Best GPU for set budget

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Diamond-HP

Diamond-HP

Honorable
Feb 4, 2013
654
0
11,160
Hi guys,

Been out of the loop for a while and as you know the new GPU releases come out thick and fast, last time I looked the Nvidia GTX 980 was just being released.

I'm looking for a new GPU for 1080p game play.

My specs are in my sig ......... pretty obvious where my improvement is needed (GPU is pretty old) .

Also my PSU is a Corsair 600w so I'm leaning toward Nvidia this time round to get higher performance but to keep some headroom for wattage to my system.

My budget is ideally around £250 (unless there is a good reason to go higher).

Games i'm looking at are BF1.

Thanks, and will give "Best answer"
 
Solution
manddy123


Yes, 600W is still very sufficient for the 1060, although, which Corsair Model?

The 1060 outperforms the 480 in every single benchmark, unless in games with Vulcan and sometimes DX12.
Aside from that, it has better performance and less power draw overall.
Sort by date Sort by votes
RCFProd

RCFProd

Expert
Ambassador
Dec 8, 2013
12,606
29
56,990


AMD, with their new Polaris line-up, isn't that power hungry anymore. That, besides 800 watts being more than enough with ackers of head room even if you used an R9 290X for example. 800 watts is a lot.

Anyways, comparing Nvidia Pascal 1000 series to Maxwell 900 series:
~GTX 980 = GTX 1060 with a bit more VRAM.

Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB JetStream Video Card (£242.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £242.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-05 12:29 GMT+0000
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Diamond-HP

Diamond-HP

Honorable
Feb 4, 2013
654
0
11,160
Cheers guys the Nvdia 1060 was the one I had my eye on so looks like that will be the case.

I just edited my post, my PSU is exactly 600w Corsair (bit less than 800w) that should still be good I take it for the 1060?

How does the 1060 perform compared to the Radeon 480?

Those two look like the ones I'd choose between.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
manddy123

manddy123

Admirable
Aug 25, 2016
1,956
0
6,960


Yes, 600W is still very sufficient for the 1060, although, which Corsair Model?

The 1060 outperforms the 480 in every single benchmark, unless in games with Vulcan and sometimes DX12.
Aside from that, it has better performance and less power draw overall.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
Diamond-HP

Diamond-HP

Honorable
Feb 4, 2013
654
0
11,160


Yeah that's the only thing I was thinking, it seems Battlefield 1 which is the new game I'm getting supports both DX11 and DX12.

I'm happy to stick to DX11 but wondering if all future games are going to lean toward DX12?

I have the Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze Certified
Not the greatest but it'll easily do for a card like the 1060 which only draws 120w.

Update: Just seen a benchmark for BF1 for DX12 and DX11, the 1060 on DX11 reaches the highest fps for both the 480 and 1060 so I wouldn't want DX12 anyway in this case.

So that's solved, going to go with the Nvidia 1060, thanks for the help.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
manddy123

manddy123

Admirable
Aug 25, 2016
1,956
0
6,960


That PSU should handle everything easily unless you're overclocking your CPU or have a lot of HDD,SSD or fans.

Well, that's a good question, i can't really say as DX12 is just starting to arrive so maybe it's a bit early to say.
Maybe in few years it will become standard, until there IMO every game will still run decently in DX11.

Maybe when they do get the hang of DX12 the performance of the 1060 on it will improve as well, we'll just have to wait and see.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom