I've owned three of the worst GPUs in history (HD 6450 1 GB, R7 250 2GB, and GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5) and a bad CPU (i3 4130), Steve reviewed all of them over the years. GTX 1650 is hated by reviewers and PC enthusiasts because 1650 is overpriced and the GTX 1650 Super made it irrelevant after the Super variant came out. Don't worry, I got my 1650 for a reasonable price. I managed to get one new back in late 2019 for less than 75% of the price of a new Rx 570 4GB, it's competitor, and GTX 1050Ti. HD 6450 is trash, it's nothing more than a display adapter, the gaming performance is awful. R7 250 2GB was an alright card, but I should have gone for the R7 260X 2GB or a GTX 750Ti. The 2GB VRAM is the reason why I managed to play 2018-2019 games with 720p ~30fps on this GPU even after it was obsolete from a performance standpoint way back in 2015. i3 4130 used to be a budget monster back in 2014-15 (watch 2014-15 budget PC vs PS4 videos by Digital Foundry), but it's borderline irrelevant in 2021. It's still my current CPU. *UPDATE:* Decided to replace the i3 with a 4th gen i5 to get a taste of real quad core CPUs, then switched to an i5 10400F since 4 threads are simply not enough in 2021 and beyond.
@@Waldherz I was just about to say I didn't think it was a sad day when I had seen a 1080Ti on this channel. Of course his sister bought that one as part of an experiment. It was more expensive than he'd usually pay but was worth the money.
@@GameFrostYT that's true! I could play all competitive games including CoD at 1080p high 60fps, and single player games I didn't care so much about framerate and left everything on ultra and still got 50/60 in most which was an amazing experience for the price, I would still recommend the GPU even now for most people not pushing 1440 or HFR
@@RandomGaminginHD Oh nice I was considering getting one but I'll probably wait for the prices to go down and maybe go for a 5500XT or something similar :)
@@Tokomi that's true, it sold for a lot more than I expected, I got it only a year ago refurb from Sapphire for £65 for my first PC, but then I got a new job and paid off some debts so I upgraded, but it sold for £100 which was way more than I expected!
@@MyloSkeng Prices are ridiculous, I had a rx580 that I no longer needed and paid about 120 for it, recently sold on ebay for 170 I couldn't believe my luck!
Same sold mine a month prior and I thought I could get a new GPU. I was never this wrong before. Now I'm without a Pc.. Just gotta stick to my Nintendo switch for now. Give Pc gaming a rest and who knows cyberpunk would be a good game after GPU prices normalised
@@wilkinlow yeah it sucks with 30 series taking so long! I got a 1080 to get me by until I can get 3060ti or 3060, but tbh you aren't missing out on too much games-wise atm, cyberpunk is good but not worth writing home about
I don't think that is a bad buy given the current market. It's about as good as my 1650super (I have a 4gb 580 too) which is currently selling on eBay for more than I bought it for. New GPU stock levels are non existent.
and it's pretty close to the 7970 (I think?) which is like 8 years old lol -- I have a friend who got one of those and boy was that the perfect time to get one. Wasn't that basically the same as a 290, which is a 390, which is basically a 480? great longevity out of that hardware for the end-user.
I bought the XFX 5700xt dor my first pc like 6 months ago because I didn’t know too much about PC’s, man that thing is a literal heater in any intensive game
@@lucwallace4308 They do have some good designs that make great picks for cards, but XFX's reputation is tarnished by their hilariously bad designs like the THICC II. Plastic heatsink? Really?
Well the gpu market now is a hassle ever since but the rx 480 is still a good buy under probably 120$ used. It offers great performance in New AAA titles on 1080p
I remember the first rx 480 cards came with 8gb of vram, all of them, even the 4gb ones. They were just software limited and the other 4gb could be unlocked with some tinkering. Something to look out for if you have an older one or just got a second hand one to maximize the performance for your money.
@@youtubeshadowbannedme No Way, the RX470 absolutely crushes the GTX 960 (even the 4gb version), its a very good card for 1080p gaming, speacially for 50£, since its not far away from the RX480 in performance.
Yeah, I got two Sapphire Nitro RX570 4GB for a total of €115 in late 2019 (so €57.5 per card). Was a bit late to respond to the ad- otherwise I would have taken the 8GB models for just a bit more. Cards were used for mining, both run perfectly well.
Damn, these cards have doubled in price on the used market in the last year. And that's after the crazy prices they went for during the mining rush of 2017/2018.
@@abdullah-gl3rd 71-75 C , the temperature of my room is around 23 C when playing Apex, Red, COD and Horizon Zero Dawn @ 980mV with a costume fan curve in Afterburner (70% speed at 70 C and so on), just 1 rear fan. I tried one more fan as in take but didn't drop a single degree but made more noise so I removed it.
@Dat Boii Well I can't really say for sure but I'm satisfied with my current 8GB 570 variant considering I don't do intensive gaming that much. Just enough to get by.
@@youtubeshadowbannedme If the general users think they're bad then I would go with it. I see mostly people recommending only 570 or the 580 when it comes to budget builds. Maybe I should've narrowed it down to both models in the first place. Lol mb.
@@bvlNZ like the only time people recommend a RX 560 is for people on a tight budget or just wanna play eSports and RX 550 is only recommended for people who are like dirt poor or from third world countries
Sadly this was a graphics series I didn't get to experience as I skipped over it from an r9 270x and a gtx 1060 6gb. They seem like great performers that just keep on being relevant
Thanks for this video. Being a RX480 4GB owner myself, I haven't had these issues. Fortnite and GTA V I can run at max with no issues thought the gpu would get pretty hot. My specs are the 480, 12GB DDR4 RAM, i5 8400. Seeing the way Cold War and Cyberpunk ran, I'll look into getting the 8GB model that's out there or maybe even a 580 8GB.
Some constructive critisism, some background music would be appreciated during the benchmarks. Just to spice things up a bit, just my oppinion. You are doing great :)
Ooh the XFX RS, I bought a 8GB variant of it and it was hot, loud and could barely hit the peak boost. I returned it pretty quickly and got a Sapphire Nitro+ instead and although it's also a bit hot it's way less loud and sticks to its factory overclock no problem, definetly worth the extra $20, still runs great after nearly 4 years now.
When you see constant VRAM usage in afterburner, it's most likely memory allocation and not actual usage, if it were the latter the value should fluctuate more. 4GB@1080p at anything less than ultra settings is quite rare to saturate, even today.
Nah, some browsers can take quite surprising amount of VRAM, also dwm.exe uses about 100 Mb too. So the game probably didn't lie about using 3,5 GBs of VRAM, there is other apps using it.
Hey thats my gpu!!! Except I have the Sapphire pulse version. Bought it used last year for 180 AUD and it still runs amazing in the games i play. Just a bit hot and noisy but AUS summers are like that sometimes lol. Great video
I remember when these things were released, the original reveal for this stated something along the lines of "Two RX 480s in Crossfire outperforms a 1080". Boy how that aged.
I bought one of these XFX 470 4GB for a budget build for my brother's family. Even after a re-paste, the fans were pretty loud. The coolers on these XFX cards aren't great, much like the Mk I MSi Armor cards. But... it still performed pretty well for a card that costs under $100 right now.
I can only imagine how good the first Watch Dogs would look like with Ray Tracing. Watch Dogs 1 is a good looking game but it looks terrible next to the E3 demo because it was using Ray Tracing and high quality reflections and shadows.
I own an RX 580 Strix with i7 4790K and I am very happy with it. Thank you for including the timestamps. I watch the whole video for sure, but it's very helpful, thank you for this and your content! :)
The rx 400/500 series are such value. I bought a rx570 nearly 2 years ago and got a really good overclocker. I overclocked the core from 1280 to 1460 and memory from 1750 to 2040 and have been playing cp2077 without any crashes in game sessions of over an hour. Tested these overclocks in unigene superstition and got better results than numbers I found on a stock rx 590 on the internet and they were be like 300 points apart. Gpu rarely gets over 75C celcius in a case with absolutely no case fans. Amazed by this gpu.
I own a Powercolor 8GB Rx480 and I can confidently say I'm still enjoying the card, however, the card as of lately is struggling to not overheat. I've went through a few tubes of thermal paste and it seems that it's time to retire the old friend. Great video, keep up the quality content :)
Bought a 480 in march, got an 8GB one though. Been great throughout lockdowns, can run pretty much all my games at ultra settings. I think the VRAM difference makes quite an impact in modern games as most of the time I'm using above 6 or 7 gigs when playing with high textures. Nice vid :)
The RX480 and the RX580 are really good cards when it comes to textures and environment, as soon as shaders join the mix they drop off significantly, no matter if 4 Gigs or 8. They also take a noticeable dip when new data is streamed to them, or when they run short on memory. Unfortunately most of them are rather loud breathers .... since they get quite hot.
@@manfredgeorgburggraf533 Indeed, i think i paid around 50 euros for mine, It's a Gigabyte gaming version, didn't work so i flashed a bios unto it and it worked. No idea why it didn't work...
Just checked the price and I don't get it... How RX560 got so less performance but it costs more than 480? Even benchmarks show significant difference between these two
@@hckr_ the rx 480 was the AMD's flagship card in its generation and continues to get really good driver support. the 560 is a lower tier card from next generation that uses similar architecture
I have the same RX470 RS and the RX480 GTR (8GB). Yes, the GTR is slightly different and a bit bigger, both my models have swappable fans. I have to disagree regarding temps and fan noise, the XFX models are considered as one the best variants alongside the Nitro+. Check if you had a mining bios installed on it. My used 480 did and it was indeed hot and loud. Swapped to the original bios, undervolted a bit and it now runs at 65°C max with fans below 50%.
@@maestrohun had 580 4gb for many years until I got rx 5600xt just before gpu prices went nuts. 580 was a great card for me tho, even handled 1440p like a champ!
Hello that's my card. Got it since 3 months or so. It's doing okay. Upgraded from r7 265. I'll be using this for two years I hope. This video gives me hope to.
I used to have a Power Color Red Dragon Rx 480 4GB and it was a soldier. I played many AAA games at 900p for a good 3 years before selling it for a deal to a local who was just getting into PC gaming for the first time. I never really sold hardware before but it felt good giving that new PC gamer a good deal on a solid card for 1080p gaming. I sold it for $75 and this was last September. These days I game with an EVGA RTX 2070 on a 1440p 165 hertz IPS G-Sync monitor and wow. It left me speechless as this is the first time I actually have something nice for gaming. Don't get me wrong, I had fun with my 19 inch 900p 60 hertz TN panel with my old 480 but man the 1440p IPS high refresh with G-sync and an RTX 2070 doesn't compare. I think I may be spoiled now lol.
You release the perfect videos at the perfect time, we still haven't got a worthy successor for the RX480. (Meaning at the same price range but with the same insane performance making it an indisputable Performance Per Dollar champion, and no the RX580 was not just more expensive it was literally the same card slightly overclocked from factory)
Wow! I got an RX570 (bought ~2 years ago for 70 Euro, 2nd-hand with 2months warranty). I'm running it underclocked & undervolted. For gaming, the drivers go to the gaming profile which only has a slight undervolt. It's basically not turning it's fans at all, even when gaming it might hit ~70-75C and that's it. Really worth it to undervolt & try out your luck!
Proud owner of the rx 480 8GB, it's a little bit overclocked. Not too much though, I still don't want it to run super hot or super loud. It's getting cleaned every once in a while, as well as getting its thermal paste changed. Even paired with an i7-2600k (OCed of course) gets me some very respectable fps in modern or a few year old games. I myself got it on a great deal used about 3/4 years ago, just before the whole cryptomining thing REALLY kicked off. Cyberpunk 2077 played on a mix of Low, Medium and High options gave me about the same amount of fps as shown in the video (although in 2560x1080, not in 1920x1080). Rainbow Six Siege performance (with the downloadable Ultra Textures and pretty much maxed out, besides like Motion Blur or something) is really great, delivering about 70fps, with rare drops to mid-60s. The 8GB of VRAM comes in handy in certain games - Rust, for example can take above 7GBs without maxing out all the settings, it LOVES memory. Forza Horizon 4 also has quite an appetite for video memory. I also play VR on it from time to time. It struggles on big open maps of Blade & Sorcery, but on smaller maps it's fine. Beat Saber runs really well even with Smooth Camera turned on, so other people can clearly see what's going on. SUPERHOT VR, Payday 2 VR, Pavlov VR and Gorn play great as well. EDIT: VR stuff
For anyone interested in buying a RX 480... I had the MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8GB... and contrary to this XFX model, the MSI was dead quiet. Fans wouldn't even turn until you were already some time in the game and even testing at max fan rpm, it was EXTREMELY quiet. It also stayed extremely cool and ran very well. I remember picking it up when it hit the market and it always was the top performer out of the 480's. You can now get those pretty cheap as well.. so if you're okay with 60 fps 1080p with medium to high settings (maybe not the NEWEST AAA titles) .. it would be a very good buy!
I got this same card in my economy prebuilt system from 2016, been using it since. It has been great for my needs. With the price of cards now I will be keeping the 480 for the foreseeable future.
thank you bud! i always like to watch your videos, and today when i chose this one the length of it was perfectly timed to eat my sandwich! absolutely perfect
Ah the marvelous budget orientated polaris architecture. Still running my 8GB RX 470. But I'd definetely recommend the 8GB version over the 4GB version. Should not be too much of a price difference, considering new rx570 only used to cost about 170€ , that is when they still were available in late november early december. Damn human malware. Also it is really about time budget gamers get an upgrade to polaris. Congratulations on passing 400k subscibers btw
I've been following your channel since 50k subs i think and enjoyed them very much. But for a while I've been thinking that one thing missing from your videos is seeing several popular budget choices together in a single video. That way you can justify buying some card over some other one.
wow i'm honestly super super surprised that a new video, is show casing my graphics card, except mines a sapphire nitro (4gb), i'm dying for an upgrade, but this video has calmed that itch a little, its appreciated, since its super frustrating right now during this gpu shortage pandemic
Nice vid! For 100 euros here in Greece I got a used(mining about 3 months and then remained inside a rig for about 2 years) rx 580 sapphire nitro+ 8GB factory OCed to 1411MHz and its pretty good regarding performance, also I get below 70 degrees at this time of the year with about 50% fan speed in a bit crappy pc case!
I"ve got an 8GB XFX RX480 and you're absolutely right about the fan noise and high temp. I also bought it used so at first, I was afraid that it was a faulty one. While playing PUBG it sits at 72c. I was thinking about re-pasting it. Might still do it. Edit: I got it 6months ago for 125 dollars.
Nice. I have a RX580 and couldn't be happier. My monitor is only 1080p/60Hz so I use V-Sync and tune my setting to high in most games to about 60FPS and I don't need to go higher.
I'd happily take a 480 right now. My 460 is fine, but would like to crank up some settings on some of the games i play. None of the newer games really tempt me enough to warrant doing a real upgrade, especially with current prices.
For Cold War, it's part of optimisation, as on PC Cold War will half your frame rate sometimes at random with the fix being to tab out, and tab back in, on top of it being a game that shouldn't have released as early as it did (A bunch of performance, and just general gameplay issues being reported daily)
Ayyy that's my GPU right there! Although I have an ASUS Strix 8GB RX 480, I bought it from a good friend of mine about a year ago, he was sort of cleaning up stock and he sold it to me for 80USD if I'm not mistaken. Still love this GPU, it would be even better if only my aging FX-4300 wasn't on the verge of bursting into flames, bottlenecking the whole system.
I just got one this evening (not this exact one). Going to build it in tomorrow and pair it with my i5 2500k that I will probably try and overclock. Can't wait to see what results I can get!
My brother has been using the same Powercolor Red Devil 8GB Rx480 for years and he STILL refuses to upgrade. He is still happy with it. I do have to say, that card that he has is a beast. I however I am one of those people who upgrade every year.
I got my MSI 480 Gaming X 8GB at the end of 2017 for 160€ and can't help but grin at the idea of how many games I've played on it in the past 3 years. I play far less these days and will only upgrade once I either get another great deal, or the 480 actually NEEDS an upgrade.
I've had a few XFX ex-mining Polaris cards, I've found big differences with them some have been ok, some have been ok when repasted and I've had a couple I simply couldn't get cool enough even after repasting and cleaning. I suggest anyone buying these cards, stress tests them with 3d mark and if they fail send them back. At the moment they are good value... best case situation is you get one that works, but its always going to be loud. These coolers are marginal, you ain't going to be able to turn fans down enough and keep chip cool enough to reduce noise significantly.
Got a ASUS STRIX RX 480 (8GB), Very nice middle of the road even by todays expectations. Factory overclock. Useful video. I'd add just that Getting 8GB memory version might be a better choice. Tuned well, these and RX 580s are good GPUs at the right price.
You have to watch which 4GB model you buy, some have a lower VRAM speeds than the 8GB models. The 4GB Asus Dual RX 480 is like this, still worth the $68 I paid for it on Ebay last January. Used it in a "free" gaming PC build I put together and gave to a friend.
Yes I have a rx 480 8gb. I bought a RTX 2060 at launch to replace... few months ago I replaced the RTX 2060 for my 480 and sold the RTX 2060. I wasn't impressed with the 2060 (could hardly hit 10 fps in Quake with rtx enabled!) and felt ripped when the rtx 2060 Super came out a couple of months later but I'm happy with my 480 @1080p gaming for time being. I'm not playing latest AAA games at the moment. It plays Prodeus and Hades fine and I have a back catalogue of games to catch up with (Doom 2016!) so I'm happy.
Recently upgraded for a 4Gb 1050Ti for an 8gb Rx 480 for 130 quid and it runs very good close to the 1060 now as well due to the better optimized drivers over the GTX 1060 Drivers. Amazing value card though and i highly recommend it especially the 8gb model if your looking for a medium to high setting Gaming Pc
This kinda shows how bad the current evolution of GPUs right now. I want to upgrade (Bought an RX580 second hand @$100 since last year) but GPU prices are still insane. Our local stores sell brand new RX580 for $200 and above. What more for stuff like 3060Ti which they sell for $600.
Still got an RX 480 8GB. Ran RDR2 at 1440p with 35-40 FPS on medium settings. And Horizon Zero Dawn currently with 40 fps auto scaling on medium settings. Wanted to a get a new GPU since November, but couldn't find anything affordable in stock. Waiting to get the RTX 3060 hopefully next month, I really want to finish RDR2. My GPU was also used for mining in 2017, so it runs like 7% underclocked, anything higher and it crashes, so really need an upgrade.
XFX RX 470 user here, and it runs ridiculously hot. Managed to lower up to 20 C by undervolting. I highly recommend undervolting and if possible underclocking to all of you guys who are running on a melting card
I bought a similar one about 6 months ago for a friend and found out that those models with less heat pipes were custom orders for gaming cafes or places like that. Ebay and Aliexpress were flooded with those at the time. Those are a good, cheaper alternative.
RandomGaminginHD : damn, I am surprised of how well the RX 480 4GB does today....and keeping that in mind, I recently got my hands on a used (very well preserved) R9 Nano 4GB HBM1 and have been using it for a while on my Ryzen 7 5800X rig....and damn mate, it does really good in modern games, much better than other 4GB cards since it has that massive 4096-bit memory bandwidth....it certainly helps filling and emptying that short memory buffer much much faster than any other 4GB cards I've used ever. Can you make a 2021 R9 Nano deep dive video ?
This is the longest living card I've ever had, in terms of capability (I have the Sapphire Nitro+) I probably won't change it in 2021 RX 480 GPU deserves respect for its long run
almost buy this one, but then ended up bought a second hand RX 580/4G at the same price.. that RX 580/4G is a huge boost over mine 12 years old Radeon HD 4650/1G.. for my casual gaming needs, RX 580 really fills the slot. im very happy with RX-580/4G..
The RX 470 4GB is also a decent used card. Many of the models can be overclocked to the stock RX 570 clockspeeds with little effort. I used one of these to build a budget gaming pc for my cousin recently, and I used it for several days before handing it over to him. It was a good 1080p medium experience in most games.
Awesome video mate! I'd love to see a RX 480 8gb in 2021. I Love my RX 480 8gb strix, I got it off ebay for £70 last year! I just need to add some Hydronaut and a minus pad from thermal grizzly to see if I can get the temps down it runs hot!
I kinda stepped back when he was reviewing my card. Glad to see he's getting what I'm getting. Solid performance that doesn't have me hankering to upgrade yet.
I've got a 4gb 580 (and I've just bought myself an i5-10400f too so it's nice to see that getting a showing here as well). I've had it a while and it's been a good card, bit noisy at stock but custom fan curves help. Although the core count is the same as the 8gb version the memory speed is actually a bit slower. Good to see ram usage mentioned as it's generally said that 4gb is ok for 1080 but apparently not true for all games/texture settings.
I just benched one at home that I sold in a PC I put together for someone vs a 580 8gb These things are legit the sleeper cards to buy in 2021. You can pick up used 4gb models for great 1080p gaming for half the cost of a GTX 1650 which is a much slower card.
@@slavko5666 1050 is pretty okay but not as bad as what I used a year ago. A year ago I used the AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB... It was not a pleasant experience. I got bluescreens almost everyday and after finally upgrading my GPU, guess what? the bluescreens went away
I have a RX 470, MSI Armor version,and it runs quiet and pretty cold,with maximum of 63 degrees.Still satisfied with it,i can even play cyberpunk) I got it for like 70 bucks,and my whole build was 350$,and it was my first pc build,so i didnt have anything before.
I owned this card, it had very good performance for the money in it's day, but it was also very loud. I passed it on to my nephew, who games with a headset and isn't bothered by its noise. He still uses it to this day.
Good timing on the vid. Building my daughter a system this weekend, i3 10100 and rx570 4gb. Given your cpu utilization throughout, the 4c/8t variant should do just fine. She may get CP at some point, but it'll mostly be lower requirement games, so all should work out perfect.
I have a Gigabyte Aorus RX580 4GB alongside my R3 2200G. Given that I bought the PC used, added an NVME, 16GB ram, and a new case and I'm in it for $300 I think I'm winning for the price to performance ratio. I overclocked both the card and the chipset, and am running things very well for now. Keeping an eye out for a GDDR6 1660 Super, and a Ryzen 5 deal. I am in no rush since 1080p is all I'm after at the moment.
I have an RX580 4GB, the choice in the ACER Ntro prebuilt was that, 1060 3GB about the same price or $100 more for a 1060 6GB. I didn't realize I was getting a blower card. I didn't realize how bad airflow is in an Acer Nitro 50. The card cooked the paste. Cleaned and repasted, the card worked fine again. The performance was always okay and good enough. I have often thought about taking the cowl off and hooking a case fan on the cooler. It's not loud but I do notice it. I was just going to hotwire the fan so it was single speed all the time. No big complaints though.
My prebuilt had a 4GB RX-580. It honestly did very well. It could handle RDR2 at the first balanced preset at 1080p, but my God was it loud. I upgraded to a Gigabyte 5700 XT, and it was an absolutely amazing card. Doesn't get hot or loud until you really push it!
I've used this mode before, can confirm it's a bit noisier than I'd like, mostly because the fans kept turning on and off below certain temperatures and the fans starting up was very audible. After adding a fancurve that disabled the fans from turning off and kept the card around 82° max it was all good to go!
Man, it's a sad day when your GPU gets RandomGamingInHD'd.
The 3070 also got RandomGamingInHD'd. So did the 1080ti ^^
I've owned three of the worst GPUs in history (HD 6450 1 GB, R7 250 2GB, and GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5) and a bad CPU (i3 4130), Steve reviewed all of them over the years.
GTX 1650 is hated by reviewers and PC enthusiasts because 1650 is overpriced and the GTX 1650 Super made it irrelevant after the Super variant came out. Don't worry, I got my 1650 for a reasonable price. I managed to get one new back in late 2019 for less than 75% of the price of a new Rx 570 4GB, it's competitor, and GTX 1050Ti.
HD 6450 is trash, it's nothing more than a display adapter, the gaming performance is awful.
R7 250 2GB was an alright card, but I should have gone for the R7 260X 2GB or a GTX 750Ti. The 2GB VRAM is the reason why I managed to play 2018-2019 games with 720p ~30fps on this GPU even after it was obsolete from a performance standpoint way back in 2015.
i3 4130 used to be a budget monster back in 2014-15 (watch 2014-15 budget PC vs PS4 videos by Digital Foundry), but it's borderline irrelevant in 2021. It's still my current CPU.
*UPDATE:* Decided to replace the i3 with a 4th gen i5 to get a taste of real quad core CPUs, then switched to an i5 10400F since 4 threads are simply not enough in 2021 and beyond.
I love that sentence
Well mine made it in the "alternatives" list.
@@Waldherz I was just about to say I didn't think it was a sad day when I had seen a 1080Ti on this channel. Of course his sister bought that one as part of an experiment. It was more expensive than he'd usually pay but was worth the money.
I keep seeing these on eBay with the seller saying something like '7% less fps than an RX 580' - still seems like a good option then
I only sold mine because I got a new 1440p 165hz monitor, for 1080p 60 the RX 480 is easily the best value card second hand
It really is a good option. The main goal is for it to play games at a decent or acceptable framerate
@@GameFrostYT that's true! I could play all competitive games including CoD at 1080p high 60fps, and single player games I didn't care so much about framerate and left everything on ultra and still got 50/60 in most which was an amazing experience for the price, I would still recommend the GPU even now for most people not pushing 1440 or HFR
Yeah this was one of those exact ones lol
@@RandomGaminginHD Oh nice I was considering getting one but I'll probably wait for the prices to go down and maybe go for a 5500XT or something similar :)
Recently sold mine 😩 It was a beast for what it was, served me well
ay man don't blame you. miners are paying top dollar for them right now. Minus well capitalize on it
@@Tokomi that's true, it sold for a lot more than I expected, I got it only a year ago refurb from Sapphire for £65 for my first PC, but then I got a new job and paid off some debts so I upgraded, but it sold for £100 which was way more than I expected!
@@MyloSkeng Prices are ridiculous, I had a rx580 that I no longer needed and paid about 120 for it, recently sold on ebay for 170 I couldn't believe my luck!
Same sold mine a month prior and I thought I could get a new GPU. I was never this wrong before. Now I'm without a Pc.. Just gotta stick to my Nintendo switch for now. Give Pc gaming a rest and who knows cyberpunk would be a good game after GPU prices normalised
@@wilkinlow yeah it sucks with 30 series taking so long! I got a 1080 to get me by until I can get 3060ti or 3060, but tbh you aren't missing out on too much games-wise atm, cyberpunk is good but not worth writing home about
I've just bought an RX570. Works pretty damn well for me. Play most things at 1080p medium/high settings.
4 or 8 GB of VRAM?
@@masiosareanivdelarev562 Just 4gb. Cost £80
@@notnerd3 Cool!
I don't think that is a bad buy given the current market. It's about as good as my 1650super (I have a 4gb 580 too) which is currently selling on eBay for more than I bought it for. New GPU stock levels are non existent.
Why is it called Virtual ram? I'm pretty sure it was there when I checked. Will we have Schrödinger's ram next?
Welcome to 2021, where 90fps on damn near 5 year old hardware gets called "alright"
With the used price of 150€ you can get the performance of a 5 year old mid range. Gee, that sure is a steal.
and it's pretty close to the 7970 (I think?) which is like 8 years old lol -- I have a friend who got one of those and boy was that the perfect time to get one. Wasn't that basically the same as a 290, which is a 390, which is basically a 480? great longevity out of that hardware for the end-user.
@@TheJunky228 yea, the prices rose, and nothing came to dethrone them. Probably due to bitcoin and shit.
@@TheJunky228 Maybe in terms of performance, but they are not the same. The 480 is based on a newer architecture and a smaller process node.
welcome and my 7yo R9 290X same speed as the 480 lol
Graphics Card : Is getting 50+ frames
Smoke Grenades : Allow me to introduce myself
"Runs loud and hot" has been the theme with XFX cards in my experience.
I bought the XFX 5700xt dor my first pc like 6 months ago because I didn’t know too much about PC’s, man that thing is a literal heater in any intensive game
@@idealrunner5043 you probably bought the thicc ii pro
I don't understand this, my XFX 470 shows no problems
well, the xfx merc 319 is a great model tbf. their rx 500 series dual fans arent that good though.
@@lucwallace4308 They do have some good designs that make great picks for cards, but XFX's reputation is tarnished by their hilariously bad designs like the THICC II. Plastic heatsink? Really?
god I love this channel-so excited to see budget gpu’s drop in price whenever the gpu scalper hell ends
Well the gpu market now is a hassle ever since but the rx 480 is still a good buy under probably 120$ used. It offers great performance in New AAA titles on 1080p
noo under $110 tbh and mostly around $100
Yea, it might rise even more soon
@@joe-bw6wy i got sapphire nitro + for 85E
Good luck getting one under that
I remember the first rx 480 cards came with 8gb of vram, all of them, even the 4gb ones. They were just software limited and the other 4gb could be unlocked with some tinkering. Something to look out for if you have an older one or just got a second hand one to maximize the performance for your money.
i got my rx 470 4gb back in 2019 for around £50. really good deal imo, especially since i upgraded from a gtx 950 2gb.
you should've upgraded to a RX 580 8GB lol
going from a GTX 950 to RX 470 4GB is like upgrading to a GTX 960 or GTX 1650
next time be smarter
@@youtubeshadowbannedme if you can find me one for £50 sure lmao
@@youtubeshadowbannedme No Way, the RX470 absolutely crushes the GTX 960 (even the 4gb version), its a very good card for 1080p gaming, speacially for 50£, since its not far away from the RX480 in performance.
@@youtubeshadowbannedme are u crazy dude? Go get a play station or xbox, u don't know what you're talking about
Yeah, I got two Sapphire Nitro RX570 4GB for a total of €115 in late 2019 (so €57.5 per card). Was a bit late to respond to the ad- otherwise I would have taken the 8GB models for just a bit more. Cards were used for mining, both run perfectly well.
I have this 8GB card and it's still serving me very well. Nice review!
Damn, these cards have doubled in price on the used market in the last year. And that's after the crazy prices they went for during the mining rush of 2017/2018.
Doubled in price last 4 months in that states.
Still using an Msi 480 4GB and it's great for me still. Can't wait to get an upgrade when the market for graphics cards is better
has the same cooler as my XFX RX 570 4gb. I can agree with the "loud and hot" part
I have an RX 470 also with the same cooler, I feel you lol.
@@jorgel2029 what is your temperatures bro
@@abdullah-gl3rd 71-75 C , the temperature of my room is around 23 C when playing Apex, Red, COD and Horizon Zero Dawn @ 980mV with a costume fan curve in Afterburner (70% speed at 70 C and so on), just 1 rear fan. I tried one more fan as in take but didn't drop a single degree but made more noise so I removed it.
@@jorgel2029 Weird ... but 70-75°C is not a big deal for a graphics
Honestly, I'd just recommend getting any of the 500 series.
@Dat Boii no, both overclocked, they perform roughly identical
@Dat Boii Well I can't really say for sure but I'm satisfied with my current 8GB 570 variant considering I don't do intensive gaming that much. Just enough to get by.
uh I don't think you'd want to recommend getting Radeon 520 to RX 560 now
@@youtubeshadowbannedme If the general users think they're bad then I would go with it. I see mostly people recommending only 570 or the 580 when it comes to budget builds. Maybe I should've narrowed it down to both models in the first place. Lol mb.
@@bvlNZ like the only time people recommend a RX 560 is for people on a tight budget or just wanna play eSports
and RX 550 is only recommended for people who are like dirt poor or from third world countries
Sadly this was a graphics series I didn't get to experience as I skipped over it from an r9 270x and a gtx 1060 6gb. They seem like great performers that just keep on being relevant
Small world. I came from a desktop r9 270x and upgraded to a laptop with a 1660ti
Well, i went from R9 270X to this
Thanks for this video. Being a RX480 4GB owner myself, I haven't had these issues. Fortnite and GTA V I can run at max with no issues thought the gpu would get pretty hot. My specs are the 480, 12GB DDR4 RAM, i5 8400. Seeing the way Cold War and Cyberpunk ran, I'll look into getting the 8GB model that's out there or maybe even a 580 8GB.
Remember when people said that an 570/580 would never be able to utilize more than 4GB 🤣🤣
Maybe ESports...Dark Souls 3 1080p max uses more than 4 GB...
i sure do
Some constructive critisism, some background music would be appreciated during the benchmarks. Just to spice things up a bit, just my oppinion. You are doing great :)
I had the 8gb one and it was the best card I ever bought. used it for 5 years
Ooh the XFX RS, I bought a 8GB variant of it and it was hot, loud and could barely hit the peak boost. I returned it pretty quickly and got a Sapphire Nitro+ instead and although it's also a bit hot it's way less loud and sticks to its factory overclock no problem, definetly worth the extra $20, still runs great after nearly 4 years now.
When you see constant VRAM usage in afterburner, it's most likely memory allocation and not actual usage, if it were the latter the value should fluctuate more. 4GB@1080p at anything less than ultra settings is quite rare to saturate, even today.
I've definitely saturated 4GB at 1080p in a game or two some years back, but yeah
Nah, some browsers can take quite surprising amount of VRAM, also dwm.exe uses about 100 Mb too. So the game probably didn't lie about using 3,5 GBs of VRAM, there is other apps using it.
Hey thats my gpu!!! Except I have the Sapphire pulse version. Bought it used last year for 180 AUD and it still runs amazing in the games i play. Just a bit hot and noisy but AUS summers are like that sometimes lol. Great video
every card that has a "480" in its name seems to have been cursed with thermal issues
I remember when these things were released, the original reveal for this stated something along the lines of "Two RX 480s in Crossfire outperforms a 1080".
Boy how that aged.
I just bought this,what a surprise.. Thank You sir.. i love this card bcoz metrox exodus 1080p high setting
I bought one of these XFX 470 4GB for a budget build for my brother's family. Even after a re-paste, the fans were pretty loud. The coolers on these XFX cards aren't great, much like the Mk I MSi Armor cards. But... it still performed pretty well for a card that costs under $100 right now.
Saw an rx 580 for $680....
I hate my hobby 🙄
2 times the price it should be
Buddy of mine bought xfx rx580 8Gb as new for like 180€ 6 months ago
i have mine for $130
@@EvyFurry thats kinda robbery
@@realonepx9885miningboom or not, I wouldn't even pay 100€ for a 580.
Been rocking an XFX RX 470 for years now. Still going strong.
Bought mine used months ago. Which games do you recommend for this bad boy?
You should do a video testing dxvk on multiple games on a low end system, has helped make kingdoms of amalur and Odyssey for me.
My nitro 8gb 480 does work on everything still. Only issue i ever had was with farcry 5 and that was just when it was first released. Love these cards
Watch Dogs Legion is so ugly on every settings that i can't image how its aaa title of 2020 and presents low quality gameplay.
on the bright side: RDR2 won game of the year on steam
I can only imagine how good the first Watch Dogs would look like with Ray Tracing. Watch Dogs 1 is a good looking game but it looks terrible next to the E3 demo because it was using Ray Tracing and high quality reflections and shadows.
@uls mnc it's a damn shame it's called "unoptimized" pretty often
yeah, I don't get why, but something about is just off. Just not great to look at
@@OutlawedPoet oof
I own an RX 580 Strix with i7 4790K and I am very happy with it. Thank you for including the timestamps. I watch the whole video for sure, but it's very helpful, thank you for this and your content! :)
remember when you could have bought 2 of these and crossfire was just as powerful as a 1080
The rx 400/500 series are such value. I bought a rx570 nearly 2 years ago and got a really good overclocker. I overclocked the core from 1280 to 1460 and memory from 1750 to 2040 and have been playing cp2077 without any crashes in game sessions of over an hour. Tested these overclocks in unigene superstition and got better results than numbers I found on a stock rx 590 on the internet and they were be like 300 points apart. Gpu rarely gets over 75C celcius in a case with absolutely no case fans. Amazed by this gpu.
i have RX 570 Gigabyte 4GB.. and i just love it.. its more then enough for me 😀
If you stick with 1080p medium setting then yeah it can still kicking ass for even today gaming !!
I own a Powercolor 8GB Rx480 and I can confidently say I'm still enjoying the card, however, the card as of lately is struggling to not overheat. I've went through a few tubes of thermal paste and it seems that it's time to retire the old friend. Great video, keep up the quality content :)
I was honestly looking at that exact card listing a few weeks ago
Bought a 480 in march, got an 8GB one though. Been great throughout lockdowns, can run pretty much all my games at ultra settings. I think the VRAM difference makes quite an impact in modern games as most of the time I'm using above 6 or 7 gigs when playing with high textures. Nice vid :)
I'm using an RX 580 8Gb GPU paired with Ryzen 5 2600 CPU :)
Good cheap built that will run anything at 1080p pretty well
@@ivyssauro123 Except Cyberpunk. But for everything else, keep it on medium and low and you can enjoy 60FPS in most titles in 1080P
The RX480 and the RX580 are really good cards when it comes to textures and environment, as soon as shaders join the mix they drop off significantly, no matter if 4 Gigs or 8. They also take a noticeable dip when new data is streamed to them, or when they run short on memory. Unfortunately most of them are rather loud breathers .... since they get quite hot.
Better than my RX 560, running Cold War most times 50-70+ fps low like 700p
i also got an RX560... not bad for the price.
@@manfredgeorgburggraf533 Indeed, i think i paid around 50 euros for mine, It's a Gigabyte gaming version, didn't work so i flashed a bios unto it and it worked.
No idea why it didn't work...
Just checked the price and I don't get it... How RX560 got so less performance but it costs more than 480? Even benchmarks show significant difference between these two
@@hckr_ the rx 480 was the AMD's flagship card in its generation and continues to get really good driver support. the 560 is a lower tier card from next generation that uses similar architecture
@@hypr1 oh okay then, thanks. Will be looking forward to buy 480 when the prices will drop
Just got that exact same gpu in the mail mere minutes ago. This makes me excited!
I bought this exact model yesterday
I today wow
i got the sapphire model also yesterday
Is it doing well?
@@lewis3774 pretty well so far but I haven't put in new thermal paste yet
I have the same RX470 RS and the RX480 GTR (8GB). Yes, the GTR is slightly different and a bit bigger, both my models have swappable fans. I have to disagree regarding temps and fan noise, the XFX models are considered as one the best variants alongside the Nitro+.
Check if you had a mining bios installed on it. My used 480 did and it was indeed hot and loud. Swapped to the original bios, undervolted a bit and it now runs at 65°C max with fans below 50%.
Why not use ~85% res scale with RIS to show a combination that everyone having this kind of card should use? Nice vid otherwise!
I do the same. 75res. scale + RIS 50%. RX580 and I am waiting for a normal price as long as I need. I bought RX580 4G for just 106GBP.
Does recording capture the sharpened image or just the scaled down resolution in this matter?
@@maestrohun had 580 4gb for many years until I got rx 5600xt just before gpu prices went nuts. 580 was a great card for me tho, even handled 1440p like a champ!
@@HandleIsNewAndBad should capture the sharpened image, based on how the dlss1.0 vs RIS videos looked like
@@arnokalliokorpi7048 Thanks for the info. In my opinion, 30% RIS is already on the edge of being too artificial at 1080p. Haha.
Hello that's my card. Got it since 3 months or so. It's doing okay. Upgraded from r7 265. I'll be using this for two years I hope. This video gives me hope to.
Hard to find this gpu at decent price
I used to have a Power Color Red Dragon Rx 480 4GB and it was a soldier. I played many AAA games at 900p for a good 3 years before selling it for a deal to a local who was just getting into PC gaming for the first time. I never really sold hardware before but it felt good giving that new PC gamer a good deal on a solid card for 1080p gaming. I sold it for $75 and this was last September.
These days I game with an EVGA RTX 2070 on a 1440p 165 hertz IPS G-Sync monitor and wow. It left me speechless as this is the first time I actually have something nice for gaming. Don't get me wrong, I had fun with my 19 inch 900p 60 hertz TN panel with my old 480 but man the 1440p IPS high refresh with G-sync and an RTX 2070 doesn't compare. I think I may be spoiled now lol.
so early there's 3 comments 1 view and 25 likes xD
You release the perfect videos at the perfect time, we still haven't got a worthy successor for the RX480.
(Meaning at the same price range but with the same insane performance making it an indisputable Performance Per Dollar champion, and no the RX580 was not just more expensive it was literally the same card slightly overclocked from factory)
RX 400 series cards still exist? Interesting. I thought the cryptomining craze wiped them out.
this is a ex-crypto card
Wow! I got an RX570 (bought ~2 years ago for 70 Euro, 2nd-hand with 2months warranty). I'm running it underclocked & undervolted. For gaming, the drivers go to the gaming profile which only has a slight undervolt. It's basically not turning it's fans at all, even when gaming it might hit ~70-75C and that's it. Really worth it to undervolt & try out your luck!
I'm watching this video using my rx 480
Proud owner of the rx 480 8GB, it's a little bit overclocked. Not too much though, I still don't want it to run super hot or super loud. It's getting cleaned every once in a while, as well as getting its thermal paste changed. Even paired with an i7-2600k (OCed of course) gets me some very respectable fps in modern or a few year old games. I myself got it on a great deal used about 3/4 years ago, just before the whole cryptomining thing REALLY kicked off.
Cyberpunk 2077 played on a mix of Low, Medium and High options gave me about the same amount of fps as shown in the video (although in 2560x1080, not in 1920x1080).
Rainbow Six Siege performance (with the downloadable Ultra Textures and pretty much maxed out, besides like Motion Blur or something) is really great, delivering about 70fps, with rare drops to mid-60s.
The 8GB of VRAM comes in handy in certain games - Rust, for example can take above 7GBs without maxing out all the settings, it LOVES memory. Forza Horizon 4 also has quite an appetite for video memory.
I also play VR on it from time to time. It struggles on big open maps of Blade & Sorcery, but on smaller maps it's fine. Beat Saber runs really well even with Smooth Camera turned on, so other people can clearly see what's going on. SUPERHOT VR, Payday 2 VR, Pavlov VR and Gorn play great as well.
EDIT: VR stuff
For anyone interested in buying a RX 480...
I had the MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8GB... and contrary to this XFX model, the MSI was dead quiet. Fans wouldn't even turn until you were already some time in the game and even testing at max fan rpm, it was EXTREMELY quiet. It also stayed extremely cool and ran very well. I remember picking it up when it hit the market and it always was the top performer out of the 480's.
You can now get those pretty cheap as well.. so if you're okay with 60 fps 1080p with medium to high settings (maybe not the NEWEST AAA titles) .. it would be a very good buy!
I got this same card in my economy prebuilt system from 2016, been using it since. It has been great for my needs. With the price of cards now I will be keeping the 480 for the foreseeable future.
thank you bud! i always like to watch your videos, and today when i chose this one the length of it was perfectly timed to eat my sandwich! absolutely perfect
I got my rx 480 for $60 a couple of months ago and I've been having a great time with it paired with my i7 3770k :D
Ah the marvelous budget orientated polaris architecture. Still running my 8GB RX 470. But I'd definetely recommend the 8GB version over the 4GB version. Should not be too much of a price difference, considering new rx570 only used to cost about 170€ , that is when they still were available in late november early december. Damn human malware. Also it is really about time budget gamers get an upgrade to polaris. Congratulations on passing 400k subscibers btw
I have a XFX 8GB RX470 atm, I love the fact it has abstract red cooling fans, this one looks the same just fully black
I got rx 580 4 gb last year. It was a huge up from my gtx 950, and freesync too, what a beast!
I've been following your channel since 50k subs i think and enjoyed them very much. But for a while I've been thinking that one thing missing from your videos is seeing several popular budget choices together in a single video. That way you can justify buying some card over some other one.
wow i'm honestly super super surprised that a new video, is show casing my graphics card, except mines a sapphire nitro (4gb), i'm dying for an upgrade, but this video has calmed that itch a little, its appreciated, since its super frustrating right now during this gpu shortage pandemic
Nice vid!
For 100 euros here in Greece I got a used(mining about 3 months and then remained inside a rig for about 2 years) rx 580 sapphire nitro+ 8GB factory OCed to 1411MHz and its pretty good regarding performance, also I get below 70 degrees at this time of the year with about 50% fan speed in a bit crappy pc case!
I got a msi rx480 3 years ago for $100. It's crazy how it actually went up in value over three years
I"ve got an 8GB XFX RX480 and you're absolutely right about the fan noise and high temp. I also bought it used so at first, I was afraid that it was a faulty one. While playing PUBG it sits at 72c. I was thinking about re-pasting it. Might still do it.
Edit: I got it 6months ago for 125 dollars.
Nice. I have a RX580 and couldn't be happier. My monitor is only 1080p/60Hz so I use V-Sync and tune my setting to high in most games to about 60FPS and I don't need to go higher.
I'd happily take a 480 right now. My 460 is fine, but would like to crank up some settings on some of the games i play. None of the newer games really tempt me enough to warrant doing a real upgrade, especially with current prices.
For Cold War, it's part of optimisation, as on PC Cold War will half your frame rate sometimes at random with the fix being to tab out, and tab back in, on top of it being a game that shouldn't have released as early as it did (A bunch of performance, and just general gameplay issues being reported daily)
Ayyy that's my GPU right there! Although I have an ASUS Strix 8GB RX 480, I bought it from a good friend of mine about a year ago, he was sort of cleaning up stock and he sold it to me for 80USD if I'm not mistaken.
Still love this GPU, it would be even better if only my aging FX-4300 wasn't on the verge of bursting into flames, bottlenecking the whole system.
I just got one this evening (not this exact one). Going to build it in tomorrow and pair it with my i5 2500k that I will probably try and overclock. Can't wait to see what results I can get!
My brother has been using the same Powercolor Red Devil 8GB Rx480 for years and he STILL refuses to upgrade. He is still happy with it. I do have to say, that card that he has is a beast.
I however I am one of those people who upgrade every year.
I got my MSI 480 Gaming X 8GB at the end of 2017 for 160€ and can't help but grin at the idea of how many games I've played on it in the past 3 years.
I play far less these days and will only upgrade once I either get another great deal, or the 480 actually NEEDS an upgrade.
I've had a few XFX ex-mining Polaris cards, I've found big differences with them some have been ok, some have been ok when repasted and I've had a couple I simply couldn't get cool enough even after repasting and cleaning. I suggest anyone buying these cards, stress tests them with 3d mark and if they fail send them back. At the moment they are good value... best case situation is you get one that works, but its always going to be loud. These coolers are marginal, you ain't going to be able to turn fans down enough and keep chip cool enough to reduce noise significantly.
Got a ASUS STRIX RX 480 (8GB), Very nice middle of the road even by todays expectations. Factory overclock. Useful video. I'd add just that Getting 8GB memory version might be a better choice. Tuned well, these and RX 580s are good GPUs at the right price.
You have to watch which 4GB model you buy, some have a lower VRAM speeds than the 8GB models. The 4GB Asus Dual RX 480 is like this, still worth the $68 I paid for it on Ebay last January. Used it in a "free" gaming PC build I put together and gave to a friend.
Yes I have a rx 480 8gb. I bought a RTX 2060 at launch to replace... few months ago I replaced the RTX 2060 for my 480 and sold the RTX 2060. I wasn't impressed with the 2060 (could hardly hit 10 fps in Quake with rtx enabled!) and felt ripped when the rtx 2060 Super came out a couple of months later but I'm happy with my 480 @1080p gaming for time being.
I'm not playing latest AAA games at the moment. It plays Prodeus and Hades fine and I have a back catalogue of games to catch up with (Doom 2016!) so I'm happy.
Recently upgraded for a 4Gb 1050Ti for an 8gb Rx 480 for 130 quid and it runs very good close to the 1060 now as well due to the better optimized drivers over the GTX 1060 Drivers. Amazing value card though and i highly recommend it especially the 8gb model if your looking for a medium to high setting Gaming Pc
This kinda shows how bad the current evolution of GPUs right now. I want to upgrade (Bought an RX580 second hand @$100 since last year) but GPU prices are still insane. Our local stores sell brand new RX580 for $200 and above. What more for stuff like 3060Ti which they sell for $600.
Still got an RX 480 8GB. Ran RDR2 at 1440p with 35-40 FPS on medium settings. And Horizon Zero Dawn currently with 40 fps auto scaling on medium settings. Wanted to a get a new GPU since November, but couldn't find anything affordable in stock. Waiting to get the RTX 3060 hopefully next month, I really want to finish RDR2. My GPU was also used for mining in 2017, so it runs like 7% underclocked, anything higher and it crashes, so really need an upgrade.
XFX RX 470 user here, and it runs ridiculously hot. Managed to lower up to 20 C by undervolting. I highly recommend undervolting and if possible underclocking to all of you guys who are running on a melting card
I bought a similar one about 6 months ago for a friend and found out that those models with less heat pipes were custom orders for gaming cafes or places like that. Ebay and Aliexpress were flooded with those at the time. Those are a good, cheaper alternative.
RandomGaminginHD : damn, I am surprised of how well the RX 480 4GB does today....and keeping that in mind, I recently got my hands on a used (very well preserved) R9 Nano 4GB HBM1 and have been using it for a while on my Ryzen 7 5800X rig....and damn mate, it does really good in modern games, much better than other 4GB cards since it has that massive 4096-bit memory bandwidth....it certainly helps filling and emptying that short memory buffer much much faster than any other 4GB cards I've used ever. Can you make a 2021 R9 Nano deep dive video ?
This is the longest living card I've ever had, in terms of capability (I have the Sapphire Nitro+)
I probably won't change it in 2021
RX 480 GPU deserves respect for its long run
almost buy this one, but then ended up bought a second hand RX 580/4G at the same price..
that RX 580/4G is a huge boost over mine 12 years old Radeon HD 4650/1G..
for my casual gaming needs, RX 580 really fills the slot.
im very happy with RX-580/4G..
The RX 470 4GB is also a decent used card. Many of the models can be overclocked to the stock RX 570 clockspeeds with little effort. I used one of these to build a budget gaming pc for my cousin recently, and I used it for several days before handing it over to him. It was a good 1080p medium experience in most games.
Awesome video mate! I'd love to see a RX 480 8gb in 2021. I Love my RX 480 8gb strix, I got it off ebay for £70 last year! I just need to add some Hydronaut and a minus pad from thermal grizzly to see if I can get the temps down it runs hot!
I kinda stepped back when he was reviewing my card. Glad to see he's getting what I'm getting. Solid performance that doesn't have me hankering to upgrade yet.
I've got a 4gb 580 (and I've just bought myself an i5-10400f too so it's nice to see that getting a showing here as well). I've had it a while and it's been a good card, bit noisy at stock but custom fan curves help. Although the core count is the same as the 8gb version the memory speed is actually a bit slower. Good to see ram usage mentioned as it's generally said that 4gb is ok for 1080 but apparently not true for all games/texture settings.
I just benched one at home that I sold in a PC I put together for someone vs a 580 8gb These things are legit the sleeper cards to buy in 2021. You can pick up used 4gb models for great 1080p gaming for half the cost of a GTX 1650 which is a much slower card.
I am using a 470 4gb in 2021. Don't really need much more performance and I am happy with it
I use a GTX 1050 in 2021
@@slavko5666 1050 is pretty okay but not as bad as what I used a year ago. A year ago I used the AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB... It was not a pleasant experience. I got bluescreens almost everyday and after finally upgrading my GPU, guess what? the bluescreens went away
I have a RX 470, MSI Armor version,and it runs quiet and pretty cold,with maximum of 63 degrees.Still satisfied with it,i can even play cyberpunk)
I got it for like 70 bucks,and my whole build was 350$,and it was my first pc build,so i didnt have anything before.
I owned this card, it had very good performance for the money in it's day, but it was also very loud.
I passed it on to my nephew, who games with a headset and isn't bothered by its noise.
He still uses it to this day.
Good timing on the vid. Building my daughter a system this weekend, i3 10100 and rx570 4gb. Given your cpu utilization throughout, the 4c/8t variant should do just fine. She may get CP at some point, but it'll mostly be lower requirement games, so all should work out perfect.
I have a Gigabyte Aorus RX580 4GB alongside my R3 2200G. Given that I bought the PC used, added an NVME, 16GB ram, and a new case and I'm in it for $300 I think I'm winning for the price to performance ratio.
I overclocked both the card and the chipset, and am running things very well for now. Keeping an eye out for a GDDR6 1660 Super, and a Ryzen 5 deal. I am in no rush since 1080p is all I'm after at the moment.
I have an RX580 4GB, the choice in the ACER Ntro prebuilt was that, 1060 3GB about the same price or $100 more for a 1060 6GB. I didn't realize I was getting a blower card. I didn't realize how bad airflow is in an Acer Nitro 50. The card cooked the paste. Cleaned and repasted, the card worked fine again. The performance was always okay and good enough. I have often thought about taking the cowl off and hooking a case fan on the cooler. It's not loud but I do notice it. I was just going to hotwire the fan so it was single speed all the time. No big complaints though.
My prebuilt had a 4GB RX-580. It honestly did very well. It could handle RDR2 at the first balanced preset at 1080p, but my God was it loud. I upgraded to a Gigabyte 5700 XT, and it was an absolutely amazing card. Doesn't get hot or loud until you really push it!
I've used this mode before, can confirm it's a bit noisier than I'd like, mostly because the fans kept turning on and off below certain temperatures and the fans starting up was very audible. After adding a fancurve that disabled the fans from turning off and kept the card around 82° max it was all good to go!