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RX 570 4gb for £95 or GTX 1060 6gb for £155? (1080p)

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Been offered these by a friend of a friend. RX570 is a Sapphire Nitro+ and the 1060 is a Gigabyte Windforce OC.

I am leaning towards a RX570 4gb as the benchmarks seem relatively close to the 1060 6gb and I don't think the extra 2gb will matter that much in general 1080p gaming. I mean by the time we are at a point where 6gb is the standard for most games at 1080p, will the 1060 even have the power to run games at a level that use that much vram?

Even if it does, is it worth paying the 65% premium for 10% better framerates and "future proofing"? Or am I just completely wrong here and missing something?
 
Armageus said:
£95 is a bargain, and the extra £60 doesn't offer a value for money improvement imo
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That's what I was thinking, just checking I wasn't missing anything obvious.

These days I mostly consider Frames per £ rather than trying to reach a set standard of FPS. I'm much happier playing at 50fps for £2/frame than playing at 60fps for £2.50/frame.
 
Uhh so a quick surprising update:

Told the guy I'd take the 570 as it's a no brainer, 10% less performance for a much cheaper price and he said he didn't realise there was such a small difference between the two so offered to sell me the 1060 6gb for £110. Uhhh, not the way I expected it to go but hey ho, I'll take that.

Thrown into my system and got it OC'd to 2114mhz core and 9316mhz (4658mhz) mem with no seeming memory error correction unless I'm doing it wrong (Heaven Benchmark scores increased at each 50mhz step), at stock voltages with power limit/temp limit increased to the max in MSI afterburner. Runs a bit loud at these clocks/temps so I might make a undervolted @ stock clocks profile for more of a "silent" setup especially for non-taxing games. I can only play at 60fps tops so don't always need that extra umph.
 
Great stuff. In some DX12/Vulkan stuff the 570 might actually be slightly faster, with the 1060 but at £110 you've done exceptionally well to get a 1060.

I'd be pretty happy, especially if theres warranty! :) As a nice aside your desktop is now faster than my laptop lol
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Great stuff. In some DX12/Vulkan stuff the 570 might actually be slightly faster, with the 1060 but at £110 you've done exceptionally well to get a 1060.

I'd be pretty happy, especially if theres warranty! :) As a nice aside your desktop is now faster than my laptop lol
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Haha I think your laptop may still be faster. I'm on an i5-4670k @ 4.5ghz and 16gb of DDR3 1866mhz. I've decided to forgo DDR4 and just move onto DDR5 when it comes around. The 4670k doesn't quite yet bottleneck me, at least not in the games I'm playing at any noticable level. Guess that's the benefit of only pushing 60 fps max lol.

Speaking of DX12/Vulkan I did some reading up on DX12/Vulkan and how (and excuse any mistakes because I don't actually know what I'm talking about just regurgitating what I watched/read) because its more low level API whilst DX11 is high level API it's harder (or perhaps more effort to learn) to code for DX12/Vulkan at the moment. So a lot of developers are sticking mainly to DX11, especially as Nvidia struggles with DX12 but has the lions share of the GPU market (think 70% or so). If DX12 does eventually become dominant I could always just swap over to AMD on the used market.
 
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