Looking for the "best bang for the buck"

[RustyRagdoll]

Good day!
Im soon buying a new GPU, and i'm very undecided as which card i should spend my money on.
The cards are:
-Gigabyte GTX 960 WF2 4GB
-MSI GTX 1060 3GB ARMOR
Thanks in advance.

 

[Xemko]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

 

[RustyRagdoll]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

 

[DSzymborski]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

The 1060 is a much better purchase - it's a much faster GPU, no matter how high you overclock the 960, and the VRAM difference is essentially meaningless since the 960 isn't really fast enough to make use of it.

 

[maxalge]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

the 1060 is gtx 980 class gpu


the 960 should not even be an option



>.> do research man

 

[RustyRagdoll]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

The 1060 is a much better purchase - it's a much faster GPU, no matter how high you overclock the 960, and the VRAM difference is essentially meaningless since the 960 isn't really fast enough to make use of it.

I took your advice, and bought myself a 3GB 1060, but will it get bottlenecked by my CPU, or not??
I'm really worried in case it bottlenecks.

 

[DSzymborski]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

The 1060 is a much better purchase - it's a much faster GPU, no matter how high you overclock the 960, and the VRAM difference is essentially meaningless since the 960 isn't really fast enough to make use of it.

I took your advice, and bought myself a 3GB 1060, but will it get bottlenecked by my CPU, or not??
I'm really worried in case it bottlenecks.

No, the CPU is just fine.

 

[RustyRagdoll]

Among these two, GTX 1060 looks more futureproof/wise buy, way higher performance. What are your system specs?

My Current specs:
-Asus B85M-G PLUS with a I5 4440 3.30Ghz
-16Gb RAM
-750W PSU
I'm really leaning towards the GTX 960, as i'm more of a fan of OC´ing my GPUs and because it has more memory.

Ok, thanks!
The 1060 is a much better purchase - it's a much faster GPU, no matter how high you overclock the 960, and the VRAM difference is essentially meaningless since the 960 isn't really fast enough to make use of it.

I took your advice, and bought myself a 3GB 1060, but will it get bottlenecked by my CPU, or not??
I'm really worried in case it bottlenecks.

No, the CPU is just fine.

Ok, thanks!!

 

[Gaurav Rane]

GTX 1060 Vs GTX 960
Better PassMark score 9,359 vs 5,914 Around 60% better PassMark score
Significantly more memory 6,144 MB vs 2,048 MB 3x more memory
Higher clock speed 1,404 MHz vs 1,127 MHz Around 25% higher clock speed
Higher memory bandwidth 192.2 GB/s vs 112.2 GB/s More than 70% higher memory bandwidth
Higher pixel rate 67.4 GPixel/s vs 36.1 GPixel/s More than 85% higher pixel rate
Significantly higher turbo clock speed 1,670 MHz vs 1,178 MHz More than 40% higher turbo clock speed
Better floating-point performance 3,594 GFLOPS vs 2,308.1 GFLOPS More than 55% better floating-point performance
Higher effective memory clock speed 8,008 MHz vs 7,012 MHz Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed
Higher texture rate 112.3 GTexel/s vs 72.1 GTexel/s More than 55% higher texture rate
Better T-Rex score 7.81 frames/s vs 3.92 frames/s Around 2x better T-Rex score
More render output processors 48 vs 32 16 more render output processors
Better PassMark direct compute score 4,953 vs 2,952 Around 70% better PassMark direct compute score
Higher memory clock speed 2,002 MHz vs 1,753 MHz Around 15% higher memory clock speed
Slightly more shading units 1,280 vs 1,024 256 more shading units
Slightly more texture mapping units 80 vs 64 16 more texture mapping units
Lower TDP 80W vs 120W Around 35% lower TDP

See the benchmark.... it clearly declares gtx 1060 beats gtx 960. every thing else in your system is fine.

 

[bystander]

If you are worried about the VRAM, they do make a 6Gb version, as well as the AMD Rx 480 4Gb/8Gb versions.

As far as bottlenecking goes, it will only bottleneck because it is faster than the 960. It won't bottleneck in many if not most games, but it can in some games. That's just how it goes, but there is nothing wrong with the pairing.