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over the last few months AMD and NVIDIA have released a slew of new graphics

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cards promising better performance at in

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some cases lower prices but which P

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should you choose Polaris or Pascal and

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how much should you spend let's try to answer those

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questions tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse

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the link in the video description so we're going to start as

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usual with the tldr if you're building a

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budget box or upgrading an existing machine you can't go wrong with this

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powercolor Radeon RX 460 2 gig video

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card that we found at 110 bucks the

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rx460 delivers smooth frame rates at full HD 1080p in popular titles like

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League of Legends Dota 2 OverWatch and CSG go without having to compromise on

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graphical quality settings stepping up to the $200 price point this EVGA GTX

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10603 gig is a standout deal on the

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green side of the fence with a susus strix rx4 74 gig holding down the fort

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for team red these cards will perform on

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average very similarly and pack enough horsepower for AAA games at high details

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1080p with pcmr approved frame rates for

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a little more oomph this Sapphire RX 484

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gig costs 15% more than those but is

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also about 15% more powerful making it an equally good value if your piggy bank

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can handle the pain now there's an unusual void right now in the next price

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range I would normally address $300 to

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$350 it's populated almost EX exclusively by overpriced RX 480s and

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GTX 1060s I mean they're good cards and

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thanks to their extra horses and onboard memory they're capable of driving solid

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gaming experiences at higher resolutions like 2560 x 1080 ultrawide and 2560

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x440 but I wouldn't pay more than $260

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to $270 for them given the availability

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of this Gigabyte windforce 106 6 gig and

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this Sapphire rx48 8 gig which leads us

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finally then into Enthusiast class cards

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that cost $400 or more where my pick is

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this EVGA GTX 1070 Super Clock the FPS

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per dollar number is a little lower than our other cards but the 1070s value is

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also not bad it delivers 80% of the

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performance of its bigger brother the GTX 1080 enough to run almost anything

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at 4K with some tweaking but at a price that's closer to 65% as much thanks to

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its lower cost gddr5 memory and cutdown

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processor there are slightly cheaper GTX 1070s but I felt like the EVGA tax of 10

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bucks was worthwhile in this case because there is more to life than

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frames per second but that's a subject for the next portion of this video tldr

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is over where I'll explain the methodology that I used to select these

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cards this is my

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spreadsheet as some of you understood

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when I did my little rant on low-end video cards and why nobody should buy

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them for gaming value by definition is

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not determined by Price alone but by a

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ratio of price to reward a meal that

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costs half as much but contains a quarter as much food is cheap but it is

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not a good value especially if you're still going to be hungry when you're

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done so back to my admittedly imperfect

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spreadsheet it was designed to help me use performance numbers from trusted

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review sites around the web to calculate which cards will give me the best value

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or the most FPS per dollar across a variety of games and resolutions the

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more I add the more meaningful the final

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average numbers become here's how it works I could use exact FPS values like

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42 FPS if I was pulling all of my data

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from one source where I knew that every game was tested with the same

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methodology and the same settings but since no single review covers every

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possible scenario I've opted instead to normalize to a last generation card

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whose drivers are mature and that was well sampled making it a great point of

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comparison for both modern flagships and mid-range Solutions the G gtx980

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reference design so when I enter exact

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FPS values for both the cardart I'm investigating and the gtx980 here I get

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a relative performance number which I fill into my spreadsheet this allows me

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to compare cards across different review sites or even cards that haven't ever

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been directly benchmarked against each other with from some spot checking

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anywhere from 2 to 3% margin of error

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for cards that have never been benchmarked against the GTX 980 like the

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750 Ti I used a card that has been

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benched against both as an intermediary the rx460 though this method is not

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ideal and I approximated a lot of other stuff as well only a small fraction of

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the cards available for sale have ever even had a professional review done but

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thanks to GPU boost 3.0 especially

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actually were more limited by power limits imposed by by NVIDIA and AMD than

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by Factory overclocks anyway these days

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so I've approximated most non-reference cards to perform pretty similarly which

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won't necessarily be true but as you can see here adjustments to Price have a far

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larger impact on our value calculation than the kinds of singled digigit

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performance differences that you'll typically see from one GTX 1080 to

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another so yes I know I said it already but it merits repetition here so the

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entire comment section isn't full of people pointing it out this method is

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imperfect and would require either many

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many days of additional manual data entry if I wanted to go beyond relying

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so heavily on Guru 3D for example whose reviews are linked in the Excel sheet by

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the way or ideally some kind of fancy

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custom statistical analysis software and it also ignores a lot of factors here

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are the ones I could think of in no particular order multi-GPU you want to

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shop for an SLI Crossfire setup they would each need to be added individually

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for every pair or more of cards have fun I'm not doing that two characteristics

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like board length display connectors or

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the required physical plugs that might affect physical compatibility with your

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system three warranty there is a huge

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range of policies not just in terms of the coverage period but in terms of

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whether resale overclocking Andor

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physical modif ification is permitted and this is critical for folks who plan

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to water cool four cooler style and

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quality Aesthetics aside though some people care a lot about that for some

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configs a rear exhaust blower design

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might be better to avoid recycling hot air to cool other components while in a

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better ventilated case an open air Cooler's additional performance for the

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GPU itself will result in tangibly better performance in games consult your

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case manufacturer if you're not sure oh and double ball bearing fans are

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probably worth a couple bucks for a card you plan to keep for a long time five

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frame buffer size now generally speaking

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bigger frame buffer cards end up underpowered before the extra RAM is

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necessary but there are some exceptions someone who is really into Skyrim

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texture mods will definitely want to grab an 8 gig rx480 versus a 4 gig one

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regardless of what the performance per dollar metric looks like because vram is

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one of those things that doesn't affect performance at all until you run out of

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it and the card is swapping textures out to system memory and at that point

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everything goes south faster than all the Canadian birds and seniors do in the

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winter time six driver improvements over

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time and the features that are difficult

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or impossible to quantify Shadow play and freesync are examples of things that

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I care about but maybe someone somewhere cares about true audio or the automatic

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game settings optimization in GeForce experience your mileage may vary here

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and that can definitely affect your decision especially when you're looking at Red Team Versus Green Team seven

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sanity checks this GTX 950 at $130 could

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look like a great value for 4K gaming

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with its similar FPS per dollar number but even though this 1080 Founders

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edition cost $700 H it's 47 FPS versus 5 FPS might be

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a factor here for you if you actually want to play games so Consulting actual

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reviews for raw performance numbers is still part of the process leading us to

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eight and perhaps the most important actual availability just because you can

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Google some super cool card if no retailers in your region carry it then

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you're kind of out of luck that is to say unless the retailer ships worldwide

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like Mass drop though it does cost a bit extra if you're not familiar with mass

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drop I'm going to run you through the basic concept Mass drop takes a whole

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bunch of people who want to buy a thing and then a whole bunch of Manufacturers

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who want to sell a lot of things and they put them together the community

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says Hey we'd love to buy that product X

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but it's like expensive if a whole bunch of us agreed to buy it do you think the

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price could drop a little bit you know volume discount and mass drop goes to

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the authorized distributors or even the manufacturers directly and negotiates a

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better price if a bunch of people want to buy or in certain cases they even

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have manufacturers produce special products just for them like the k7xx

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headphones that we featuring today and this is the same ones that I reviewed

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last year so they were configured by mast drop and manufactured by AKG

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they're open-backed headphones with large cushiony ear cups that feature a

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flat flat wire voice coil a genuine leather headband memory foam ear pads

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with velour coverings and a 2-year warranty covered by mass drop and what

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kind of a price do you get well the more buy the better it gets because that's

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how Mass drop works so check out the link in the video description so thanks

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for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like

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button or check out the link to where to buy the cards that we recommended in the

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cool shirts like this one and our community Forum which you should totally join now that you're done doing all that

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