Looking to order GPU for Excelsior tomorrow, 1060 or 470

[Sovek]

So the case, PSU and CPU are on order, Thermaltake Core V21 (ought to be interesting) along with the SeaSonic M12ii PSU (not the best, but not bad either) and a use i5 2500 CPU. Tomorrow I'm ordering the GPU and right now the pickings are slim. Any RX480 is either reference or pretty expensive, or both, and the GTX 460 is out of stock for anything in the $250 area. Right now its all about price to performance.
 

Looking at either of these cards ATM

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814125901

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126124

 

Is it worth the extra $70 for the 1060 over an RX 470?

 

Gaming is likely to remain @ 1080

[SnowyMus]

I'd get the RX 470, especially if you're planning on playing either DirectX 12 or Vulkan titles. You're going to get much better price to performance on them, possibly even catching up to the 1060.

[Sovek]

Its likely DX11

 

[SnowyMus]

11 minutes ago, Sovek said:

Its likely DX11

I'd still go for the RX 470 if you're mostly concerned about price to performance.

[DXMember]

That $70 apart, no?

1060 is faster

[GEHORC]

If the 1060 is an option over the RX470 than take the 1060.

Always take the higher tier card, if you can and want afford it.

[Sovek]

Meh, with the benchmarks I'm seeing, a 470 can almost compete with it, Sometimes it dips into the high 30s, but really stays somewhere around the 45-60 FPS, which is good enough. And these are reference cards going up against the 1060.

 

 

[GEHORC]

4 minutes ago, Sovek said:

Meh, with the benchmarks I'm seeing, a 470 can almost compete with it, Sometimes it dips into the high 30s, but really stays somewhere around the 45-60 FPS, which is good enough. And these are reference cards going up against the 1060.

That's why i say "if you can AND want to afford it".

But there might be a diminishing return, that's true though.

[alphaproject]

1060.

[Maxxtraxx]

Well...

 

Both are great options!

 

However, the end goal is getting what best fits you

 

RX470:

the Good:

1. Lower price and better performance to $ ratio

2. Will Usually give a greater boost in MANY DX12(but not always) due to AMD's hardware implementation of A-Sync compute

3: You join the Red team

 

the not as good?:

1: the RX470 has a greater potential to encounter VRam limitations even at 1080p due to a 4Gb Vram Size

2: Slower Vram (may potentially be as or almost as fast with overclocking)

3: the RX470 is a generally lower performance card

 

GTX1060:

the Good:

1: Pascal tends to have a greater overclocking potential

2: Generally better performance (especially in DX11) with roughly equivalent performance in many DX12 games

3: 6Gb of Vram at 8Gbps (more and at higher speed)

4: You join the Green team

 

the not as good?:

1: the price to performance ratio is not as good

2: DX12 does not provide much of or any performance boost in most circumstances

 

At the price points that you have listed the RX470 is definitely the performance per dollar winner

BUT

the GTX1060 generally the faster card with the more futureproof VRam amount.

 

As LTT and Digital foundry have recommended:

"buy the highest performance single GPU in your price range"

so, is your price range $200? get the RX470

is your price range $270? get the GTX1060

I tend to feel that the price difference between the two places them into different brackets.