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Hi, I need help deciding on if I should get a gtx 1060 for 367 dollars or gtx 980 for 320 dollars. I've seen benchmarks of both cards and they're relatively the same I think. Any info or advice wou be much appreciated thanks.

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4 minutes ago, battletoads1121 said:

Hi, I need help deciding on if I should get a gtx 1060 for 367 dollars or gtx 980 for 320 dollars. I've seen benchmarks of both cards and they're relatively the same I think. Any info or advice wou be much appreciated thanks.

Well, the 1060 does seem to beat out the 980 in most games (only the 6GB 1060!!!). But I would compare prices with the RX 480 4/8GB and buy the cheapest out of the 1060 6GB (not 3GB, don't buy that) and the RX 480 4/8GB.

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1 minute ago, QuantumBlink said:

1060 is like the same as an RX 480, but it costs more. 

Umm, no, its faster

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Just now, keNNySOC said:

Umm, no, its faster

It's about 3 percent better, but 50 dollars more. Plus FreeSync 

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1 minute ago, Miguel552 said:

1060, it's all about dem DX12 support, its....

 

 

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lol are you just gonna ignore the whole vulkan thing. fair enough its only on like one game at the moment, but have u seen the difference between DX and vulkan in DOOM ? 

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2 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Still, it's not the same

newer benchmarks show the RX480 being better than the 1060 in DX11 also.

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5 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Umm, no, its faster

RX 480 8GB is starting to beat the 1060 6GB.

 

13 minutes ago, battletoads1121 said:

Hi, I need help deciding on if I should get a gtx 1060 for 367 dollars or gtx 980 for 320 dollars. I've seen benchmarks of both cards and they're relatively the same I think. Any info or advice wou be much appreciated thanks.

980 and 1060 are basically on the same level (within 5-10%) on games. They both beat each other at different games.

 

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22 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

lol are you just gonna ignore the whole vulkan thing. fair enough its only on like one game at the moment, but have u seen the difference between DX and vulkan in DOOM ? 

Have you? Did Bethesda give you an exclusive copy of Doom with DirectX renderer?  :P

 

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3 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Have you? Did Bethesda give you an exclusive copy of Doom with DirectX renderer?  :P

 

sorry lol i'm too high for API's right now, i meant openGL :)

 

i was just getting at the amazing results of proprietary API's, most prominently from the red team.

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1060 3GB < GTX 980 < GTX 1060 6GB

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The 1060 will have better optimization in the future, however if your motherboard supports it only the 980 supports SLI. Also power consumption is less on the 1060 although I'm not too sure about sound

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2 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

sorry lol i'm too high for API's right now, i meant openGL :)

 

i was just getting at the amazing results of proprietary API's, most prominently from the red team.

Well I thought the 980 didn't support DX12, but after your comment I did some research and I guess they both support Vulkan, OpenGL, DX11 and DX12. My bad.

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4 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

Well I thought the 980 didn't support DX12, but after your comment I did some research and I guess they both support Vulkan, OpenGL, DX11 and DX12. My bad.

I have a Kepler GTX 560ti that supports DX12... Maxwell supports every new API

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20 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

Well I thought the 980 didn't support DX12, but after your comment I did some research and I guess they both support Vulkan, OpenGL, DX11 and DX12. My bad.

oh well, API's are still confusing. What's new lol ?

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