Will GTX 1060 load poorly on Free-Synch monitor?

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Hey guys, so I am going to buy a new graphics card. I am deciding between the ASUS ROG Strix rx 580 with boost clock speed of 1380Mhz($480 USD) and the ASUS GTX 1060 OC Edition with boost clock speed of 1800Mhz($420 USD). I am leaning towards the GTX 1060 since its $60 cheaper and has a significantly higher clock speed however, my monitor is Free-Synch which only maximizes performance with AMD graphics cards. If I were to buy the GTX 1060 and run it with my Free-synch monitor, would I get a noticable amount of screen tearing? Despite the Rx 580 having a lower clock speed, would it look better on my monitor compared to the 1060?
Please let me know what you guys think. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
 
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You can't directly compare clock speed as a measure of performance between different models of graphics cards, especially when it comes to GPUs built on entirely different architectures. That only can be considered relevant when comparing two cards of the same model (for example two GTX 1060s). The architecture of a Radeon GPU is considerably different, and these cards have different quantities of differently-designed shader cores, among other things. An RX 580 might be clocked lower than a GTX 1060 6GB, but in general the RX 580 should perform very similar on average. Each card will be a bit faster in some games and a bit...
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You can't directly compare clock speed as a measure of performance between different models of graphics cards, especially when it comes to GPUs built on entirely different architectures. That only can be considered relevant when comparing two cards of the same model (for example two GTX 1060s). The architecture of a Radeon GPU is considerably different, and these cards have different quantities of differently-designed shader cores, among other things. An RX 580 might be clocked lower than a GTX 1060 6GB, but in general the RX 580 should perform very similar on average. Each card will be a bit faster in some games and a bit slower in others, depending on which architecture a particular game prefers. The 1060 should be a bit more energy-efficient, but in terms of performance the two cards should be very much competitive with one another.

Of course, $60 is a pretty big price difference just to get Freesync. If you hadn't noticed, the prices of these cards have been very messed up recently due to shortages caused by cryptocurrency mining. Normally, the RX 580 8GB and GTX 1060 6GB would be more similar in price, and normally both of their prices would be much lower. When each of these cards launched, they were generally priced in the $250 to $300 range. Now, the least you can find them for tends to be well over $400. It's very possible that prices will work their way back down over the coming months, and it's even more likely that AMD and Nvidia will each launch a new generation of cards in this performance range in a matter of months, so it might be worth waiting if you don't have a pressing need to get a new graphics card right away.

It's also worth pointing out that the 1060 3GB has 10% of its cores disabled compared to the 6GB version, so performance will generally be around 10% lower on that version of the card, even when the lower VRAM limit isn't a factor.
 
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Thanks for the replies! I currently have a GTX 660, so I'm pretty far behind on graphics quality lol. I'm pretty new to PC's so I really had no idea how GPU clock speeds could be compared and their influence of performance. These answers definitely helped me understand GPU clock speeds. Still not sure which card I will buy. It will probably just come down to preference.
 
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