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1060 or 480

Think I'll get him the powercolor 480. For the money seems the best option currently.

Thanks all for there input.
 
I'm really torn myself.

My experiences with AMD have been glitchy, drivers ****ed up, graphics card dieing.

My GTX 670 I bought has been faultless, no issues, easy to setup, drivers no issues. However, if I were to compare what my GTX 670 can now do to its AMD counterpart, it loses.

I associate Nvidia as more easier to use but ****ter longevity. Given most games are going to probably be DX12 in the future... the 480 looks the better choice.
 
bru said:
You want it idiot proof, good luck with that. :D

More seriously though, I'm not going to tell you that one is clearly better than the other, like some people might. Both are good cards, somewhat hampered by the pricing, a lot of which is down to the pound taking a nose dive, but good cards none the less.

If not overclocking, it can be useful to note that the NVidia's 1060 boosts all by it self much higher than AMD's 480 boost works, but this is down to the way the two systems work and how the two companies advertise the feature.
AMD state a boost clock and unless you over clock the card it will not go above that figure.
NVidia state a boost clock and that is the minimum figure you will see when the card is boosting, a lot of the time it will boost more than that figure.

In most games that you can play right now the 1060 is faster.

The 480 has potential for future titles with good DX12 performance.



If it was my money I would want the best performance now and therefore go with the 1060. probably this one for the 5 year warranty.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £239.99
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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If it's of any interest I have just upgraded (well just kept the case!) my mini ITX PC with a Z170, 6600k and the mini zotac. By way of a comparison it is within 5% of my 4790k with Z97 and an 8gb 290x in benchmarks. I would expect the 480 would be comparible, but run hotter (which is why I went 1060). My Zotac boosts to 1913mhz running heaven at 78c stable. With 16gb ddr4, 2 sata ssds, 1 M2 ssd and a 1tb laptop sshd it runs perfectly on the corsair SF450 psu.
 
ETA - here you go

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The 480 has come a long way since it was released. Performance is up across the board on the older games and does very well in new games. Then there's dx12 and Vulkan which it will do great with. I have the bog standard reference one and even it overclocks pretty well so I would think that red devil would go to 1400mhz easy.
 
im running a reference rx480 8 gig with a 6600k and only 8 gig ddr 2666 ram, it runs every thing i put at it,

including battlefield 1 maxxed out on a 1080 monitor though.

even with hind sight i would not pick a 1060 i would pick a after market rx480 if buying now, undervolting my current reference one :)

both doom and dirt rally have around 140 fps with high aa on ultra :)

got a 240 gig ssd and a 1 terabyte hdd and a 2 gig one both the cheapo seagates on here so a similar system to what your planning to build, all on the gigabyte g1.sniper z170 motherboard and it kicks ass for any game, not had a need to overclock the cpu either :)

i hope its ok to post a link to my monitor its the company that makes it lol

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/it/monitor/led-monitor/LS27F350FHUXEN

thats what im playing stuff on with the above rig, first one had horrible screen bleed and freesync would not work i got it replaced and only minimal bleed in one corner and free sync works, i would not want to go back to a non freesync one now, nice and cheapish and works good for games :)
 
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The 480 is getting better with each driver update at the moment, so it's hard to tell what the final performance will look like. But when a £250 card is within 10fps of a £600 one in some new games, AMD are doing something right (or Nvidia is doing something very wrong).

I have an XFX XXX one and it's been solid so far. It's running noticeably quicker than my 970 was. You can turn the voltage down quite a bit from AMD's default as well (running mine at 1050mv), which opens up a lot more overclocking room.
 
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Nasher said:
The 480 is getting better with each driver update at the moment, so it's hard to tell what the final performance will look like. But when a £250 card is within 10fps of a £600 one in some new games, AMD are doing something right (or Nvidia is doing something very wrong).

I have an XFX XXX one and it's been solid so far. It's running noticeably quicker than my 970 was. You can turn the voltage down quite a bit from AMD's default as well (running mine at 1050mv), which opens up a lot more overclocking room.
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This.

The RX 480 is the one to go for....
 
As said above, the 480 as seen improvements across the board since its release, and i can't see that stopping anytime soon, the XFX is the best 480 on the market as shown in jayztwocents video on YouTube, but you will be paying more for it.

There really isn't much in it, I would just be tempted to get the cheapest card out of the 1060 6gb and 480 8gb, right now that's a 1060
 
TheRealDeal said:
What bad reviews and glitches are you talking about with the RX480. As far as i am aware there is none. I would get this if i were buying as it should out last the 1060 while giving similar performance.
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Have you been to the AMD forums lately? Tons of threads and comments regarding problems with the RXxxx.
 
I'm guessing hes never looked on the Geforce forums. Pretty much every post is a problem :D

Read in to the black screen/nvlddmkm/TDR error crashes. Thats been going on for YEARS.
 
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Snorbitzz said:
Have you been to the AMD forums lately? Tons of threads and comments regarding problems with the RXxxx.
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GizF1 said:
Meanwhile on geforce forums not one single problem can be found
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There will be people who have issues with all sorts of cards, considering the vast variety of systems these things have to work in, it is surprising they work at all half the time.

These sort of issues do not make them bad cards, it is just normal.

TheRealDeal said:
What bad reviews and glitches are you talking about with the RX480. As far as i am aware there is none.
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Seriously????

You have forgotten about the power issues they 480 launched with?

These things have all been sorted out now and the RX480 is a decent card, but trying to pretend it has never had any issues or bad reviews, is like sticking your hands over your ears and singing I cant hear you.:)
 
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