rx480 vs 1060 same price, which one to buy?

[Toynbee]

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB DDR5 192-bit
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa GPU mod OC: 1582 MHz
Frecventa GPU Boost mod OC: 1797 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 3 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 8008 MHz

 

OR 

 

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 NITRO+ 4GB DDR5 256-bit Lite
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa procesor: 1208 MHz
GPU Boost clock: 1306 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 4 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 7000 MHz

 

 

Both at around 290$ ( cuz europe  -.- )

il be pairing it with a 4460 and a 500wat psu 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500W

[Tea1337]

I've often used GPUBoss to determine what GPU to buy when cards are a close call. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-GeForce-GTX-1060

Don't use that shtuff I guess. Ignore me.

 

They're both great performing cards and at this point it's nearly just AMD VS. Nvidia brand, personally I'd choose the GTX 1060, probably the 6GB version, because of it's slightly higher scores.

[Cereal5]

what resolution/refresh rate are you playing at

[Schrodingers Kat]

1060 due to the increased performance. However if not on 1080p then depending on what you do with it you might find the 3gb of VRAM irritating.

[Zyndo]

5 minutes ago, Toynbee said:

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB DDR5 192-bit
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa GPU mod OC: 1582 MHz
Frecventa GPU Boost mod OC: 1797 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 3 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 8008 MHz

 

OR 

 

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 NITRO+ 4GB DDR5 256-bit Lite
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa procesor: 1208 MHz
GPU Boost clock: 1306 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 4 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 7000 MHz

 

 

Both at around 290$ ( cuz europe  -.- )

il be pairing it with a 4460 and a 500wat psu 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500W

 

If its between the 1060 3GB vs 480 4GB, you should take the 480 4GB.

 

If its between the 1060 6GB and the 480 8GB, you should take the 1060 6GB.

 

This is because the 1060 3GB is a cut down version of the 1060 6GB, whereas the 480 is the same performance in both 4GB and 8GB variants. The traditional benefit of having a 1060 6GB over a 480 8GB is much less when talking about their cheaper counterparts, so it doesn't make much sense to get a 1060 3GB IMO.

[Cryptonite]

1 minute ago, Toynbee said:

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB DDR5 192-bit
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa GPU mod OC: 1582 MHz
Frecventa GPU Boost mod OC: 1797 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 3 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 8008 MHz

 

OR 

 

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 NITRO+ 4GB DDR5 256-bit Lite
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa procesor: 1208 MHz
GPU Boost clock: 1306 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 4 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 7000 MHz

 

 

Both at around 290$ ( cuz europe  -.- )

il be pairing it with a 4460 and a 500wat psu 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500W

if you can't go for the 8 GB 480 or 6 GB 1060 I'd go 480 cause 4 GB > 3 GB

 

Just now, Tea1337 said:

I've often used GPUBoss to determine what GPU to buy when cards are a close call. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-GeForce-GTX-1060

 

They're both great performing cards and at this point it's nearly just AMD VS. Nvidia brand, personally I'd choose the GTX 1060 because of it's slightly higher scores.

GPU boss sucks and the 3 GB vram will affect his performance overall in my opinion it shouldn't even have been made

[Morgan MLGman]

5 minutes ago, Tea1337 said:

I've often used GPUBoss to determine what GPU to buy when cards are a close call. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-GeForce-GTX-1060

 

They're both great performing cards and at this point it's nearly just AMD VS. Nvidia brand, personally I'd choose the GTX 1060 because of it's slightly higher scores.

GPUboss is complete bullshit, don't ever visit that site again. use gpu.userbenchmark.com.

 

8 minutes ago, Toynbee said:

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB DDR5 192-bit
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa GPU mod OC: 1582 MHz
Frecventa GPU Boost mod OC: 1797 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 3 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 8008 MHz

 

OR 

 

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 NITRO+ 4GB DDR5 256-bit Lite
Interfata: PCI Express x16 3.0
Frecventa procesor: 1208 MHz
GPU Boost clock: 1306 MHz
Tip memorie: GDDR5
Dimensiune memorie: 4 GB
Frecventa memorie efectiva: 7000 MHz

Definitely the 480 Nitro. 3GB 1060's are actually cut-down versions of the cards and 3GB of VRAM is not enough for modern games with 4GB becoming the minimum requirement...

[Toynbee]

1080p with refresh rate of 60. also is the PSU enough  for them 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500 ?

[Morgan MLGman]

1 minute ago, Toynbee said:

1080p with refresh rate of 60. also is the PSU enough  for them 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500 ?

Yes, although this is a poor-quality PSU. I'd change it as soon as I had the money.

[Toynbee]

1 minute ago, Toynbee said:

1080p with refresh rate of 60. also is the PSU enough  for them 

Zalman ZM500-GLX 500 ?

also 6gb 1060  from asus is 30$ more

[Cryptonite]

Just now, Toynbee said:

also 6gb 1060  from asus is 30$ more

it's worth the extra 30$

[Toynbee]

1 minute ago, Cryptonite said:

it's worth the extra 30$

the rx480 8gb asus is even cheaper than 6gb 1060. oh man . now im comfused even more on what to get

[Cryptonite]

Just now, Toynbee said:

the rx480 8gb asus is even cheaper than 6gb 1060. oh man . now im comfused even more on what to get

well the 8 GB rx 480 and 6 GB 1060 are both great cards and imho you'd be happy with either one, however please do consider if you want to SLI or Crossfire later on, only the RX 480 can Crossfire, the 1060 is not SLI capable

[WkdPaul]

Moved to Graphics Cards

[FRN]

39 minutes ago, Toynbee said:

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It depends on the games you plan to play on it. DX11 = 1060. DX12 (Vulcan) = RX 480.

[Aereldor]

28 minutes ago, Toynbee said:

the rx480 8gb asus is even cheaper than 6gb 1060. oh man . now im comfused even more on what to get

Most RX 480s are awful. They're hot and loud and don't have much of a factory overclock, although JayzTwoCents seemed to have found something decent from XFX. The other problem is that while many third-party GTX 1060s are actually priced at their $250 MSRP, I don't think ANY RX 480s or 470s are.

 

The GTX 1060 appears to be objectively better, except when it comes to Vulkan on the new Doom, where it gets creamed by the RX 480. It also loses in a few DX12 benchmarks. See what that XFX RX 480 I mentioned is priced at. If it's around $220-$240, it's a better buy. Any more and a $250 6GB GTX 1060 will probably be better. I believe Zotac, MSI, and EVGA have decent offerings at that price point.

[matrix07012]

Don't buy the 3GB version, it looks great on paper, but in reality it stutters, because of the lack of VRAM. Either, pay more for the 6GB version or buy the RX480 4GB.

[Morgan MLGman]

3 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Most RX 480s are awful. They're hot and loud and don't have much of a factory overclock, although JayzTwoCents seemed to have found something decent from XFX. The other problem is that while many third-party GTX 1060s are actually priced at their $250 MSRP, I don't think ANY RX 480s or 470s are.

 

The GTX 1060 appears to be objectively better, except when it comes to Vulkan on the new Doom, where it gets creamed by the RX 480. It also loses in a few DX12 benchmarks. See what that XFX RX 480 I mentioned is priced at. If it's around $220-$240, it's a better buy. Any more and a $250 6GB GTX 1060 will probably be better. I believe Zotac, MSI, and EVGA have decent offerings at that price point.

RX 480 Nitro, Red Devil, Gaming X and those from XFX (GTR I believe) are all good. Even the ASUS ROG is decent apparently. Those from Gigabyte are obviously bad, as the rest of their AMD cards, + the reference cards are as bad as every other reference card.

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

RX 480 Nitro, Red Devil, Gaming X and those from XFX (GTR I believe) are all good. Even the ASUS ROG is decent apparently. Those from Gigabyte are obviously bad, as the rest of their AMD cards, + the reference cards are as bad as every other reference card.

Sweet! What are these priced at and how do they perform thermally and acoustically? Any significant factory overclocks on any of them?

[Morgan MLGman]

12 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Sweet! What are these priced at and how do they perform thermally and acoustically? Any significant factory overclocks on any of them?

I'm not sure about factory overclocks, you'd need to check that yourself, however as for overclocking, the XFX GTR that JayzTwoCents tested overclocked to 1475MHz on air, beating GTX 980 and GTX 1060 scores in Firestrike, almost reaching a stock R9 Fury score.

 

RX 480 Red Devil from PowerColor: max GPU temp under load 76 degrees Celsius, it's extremely quiet

RX 480 ASUS STRIX: max GPU temp under load 68 degrees Celsius, it's a tiny bit louder, also very silent in general

RX 480 Gaming X from MSI: max GPU temp under load 73 degrees Celsius, it's as silent as the Red Devil

RX 480 Nitro + from Sapphire: max GPU temp under load (gaming) 74 degrees Celsius, a bit louder than the rest of those I mentioned, it's a tier 2 card, only worth it if those above are more expensive

RX 480 GTR from XFX: I'm not sure about temps, but JayzTwoCents claimed it's good so it's probably worth recommending

 

Do not touch reference cards or the Gigabyte RX 480 unless they're really cheap

 

MSI RX 480 Gaming X seems the best tradeoff in terms of silence/temperatures, they also have great customer service, so it'd be probably my first choice personally.

 

Hope it helped.

[Toynbee]

i get rx480 4gb or 1060 6gb. is that ok?

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 hour ago, Toynbee said:

i get rx480 4gb or 1060 6gb. is that ok?

get the GTX 1060 6GB card...it's well worth it...it's faster, more efficient etc.