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Upgrade advice

If it were me, I'd probably get the £179 Asus strix 970.

But the 480 is similar performance and a newer card.

Both will do great at 1080 for quite some time.
 
Smffy said:
1060 is £194 right now (EVGA) and thats a pretty solid bet over the 970.
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I didn't see that.

In that case, unless the OP really wants to scrimp a few quid, the evga 1060 is probably the better buy.

But really, there's not much performance difference between the 1060, 970 and 480.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I didn't see that.

In that case, unless the OP really wants to scrimp a few quid, the evga 1060 is probably the better buy.

But really, there's not much performance difference between the 1060, 970 and 480.
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That's the 3GB 1060 though.....should that really be considered over a 480?
 
As above in a blind test there isn't really a visible difference between the 480 and 1060. The 480 is capable of getting a lovely boost in Vulkan though and I believe AMD cards age better.

Wouldn't be getting a new 970 today to save £20 quid personally. I had one before the vram scandal and it was ok at 1080p, but it's not clever to buy older architecture NVIDIA cards new for the equivalent of a few rounds savings on the current architecture chips.

Also wouldn't touch a 3GB 1060 with a barge pole for the same price as a 480. Has short lifespan written all over it.
 
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