Why is the gtx 1060 "more powerful" than the RX 480?

[XplosiveNoctua99]

RX 480 has more teraflops

more stream processors too

the memory is the same speed

less vram...

and

the only difference i can see is the clock speed

is that why?

Just a general question

[Electronics Wizardy]

better architecture and drivers

[Annoyingnerds]

Have you heard about PhysX? Yeah because of that

[Atmos]

1 minute ago, Annoyingnerds said:

Have you heard about PhysX? Yeah because of that

Nope, and nope.

PhysX runs like shit on everything, like most of nvidia's proprietary software. *cough* hbao+ *cough*

 

 

@XplosiveNoctua99 Differing core architectures and software implementations for compression and resource management. The 1060 works more efficiently with what it has than the 480.

[HKZeroFive]

You cannot compare two different architectures so that's one reason. NVIDIA is alot more advanced in the software side of things which is why they tend to be the top dogs in DX11. Also the reason why AMD receives more sizeable gains than NVIDIA in DX12 and Vulkan.

[Annoyingnerds]

Just now, HKZeroFive said:

You cannot compare two different architectures so that's one reason. NVIDIA is alot more advanced in the software side of things which is why they tend to be the top dogs in DX11. Also the reason why AMD receives sizeable gains in DX12 and Vulkan.

I'm with you

[Iron Knickers]

8 minutes ago, XplosiveNoctua99 said:

RX 480 has more teraflops

more stream processors too

the memory is the same speed

less vram...

and

the only difference i can see is the clock speed

is that why?

Just a general question

Well there are many more differences between them, in fact when you look at the specs across different manufacturers, in this case AMD and Nvidia, you can't really compare them, and you can't really assume how a graphics card is going to perform based on any statistics really. What matters is benchmarks and reviews, and that is it.

 

Furthermore, as someone else pointed out, Physx and all of Gameworks have to blame on why the 1060 performs slightly better than the 480. Even further though, there is the hardware side to something and the software side to it, if most games favored AMD perfectly than AMD cards would perform monstrously better than Nvidia, if most games favored NVidia perfectly than NVidia cards would perform monstrously better than AMD's cards. Its all about software and hardware. 

[Enderman]

http://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidia-gpus/

Instead of trying to brute force everything like AMD, nvidia works on trying to optimize and get things more efficient.

[c00face]

Who cares. Just buy a Rx 460 for $100 and be satisfied with 1080P gaming.

[handymanshandle]

Besides the 1060 being on a larger process (16nm FinFet) it also has a slightly bigger die means it has more transistors than the 480.

 

Also as others said architectural differences. I'm planning on building with an RX 480 because the Nitro+ looks so much better and is a bit more premium than the coolers on the 1060. The Nitro+ seems to also offer up a nice boost over the performance of the reference card so that puts it closer to a 1060.

[mikeeginger]

The 1060 is more efficient - But

The 480 should be better in the long run with asynchronous compute stuff coming  soon