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Would you buy GTX 1060 or RX 480 ?

Would you buy GTX 1060 or RX 480 ?

  • GeForce GTX 1060

    Votes: 13,198 29.3%

  • Radeon RX 480

    Votes: 17,938 39.8%

  • Both are too slow

    Votes: 8,910 19.8%

  • I'm not upgrading this round

    Votes: 4,364 9.7%

  • I'm happy with my console

    Votes: 658 1.5%
  • Total voters
    45,068
  • Poll closed .
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FYFI13 said:
GTX 1060, because AMD cards not doing great in Arma 3 and their drivers are still utter mess. That's from my own experience. I tried really hard to like it but it simply did not work for me. Not trying to start a war green vs red; if AMD cards and their drivers suits your needs - cool, I'm honestly happy for you. Performance wise both cards are very similar, RX480 slightly more power hungry but cheaper than GTX 1060.
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In my experience with ARMA 3, it is AMD CPUs that don't well, the GPU's work just fine.
Since ARMA 3 supports Crossfire, 2 x RX 480's would be a less costly way to improve performance on higher resolutions, though the issues with ARMA 3 are not the graphics, but the lack of CPU core utilization where Intel's cache speeds are the biggest factor.
 
Not sure which one I would choose TBH, both are great but I already got a 1070 so i'm set :toast:
 
"I'm happy with my console", I see what you did there. Bought mini 1060 already. Also waiting for RX470 for my small amd-based htpc setup.
 
ok guys..i lied :P there were no 1060 in stock but there was a RX 480 :D

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based on the reviews I've read and overclocking potential of the AIB 480's............?

I'd pick up a 269$ 1060 overclock it to 2050 and beat the overclocked 480 in direct x 11 and 12 games.
 
1060 of course cause on my country the price of 480 and 1060 pretty much the same..but if 480 lower im gonna still pick up 1060..cause performance pretty same with 980..but im waiting for used 1070 next year and will drop on price on the same price as 1060 and still have some warranty haha thats what im gonna do
 
I am leaning towards the RX480 but If I saw a 1060 with a good cooler and warranty I would probably jump on it if it was cheap enough.
 
Ungari said:
In my experience with ARMA 3, it is AMD CPUs that don't well, the GPU's work just fine.
Since ARMA 3 supports Crossfire, 2 x RX 480's would be a less costly way to improve performance on higher resolutions, though the issues with ARMA 3 are not the graphics, but the lack of CPU core utilization where Intel's cache speeds are the biggest factor.
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Well, I was using it with i7 4790K and a month with R9 380 was my worst experience in this game i ever had. Slow texture loading when zooming in, good few graphical glitches (those could be because of Nvidia GameWorks used in A3 though) and good few crashes to desktop. GPU core clock fluctuations also were quite annoying. I had no issues in other games, just Arma 3 multiplayer.

RX 480 isn't doing great in this game either, at least FPS-wise:

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I bleed Red... so the RX 480 for me.
 
1060 in a snap, I must admit a preference to NV cards for build quality/drivers, and I think the 1060 is well worth the slight premium over a 480 for those two reasons, plus the performance edge it has, lower power consumption, temps and overclock headroom.

This is all if I hadn't gone out and gotten a 1080...
 
If I had to choose I'd go with the RX, green has enough money already, besides, the difference is small enough that you wont notice a few extra FPS, if it ain't 60, it still isn't 60. Got a upgrade itch but have no one to scratch if for me, so keeping my 970 for the foreseeable future.
 
I'd go with the 1060, funny enough here it's cheaper than the RX480, I'd also buy it for the lower power consumption.
 
An RX480 4GB variant for me. Cheap as chips and flogs 1080p gaming.
 
I'm starting to wonder if the 4GB version are really going to be realeased worldwide. So far it seems that only a very few americans got them. It's listed on xfx and sapphire website, they appears on some americain website (sold out though). But the 8gb seems to get the favor: you won't find a single 4gb in europe.
 
Already got an RX 480. Will buy another or the 470, depending on benchmarks.

Nvidia cards are overpriced by as much as 20% here (GTX 960 is the same price as the 390) so no contest.
 
Caring1 said:
A lot of places claim "sold out" when they never had them in stock in the first place.
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To be fair, any programmer is going to point out the unlikeliness of a stock system differentiating between zero stock and having had previous stock or not. Pretty obvious "sold out" is the same as "none in stock".
 
wow! i didnt expect the 480 to be the majority!
 
$ReaPeR$ said:
wow! i didnt expect the 480 to be the majority!
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i was going to get a 1060, but they werent going to be in stock at my B & M store for another week or so. So I grabbed the only 480 in stock :P :)
 
AlienIsGOD said:
i was going to get a 1060, but they werent going to be in stock at my B & M store for another week or so. So I grabbed the only 480 in stock :p :)
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good for you bro! i would take the cheapest one, which would logically be the 480, though some here have stated that in some countries they have the same/similar price. because i tend to upgrade only when needed, imo the 480 would be the better choice with all the dx12 games coming..
 
Both are too slow for me to consider worth really upgrading to, but to me it seems like 480 could be more future proof with DX12 and 8GB of VRAM. I'd really like to know how far the memory can be pushed on the 480 however as it probably has more to gain with the bigger VRAM size.
 
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