Graphics Card

[Barry220]

Hello guys, Gtx 1060 6gb and Rx 580 8gb are coming at almost same price which one should i buy?

i know nothing is future proof,but which gpu is best for the upcoming year or two one with more vram or one with more processing power 

[Cereal5]

All things considered, whichever is cheaper, or whichever you like the color scheme of more, or whichever brand you like most. But prices are never dead equal. A 1060 is usually more expensive, and assuming it is, I'd take the 580. Depends what you're using it for though.

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

3 minutes ago, Barry220 said:

Hello guys, Gtx 1060 6gb and Rx 580 8gb are coming at almost same price which one should i buy?

i know nothing is future proof,but which gpu is best for the upcoming year or two one with more vram or one with more processing power 

Hello and Welcome to the LTT Foruns.

 

Basically they have the same performance, in some games the GTX wins and in others the AMD's wins.

The main advantage about the 580 is the 2GB of VRAM compared to the 1060, however i'd buy the cheaper one, because they have basically the same performance

[Quagmaire]

1 minute ago, Cereal5 said:

All things considered, whichever is cheaper, or whichever you like the color scheme of more, or whichever brand you like most. But prices are never dead equal. A 1060 is usually more expensive, and assuming it is, I'd take the 580.

 

Same here , plus you can get a free sync monitor down the line if that floats your boat 

[Nocte]

Go for the cheaper one. If the prices are really the same I would go with the RX 580 because:

- 2GB extra VRAM (not that big of a deal on these cards)

- FreeSync monitors (even though Adaptive Sync is coming)

- Slightly better on newer games that run DX12

 

These are very slight advantages that are probably not worth a penny.

[191x7]

That i5 you have is a rather weak CPU so I'd go with the GTX 1060 since nVidia cards are a bit easier to drive. If it's not strictly a choice between these two, the perfect card for your system would be a GTX 1050 Ti and since it would be a lot less bottlenecked than a GTX 1060 the performance difference for you would be minimal.

If you're on only 4GB of RAM, you need to UP that t at least 8GB or even better 16GB.

[Barry220]

2 hours ago, Cereal5 said:

All things considered, whichever is cheaper, or whichever you like the color scheme of more, or whichever brand you like most. But prices are never dead equal. A 1060 is usually more expensive, and assuming it is, I'd take the 580. Depends what you're using it for though.

gaming mostly and some modeling(just for fun not as profession)

[Barry220]

1 hour ago, 191x7 said:

That i5 you have is a rather weak CPU so I'd go with the GTX 1060 since nVidia cards are a bit easier to drive. If it's not strictly a choice between these two, the perfect card for your system would be a GTX 1050 Ti and since it would be a lot less bottlenecked than a GTX 1060 the performance difference for you would be minimal.

If you're on only 4GB of RAM, you need to UP that t at least 8GB or even better 16GB.

hey there tanx for the reply. i am going to buy an another 8gb ram alone with gpu.

and is my Cpu really gonna bottleneck rx 580 or 1060 ?? explain in detail if possible and please tell me whats the ideal cpu for gtx 1060 or above versions of GPU

[191x7]

17 hours ago, Barry220 said:

hey there tanx for the reply. i am going to buy an another 8gb ram alone with gpu.

and is my Cpu really gonna bottleneck rx 580 or 1060 ?? explain in detail if possible and please tell me whats the ideal cpu for gtx 1060 or above versions of GPU

If you go with a single 8GB stick and pair it with the 4GB you have you probably won't have the RAM run in Dual Chanel. DC offers some additional performance, it's not a bad thing to have performance vise.

 

There are a few modern games that can utilize more than 4 cores (for example Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, Shadow of the tomb raider, Far Cry 5).

Explaining the CPU bottleneck is simple. The CPU prepares each frame (geometry, physics and such stuff) for the GPU to render (add details, textures, ...).

If the CPU can prepare 40 frames in a second but the GPU can render 60 frames in a second with the details, you'd get 40 FPS and the GPU would be bottlenecked some 30%.

It's like having a 30% weaker graphics card simply because the CPU can't "feed" the GPU properly to use its full potential.

 

The optimal CPU upgrade for you to run a GTX 1060 or a stronger card in every modern title released to date would be an i7 6700 or i7 7700.

That wouldn't require you to change your motherboard. Other options (Ryzen, Intel Coffe lake) would.

[191x7]

Btw, if you're only playing single player games and don't mind a stutter from time to time, get the RAM and a GTX 1060.

[Barry220]

On 1/9/2019 at 1:42 PM, 191x7 said:

Btw, if you're only playing single player games and don't mind a stutter from time to time, get the RAM and a GTX 1060.

Well i play more co op games, how about i buy a rx 570 over 1050 ti

[Oliver Murphy]

I will suggest you to go with RX 580. I had seen some comparison on YouTube for above both CPU and found RX 580 performs better compare 1060 on 1080p and 2k gaming.