480 vs 1060

[TurkeyClub]

Hey guys, I was looking for a new graphics card this season and wanted to know which card you thought was better, an 8gb 480 or a 1060 6gb.  I'm going to get either the sapphire nitro 480 or the asus dual 1060.  I'm a little turned off by he lack of an sli bridge on the 1060 so that's a con for nvidia.  Other than that, I have no fanboyish feelings for either side, so I'm pretty open about the cards rather than company, thanks in advance!

[Energycore]

I would do a 4GB 480. I see no sign of 8GB being necessary to play games at high settings (only crazy insane settings or the like may require it) and the 4GB 480 is just as fast as the 8GB, unlike the 3GB 1060 which is cut down by 11%.

[DocSwag]

I generally recommend a 1060 unless you're looking into freesync. I personally don't think rx 480 crossfire is a good route to go, as you'd probably end up being better off just selling your 480 and getting a better GPU when you want to upgrade.

[Clanscorpia]

Rx 480 4GB all the way. I personally recommend the Nitro although other disagree

[Enderman]

You shouldn't be doing CFX/SLI with these low end cards anyway so no SLI bridge literally does not matter at all.

[MaxBunny]

18 minutes ago, TurkeyClub said:

Hey guys, I was looking for a new graphics card this season and wanted to know which card you thought was better, an 8gb 480 or a 1060 6gb.  I'm going to get either the sapphire nitro 480 or the asus dual 1060.  I'm a little turned off by he lack of an sli bridge on the 1060 so that's a con for nvidia.  Other than that, I have no fanboyish feelings for either side, so I'm pretty open about the cards rather than company, thanks in advance!

As an AMD fan and a Sapphire hater, I recommend the asus 1060.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

if you have a freesync monitor or a AMD A10 get the 480

if not get the 1060

[MattW]

Both are good cards but I would go with the RX 480. I'm with you on not liking that lack of sli on the 1060. I'm not saying crossfire/sli is a good thing or that I would ever crossfire my RX 480, but I like having the option to do so if I want. 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

and if you are using Steam OS get Nvidia because AMD is not supported on some games

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

and if you are using Steam OS get Nvidia because AMD is not supported on some games

Source?

[TurkeyClub]

7 minutes ago, MaxBunny said:

As an AMD fan and a Sapphire hater, I recommend the asus 1060.

Is sapphire bad? I've heard good things about them

[MaxBunny]

1 minute ago, TurkeyClub said:

Is sapphire bad? I've heard good things about them

Their products are fine. But since they openly support G2A and Kinguin, I do my best to lose them as much money as possible. I've been fairly successful.

[TurkeyClub]

Just now, MaxBunny said:

Their products are fine. But since they openly support G2A and Kinguin, I do my best to lose them as much money as possible. I've been fairly successful.

Are those bad sights?  I was going to get my windows key off kinguin

[MaxBunny]

Just now, TurkeyClub said:

Are those bad sights?  I was going to get my windows key off kinguin

Yup. They're involved in fraud and rip off companies and users. There are many residents here that will say "but it's cheap and I don't care about principles", but I support buying legitimate products off of legitimate resellers and companies like Sapphire should do it too even if users are fine with fraud/piracy.

[TurkeyClub]

Just now, MaxBunny said:

Yup. They're involved in fraud and rip off companies and users. There are many residents here that will say "but it's cheap and I don't care about principles", but I support buying legitimate products off of legitimate resellers and companies like Sapphire should do it too even if users are fine with fraud/piracy.

Gotcha

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, TurkeyClub said:

Gotcha

There products are good though, I love my card

 

3 minutes ago, MaxBunny said:

Yup. They're involved in fraud and rip off companies and users. There are many residents here that will say "but it's cheap and I don't care about principles", but I support buying legitimate products off of legitimate resellers and companies like Sapphire should do it too even if users are fine with fraud/piracy.

Those are the users not the company

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

4 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Source?

Heres one thats recent, Mad Max:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234140/

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Additional Notes: AMD and Intel Graphics Cards are not supported at the time of release

theres also Borderlands 2 & warhammer that i know of that are not advertised as supported. Left4dead2 was originally not able to be run off AMD GPU but it is now.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

Heres one thats recent, Mad Max:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234140/

theres also Borderlands 2 & warhammer that i know of that are not advertised as supported. Left4dead2 was originally not able to be run off AMD GPU but it is now.

Well that sucks but hey, good to know.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

10 minutes ago, TurkeyClub said:

windows key off kinguin

buying a key is not buying a license. purchase at your own risk; risk having your windows authentication revoked and go through the trouble of talking to a MS call center

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Just now, Energycore said:

Well that sucks but hey, good to know.

they do get support eventually, but they dont always update the page. It might have something to do with Nvidia Shield pulling publishers to port to OpenGL

[MaxBunny]

31 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

Those are the users not the company

The company's business model is to facilitate this behavior from their users. They couldn't exist without fraud.

[Energycore]

3 hours ago, Clanscorpia said:

Those are the users not the company

That's like saying addicts should be liable for the crimes committed by drug cartels, or that it's "their fault" that they've become addicted. It's attributing guilt to the victim (in the case of fraudulent keys, anyone who didn't know and got one is a victim, less so if they do know).

[Clanscorpia]

5 hours ago, Energycore said:

That's like saying addicts should be liable for the crimes committed by drug cartels, or that it's "their fault" that they've become addicted. It's attributing guilt to the victim (in the case of fraudulent keys, anyone who didn't know and got one is a victim, less so if they do know).

 

8 hours ago, MaxBunny said:

The company's business model is to facilitate this behavior from their users. They couldn't exist without fraud.

I do know the companies basis is the users but there is a lot of legitimate people on there but yeah its a pretty shady company to condone

[mckrackin5324]

13 hours ago, TurkeyClub said:

Hey guys, I was looking for a new graphics card this season and wanted to know which card you thought was better, an 8gb 480 or a 1060 6gb.  I'm going to get either the sapphire nitro 480 or the asus dual 1060.  I'm a little turned off by he lack of an sli bridge on the 1060 so that's a con for nvidia.  Other than that, I have no fanboyish feelings for either side, so I'm pretty open about the cards rather than company, thanks in advance!

SLI is not needed on the 1060.

I have a 3GB 1060 and I'll tell you this...the GPU is perfectly capable of Ultra settings but the VRAM gets swamped at only 3GB. I was terribly disappointed. 6GB is a must if you want to get your money from the 1060.

 

My older games like Battlefield 4 run great on Ultra at about 120 FPS but games like Rise of the Tomb Raider actually crash due to graphics on Ultra.

I can run everything on the highest settings except textures...the one I actually want at the highest setting.

 

Let me add that some of my games flirt with 4GB of VRAM. 4GB is rapidly becoming "not enough".

 

Go with a card with more than 4GB of VRAM. I think 4GB is enough today but I'm sure it will fall short on some newer titles if you want everything maxed out.