Explain why the 1060 is recommended over the RX480 even though 480 has better specs

t99 · Nov 6, 2016

I was looking to upgrade from my 270x and was just doing a random 270x vs "insert card" and ran across this comparison. Outside of clock speed / pixel rate the 480 has significantly higher specs, but it shows the 1060 as being the better card.. Is this just a bad website or is the 1060 really a better gpu than the rx480?

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-GeForce-GTX-1060

weberdarren97 · Nov 6, 2016

While the RX 480 has more compute power resulting in higher floating point performance, that really isn't relevant to gaming. And also thanks to Nvidia technologies that allow the GPU to do things like render videos in Adobe Premiere instead of that task being left to the CPU, the GTX 1060 has a higher recommendation from many.

Also, you need to be aware that the AMD RX 4xx market is littered with cards that are actually worse than reference. There are some out there that are really good, but they carry a heavy price premium. I have put together a YouTube playlist on this.

Natsukage · Nov 6, 2016

GPU boss is not exactly the best location to compare. These two card are evenly matched in power, but the GTX 1060-6GB edges out the RX480 in many games, and uses less power.

What specs are you looking at? RAM is not directly related to performance. Pixel rate is one of the measures of performance though, and a higher pixel rate means faster framerates overall.

The only real differentiating factor between these two cards is the price. If you have the choice between the two, choose the card with the lowest price.

Look at these real world benchmarks for a comparison:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2518-nvidia-gtx-1060-review-and-benchmark-vs-rx-480/page-4

k1114 · Nov 6, 2016

Any boss site is trash and you can't compare specs of different architectures. Apples and oranges. There's this easy to see chart to see how gpus compare. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

Btw premiere has had opencl support for amd gpu acceleration for 5 years or so. You're a bit behind.

weberdarren97 · Nov 6, 2016

k1114 :

Really? I've never gotten it to work for me. Whenever I go into settings to enable GPU acceleration it's grayed out. As soon as I swapped it with a GTX 970, the option was there.

TJ Hooker · Nov 6, 2016

To reiterate what others have said, comparing paper specs (#of shader cores, clock speed, pixel rate, memory bandwidth, etc) to try and determine relative gaming performance is largely pointless. The exception is among GPUs with the same architecture (e.g. two Pascal GPUs), in which case paper specs can sometimes be used for an approximation of performance. At the end of the day, you need to look at actual gaming benchmarks, and even then the unfortunate reality is that which card is 'better' may come down to which games you play.

t99 · Nov 6, 2016

thanks for the input. It does appear from other searches and what some of you are saying is that gpuboss website is absolutely horrible for comparisons. Looks like the are actually really close in performance on most games. I'm upgrading from a 270x and only want to do 1080p gaming so I think whichever is on sale for the better price will do more than a good enough job.

Sly67 · Dec 1, 2016

I just switched from an 270x to an Rx480 and can happily say that if your a 1080p Gamer, then you wont be let down. The Division, Battlefield(1&4) Mostly ultra with 60+fps. Gears of War 4 all ultra, well over 100fps. However other games like Dishonored 2, for example, 1060 will treat you better. Then again upcoming games in DX12 might start slightly favoring the 480. Point is, whatever is cheaper will be best for you. They both will win in some games and lose in others. What matters is how you get out, and playing everything on mostly ultra/high at or over 60fps for the cheapest possible is the name of the game. At my point in time it was the Rx480 and so far im happy with it!

Untill i get a new monitor :'(

t99 · Dec 2, 2016

Sly67 :

I ended up getting the 4gb gaming x 480 and love it. It runs so ridiculously cool and fast. I overlocked it some and hit 111% on user benchmark. The first test after just plugging in and doing nothing hit 96%. Everything runs so great with no issues. The only odd thing is how on some weaker games the gpu usage % fluctuates so much. It is at 99/100% and then right after it is at 0, the afterburner graph is just a series of 100% followed by 0% directly after over and over. Everything else appears completely fine and maybe this isn't an issue, but I didn't see this often on my 270x. I'm thinking it's somehow related to the card being so much more powerful than is needed for the games i'm playing.. In BF1 I don't really see this, but in rocket league / hearthstone I see it.

k1114 · Dec 2, 2016

Has nothing to do with being too powerful and more to do with a driver or optimization issue.

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