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The first waves of custom AMD Radeon RX 480 and Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics cards are starting to land and Asus is diving straight in with its new ROG Strix offerings, which promise higher levels of performance and much better cooling compared to the reference versions of these GPUs.
First up is the ROG Strix RX 480, which offers up to 15 percent faster performance in 3DMark Firestrike and up to 19% faster performance in games like Doom and Hitman when compared to the reference card. Asus has also incorporated the same triple fan cooling block found on higher-end GPUs this generation, delivering 30 percent cooling performance while being three times quieter.
The RX 480 comes with a boost clock of 1330MHz in OC mode and should be available from mid-August onward. You can currently pre-order the Strix RX 480 for £289.99.
On the GTX 1060 side of things, the ROG Strix offers up to 6.5 percent higher gaming performance in titles like Doom and comes equipped with the same high-performance triple fan cooling block. The ROG Strix GTX 1060 comes clocked at 1873MHz in OC mode. This card is already available for £299.99.
Both cards share some similarities when it comes to Asus’s own exclusive features, which include Auto-Extreme technology and Super Alloy Power II components for premium build quality and reliability. The fans used on the cooler have a patented wing-blade design too, which increase airflow.
Finally, both cards use the ROG Aura lighting system, which gives you some extra personalisation options.
KitGuru Says: Given how well the ROG Strix cooler performs on higher end cards like the GTX 1080, it will be interesting to see what levels of performance it can unlock on these mid-range cards. Are any of you currently shopping around for an RX 480 or a GTX 1060? What do you think of the new Strix cooler?
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Only thing to get from those results of AMD and nVidia Strix’s is that 480 is much better in oc gains than 1060. Let’s see the reviews now to make sure if that’s true or not.
That was inevitable – reference 480 was severely hamstrung by the power system AMD chose to use. Aftermarket 480s and 1060s stand to be quite similar in performance and overclockability.
Or buy a used 980 TI on ebay and enjoy even more FPS’s and not be fecked over by Nvidia.
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not F over by price? lol, you talking Nvidia, that is their practise, skew results to show them as best, use lowest possible quality components(so they dont last as long and many have to return many times before get a “proper” one) Hate them with passion, and KNOW they skewing results/settings for the 10 series, also have a WAY higher clock says to me they getting most of the performance gain from this sick clockspeed, however, they are quite great power wise even if “hampered” by NOT being able to do any modern not biased towards THEM settings in modern API(tessellation was tweaked to suit them, they pay off dev teams to tweak for them etc)
If you dont want to get F over by them, dont buy Nvidia AT ALL, when sales start dropping, they will change their ways, but if people still drink that green kool aid no matter what they do, they have high value market share which means more $ which means they do pretty much what they want, when they want, cause even if in the wrong, they can pay the fine and still laugh all the way to the bank, look at windows10 and certainly Intel as proof is in the pudding examples
from what I have read so far, beyond anything else, the RX 4xx can use the lower clocks far more effectively, whereas the 10 series are ultra efficent and “lean” so they can basically highly facotry overclock them and “seem” faster, but, read many places not counting any throttling the RX series is “smoother” feel even though FPS and frame times not always showing this, so could be the 10 series is outpacing itself, this happened a decade back or so with older processors/gpu and still does trying to play many old games with modern stuff, they are WAY faster then the games/apps/OS can handle so it can cause jitter/stutter/tearing etc, turning what should be smooth experience into a mess, so it could be the RX series might be handling the FPS it does get(though even lower) better as the frames are properly handled, vs the 10 series are severly outpacing what is/should be being shown.
IMO this was actually revered years back where Nv made big stink and paid people off to show how “smooth” they were vs Radeons cause they had better frame pacing and the like, either Nvidia has problems with this now, they are simply made to run far too fast so the pci-e bus simply cannot handle it etc, I not a hardware designer by all means, but I have read this is MANY places for the 10 series, quite fast, quite efficient BUT they dont have the “parts” for the more advanced DX12/Vulkan things as well as outpacing what they can effectively show even though benchmarks and raw game data shows them as often insane increase in FPS, which by itself it like “ok, so it can race at mach 10, but, when you actually are trying to race the race and not show the raw data only, it is NOT a smooth mach 10, whereas RX 4xx might only be mach 6, but is able to actually maneuver properly at mach 6 using fuel of that mach 6”
Long post, am sorry, but seriously dig into it, there is loads of info out there, especially for folks wanting to know the “truth” and not just take things at face value 🙂
AND AMD in RX 4xx uses a top of line voltage regulation system far beyond what others are using and brand spanking new even for them, likely, it will take a bit for them to tune it to work optimally(more stages, more robust, higher quality) and are a much smaller team working on the software and tuning the hardware that has to work with their APU, CPU etc in other words many parts needing to work well with each other on a brand new Uarch on brand new products for “modern” API
Whereas Nv is more or less 100%GPU focused with a far larger team and budget and they know the voltage control stuff they are using as they have been optimizing the same one for many generations, so is essentially putting a new F1 team vs a well established one, once the new one learns their fancy new equipment I have no doubt it will work much much better then we currently see it as, whereas the established F1 team is almost as good as they will even get, they can just “tune” per race(per game) there is nowhere close to the same learning curve comparing NV 10 series vs Radeon RX series. hope that all made sense.
Folks often forget or at least pull things out of context, Nv for MANY generations had the EXACT same issue, throttling, overdrawing from slot/PCI-e beyond spec and often had far less durable components/build quality, but alas seems as team green/blue mis-steps that is ok, whereas team Red does this(even if but a small amount) it is end of the world LOL
What hamstrung RX 480 the most, was not power system(I think is more the brand new voltage control system they using) but rather the shoddy reference cooler, kept cooler, they not need as much power to drive things, and likely, this is IMO seeing as PCI-SIG was the one that did testing on multiple occasions, they just did an “oops” with the software for something in Windows/Vulkan to pass their testing which messed something else up, they are like said a much smaller team, so takes somewhat longer to iron things out, but at least they moving the industry ahead for the “modern” 🙂
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I’d really like to see head to head benchmarking of these two cards as I am not sold for red or green yet. Having one partner putting similar tweaks on the two cards is definitely going to help in my decision.