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#1 Alan Richards

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Posted 04 December 2016 - 01:08 PM

Anybody got any opinions on the MSI Radeon RX 480 8G?



#2 Keith Almond

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:33 AM

Looking at the basis specs, it should be a really blazing fast card. I don't think you could get much better. However, just my humble opinion. Seems to be a little cheaper than a comparable Nvidia card. Again just my opinion.

 

I have a really old 512 MB Radeon HD4300 in my home machine, and it runs Softplan fine. A little slow, but I didn't even expect it to run, so a big bonus!


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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:51 AM

PassMark Software Video Card Benchmark (as one source for this type of info) has a rating of 7,777 for the Radeon RX 480, .. fairly high on their scale of things .

 

(visit the PassMark Site for info on how they arrive at their ratings and what they mean)

 

I was using the Intel HD 400 Series for quite some time (integrated graphics) and it worked well, but a little slow at times, (Pass Mark 900 or so)

 

Radeon RX 480 should be more than enough for Softplan, ..

 

 

 

I've since upgraded to the Nvidia GTX 980 Ti ( PassMark rating 11, 450+) and a Xeon Processor, ..  (zoooom)


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#4 Keith Almond

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 12:21 PM

Does very well in terms of value for money.

 

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 02:15 PM

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#6 randolph cohn

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 03:39 PM

toms hardware GPU comparison chart - graphics cards

 

the NVidia GTX is considered a good card for softplan renderings.

 

stick with a gaming GPU card.

 

http://www.tomshardw...archy,4388.html


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Posted 05 December 2016 - 05:58 PM

I have the NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX, no complaints here, it works great


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#8 Keith Almond

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Posted 06 December 2016 - 07:35 AM

... stick with a gaming GPU card ...

 

The "Radeon RX 480 8G" is most definitely a gaming card.

 

Although looking at the back of the card, I'm not sure how you connect a standard monitor, so you might have to use something other than DVI or VGA connectors.


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Posted 20 May 2017 - 08:14 PM

it's been five months since I started this post. The Radeon RX 480 8gb running three monitors has been problem free and super fast and smooth. With small cursor on and zoomed in on a small detail I used to get lag so bad I had to zoom out and start again or the cursor would jump past my desired snap point, This card I zoom in and get smooth cursor movement, never jumps or lags. 3D it's excellent!
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