Hey guys, as the title says I recently decided to upgrade my gtx 770 2gb, it's still a good card but lately I've noticed that it doesn't perform that well on new games. So I ask you, how much difference would I observe if I finally decide to upgrade to an rx 470, especifically the sapphire nitro+ rx 470 with 8 gb. I have an amd fx 8120 @ 4 ghz, 24gb 1600mhz ram. Would my current system bottleneck this card? Would I see minor/major changes? I play games such as the witcher 3, shadow of mordor (pretty addictive though), I'll replay rottr with this card,I intend to play doom and any dx12/vulkan game that comes in the next years. All games have to be tweaked to achieve enjoyable framerates and I would like to play games with good quality and fps, if possible. Greetings and thanks for your attention.
fx 8120 is an old bulldozer chip, it can be a bottleneck but still you should notice very nice increase in performance. gtx770 and Kepler cards whole together are not doing good lately. How much will that rx470 cost you? I would recommend you go with something like this instead : https://geizhals.de/sapphire-nitro-radeon-rx-480-8g-d5-oc-11260-01-20g-a1477778.html
I live in Mexico and the economical situation is not going well against the dollar but I managed to get it the cheapest in Amazon US for $290, anywhere else was a ripoff, lol. It's good to know that this card will perform alright. Thanks for the quick response.
How much would the gpu be bottlenecked? Would i be able to play at least @ 60+ fps in games released in late 2015-early 2016? What about vulkan/dx12 games, will I see good performance with my current setup?
Really depends on the game. CPU bound games will suffer the most. I would look for benchmarks of games you are looking to play.
I've been having problems with the fans going all the way to the highest fan rpm (about 3451)for no reason apparently. I could be watching a movie, playing a game, doing some office work and it would ramp up randomly. I currently have the catalyst 16.9.1 because with catalyst 16.9.2 it did the behavior i told you about once and again. Are AMD drivers this buggy at start or they always have issues?
May be thermal related. Not sure if the Nitro 470's have the "silent" bios where the fans don't spin until a certain temp is reached.
This is different than the default bios behavior, because the fans spin to their fastest speed and occasionally they throw a bsod "Thread stuck in device driver". It hasn't happened lately, though. It's very random, so i guess the drivers are the culprit.
