do have a fully funded IRA and 401(k), correct?

>>58436471

pc gaming is a hobby / something to do when bored

what the fuck does any of that have to do with being poor or rich retard?

nvidia has bent you over and fucked you in the ass so long you can't even think right

>>58436741
Yes well we have niggers, so it equals out

>>58436472

>better driver support
>cooling

amd's driver support is better than nvidia's right now

what the fuck does cooling have to do with anything? you do realize that amd/nvidia both have shit reference coolers right? and aftermarket coolers depend on who makes them, for example the xfx rx 480 gtr has amazing cooling, while other variants don't

people actually think the 1080 CHIP its self has "good cooling" that's how you know their casual retards

my experience so far with the RX480™
>update drivers
>black screen during update
>no further response
only on AMD

>>58436616

not a single pci-e slot was fried, your dumb ass reads a headline and believes everything

>>58436817
>I would rather put that $400 into my IRA and watch it grow into over $2000.
nah you see a real adult would have that taken directly out of his paycheck so he can spend all his money on gaymen shit in full peace of mind

>>58436861

try using ddu
try being less of a retard

>>58436861
didn't 1060 owners have their perf cut down to a third due to a driver update a few weeks ago

shit happens

>>58436472

>144hz

in what game are you hitting 144+fps? on what resolution and what settings?

>>58436688
amd now gimps their drivers?

>>58436359
kek, find me 480 8gb here in europe for $250-300 and we will talk, rx 480 8gb would cost me over ~$378 so it's obvious i chose gtx 1060 6gb

>>58436944
HurrDurr Eurocucks are more expensive

>>58436861
My experience so far with 1060:
>Want to update drivers
>Have to sign into Facebook®
>Have to have telemetry/spyware GeForce® experience® installed
>Provide personal character references
>Phone number and address needs to be verified
>proof of purchase and serial number needs to be verified
>Have to sign a non disparigment agreement
>Drivers are 2 gb
>Install newer version
>Reboot, old drivers still installed and activated
>Try to download again " sorry anon, only one download per user."
>Crawl into my boyfriend's arms and cry

>>58436944
are you actually EU or just slavland pseudo EU?

>>58436471
>successful adult
>plays videogames

>>58436881
>Implying I dont own my own business

>>58436540
I feel you anon.

Prior to my $349 meme 970, I bought a 6870 for $169 not too long after launch. Brand new too, with a game (that i played quite a bit, dirt 3).

Maxed out every game for about 3 years.

>>58436359
>rx 480
>$229
Pick one

>>58436944
But think of all those refugees you help with your hard earned income.

>>58436995
>he only owns one business
ha ha do you even grownup

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>>58436970
>>58436944
Pic related, the prices in France

>>58437040
>tfw my strix 480 cost me 380 bucks
canada sux

>>58437044
Im probably twice your age

>>58436359
Your very graph shows that it's actually 1070.

>>58437047
Show 1060. Im just curious.

>>58437066
I hope I'm not still here at 50

Eurobucks are weak against the dollar due to bongs exit plan. Bongs fucked everyone over.

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>>58437107

>>58436471
>Best price/performance
>If you are poor only

It doesnt work like that anon

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>>58437088

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>>58437088
>>58437166
fail

>>58436359
Wrong

>>58437180
>>58437166
>>58437047
I suspected cherry picking and bias and was not disappointed

>>58437223
>I suspected cherry picking and bias and was not disappointed
how that ?

>>58437256
I ask for 1060 and I get single fan 3gb "1060" prices. Might as well compare it to a 470

>>58437290
I gave you all the RX480 both 4GB and 8GB and all the 1060 3GB and 6GB

Wew such bias and cherry picking!

>>58437290
>I am literally blind
How do you even post?

>>58436905
144 fps 1080p on ultra with a 1080 isn't hard.

Just hit it in Mankind Divided. Even turned on some MSAA setting that used like 4GB of GPU memory and still had no problems.

In Dota2 on max it's super easy to hit and it doesn't even stress the GPU at all.

Fuck me. I walked out of Fry's Electronics yesterday with my GTX 1060 for $250 (my 560ti just crapped out). I should have done more research, as I don't even know if my computer is good enough for this graphics card. StarCraft is running smooth. But everything else in my PC sucks. The card BARELY fits in the box.

>>58437309
>>58437304
This is cool: >>58437180
This is shit:>>58437166
But lets get back to the whole price disparity issue where AMD is the more expensive option, supposedly

>>58436359
Is AMD really that far behind?

>>58436616
>Then why were they frying PCI-E slots?

That only happened when people used 3 card in parallel to mine bitcoins.

Plus they fixed it in the driver since then.

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>>58437385

>>58437385
>midrange card had the highest score in the midrange lineup
>1300MHz AMD card beats 1800MHz Nvidia card
>they are behind

ok.

RX480 8GB Nitro owner here. Can confirm it's a great card. Runs kind of hot though. Sits at about 85 when playing The Witcher 3 (1080p, Ultra, Hair works off) but that's the most demanding game I play.

Unfortunately I noticed my GPU has faulty bearings on one of the fans so I sent it back to the supplier today. Will have to wait a few days.

Thank for reading my blog. Be sure to Like/Subscibe/Donate and share!

>>58436540
I'm a PhD CS student, and we ordered a couple 1070s for "research". Maybe I'm still poor, but at least I have a working man's GPU

>>58436471
I can guarantee that the people that buy 480s/1060s get more out of their cards than those who buy 1080s.
90% of 1080 owners are posers that are shit at video games and just like to goggle at their fancy graphics and high performance without actually doing anything worthwhile with it.

>no shadowplay
fucking dropped. name one equal alternative or gtfo

>>58436359
No. 290x sits between 1060 3gb and 480 4gb. Comes in around $160 used. Used market will always give better price/perf.

No matter how you look at it Nvidia have caused an up surge in the cost of gfx cards, their greed has gotten the best of them, just like Intel in the CPU market,, as long as their are customers who are stupid enough to pay their HUGE prices, they will continue to keep the price going up, for god sale bring back 3DFX lol.

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>>58436359
tfw the 970/980 aren't on the chart...

>>58437318
>Just hit it in Mankind Divided
Unless you're playing on low that's bullshit. But don't take my word for it just look at every single benchmark with 1080 struggling to get even 120 on that

>>58438052

Funny right? Considering that a heavily OCed GTX 970 (most do +1500core) can compete and even win against a 480 8GB most of the time.

are there any new cool AIB models of 480?

have they made a itx-friendly one yet

>>58437781
OBS, relive, windows 10 built in DVR. done.

>>58438096
oh i forgot to add you don't have to sign in with facebook to use these programs either. :^)

>>58438096
I said "one EQUAL alternative" with no performance loss

>>58436968
I have a 1060 and I don't use GFE to get drivers. You don't even have to update all the time anyway, and when I feel the need I just get them manually.

I knew the RX 470 BTFO'ed my 1050 Ti, but I thought it at least had inferior performance per watt.

What the fuck was Nvidia doing with the 1050 Ti, does Samsung's 14nm process just suck?

>>58438105
You can simply use an older version of GFE.

>>58438141
They know that people will buy their cards even if they were shipped with a fresh human shit placed next to the card.

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>>58438111
i don't get a performance hit with built in DVR. but then again i don't have a cookie cutter shit build.
>Nvidia advertises ShadowPlay as having very minimal performance impact but on the laptop in my sig I have not found that to be the case

most low end nvidia builds do feel a performance hit with shadowplay, too. in fact i remember multiple threads where people were telling others to disable shadowplay from running in the background.
i know you want to keep sucking nvidias dick but there are viable alternatives.

>>58436359
So 2 RX480 ( in crossfire) is cheaper than a 1080, (without counting the power needed). Is it worth ?
I don't ear any one speak abour crossfire or sli anymore.
Must we wait next gen ?

Is it just me or are a ton more games being optimized for AMD cards latley?

>>58438229
Their support for the newer APIs is better. Whether it will mean anything in the long run remains to be seen though, DX10 and 11 were shit so I don't see why all the hype for 12.

Do they make rx 480s under 10 inches?

I was actually looking at one earlier today that was on sale at newegg, but it was a 10.6.. msi, IIRC

>>58437518
>>gayyymeen gpu^tm
>>working gpu
kek

>>58437464
Undervolt it. Same card here. Never goes above 75 in witcher 3. 1306 core, 220 memory @ 1.075v. However I do drop foliage visibility to high for steady 60fps.

>>58438288
XFX Radeon RX 480 RS, 8GB GDDR5

>>58437464

Sorry m8 Saphire made one of the worst aftermarket cards this generation.

XFX the best, MSI and Asus are tied for second, then you got the Chink Lion card, Saphire, Gigabyte.

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>>58436359
>229
>290
Meanwhile outside of /g/ reality kicks in hard and both cost the same if you don't want your 480 RX to explode and 1060 still is going to beat it once you OC it. Just another lying whore.

>>58438357
thanks for the info

This card looks like an ideal upgrade for my ancient 2011 rig. sandy bridge 3.3ghz, 8gb ram, 500w psu, current card is a sapphire hd7850

hope the 8gb model goes on sale for around 200 AR soon.. the 4gb was on sale today for around 160 AR

>>58438357
G T R
T
R

Nobody cares since it's not the best performer

>>58437464
It's a great card, but it overheats and the fans are defective?

I'm really struggling to decide between a 480 or going up a tier for the 1070/small Vega

I'd be mostly playing at 1080p so I'm not sure if the extra power is worth it, except perhaps for future proofing and downscaling

>>58438556

If you're playing on 1080p there's no reason to go higher than RX 480/GTX 1060. Get either one of those and save the rest of the money for gayms.

>>58436536
>living in a country with expensive electricity
lmaoing @ your life

>>58436627
>nvidia
>future proof
topkek, enjoy your gimping when Volta releases and driver "updates" that don't add or fix anything for your legacy gpu

water is wet

>>58438556
future proofing is for after the next round of ps5 xbox 3 specs are released. that way you can snag a slightly more powerful card that will last many years due to practically everything being made for multiplat release

>>58436359
>>>/v/

>>58438679
What's the current ps4/xbone card then?

>>58438796

I got a hd7850oc for $240 in late 2011 or early 2012.. Its still playing everything well at 1080p to this day.

Though if I want to play a recent game with high/ultra settings I need to cap the frames at 30 like a console. Otherwise its all medium settings with perhaps shadows on low to run at a stable 60fps.

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>>58436359
The real dumbasses are the people who buy anything inbetween a 470 and a 1070

470 is the perfect 1080p 60fps card and the 1070/980ti is the perfect 1440p 60fps card

anything inbetween and you're not gonna reach 1440p 60fps on high settings, so either your game will have ugly shadows and lower textures or you'll be running at 1080p, something a 470 is more than capable of doing

>>58438866
I guess I had an i3-4130 and 7870 in late 2012. Ran stuff pretty well. Only recently upgraded to 6700k and a 290x. Playing everything on ultra 1080p60fps. I think I'll upgrade the GPU once 4k becomes the standard. That will have to be either Volta or Navi/VegaX stuff

>8GB RX470 $313
>8GB RX480 $353-$430
>6GB 1060 $344-$433
>mfw
Fucking taxes

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rx 480 + pic related?

>>58437166
that's 90% of 1060 senpai

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>>58436359
>nvidiots pay an extra hundred dollars for 3 GiB of memory
LITERALLY APPLE TIER PRICES KEK

>>58436359
rx 480 and gtx 1060 are the same price where I live so I'm going for the 1060.

>>58439069
Muh dik

>>58439116
How often do you buy a GPU?

>>58439069
btw upgrading from fx 8320/16gb ddr3 system

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>>58436968
Show us your Mammaries

>>58439148
Every 5-8 years maybe. I don't game a lot, but sometimes, so I need some card.

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>>58436471
Yeah, buy 1070, get gimped after 2-3 months when 480 is faster than 1070. Then buy 1080. You are some kind of successful retarded adult.

>>58436968
you deserve it for falling for marketing. you literally paid extra money so nvidia could market to you online and cut deals with facebook

>>58438982
>60fps
There's your problem.

>>58439178
>the rx 480 ever matching the 1070

I'm an AMD fan and even I think this is a bit too optimistic

It's going to keep pulling ahead of the 1060 tho

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>>58439200
It's almost there.

>>58439188
OK, so if you want 120+fps at 1080p then you still need a 1070/980ti or more powerful

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>>58436991
>168-40(work)=128
>128-56(sleep)=72
>72-14(eating)=58
>58-8(driving I suppose)=50
>50-2 (showering)=48
>48-2(shopping for groceries and shit)=46
>46-6(other menial shit)=40
So what the fuck do you do with 40 hours a week?

>>58439237
Dafuq are you showering 2 hours a week? Are you some stinky fish?

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>>58439254
>120/7=17.1 minutes
>needing more time with blistering hot water than that
Do you need to masturbate in the shower or something?

>>58436359
Sooo AMD is still only good for mining bitcoins and altcoins? ;))))

8GB for 200$ or 12GB for 1200$?

Now you see, the problem is... how strong and quality-oriented is the graphics card?
Because id it's anything like AMD's CPU's then you're just paying for 8GB worth of DDR1 memory instead of DDR5. Same deal with their shit tier CPUs.

It's like they were meant for mining altcoins. You can't even use them as a workstation, their low speed would lag your 3D rendering programs and the piss poor temperatures would fry hardware, damaging the motherboard and anything else.

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>>58439296
>Baseless Memes: The Post

Price/performance has never been a factor to me though, even when I'm a NEET most times. I stopped thinking that way maybe 10 years ago when I noticed that I ended up wasting more money on parts like that. Parts that never ran games well or had the games look like ass, parts that were obsolete the following year and so on.
Eventually I got a 144hz g-sync monitor and now the demand for even more horsepower is a thing for me.

Some nerd in college always told me back in the day to stop wasting money on "performance/price" ratio cards, but I didn't believe him back in the day. What a dumbass I was.

>>58439317
>Hey son I bought you 128GB worth of memory cards.
>Oh sweet jeez, dad...... uhm dad it says 800mhz
>Yeah and? They still cost a shit ton.
>Dad my PC works with DDR4 memory.
>Quality is a meme. Everyone knows that in computers the higher the numbers the better the PC.

>>58436570
STFU no one cares about cuda

>>58439296
t. tech illiterate

>>58439320
Anything else besides a midrange card is overkill for 1080p

>implying you need more than RX480
I can afford to buy 1070, but when i did some research i realized that 480 is sufficient for most gaymes in 1080p, even 1440p performance is decent.
>ultra settings that kill performance of PC and give very little profit meme

>>58439376
Like I said
>baseless

>>58439167
It would be better to get a 480 8gb in your case. More vram for the future as well as the simple objective fact that Radeon GPUs get better than their Nvidia counterparts after a few years.

>>58439296
Can't tell if shitty bait or actually retarded.

xfx gtr rx 480 if you wanting to get a 480. nitro+ is disappointing

>>58439296
>This is what nu-/g/ has become

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>>58436359
C'mon guys this is absurd. Everyone knows that if their shit hardware actually rivaled Nvidia then they wouldn't reduce the price by 6x times.
You're buying hot new trash off the presses. Buying from AMD/ATI is like buying Celerons from Intel, it's just not worth it in the long run. Nvidia and Intel are separate companies.

It's like putting Poland against nazi Germany and soviet Russia. Nvidia and Intel are gangbanging AMD hard. Hear he scream as she accepts her whore payment in pennies and sour milk.

>>58438796
The PS4 runs off of a cut down 7870 and the Xbone runs off of something a little less powerful.

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>>58439667
Dumb /g/oiym. Now they'll buy everything from AMD for sure and I'll end up buying the superior stuff for a third of the price. Nvidia and Intel will lower their prices.

>>58439667
>Everyone knows that if their shit hardware actually rivaled Nvidia then they wouldn't reduce the price by 6x times.

Maybe it might have something to do with namebrand™ and they way it's meant to be played™...

>>58439698
And the Pro runs off of a dual version of the PS4's GPU while the Scorpio will run off of Vega.

>>58437518
Yes, screaming at 12-year-olds in Call of Duty is totally valid "research" in the area of physics.

Seriously thou, serious scientific computing is pretty much always done using double precision floating point numbers and Nvidia is infamous for hobbling their consumer cards' single precision performance in firmware. Can't let us goys get away running scientific computations on consumer cards, we need to buy Quadro's instead.

>>58436359
buy the way, 160$ now

>>58438402
>Factory OC card vs roughly reference equivalent card
Hi there /v/!

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>>58438086

> (most do +1500core)

>>58439890
http://www.pcgamer.com/msi-radeon-rx-480-is-available-for-160-after-rebate
(the 4GB)

>>58439069
Wait until Zen comes out. You'll at the very least see Intel cutting their prices at that point.

>>58439904
>A card that can't OC for shit against a card that gains 10% out of it.

I mean technically you're right. 480 can barely OC above reference clocks, either way, Hi there /v/!

>>58439911
Literally any solid 970 can do 1500 on core, best ones could do up to 1550 and with a golden ticket to silicon lottery you could go up to 1600.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8432810

480 RX is literally glorified 970 and no reviewer out there dared to actually compare those cards at full potential OC with air cooling.

>>58436863
This
Although the power draw was well outside of PCIe spec and and was risking losing the ability to even call it a PCIe card until they fixed it software-side
But yeah, although over-spec, nobody fried a PCIe slot from a 480

>>58440693
that's objectively wrong you dumb fanboy idiot. people have gotten 1400Mhz with reference coolers.

>>58440823
>1400 Mhz
>On cards with non-reference coolers and 8 pins that run at 1350 Mhz out of the box

Truly incredible! A whole 3.7% clock gain! That's only 17% less than Nvidia.

>>58440729

The average OC for a 970 is 1425 core. 1500 is by definition above average and not representative of typical overclocks. To wit because my 290x hits 12200mhz core (on air no less) should I be claiming that any good 290x hits 1200mhz?

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/geforce_gtx_970/

(for reference the average 290x overclock is 1140 core)

>>58436359
TITAN X FOR THE WIN HAHAHAHA I love my TITAN PASCAL. Sorry 390X

>>58440932
>Reference cards

Lel

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>>58440944

HWbot isn't just reference you dipshit.

>>58440729
>480 RX
Always the same nvshill who can't write RX480 properly, I see you in every fucking GPU thread.

>cheapest 480
>250€
>shitty cooler
>loud af

>cheapest 1060
>259€
>good cooler
>very silent

>>58440919
>so it must be 17% slower :^)

>>58440932
>The average OC for a 970 is 1425 core.

No it isn't. 1500 is literally the minimum that any GM204 chip can achieve, anything beyond that will be playing the silicon lottery.

>>58436359

>Game Average Performance

Love this meme. AMD performing under the 1060 in every game people actually play, but MUH ASHES "game" boosts the average even though no human being has ever played Ashes as a game rather than a benchmark.

>>58440919
>muh megahurtz

>>58440932
>The average OC for a 970 is 1425 core.

Average doesn't mean shit, it will just be weighted down by people benching reference cards and cards with weak factory OCs.

>To wit because my 290x hits 12200mhz core (on air no less)

nothing about that OC is special

>should I be claiming that any good 290x hits 1200mhz?

every 290x can hit 1200mhz, the difference between them is how much voltage it will take. you will most likely be above >1.3v which is the point where electromigration is going to become a problem and the card will be drawing 500w at 100% load.

>>58437404
>That only happened when people used 3 card in parallel to mine bitcoins.

So pathetic that you have to completely fabricate excuses for it. Next time you bother to make up stories, try to at least look at the evidence you're arguing against considering one of the fried boards only had 2 PCIE slots.

>>58439667
>they wouldn't reduce the price by 6x times
When did something like this happened?

just but a console you dumb fucks.

>>58436471
>mfw be surgeon , well paid, can afford stuff
>no time at home
>shitposting using cellphone in the hospital
>Everything I buy is just a trophy

>>58436471
wait for vega and we will see nvidia shills,writing the opposite of this post, they are pathetic

>>58436359
fury is a slightly better value in terms of raw performance for the price at the cost of higher power consumption. you can get the nitro for $240 on newegg.

>>58436359
The 1060 6 GB is a horrible buy at $290.

Similarly, the RX 480 is a horrible buy at $270.

Neither of these cards are worth shit just because they have fancy coolers on them. They're chips that are worth maybe $175 based on their performance. Paying more than that for any of them is a total meme.

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>>58443493
>buying either card for more than $220

nvidia asks 100 dollars for 3 gb of extra vram
amd asks 30 dollars for 4 gb of extra vram

makes you think indeed.

>>58443822
The 1060 3GB is a gimped chip so it's not just the VRAM that you get with the 6 GB 1060, but still, absolutely asinine for them to name them the same thing when they aren't even that close in performance.

They could have easily called the 1060 3 GB something else. (1055, etc)

>>58443941
They should've just made the 1060 6gb the 1060ti but I guess the 3gb came out later.

>>58443960
Yeah I think the 1060 3 GB was just a made up SKU from rejected 1060 6 GB full chips that they could salvage by disabling some cores and figured there was a slot for them to address the huge gap between the 1050ti and the fat 1060.

Still, really stupid to call it a 1060 at all. It's different enough that it should have its own designation. Then again, this is the company that released two completely different "Titan X" products a few years apart.

>>58438603
also depends if you're playing at >60hz or not

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rx 480 is way over 300cad and 1060 is even more. I just want a solid upgrade over my ancient 6950 1gb. 300cad max all included is the budget. Wat do?

>>58444139
470 is your only option.

>>58444160
>>>58444139 (You)
>470 is your only option.
would it be a stupid buy?

>>58444270
If you absolutely must get a graphics card that performs well at 1080p right now it's pretty much the best choice at that budget. The 1060 3 GB will not age well and it's basically on par with the 470 currently.

I'd look for a 470 4 GB. 8 GB 470 if you can get a good deal but its not crucial at all. That's honestly "too much" VRAM for the 470 to handle before the GPU hits other bottlenecks but it may not go completely to waste. Wouldn't stress if 4 GB was all that was out there at a reasonable price though.

>>58443822

the 1060 3gb and 6 gb are different cards though, it's not just extra vram

>>58436471
>Rich people are rich because they spend more money

no

>>58436698
>>58436616
The powerdraw from the slot was limited properly in a driver update. The loss in performance was made up for in the same patch.

>>58439296

What the fuck did I just read.

>>58439920
Or they'll bribe OEMs. Again.