Naturally, that brings it dangerously close to a 1060

from waht I can find

But a 1060 is pretty much a 980, which sometimes dips down to 290 dollar price point

the 1060>480>470

right now

but the total TFLOPs is 480>470>1060

so the performance of AMD GPUs will increase over time

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This is our situation over here

the same in the UK

The 980 is naturally the most consistent of the bunch

But who knows what Nvidia will do

gtx 1060

Man, 970s are so cheap

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That's about 280 bucks average

Because it has 500 MB "fake" memory remember?

With lows, hitting about 260 bucks

so its 3.5 GB

That doesn't affect real time performance, though

Thing with the 970 is that it overclocks very well

it does if you attempt to access the last 0.5 gb

I was unclear with that, I meant actual performance index

Ah.

It sits somewhere near the 480 in DX11 games

Sometimes being faster

And since you can clock it up to a 980 terms of pure speed, it's definitely an attractive option now

Presumably, the 480 is better optimized for future DX12 games though

It is

But the thing is

Nvidia's DX12 optimizations haven't been very impressive

I dont give a shit about new games that very much

If it can handle the games I already have well

My mobile lifestyle precludes me to having an APU-based m-ITX build though

You have to remember all games up until now is DX11 based

correct

@Katahane Time to get one of those Chink docks

Or the Razer dock ™

m-ITX with scorpio APU

APU's are comfy though

With DX12 MultiGPU (if used) I can just assume they will use influence to keep SLI etc standard API being used