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This is the successor to the Polaris architecture in the RX cards we’re discussing, right?

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Yeah, its their new Non-Vega 7nm design. Rumored for this summer.

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Thanks for the info

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After everything I read and things here on this discussion I’m confident that the 580 is a great value card. If you got the cash to pony up for more then great, but from the sounds of it the new nVidia cards right now aren’t amazing, seems like there’s still issues etc and the value is in the 1070 ti etc but those cards are still super expensive for now.

I’ll revisit the GPU when I finally have all the cash to rebuild everything but seems that’s not really necessary right now. This is a good thread though and lots of good info in it.

I was just hoping that the 580 card that I did get… was a good one compared to the other 580’s out there.

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Without AI cores the 1160 TI should consume less power too.

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Really don’t know what everyone’s obsession with power consumption is. Except for die shrink cases, more power needs more power. Only thing I care about for how much my parts draw is knowing it so I have a big enough PSU.

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Usually heat and noise

I had a GTX 480 holy crap that was the worst in both power, heat, and noise.

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I mean, I guess, but like I said at some point earlier. I wear a headset like 25/8 while at the PC so Noise means nothing, :stuck_out_tongue: plus, get some good fans and neither noise nor heat will really mean much.

Or liquid cool.

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Right, but generally speaking those aftermarket cards cost more.

So the reference design/entry level ones will be louder and hotter.

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At least reference design often have many decent Aftermarket coolers. (Aside from vega, it has one Air that i’ve found and 3 or so liquid)

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Nvidia reference designs pretty much sucked up until 20-series.

The 480 reference I had was a blower design and JFC it was terrible

https://youtu.be/BLdXfFsgvkE
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Don’t know about the 480. But you take your 1060/70/80 and slap one of these on it https://www.arctic.ac/us_en/accelero-twin-turbo-ii.htmlinstead of the single fan blower and boom, silent and cool.

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I’m not arguing they work, but it’s just more money and effort.

And in the end, it’s another product feature that needs to be assessed along with everything else.

So that’s why people care about it.

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Eh, depends on how much you get the reference for vs. the aib and if the extra savings is worth it.

Or you could just wear headphones :stuck_out_tongue: (i kid)

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I was gonna spend an extra $30 on the triple fan aftermarket factory OC 2060 ($379) vs the reference ($349) because it was going to be quieter and already OC.

So that’s my perspective.

Cancelled the order overall though because just not impressed enough overall.

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“Just not impressed” should replace the tagline of “It just works!” for the 20 series haha.

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Lol.

My feeling towards the RTX lineup is like that one fap “the **** I put up with” meme

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This made me lol irl. Vega 7 is the same imo.