GTX 1060 Vs RX 480 - head to head showdown

[Gregster]

Gregster: don't get sucked in dude, its a lonely walk.

I am a Union Rep - I can't help it

 

[Gregster]

 

[Gregster]

And then like my GTX660(against the HD7870) and GTX960(and the HD7870) performance goes down the pan and its why from trading blows with a R9 380,the GTX960 now gets thrashed Gameworks titles like The Division.


Plus after trying Doom under Vulkan and the fact OpenGL works better - LMAO. That is from Bethesda and iD who are close to Nvidia,like Ubisoft was with The Division.

I expected some performance degradation with my GTX960 4GB against a R9 380. Happening within nine months was a record.

It was a bloody joke when sodding ARK ran better on my mates R9 280 at Christmas.

But I suppose that is why some of you tend to spend £400+ on cards,right?? None of you actually game on cheaper cards and its bloody annoying poorly my card has aged against the R9 380 and I suspect some of you made similar jibes against it then too.



Plus, where is the async driver for my GTX960 - I am still waiting for months now.

Edit!!

It gets better:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/02/16/vulkan-graphics-api/



They said that in February - apparently not ready yet??

You want to tell me when it is ready??

So no async driver for Maxwell yet??

No Vulkan driver yet??

Yet apparently AMD got one out for Doom??

From the pro-AMD developers id and Bethesda.

That is why Nvidia was boasting about Doom when showing off the GTX1080.

Oh,but you knew that right?

LMAO,but lets make excuses for Nvidia.

Chill out bud. You could probably fetch a few quid for your 960 and wouldn't have to put much to a 480 or something.

 

[Gregster]

ok, I just figured out how to decide once and for all which card is better.

We create a gaming club, talk over slack, have a Green and Red team and battle it out in Doom multiplayer. You know what they say ... make love not war ... screw it, make war! At least we can take it out on each other. Any takers?

Count me in but I don't think many AMD owners have this game lol

 

[Gregster]

There is a multiplayer but I have the reactions of a sloth who has just drunk q5 pints of Stella

 

[Gregster]

Finally, so you sure now after your quotes and questioning, you agree the performance is similar, nothing major and AMD has cheaper options for such. (when in stock)

Both things I originally said anyways.
As for "real difference" I do not see anyone looking long term saying the 1060 is potentially the better choice.

Your own purchase decisions are yours as are other peoples but you cannot deny the main factor is the curiosity and concern for future games using the new API. Time will tell if/how performance advantage swings more to AMD or not.

I assume you have a 480? Which one have you got?

 

[Gregster]

Well, Battlefield1 is getting DX12 and thats due not too far away, i expect the 480 will probably be ahead of the 1060 in that.

There is definitely uptake of DX12 and Vulcan, most major engines have already been updated with support for them.

Interesting you say that. BF4 was the first Mantle game that I can remember and they did well with that after some teething problems. Try running Mantle on a Fury X though and it was shocking performance and a 680 was faster than a Fury X and using Mantle would go over the 4GB limit at 200% res scaling for 1080P (so a 4K experience). Did this ever get fixed out of interest do you know?