1060 vs 480?

[Rankx]

Which build would be better performance wise for my 1730$ AUD Budget.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZtrCtJ

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tt9Ljc

[Droidbot]

480 is higher tflops, better cooler. Will improve with drivers down the track. 

Go 480. 

[Bazilias]

3 minutes ago, Rankx said:

Which build would be better performance wise for my 1730$ AUD Budget.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZtrCtJ

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tt9Ljc

I would go for the RX 480. The FPS difference in games aren't "Huge" and it will also save you money.

[Herman Mcpootis]

they trade blows right now but the 480 has an extra 2gb of vram, allows for crossfire(not that you should do it) and freesync monitors are usually far cheaper. i'd recommend the 480.

[manikyath]

RX480, and for goodness sake those monitors have terrible stands...

[Light-Yagami]

Speaking of rx480 higher compute preformance. Fury X has 8.6 Tflops of compute preformance, and gtx 1070 has 6.5. That being said, gtx 1070 blows AMD out of the water everywhere, there's only few DX12 titles, where AMD wins by few frames. (nvidia doesn't gain anything with DX12). So even tho rx480 has an advantage here, the gtx 1060 clearly is a better GPU. Not to mention that you will overclock it higher than the rx 480, giving the nvidia card even more advantage. Go for 1060.  Remember that rx480 offers gtx 970 preformance, but you won't go and buy gtx 970 right? gtx 1060 ftw!

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, huilun02 said:

XFX 480 GTR versus a low cost Asus blower design 1060

Must be some sort of sanity check huh

1. Get XFX GTR

2. Remove the fans

3. Weld a heatsink to where the fans were meant to go

4. ???

5. Profit, Fanless 480

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

Speaking of rx480 higher compute preformance. Fury X has 8.6 Tflops of compute preformance, and gtx 1070 has 6.5. That being said, gtx 1070 blows AMD out of the water everywhere, there's only few DX12 titles, where AMD wins by few frames. (nvidia doesn't gain anything with DX12). So even tho rx480 has an advantage here, the gtx 1060 clearly is a better GPU. Not to mention that you will overclock it higher than the rx 480, giving the nvidia card even more advantage. Go for 1060.  Remember that rx480 offers gtx 970 preformance, but you won't go and buy gtx 970 right? gtx 1060 ftw!

Not really, yes but the RX 480 overclocks more percentage wise, not clockspeed wise. The RX480 offers the same performance as the 1060 usually (except in GTA 5 or Overwatch and some other nvidia supported titles, but loses in AMD supported titles, like Hitman or Deus X MD). Most benchmarks out there have the 1060 boosted way higher than stock, but left the RX 480 at stock, since it doesn't boost automatically. I have to agree that pascal is a better (but not really more advanced) architecture

[thenastyjbenny]

Rx 480 no question is the winner, will get better over time so yeah.

 

Look and see if the R9 Fury Nitro is available in your area.

[manikyath]

21 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

So even tho rx480 has an advantage here, the gtx 1060 clearly is a better GPU.

to be honest they're that close in "on paper performance" that it's pretty much a margin of error / personal preference / ecosystem decision. and honestly at this point, as a very much intel/nvidia guy myself (it's a habit thing) i'd rather recommend an RX480 than a GTX1060, given offcourse that you dont get one of those RX480s from a manufacturer that did naughty things to the VRMs to save money. the long term promises of the RX480 just look better, and with the ludicrous amounts of vram AMD keeps putting on their cards crossfire is still *slightly* more viable than SLI as a future upgrade.