Which GPU would you buy?

[SageOfSpice]

They're about the same price at the moment, unfortunately.

In order to get a better 480, I'd probably have to wait for one to go on sale, or I'll be spending about $70 more.

 

I figure the 1060 probably has more overclocking headroom, it has an extra year warranty, and it's got the nice beefy ACX cooler on it.

That said, I like the look of the 480, and it's got an extra GB of ram which would definitely be used, but I'm not exactly fond of all the problems I've been hearing that it's having.

 

What would you choose?

[ARikozuM]

I heard that Sapphire did a terrible job on the cooler this generation. Are there any others that you would consider?

[Guest]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

I heard that Sapphire did a terrible job on the cooler this generation. Are there any others that you would consider?

So you are the one pick 1060 3GB for better temps over performance. . I see

[ARikozuM]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

So you are the one pick 1060 3GB for better temps over performance. . I see

Is it 3GB? It is. 

[Techstorm970]

7 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

They're about the same price at the moment, unfortunately.

In order to get a better 480, I'd probably have to wait for one to go on sale, or I'll be spending about $70 more.

 

I figure the 1060 probably has more overclocking headroom, it has an extra year warranty, and it's got the nice beefy ACX cooler on it.

That said, I like the look of the 480, and it's got an extra GB of ram which would definitely be used, but I'm not exactly fond of all the problems I've been hearing that it's having.

 

What would you choose?

RX 480.  Not even a question.  Maybe Sapphire flubbed their cooler design for this generation, but there's no way that their AMD graphics cards are as bad as the ones from Gigabyte, VisionTek, or PowerColor.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I heard that Sapphire did a terrible job on the cooler this generation. Are there any others that you would consider?

Not bad at all actually, I consider 75 to be a good temperature for a low cost card

 

Unless you do Furmark

 

I can't find review of the non plus card but I believe they should be the same in terms of cooling

[SageOfSpice]

6 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I heard that Sapphire did a terrible job on the cooler this generation. Are there any others that you would consider?

Possibly either:

 

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GB 

or

MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 ARMOR 4G OC 4GB

 

Where did you hear this? I think I vaguely recall hearing that some of the 480s didn't have VRM cooling, but I'm not exactly sure which models.

[Guest]

Just now, SageOfSpice said:

Possibly either:

 

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GB 

or

MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 ARMOR 4G OC 4GB

 

Where did you hear this? I think I vaguely recall hearing that some of the 480s didn't have VRM cooling, but I'm not exactly sure which models.

100% no for Gigabyte

Armor maybe

[ARikozuM]

Just now, SageOfSpice said:

Possibly either:

 

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GB 

or

MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX 480 ARMOR 4G OC 4GB

I'd go with one of these, preferably the MSI. 

Just now, SageOfSpice said:

Where did you hear this? I think I vaguely recall hearing that some of the 480s didn't have VRM cooling, but I'm not exactly sure which models.

Reviews on Youtube and Anandtech or TechPowerup, whoever does testing (obviously Anandtech does, not sure if TPU does for everything).

[SageOfSpice]

8 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

100% no for Gigabyte

Armor maybe

Eeeh... It'd make my wallet cry a bit, but I could get the: XFX Radeon RS RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P4LFB6 4GB

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, SageOfSpice said:

Eeeh... It'd make my wallet cry a bit, but I could get the: XFX Radeon RS RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P4LFB6 4GB

 

The 8GB is only like $20 more than that... Slippery slope, I'm not sure if I'll need it really.

Core breaks before VRAM becomes an issue. 4GB is plenty for 1080 gaming unless you're doing triples.

[SageOfSpice]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Core breaks before VRAM becomes an issue. 4GB is plenty for 1080 gaming unless you're doing triples.

I figured. Nah, I don't even use eyefinity or anything.

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Core breaks before VRAM becomes an issue. 4GB is plenty for 1080 gaming unless you're doing triples.

I agree here, by the time you actually need to use the extra vram your card will be too slow to push acceptable frames on such newer demanding game any ways. Nowadays you should just avoid 2gb cards, 4gb is still very acceptable.