poofyhairguy
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First, that last sentence is just plain silly. Of course the percent difference matters.
Even if the 1070 still wins overall? I guess I just don't see a potential 1070 customer going "hmm, it's only 25% faster than the 480 so maybe I should get the 480 instead."
That is what price/performance is all about.
Nowadays other metrics like Perf/W matter just as much, or all those 960 owners would have been better off with 380s and 280Xs for the same price instead.
If something was 1% faster but 100% more expensive would you buy it because it's still faster.
I wouldn't, but someone would if that gave them bragging rights of "the fastest card."
Heck we know some people on this forum bought Titan Xs, which is 5% faster than a stock 980 ti for hundreds of dollars more. Some people will pay almost anything for the fastest card overall.
What you're saying is in complete agreement with what I'm saying. The RX 480 is getting enough benefit from DX12/Vulkan that it is significantly exceeding it's average relative performance to the GTX 1070.
Average relative Directx 11 performance maybe, it seems right on the nose for Directx 12 performance.