Yes thats the beauty of proper pc gaming, scalability...
Im not saying you cannot give up tons of visual candy to get the frame rate you need,
Im saying calling a RX480 >OVERKILL< for 1920x1080 is complete bs if you need to lower the settings to get proper framerates.
That is really not debatable tbh unless we change to meaning of "overkill" to the previously mentioned "barely passable".
Except that it is debatable.
Doom3 when ran with the maximum texture quality, used uncompressed textures. They were visually indistinguishable from the next quality settings which used compressed textures. However, because of the sheer size, uncompressed texture brought every single available card to their knees. For no better quality whatsoever.
Similarly, shadows quality also kills performance. If you play an adventure game, the better looking shadows add something to the game play. If you're playing a fast paced FPS, you don't notice the shadow quality at all.
Even AA will become unnoticeable given enough pixel density (though clearly that's not the case here).
With that in mind, if you want to mindlessly pull all sliders to the right and play, then yes, few cards are overkill at 1080. But if you actually look at the screen, you'll get great performance from a much wider selection.
Review sites stick to presets so we may actually compare cards between themselves, not because there's inherent value in the presets. HardOCP was the only site that tuned each game to tell us the maximum playable settings for each title, but I believe they recently stopped doing that.
.... i was wondering how somebody can guess performance knowing only the price...
