RX480 vs GTX1060

liddlewill · 29 Aug 2016 at 17:18

Cheapest 480 in stock is £225 which is out of my budget, and would most likely bottleneck my cpu (amd a10 7850K oc to 4.2) which both of these cards prolly will. But for future upgrades sake im looking to get the best bang for my buck. I only play Guild wars 2 atm and would like it to look pretty, should I stay with the 470 as previously advised and keep out of the big boys games

ps: budget is £190 which brings the 1060s into play

southernorth · 29 Aug 2016 at 17:32

liddlewill said:
Cheapest 480 in stock is £225 which is out of my budget, and would most likely bottleneck my cpu (amd a10 7850K oc to 4.2) which both of these cards prolly will. But for future upgrades sake im looking to get the best bang for my buck. I only play Guild wars 2 atm and would like it to look pretty, should I stay with the 470 as previously advised and keep out of the big boys games
ps: budget is £190 which brings the 1060s into play

I would avoid the 3GB 1060 for your budget. GW2 (like most mmos) are cpu reliant, so a CPU upgrade could probably benefit a lot.

But, If £190 is your absolute end of budget then I would recommend these 3:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...-pci-express-rgb-graphics-card-gx-37f-sp.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18b-pc.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-23e-xf.html

Sapphire and XFX are often seen as the better AMD board partners, for customer support & RMA.

The card linked below has a better cooling solution than the 3 linked above (lower noise and reduced temperatures) but it costs a bit more. MSI is a very well respected company for customer service and RMA. It's £5 over your budget though.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-32y-ms.html

Again slightly over budget, but the card below would be a decent improvement over any of the 470's I linked but for only £10 more. This is probably the best bang for buck card that overclockers sell (but it isn't in stock atm).

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-...s-graphics-card-with-backplate-gx-23c-xf.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVM0Nb5crMM - This video is a good set of benchmarks for the cards in your budget (just ignore 1060 6GB).

liddlewill · 29 Aug 2016 at 17:45

Thanks very much for that, i have a little time to wait, so hopefuly the 480 will come into stock (any ideas when this might be anyone?) if not, ill get the msi as it looks way cool

southernorth · 29 Aug 2016 at 17:50

liddlewill said:
Thanks very much for that, i have a little time to wait, so hopefuly the 480 will come into stock (any ideas when this might be anyone?) if not, ill get the msi as it looks way cool

I'd probably drop OCuk a webnote tomorrow asking when they think that 480 will be in stock, and if they intend to keep the price the same. You never know, it might be in stock next week. I have also recommended you avoid the 3GB 1060 based on future-proofing. As seen from the video it is faster, in most cases, at present. But, this will probably change over time as games begin to use up more VRAM and suddenly 3GB doesn't cut it. Also, many future games will be using DX12/Vulcan more readily which at the moment favors AMD cards slightly.

Gabbatek · 29 Aug 2016 at 20:00

you need at least 4gb ram if you want to play with high graphics

Brazo · 29 Aug 2016 at 23:36

Gabbatek said:
you need at least 4gb ram if you want to play with high graphics

So when my 780ti was hitting a minimum of 60fps at 1440 ultra settings was I not 'playing'?

Doom112 · 30 Aug 2016 at 02:13

Deus Mankind Divided RX 480 vs GTX 1060.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj_QKPHLt4

akarypid · 30 Aug 2016 at 16:28

Doom112 said:
Deus Mankind Divided RX 480 vs GTX 1060.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj_QKPHLt4

That's actually 5 cards:

- RX480
- FuryX
- 780ti Matrix
- 970 Strix
- 1060

Made me dizzy trying to watch all of them...

Weird that it is not showing temp on the RX480.

Doom112 · 30 Aug 2016 at 18:25

BF1 beta benchmarks of RX 480 and GTX 1060. GTX 1060 is beating RX 480 on both DX11 and DX12.

http://www.sweclockers.com/test/22567-snabbtest-battlefield-1-beta-i-directx-11-och-directx-12

Rroff · 30 Aug 2016 at 18:30

Doom112 said:
Deus Mankind Divided RX 480 vs GTX 1060.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj_QKPHLt4

780ti keeping up quite well given that it is what ~3 years older than some of those cards?

danlightbulb · 30 Aug 2016 at 18:46

Doom112 said:
BF1 beta benchmarks of RX 480 and GTX 1060. GTX 1060 is beating RX 480 on both DX11 and DX12.

http://www.sweclockers.com/test/22567-snabbtest-battlefield-1-beta-i-directx-11-och-directx-12

Kinda feels like a big assumption that the 480 will catch up. I assume however that you veterens here have seen this exact same thing before with the last gen and AMD did catch up, even overtake. How many years did that take?

southernorth · 30 Aug 2016 at 18:51

danlightbulb said:
Kinda feels like a big assumption that the 480 will catch up. I assume however that you veterens here have seen this exact same thing before with the last gen and AMD did catch up, even overtake. How many years did that take?

I'm not sure if the predictions will work this time tbh, the 1060 is like 80℅ faster than 960 and has way more vram. It is the biggest performance leap ever for a xx60 card. I don't think it will fade anything like previous xx60 cards.

SheepBeast · 30 Aug 2016 at 19:24

> the 1060 is like 80℅ faster than 960

what?

bru · 30 Aug 2016 at 19:56

SheepBeast said:
> the 1060 is like 80℅ faster than 960

what?

Even more than that in same cases

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1744?vs=1771

Lokken86 · 30 Aug 2016 at 19:58

Meh. Beta means nothing. Still, cards performing well, hope it stays that way.

shankly1985 · 30 Aug 2016 at 20:07

I find it really strange why people go out there way to benchmarks a beta or alpha etc surely it's best to test once amd/nvidia have there working drivers on a full release title?

What's to say tonight AMD release a driver that gives the 480 a performance boost in dx12 now that link above would be out of date and miss leading.

Edit
Right on que, amd just released drivers, now that benchmarks ate completely pointless.

southernorth · 30 Aug 2016 at 20:41

bru said:
Even more than that in same cases

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1744?vs=1771

and that's a founders as well, expect even more gains in reality for aftermarket cards.

Drake5 · 30 Aug 2016 at 20:50

I have a 470, is it worth selling this and getting a 1060

akarypid · 30 Aug 2016 at 20:56

Doom112 said:
BF1 beta benchmarks of RX 480 and GTX 1060. GTX 1060 is beating RX 480 on both DX11 and DX12.

http://www.sweclockers.com/test/22567-snabbtest-battlefield-1-beta-i-directx-11-och-directx-12

I don't understand Swedish (and I hate reading computer-translations) but from the tables I saw it seems like BF1 is a DX11 title with DX12 as an afterthought?

I say this because both cards lose a lot of performance in DX12 compared to DX11 (which should not be happening in either of them).

Unless there is a 'proper DX12' patch coming...

LtMatt · 30 Aug 2016 at 20:58

akarypid said:
I don't understand Swedish (and I hate reading computer-translations) but from the tables I saw it seems like BF1 is a DX11 title with DX12 as an afterthought?

I say this because both cards lose a lot of performance in DX12 compared to DX11 (which should not be happening in either of them).

Unless there is a 'proper DX12' patch coming...

I wouldn't read too much into it, the priority from the devs is on stability rather than performance. Lots of performance optimisations to be added, which you'll see in time.