- Jun 11, 2014
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Hello,
So, I'm looking to upgrade my MSI GTX 960 2G OC. The most significant upgrade for me for a price I can actually afford is the RX 480 or the GTX 1060. I'm sure the question of which is the best has been answered multiple times, but I want to take a different approach to that.
Considering that you can get an, let's say MSI GTX 1060 and a MSI RX 480 for a little bit under the price of a 1060, the 6 and 8GB GDDR5 versions respectively, what's the estimated amount of time these cards would stand up to the evolution of games?
I understand that the RX 480 will beat the 1060 in most DX 12 games, so because of that, would it make more sense to get one of those for future games coming out instead since they're likely to have DX 12 or even Vulcan running them instead of DX 11?
But then again, does Nvidia have any plans to release an update to make their cards play better with DX 12? Or is that a hardware issue that they can't fix with an update.
I'm planning to be running a 1440p monitor with one of these cards. I have looked around the reviews of the non-reference cards for the RX 480, and not many of them will get any performance boosts over the reference card if it is Overclocked.
Overclocking the non-reference 1060 cards does seem to increace performance by plenty.
What's going to last longer against newer games?
As a side question, I've heard bad things about the Powercolor Devil series cards. Are any of those true with the RX 480 and would that card be a viable option?
So, I'm looking to upgrade my MSI GTX 960 2G OC. The most significant upgrade for me for a price I can actually afford is the RX 480 or the GTX 1060. I'm sure the question of which is the best has been answered multiple times, but I want to take a different approach to that.
Considering that you can get an, let's say MSI GTX 1060 and a MSI RX 480 for a little bit under the price of a 1060, the 6 and 8GB GDDR5 versions respectively, what's the estimated amount of time these cards would stand up to the evolution of games?
I understand that the RX 480 will beat the 1060 in most DX 12 games, so because of that, would it make more sense to get one of those for future games coming out instead since they're likely to have DX 12 or even Vulcan running them instead of DX 11?
But then again, does Nvidia have any plans to release an update to make their cards play better with DX 12? Or is that a hardware issue that they can't fix with an update.
I'm planning to be running a 1440p monitor with one of these cards. I have looked around the reviews of the non-reference cards for the RX 480, and not many of them will get any performance boosts over the reference card if it is Overclocked.
Overclocking the non-reference 1060 cards does seem to increace performance by plenty.
What's going to last longer against newer games?
As a side question, I've heard bad things about the Powercolor Devil series cards. Are any of those true with the RX 480 and would that card be a viable option?
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