Nvidia GTX 1060 OR Radeon RX 480 ?

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I'm planing for get a Graphics card i have two option Nvidia GTX 1060 OR Radeon RX 480 Which card is future proof with great performance i need a suggestion guys please help..!
 
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2 1060s would probably be a bad idea, doesn't support SLI, which is a good reason not to get two, the second would just be defaulted for display only in most cases (there are specific cases where you can use two). Seems to me that most people round these parts are recommending the 480, they're both plenty fast for 1080, but the 480 is cheaper, even with the 8Gb RAM, which right now is overkill for 1080, but maybe in the future you would want that, also, you can crossfire the 480s, so two cards are supported in most games out of the box with little tinkering on your part. I'm waiting on the 480 for my parents' rig, I play games over there @ 1080, and the fan on their old 7870 GHz died at some point in the past few months, didn't...
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Do you want shadow play? DX 12 support? PhysX? BEARD PHYSICS (Joke) but if all those nVidia features entice you then pop a 1060 in there, hell maybe even 2! Hope that helped a bit

- Mike
 
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2 1060s would probably be a bad idea, doesn't support SLI, which is a good reason not to get two, the second would just be defaulted for display only in most cases (there are specific cases where you can use two). Seems to me that most people round these parts are recommending the 480, they're both plenty fast for 1080, but the 480 is cheaper, even with the 8Gb RAM, which right now is overkill for 1080, but maybe in the future you would want that, also, you can crossfire the 480s, so two cards are supported in most games out of the box with little tinkering on your part. I'm waiting on the 480 for my parents' rig, I play games over there @ 1080, and the fan on their old 7870 GHz died at some point in the past few months, didn't realize it til I went over there and gave their PC a SSD and a checkup, they don't do anything graphic intensive so it never got hot without the fan... Got lucky, anyways, there's a 140mm fan zip tied to it right now...
 
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The RX480 is the overall better value imho, especially if you can wait til around the end of the month for one of the aftermarket cards. Should you want to upgrade your sys by adding one or more cards at some point, you can do that with the 480, whereas you can't with the 1060 (no sli support). The RX 480's significant performance gains using Vulkan in Doom in 1080p and 1440p is worth considering, i.e. what it could mean for the future. Here are a couple links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyuoQIuEZj0 (480 vs 970 and 1070, Doom, Vulkan). 480 vid elaborates on areas of performance gains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXijkS_qIzA . Also a 1060 review, summarizing performance in some games using DX12 and Vulkan, between a reference 480 and a 1060... http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/07/19/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1060_founders_edition_review/10#.V48ftvkrIuV
 
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