RCFProd :
Those percentages seem to be off to quite the extreme.
52% faster? That's an insane value and I can't find where this number comes from, unless It's from a single benchmark in Battlefield 4
Let's go back and read what I wrote:
Listed in order of BF4 performance @ 1080p
That's correct, but hardly significant. It's not 97 to 60 ... it's 92 to 60 which either way doesn't exactly put them on an "even keel" . Worth mentioning that the the 3GB still crushes the $120 more ($385) RX 480 in BF4 by a whopping 31 % ... and 10% in GTAV.
Actually, in most titles, the RX 470 is very close to the GTX 1060 3GB in performance, whilst the RX 480 4GB usually edges on the GTX 1060 3GB. The performance difference overall between the RX 470 and the RX 480 is just ~10 fps on average.
470 has an average score of 83% in the test suite
1060 GB and 480 both have 100% average
1060 3GB OC's 14.5% (94.5fps in BF3)
Don't wanna clog the board w/ images but
480 8GB manages just 8.6% (83.6%)
480 4 Gb manages just 6.5% (79.0 fps)
The RX 470 comes as close as you'd wish to an AMD version of a GTX 970. And AMD drivers have shown a decent increase in performance and lowered CPU overhead in several DX11 titles, which AMD GPU's used to suffer from. Games with CPU overhead report up to 10% performance increase.
Nope 83% isn't close as I'd wish to the 1060 3Gb or 480 8GB... to be considered equivalent, that means equal. Again using the horse race analogy, losing by 147 lengths is not a tie.
As it stands, based on several games that have been released after 2013, is that your numbers aren't close to being correct.
First off, the subject at hand .. as stated by the OP is
"a video card that can play gta v fallout 4". The context of this discussion and each of my posts has therefore been limited to the stated topic. "Several games that have been released since 2013" are off topic.
Second, they aren't "my numbers". If you don't like the published results, take it up with TechPowerUp, Guru3d or any other well respected unbased site which shows the same thing
As I had showed the advantages of the 1060 over the 480 in BF4 (31%) are far greater than GTAV (10%)
Guru3D didn't test BF4, but they did GTAV
Reference GTX 1060 6GB = 90 fps in GTAV
Reference RX 480 8GB = 84 fps
MSI RX 470 w/ factory OC = 81 fps
Reference 470 = 76 sps (90 / 76 = 18%)
They also tested BG Hardline which I guess is in the picture if BF4 is
Reference 1060 = 73 fps
MSI 470 8GB w/ factory overclock = 57 (73 / 57 = 28%)
Can I go out and fine games which show the 480 doing better ? Of course. But a) the OP is looking for which card to choose specifically for those games b) the 480 costs a whole lot more c) the 1060 overclocks a helluva lot better than the 470 / 480 cards.
When i am trying to help someone that is "Looking for a video card that can play gta v fallout 4 battle steep, at medium to high settings with decent frame rates."
I have to say that:
-92 fps in
BF4 is a helluva lot more "decent" than 71 fps for the 480 and 60 fps for the 470 ... even more so when overclocked, that goes to 105, 77 and 64 fps respectively for a 36% advantage over the 480 and a 64% advantage over the 470. In the horse race, that's a win by 322 lengths
-95 fps in
GTAV is a helluva lot more "decent" than 87 fps for the 480 and 73 fps for the 470 ... even more so when overclocked, that goes to 109, 93 and 78 fps respectively for a 17% advantage over the 480 and a 40% advantage over the 470. In the horse race, that's a win by 243 lengths
EDIT:
I do have to apologize for my misread... Appears I got a momentary case of dyslexia seeing "4 battle" in the OP and seeing BF4 in my head... my bad. Ignore all the BF4 stuff
So lets do Fallout 4
-82 fps in
Fallout 4 is a helluva lot more "decent" than 70 fps for the 480 and 67 fps for the 470 ... even more so when overclocked, that goes to 94, 76 and 71 fps respectively for a 26% advantage over the 480 and a 32% advantage over the 470. In the horse race, that's a win by 267 lengths
So what we have here for the 2 games specifically noted is in the 2 races the 1060 3GB won by 267 lengths in one race and 243 in the other.
I did a Yahoo search on Battle Steep but couldn't find anything
EDIT 2:
As for the benchmarks you added, there is no BF1 on his agenda