New GPU Advice

[Jay917536]

Before you reply: This is not my setup I am simply asking for a friend being I do not know the answer to all specifics so if you have specific questions I may take a second to get back to you being I will need to ask him.

 

So, I do do know that the 1060 technically is better than the rx480 in most cases but he is running a 2 or 3 monitors (He has not choose to get a 3rd yet but maybe in the near future) setup now being the rx480 with 8gb vram will do better than the 1060 with 6gb vram or will it matter. Also would it it better to get 2 rx480s or 1 1070 being where he lives they are priced the same or within $10 of each other.Also being on what i have seen the rx480 seems to better in the Vulcan supported games and if it becomes widely adopted will it be better in the future being he plans to keep this setup for about 5 years. he mainly plans on doing 1080 or 1440 gaming with high to maxed setting as well as animation and 3d model rendering.

[Energycore]

7 minutes ago, Jay917536 said:

Before you reply: This is not my setup I am simply asking for a friend being I do not know the answer to all specifics so if you have specific questions I may take a second to get back to you being I will need to ask him.

 

So, I do do know that the 1060 technically is better than the rx480 in most cases but he is running a 2 or 3 monitors (He has not choose to get a 3rd yet but maybe in the near future) setup now being the rx480 with 8gb vram will do better than the 1060 with 6gb vram or will it matter. Also would it it better to get 2 rx480s or 1 1070 being where he lives they are priced the same or within $10 of each other.Also being on what i have seen the rx480 seems to better in the Vulcan supported games and if it becomes widely adopted will it be better in the future being he plans to keep this setup for about 5 years. he mainly plans on doing 1080 or 1440 gaming with high to maxed setting as well as animation and 3d model rendering.

The 1060 is on par with the 480, the advantages have been canceling out.

 

I would suggest a 1070 if your friend plans to use the three monitors in NVSurround mode. If it'll be just one gaming monitor and the others to put spreadsheets or whatev, then a 480 or 1060 is fine. For 1440p take the 480.

[ARikozuM]

for triple monitor gaming I always recommend going with a X70 or higher Green and X80 or higher Red card.

 

Edit: So that you know I'm not full of sh#t, my build is below.

[Brooksie359]

11 minutes ago, Jay917536 said:

Before you reply: This is not my setup I am simply asking for a friend being I do not know the answer to all specifics so if you have specific questions I may take a second to get back to you being I will need to ask him.

 

So, I do do know that the 1060 technically is better than the rx480 in most cases but he is running a 2 or 3 monitors (He has not choose to get a 3rd yet but maybe in the near future) setup now being the rx480 with 8gb vram will do better than the 1060 with 6gb vram or will it matter. Also would it it better to get 2 rx480s or 1 1070 being where he lives they are priced the same or within $10 of each other.Also being on what i have seen the rx480 seems to better in the Vulcan supported games and if it becomes widely adopted will it be better in the future being he plans to keep this setup for about 5 years. he mainly plans on doing 1080 or 1440 gaming with high to maxed setting as well as animation and 3d model rendering.

if he can get the 1070 go for that. the gtx 1070 would be around the same performance as 2 rx 480s and would be way better in games that don't support multigpu. 

[Jay917536]

6 minutes ago, Energycore said:

The 1060 is on par with the 480, the advantages have been canceling out.

 

I would suggest a 1070 if your friend plans to use the three monitors in NVSurround mode. If it'll be just one gaming monitor and the others to put spreadsheets or whatev, then a 480 or 1060 is fine. For 1440p take the 480.

Yeah, He mainly will do the following, game on 1 screen, web browser or video on the others. Thank you for your help.

6 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

for triple monitor gaming I always recommend going with a X70 or higher Green and X80 or higher Red card.

Be will not be using all 3 for games. only 1. Thank you

[Energycore]

Just now, Jay917536 said:

Yeah, He mainly will do the following, game on 1 screen, web browser or video on the others. Thank you for your help.

Be will not be using all 3 for games. only 1.

 

So, for 1440p maxed GTX 1070

For 1440p medium RX 480

For 1080p maxed GTX 1060 / RX 480

For 1080p high RX 470

[Jay917536]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

if he can get the 1070 go for that. the gtx 1070 would be around the same performance as 2 rx 480s and would be way better in games that don't support multigpu. 

all the games he does do support crossfire based on the game he has currently so that is not a major issue. Thanks.

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, Jay917536 said:

all the games he does do support crossfire based on the game he has currently so that is not a major issue. Thanks.

he would save money on his electricity bill with the 1070

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Jay917536 said:

all the games he does do support crossfire based on the game he has currently so that is not a major issue. Thanks.

Crossfire 480s > Single 1070 in games with good scaling.

[Jay917536]

Just now, Energycore said:

Crossfire 480s > Single 1070 in games with good scaling.

Okay, Thank you. I will let him know.

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

he would save money on his electricity bill with the 1070

Where he is lives power is very cheap, about 7 cents per kw and based on what be currently has which is dual 960's the two rx480s are not a huge increase in power consumption. I will still inform him it uses about half as much power and see if he finds that of value. Thank you for helping out.

[Energycore]

Just now, Jay917536 said:

Okay, Thank you. I will let him know.

Where he is lives power is very cheap, about 7 cents per kw and based on what be currently has which is dual 960's the two rx480s are not a huge increase in power consumption. I will still inform him it uses about half as much power and see if he finds that of value. Thank you for helping out.

I recommend looking at performance in the specific game that he wants to play. There are cases where scaling is great, and there's times where it's not better at all.

 

 

[Jay917536]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I recommend looking at performance in the specific game that he wants to play. There are cases where scaling is great, and there's times where it's not better at all.

 

 

Would you mind sharing a link to that information so i can view the scaling for the games.

[Energycore]

Just now, Jay917536 said:

Would you mind sharing a link to that information so i can view the scaling for the games.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/

[Jay917536]

Just now, Energycore said:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/

Thank you.

[Jay917536]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/RX_480_CrossFire/

Based on the list most seem to scale well. The only one on the list he plays that did not scale well was Hitman which he has not played since he completed the game. Thank you for sharing the link he and i greatly appreciate your help.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Jay917536 said:

Based on the list most seem to scale well. The only one on the list he plays that did not scale well was Hitman which he has not played since he completed the game. Thank you for sharing the link he and i greatly appreciate your help.

As you can see, most of the time it's better than a single 1070, but it will also be a bit more expensive because 8GB 480s are $240

[MadG4mer]

12 hours ago, Energycore said:

 

So, for 1440p maxed GTX 1070

For 1440p medium RX 480

For 1080p maxed GTX 1060 / RX 480

For 1080p high RX 470

And then there is me with 1080 for 1080

[Energycore]

3 hours ago, MadG4mer said:

And then there is me with 1080 for 1080

If you have a 144Hz monitor I don't see why not