Can't see Disney letting this fly. It's basically the equivalent of someone making an Overwatch spinoff using the character lineup from Super Smash Bros. and expecting Nintendo to not sh*t themselves in indignation.
I'm curious to see how two RX 480 cards in crossfire will handle 4k/60 and 2k/144 targets at high settings. Crossfire always performs better than SLI, but the million dollar question is: Can two RX 480 cards beat one GTX 1080? My gut instinct is HELL NO, but crossfire RX 490 might be a different story.
Yeah, McCree is really powerful, but the one that needs to be changed is Bastion. I actually don't even mind how much damage Bastion deals since he's really vulnerable, but he almost ALWAYS steals a play-of-the-game achievement. Blizzard really needs to go back to the drawing board with Bastion.
Pretty sure this is the lowest-end next gen gaming card AMD is rolling out. It looks like it will compete with the GTX 1060 based on the specs above. I think we need to see the RX 490 before we can start comparing it to the GTX 1070
@halewafa: You're right, it won't. But even an OC'd GTX 1080 won't be capable of delivering solid 4k/60 (or 2k/144) results on high/ultra settings with the newest games. So the GTX 1070 is the way to go for high/ultra 1080/144, or 2k/60, while you would need the GTX 1080TI for the 4k/60 or 2k/144. I think the GTX 1080 as a standalone card is overkill for lower-end displays, and simply not enough for the high-end displays. It really places it in an awkward position. But maybe NVidia's new drivers and developer tools that were released with 1080 will fix that, so who knows?
Looks like NVidia has another GTX 970 to GTX 980 price/performance crisis on their hands with the 1070/1080. Base benchmarks look fine and good with the performance difference, but an OC'd GTX 1070 will match a stock GTX 1080 for $200 less.
@xxdavidxcx87: I'm hoping AMD can position the 480X or 490 between the GTX 1070 and 1080 performance-wise, and undercut the price of the 1070 by $50-60. I'm an NVidia guy myself, but it's better for the industry as a whole if AMD can reclaim some lost market share. Guess we'll find out in a few days with Computex...
An Xstreambox One might actually be a good idea. It would allow MS to compete with Roku, Chromecast, and Amazon Fire, plus Nvidia SHIELD for game streaming. I could see the stream boxes easily handling the entire 360 backwards compatibility library, and probably the higher end model handling full-fledged X1 games too.
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