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GTX 1060 or RX 480

Cyfern

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I've seen the benchmarks and the Nvidia GTX 1060 outperforms the RX 480 at pretty much every game.

However, with DirectX 12 and vulkan the 480 is pretty much evenly matched, if not slightly better.

So, which one would you get? Is DX12 gonna become the standard anytime soon? Is it true that Nvidia's GPUs become obsolete faster than AMD's due to a lack of driver updated for them?

I need whatever one I get to last me a while so I obviously want the best option for the future.

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3 minutes ago, Cyfern said:

So, which one would you get? Is DX12 gonna become the standard anytime soon? Is it true that Nvidia's GPUs become obsolete faster than AMD's due to a lack of driver updated for them?

I need whatever one I get to last me a while so I obviously want the best option for the future.

 

The 480 of course is better for long term performance. The consensus is that the 1060 is only better in the now for games already released, and of course anything that has Gameworks.

 
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Here's my stance:

 

If you plan on keeping your GPU for 2 years or less, go 1060. It beats the 480 in basically all dx11 games and since dx11 is what (almost) everything is on right now, the 1060 is a better choice.

 

If you plan on keeping your GPU for longer than two years, go 480. In most dx12 and Vulkan games it ties if not beats the 1060 while being cheaper. Since dx12 and Vulkan are the future, if you plan on keeping your GPU for a while the 480 will be the better choice. That's not to mention that over the long term AMD drivers tend to give a larger performance boost than Nvidia ones.

 

Also, if you want to do crossfire/sli in the future go 480 because the 1060, well, can't do sli except in some dx12 games.

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The RX480 is a safer bet for future games, especially games that support DX12. Also keep in mind that the 480 cna be crossfired while the 1060 does not have SLI fingers which effectively locks you into having just that 1 card unless you upgrade to something like a 1070 later on. 

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7 minutes ago, Cyfern said:

Is it true that Nvidia's GPUs become obsolete faster than AMD's due to a lack of driver updated for them?

 

No, It's just that AMD cards perform really bad at launch and then get improved drivers later on.

Nvidia cards already perform really well at launch and only get a few performance boosts over time.

The driver support is perfectly fine, my 5 year old 770 still works great with the newest drivers.

 

All the DX12 and vulcan advantages that AMD has barely exist in any games today, so unless you plan to keep your GPU for 5-10 years (which you really shouldn't) the 1060 is a better choice.

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10 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Here's my stance:

 

If you plan on keeping your GPU for 2 years or less, go 1060. It beats the 480 in basically all dx11 games and since dx11 is what (almost) everything is on right now, the 1060 is a better choice.

 

If you plan on keeping your GPU for longer than two years, go 480. In most dx12 and Vulkan games it ties if not beats the 1060 while being cheaper. Since dx12 and Vulkan are the future, if you plan on keeping your GPU for a while the 480 will be the better choice. That's not to mention that over the long term AMD drivers tend to give a larger performance boost than Nvidia ones.

 

Also, if you want to do crossfire/sli in the future go 480 because the 1060, well, can't do sli except in some dx12 games.

Firstly could you use a colour that actually shows up on the dark theme? >_>

 

Secondly I think if you're keeping either of these cards longer than two years you will feel the drag by the end of it. I can't imagine it mattering too much which you have by then.

 

Thirdly, I wouldn't recommend choosing a mid/low tier card based on SLI. If you do it right now you may as well just get a better card. If you're getting it in the future when the card is old you may as well sell it and get a new one. In the latter case, it matters even less that the 1060 isn't SLI compatible, unless you are expecting Dx12 and Vulkan to fall flat on their faces in the coming years and Dx11 to remain.

 

Fourthly Dx12 and Vulkan aren't dependant on good drivers -- this is why AMD sees the performance boost it does, their Dx11/OpenGL drivers are shocking. As such it's nonsensical to talk about AMD drivers getting better and Nvidia drivers getting worse. The same benefit that AMD sees short term from the new APIs is going to be felt long-term by Nvidia for all of the same reasons.

 

If it were me I'd get the 4GB RX 480 for no other reason than it is around £20-50 cheaper than the others for something that is for all intents and purposes the same exact thing.

 

10 minutes ago, MaxBunny said:

The 480 of course is better for long term performance. The consensus is that the 1060 is only better in the now for games already released, and of course anything that has Gameworks.

Why "of course"? Because AMD's dx11 drivers getting better over time means that low level APIs like Dx12 are going to magically find some extra performance from somewhere over time?

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1 hour ago, othertomperson said:

Firstly could you use a colour that actually shows up on the dark theme? >_>

 

Secondly I think if you're keeping either of these cards longer than two years you will feel the drag by the end of it. I can't imagine it mattering too much which you have by then.

 

Thirdly, I wouldn't recommend choosing a mid/low tier card based on SLI. If you do it right now you may as well just get a better card. If you're getting it in the future when the card is old you may as well sell it and get a new one. In the latter case, it matters even less that the 1060 isn't SLI compatible, unless you are expecting Dx12 and Vulkan to fall flat on their faces in the coming years and Dx11 to remain.

 

Fourthly Dx12 and Vulkan aren't dependant on good drivers -- this is why AMD sees the performance boost it does, their Dx11/OpenGL drivers are shocking. As such it's nonsensical to talk about AMD drivers getting better and Nvidia drivers getting worse. The same benefit that AMD sees short term from the new APIs is going to be felt long-term by Nvidia for all of the same reasons.

 

If it were me I'd get the 4GB RX 480 for no other reason than it is around £20-50 cheaper than the others for something that is for all intents and purposes the same exact thing.

 

Why "of course"? Because AMD's dx11 drivers getting better over time means that low level APIs like Dx12 are going to magically find some extra performance from somewhere over time?

I forgot that their drivers improve a lot only on dx11... My bad.

 

It does end up then that the 1060 is just a better option than the 8gb rx 480, but the 4gb one and 470 seem to be good deals.

 

Good point... I never thought of that.

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2 hours ago, DocSwag said:

I forgot that their drivers improve a lot only on dx11... My bad.

 

It does end up then that the 1060 is just a better option than the 8gb rx 480, but the 4gb one and 470 seem to be good deals.

 

Good point... I never thought of that.

I am waiting for the 470 to settle on a local price. Right now the 470 is more expensive than the 480 xD

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If you are primarily playing DX11 games, the gtx 1060 is a better choice, but the RX 480 is more of a long term solution because it has much more compute, and is better on paper.

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