I know tech stuff usually is dependent on luck but if the manufacturer is not able to provide a warranty period on par to it's competitor, it just shows that they have poor confidence in their own products or they don't want to do after sales support.
This is very true, Sapphire has good quality products that will last (unless your luck is bad) but just dowan to do after sales support for customers by giving only a 2 year warranty that's below industry standard of 3 years (and 4/5 years by some other brands).
The lousier after sales support compared to competitor brands is a turn off for sapphire customers like me, but problem is that it's not hurting their sales enough for them to change it so LL suck thumb lor.
@zhihao57
blower style usually clocked slightly lower, run hotter/fans louder hence cheaper. however it exhausts hot air from the rear of the GPU directly outside the PC case, so it's good for ppl using cases with bad/cramped airflow because the normal open air GPU cooler style dumps hot air inside the case not outside.
its also good for those ppl who want to do custom cooling themselves, since they will not be using the default one that comes with blower. No point buying expensive good cooling design if you're going to be removing it (some may argue that premium designs come w/ better binned chips but the cost is not worth it, you might as well go to the next higher tier of GPU card instead of staying on same tier but more premium cooler design).
Anyway if you like the blower design more, then just go for the blower design. Some elitists might harp about how bad blower designs are, but it's not like it is so bad that the world comes crashing down. It may be slightly lower mhz/hotter/louder but don't forget you are paying less for it also. Plus you can always undervolt your card.
from logical increments abt video editing:
When it comes to graphics cards for video editing, NVIDIA used to have an advantage with its CUDA acceleration. Today, AMD's OpenCL offers similar performance for software that supports it. Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve do well with both AMD and NVIDIA, although Adobe tends to optimize more for NVIDIA.
Depends on what you're using for video editing, some may be less optimized
for the other GPU. Google it yourself for this.
For nvidia cards it's worth noting that Zotac and Palit have 5 years local warranties frm local distributors (you have to remember to register warranty asap after purchase for full 5 years warranty).
Gaming performance wise the AMD 5700/5700xt more value for money.
Can also look at 2nd hand market for mining GTX 1080(TI) if the price is right, if you're comfortable with mining cards.
