Once again the never ending 480 vs 1060

SirCurvington

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hello everyone, after a quick lookout i came to the conclusion that my build would be capable of 1080/60fps for the next 2 year except for the GPU. I have a i7-3770(not k) and 12gb of ram on a 460 psu build by delta( i think)

i bought a EVGA 1060 SC because one of my friend only life by Nvdia standard by since the last AMD driver update i saw that the 480 was already on par with my GPU. Now considering the fact that i want at least 2 year of 1080/60fps in good quality which card would be the best for me considering that

1) I just got a huge deal on my first 1080p monitor( ASUS VX228H) i used to have a 720p cheap monitor so i do not indent to switch soon. So the freesync vs Gsync is irrelevant for me

2)my psu is only 460w and i dont want to change at the moment because it would push me to buy a new case which in the current canadian economy would mean around 150+$(psu+case)

3) i own a mid tower and the EVGA as the huge advantage of being ridiculously small which is eaisier to install and generate less heat, something i didn't find with AMD even thogh my case could fit a big card

4) in canada both card are pretty much the same price and dependng on which version of the 480 8g i would pick i would either save maximum 30$ or end up paying 20$ more( in other word there's no real price difference)

So considering those aspect would you recommend keeping my 1060 sc or a 480 8g as a more future proof card( +-3year) it is worth nothing that Amazon might be willing to give a 20% partial refund on the EVGA 1060 SC which would bring down the price significantly and put a +- 60$ difference between the 2 card. That being said that 60$ difference is a big deal if the 2 card are almost equal but irrelevant if the 480 manage to become significantly better in a year or so

thank you very much
 
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Futureproof is a false concept. Nothing is futureproof. We also can not predict what will happen in the next year or 2. We can simply make guesses and see what happens. If DX12 takes off, the RX 480 has the potential to be the better card. If devs hold on to DX11, the GTX1060 would be the better card. Considering the limitation of the power supply, you'd be better off with the GTX1060.

sykozis

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Futureproof is a false concept. Nothing is futureproof. We also can not predict what will happen in the next year or 2. We can simply make guesses and see what happens. If DX12 takes off, the RX 480 has the potential to be the better card. If devs hold on to DX11, the GTX1060 would be the better card. Considering the limitation of the power supply, you'd be better off with the GTX1060.
 
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SirCurvington

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that's actually a wonderful answer, considering the latest driver do you think nvdia can and will answer?
 

sykozis

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DX12 has a lot in common with AMD's Mantle API. As a result, AMD has more experience developing hardware for it. NVidia will release a proper product for DX12 next generation. Majority of games are still DX11, so the performance penalty that NVidia sees on DX12 isn't really an issue. With DX12 being a lower level API than previous DirectX versions, driver optimizations won't provide quite the benefit we've seen in the past. Most of the performance gains will come from fixing bugs in the drivers.
 

SirCurvington

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so Nvdia could actually have similar performance in dx12 as AMD?
 

SirCurvington

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in other word, the 480 is around 60-80$ more expansive than my 1060( if amazon send me the rebate)
so let's forgot for a moment that i own the card, if i were to choose between a 1060 and a 480 that is 60-80$ more which card would you reccomend