Buy asus rog strix as there is 1-2 fps drop as comprassion to nitro+ but have better cooling but also keep in mind sapphire nitro is at top in comparission to other models of rx480 in terms of performance.
"No games use more than 3gb" will change in the card's lifetime. More RAM is needed for VR scenarios and higher resolutions (and resolution isn't just about native output pixels, it's about DSR and other rendering quality techniques that only happen *in memory* at larger-than-the-output-buffer sizes). Besides, the 8GB model isn't truly about "bang for the buck" until you do what I want to do -- Crossfire 2 of them and run circles around an NVidia GTX 1080 at 66% of the price.
Heck, 2x RX 480s may very well come close to TITAN X speeds at 40% of the price! O.o
The Sapphire NITRO+ design is crucial though as it alone (so far as I've read) has the extra power input pins necessary to get maximim performance without bending ATX compliance.
Hope a Custom RX480 becomes available soon. People need more choice here besides Nvidia on a consistent basis. Have no idea why MassDrop constantly runs Group Buys for Nvidia but always ignores any AMD models.
Again the question comes to WHY is that?
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