Should I upgrade to a RX 480, GTx 960 FTW or GTX 1060.

klop231

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Hello everyone,

I need an upgrade from my GTX 750. But as you all know, with all the new gpus coming out such as the GTX 1060 and the RX 480, I dont know what to look into. Ill keep this as straight forward as possible to make this easy and not confusing, for the most part.

My questions to you are :

1) Will the RX 480 preform somewhere around the GTX 960, R9 380 threshold ?

2) For me to achieve the biggest possible improvement from my GTX 750 under $300, should I get a GTX 960, RX 480, or GTX 1060?

3) Ok, with a completely open mind, which company preforms better for most mainstream titles, Amd or N-vidia, and why?

Thank you for your time in reading this.

Im aware that some of these questions are hard to answer because the benchmarks for some cards aren't out, but a general prediction would be appreciated.

Build : 8 gb ram, nothing special.
i7 4790k
gtx 750
500w gigabyte psu
gigabyte z97 motherboard.
and a 1080p monitor.
 

klop231

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OK, perfect. However, would an amd card do well on my build?
 

Teoman Efe

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Judging by what NV said about pricing of 1080&1070 and how it is in reality, 1060 would be around $300-$350 (my thoughts, nothing confirmed) and we, midrange users don't grow money on trees and care about P/$, I would say RX480 is the more reasonable choice on money side.

DirectX12 is the core of nearly all future games, which is where AMD's hardware steps ahead. NVidia's support is software based whereas AMD's support it hardware based. Another point for AMD here.

On "offical" GeForce website it states that 1060 doesn't support SLI so you cannot get another 1060 in future and combine them whereas RX480 is CrossFire-enabled. (Confirmed)

To make things clear, I'm not a fanboy, and even biased on green side since I personally own an NV. I tried to be as objective as possible.