about 1060 news

JediMa

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I was reading few articles and nvidia is dropping bombs

"Nvidia claims the GTX 1060 is 15 percent faster and over 75 percent more power efficient than the RX 480, which, if true, would make the eight percent jump in price over the 8GB RX 480 more than worth it, so long as you could live with 6GB of VRAM. That's unlikely to present a problem for most games (VR or otherwise) for some time, particularly as the GTX 1060 won't be powerful enough for high-end 4K gaming, which typically demands more memory."

if just this part is true, well considering 480 flaws and so close price...1060 would be the only reasonable option at any level..

I wonder what is true and what is pure marketing.
 
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You're right, July 19th we'll see the truth about RX480 vs GTX1060, if both perform similar it's good because that means competition. The NVIDIA card is more power efficient though and no need for benchmarks to know that, many people base their decisions regarding power consumption.
Wait until the reviews come out before making a decision I'm sure tomsharware.com will have a nice detailed review of the GTX 1060 and a comparison to the reference AMD RX 480 available on July 19th. Also by then the AMD RX 480 will have the updated driver that is suppose to fix its power discrepancies.
 

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The updated drivers is already available: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3112941/amd-update-rx480-pcie-issue.html
 


My point was and I should have worded it better, is that the July 19th comparison will have the newer drivers for the RX 480.
 

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You're right, July 19th we'll see the truth about RX480 vs GTX1060, if both perform similar it's good because that means competition. The NVIDIA card is more power efficient though and no need for benchmarks to know that, many people base their decisions regarding power consumption.
 
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JediMa

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Well also RX 480 has better consumption bout old AMDs.. At this point just performance will set the winner