Hardware & Technical [Tech] RX 580 8GB vs GTX 1060 6GB

Nacho Man

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The question is, is the GTX 1060 6GB or the RX 580 8GB Superior in Elite: Dangerous Horizons. I currently have a GTX 960 4GB and a 2560x1080 75hz monitor, and I play at medium settings. It commonly drops below 60fps at the moment on planet surfaces. For my CPU, I have a FX 8350, planning to upgrade to Ryzen 2600/1650, whichever naming scheme they go for with the Ryzen Refresh. Keep in mind I am in Australia, and the RX 580 and GTX 1060 are evenly priced.

I am not sure where to post this, so if I have done it in the wrong place, feel free to move it or comment on this thread.
 

kinglemo2000

kinglemo2000
Nacho Man said:
The question is, is the GTX 1060 6GB or the RX 580 8GB Superior in Elite: Dangerous Horizons. I currently have a GTX 960 4GB and a 2560x1080 75hz monitor, and I play at medium settings. It commonly drops below 60fps at the moment on planet surfaces. For my CPU, I have a FX 8350, planning to upgrade to Ryzen 2600/1650, whichever naming scheme they go for with the Ryzen Refresh. Keep in mind I am in Australia, and the RX 580 and GTX 1060 are evenly priced.

I am not sure where to post this, so if I have done it in the wrong place, feel free to move it or comment on this thread.
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You may want to watch Hardware unboxed the benchmark king he has done testing on these cards
https://www.google.co.uk/search?cli...wmobYAhVrCsAKHXqMBh4QBQghKAA&biw=768&bih=1024
 

Morbad

Morbad
Nacho Man said:
The question is, is the GTX 1060 6GB or the RX 580 8GB Superior in Elite: Dangerous Horizons. I currently have a GTX 960 4GB and a 2560x1080 75hz monitor, and I play at medium settings. It commonly drops below 60fps at the moment on planet surfaces. For my CPU, I have a FX 8350, planning to upgrade to Ryzen 2600/1650, whichever naming scheme they go for with the Ryzen Refresh. Keep in mind I am in Australia, and the RX 580 and GTX 1060 are evenly priced.
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It's going to be really close.

I'd probably side with the GTX 1060 in this case as it's lower power consumption and NVIDIA's DX11 overhead is still slightly less than AMD's.

Patrick_68000 said:
I don't know but Frontier and ED officially support GeForce GTX

https://imgur.com/a/WqOPQ

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That's more a sponsorship thing than meaningfully greater support.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
From what I can tell in DX11, there is not much in it between the 1060 and RX580. But that may not be the case anymore as the new drivers from AMD just released are meant to give significant boosts to the AMD Polaris chips.

Also the RX580 is a better chip in most DX12 and Vulkan games. Personally I would go for the RX580 as it is will likely be better for the new games coming out that are using DX12 and Vulkan.

But at the end of the day its up to you. Also for some time the AMD drivers have been superb, the Nvidia one, not so much.
 

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Max Factor said:
Also for some time the AMD drivers have been superb, the Nvidia one, not so much.
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Actually this is a good point, AMD's new Radeon Adrenalin software package looks excellent. Speaking as someone who recently switched from AMD to nvidia (and has had issues with the 6 most recent driver updates), nvidia might be ahead in hardware but their software is archaic in comparison IMO.
 

The Chairmaker

The Chairmaker
Have to echo what others have said re AMD Adrenaline driver package, its excellent.

Some excellent features. The Chill feature which now works in all games when enabled, in many ways makes arguments about AMD cards being more power hungry than NVIDIA somewhat moot, as with chill you have a program that can intelligently adjust framerate to reduce power consumption.
I also read but have not yet verified that if you go away from keyboard chill will after a set period detect you are not playing the game and therefore step down on the framerate down even to single figures. As soon as you return and move your mouse the framerate shoots up.
 

Nacho Man

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I decided to not get the GTX 1070Ti or higher, as the cheapest in stock was $750, which for me is not worth it. The GTX 1070 is overkill in itself. It is also being paired currently with an FX 8350 (But that will be replaced soon with the Ryzen refresh equivalent of the R5 1600).
 

jasonbarron

jasonbarron
Nacho Man said:
I decided to not get the GTX 1070Ti or higher, as the cheapest in stock was $750, which for me is not worth it. The GTX 1070 is overkill in itself. It is also being paired currently with an FX 8350 (But that will be replaced soon with the Ryzen refresh equivalent of the R5 1600).
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Wait till after Christmas to order as the prices are likely to go way down. I watched the market carefully when I was buying my new card and the prices swung wildly hour by hour due to frenzied holiday shopping and stocks ran low. Ultimately, by being very patient I was able to pick up a 1080 ti for $759.00. A plain jane 1070 should definitely be cheaper than that.

Edit: Just found this 1070 ti on Amazon
 
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