Which GPU should I get?

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SuperJay

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I have 264 dollars to spare and I'm getting a new graphics card with it. I've chosen either the rx 480 or the gtx 1060. I only strictly do gaming with my PC. Which card do you think I should get? I will list my specs if it helps at all.

Graphics Card: R9 380 2 Gig

CPU: AMD FX-6350 – 6 Core 3.5 GHz

Ram: 8 Gig DDR3 – 1600MHz

HD: 1 TB Western Digital Blue

Motherboard: Gigabyte AM3+

Wifi Card: TP Link WDN-4800

Power Supply: EVGA 650 Watt 80+Bronze

Case: Corsair Spec-02 Red

Disk Drive: Asus 24x DVD/CD
 
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1) Lower power consumption, especially on the PCIe slot
2) Better driver support, nvidia comes out with at least one a month, AMD can sometimes take 6mo
3) CUDA . Despite all the hype around OpenCL, CUDA still remains king in GPGPU, so if you use Blender or Matlab, definitely get Nvidia. Even for OpenCL Nvidia tends to have better support, with larger kernel size limits and better optimizations in their compiler.
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SuperJay

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Why would you pick the 1060?
 
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1) Lower power consumption, especially on the PCIe slot
2) Better driver support, nvidia comes out with at least one a month, AMD can sometimes take 6mo
3) CUDA . Despite all the hype around OpenCL, CUDA still remains king in GPGPU, so if you use Blender or Matlab, definitely get Nvidia. Even for OpenCL Nvidia tends to have better support, with larger kernel size limits and better optimizations in their compiler.
 
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