Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro 8GB or MSI Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Gaming X?

[r4ndomdinosaur]

27 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

55fps vs 65fps is closer to 20%. More like 55fps-61fps

Let me clarify why it's 10% and why I gave the ranges I did. In some game scenarios, some the 480 got about 55 fps and the 1060 got 60 fps, in other games, the 480 got 60 fps and the 1060 got somewhere between 66 and 70 fps. Taking the average across the board, it's better to be conservative and say it was a standard 10% increase in performance when comparing the 1060 and the 480.

 

I do like the information you gave regarding the memory compression, thanks for that xAcid9.

 

[TryhardNeon]

I recommend RX 480 over 1060 because it has higher vram, you can do crossfire when you have the money and you know, DX 12 and Vulkan games are coming soon like Battlefield 1. Also in my country RX 480 is cheaper too!

[Vode]

RX 480 will be better i. the future for sure. Now it's almost the same.

[Humbug]

13 hours ago, App4that said:

 Vulkan works. Sure we only have Doom but the differences on the developers side are clear.

Doom is the only completed non-beta implementation in the wild.

We do have two public betas in active development though.

-Dota 2 on Valve's Source 2 engine (seems to be 90% done)

-Talos Principle on Serious engine (improving but the dev says they have a lot of work left to do).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT5lGhz1tlE&feature=youtu.be

 

[App4that]

35 minutes ago, Humbug said:

Doom is the only completed non-beta implementation in the wild.

We do have two public betas in active development though.

-Dota 2 on Valve's Source 2 engine (seems to be 90% done)

-Talos Principle on Serious engine (improving but the dev says they have a lot of work left to do).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT5lGhz1tlE&feature=youtu.be

 

That was my point though, semantics won't save you when you buy a card expecting it to perform better than it actually does. Nvidia's architecture is extremely efficient. Performance in relation to transistor count is much better than AMD, but AMD is showing improvement now that APIs are taking advantage of AMDs architecture. But this seems more of a leveling than advantage to anyone. Nvidia hasn't implemented the same form of async as AMD because it would mean a 10% decrease in efficiency. 

 

AMD made it through DX11 and Nvidia will make it through Volkan. A vast majority of gamers have no interest in Internet fighting over who gets 5fps over the other. They want to play a game and have it work. Nothing is threatening that.