So far, a 480 at stock is slightly better than a stock 970. At 1350MHz it seems to be like a 970 at 1400-1450 in dx11, and even in some dx12 games it beats the 970 at 1550MHz. And the 970 is not cheaper than the 480 with prices of 199-239$, unless you live in a country where retailers put big discounts on the 970 to clean stock while charging a
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64. G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $364. SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16. Based on 446,341 user benchmarks for the Nvidia GTX 480 and the RTX 3060-Ti, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 705 GPUs. GTX 480 is 3.4% faster than GeForce MX450. 1440p resolution: GeForce MX450 is 0% faster than GTX 480. 4K resolution: GTX 480 is 8% faster than GeForce MX450. Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games: in Red Dead Redemption 2, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the GTX 480 is 260% faster than the GeForce . 310 137 378 185 182 116 162 268 120