Fx 8320 GPU recommendation.

[Mantas2218]

Hi,

I am seriously doubting about which graphics card I should purchase.

I am doubting between the MSI RX 480 4GB version, and the GTX 1060 3GB version.

I have read a bunch of reviews and have seen a lot of benchmarks of the 2 cards. And I also saw that the 1060 may be bottlenecked by my CPU. Which is a FX 8320 stock speed.

The price is not that big of a deal.
Can someone clear it up for me on which GPU I should buy.

Mostly I play action/adventure games such as GTA 5, Battlefield and The Division, and last but not least Forza Horizon 3.

Thanks in advance.

 

[RobCrezz]

I would probably go for the 1060, because nvidia cards seem to be bottlnecked less by AMD cpus, than AMD gpus.

 

[spdragoo]

http://www.techspot.com/review/1237-msi-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb/page4.html

3GB GTX 1060's performance is slightly worse than the RX 480's performance, which is slightly worse than the 6GB GTX 1060's performance. Either one should be a good choice, especially if they're close in price.

 

[filippi]

I dont like the 3GB GTX 1060. Misleading naming. Go MSI RX 470 4GB / MSI RX 480 4GB / GTX 1060 6GB imho.
since the price is not that big of a deal GTX 1060 6GB for sure. Best gpu for 1080p gaming right now / near future.

 

[RobCrezz]

http://www.techspot.com/review/1237-msi-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb/page4.html

3GB GTX 1060's performance is slightly worse than the RX 480's performance, which is slightly worse than the 6GB GTX 1060's performance. Either one should be a good choice, especially if they're close in price.

Them benchmarks are for the RX 480 8gb though, which is faster than the 4gb.

 

[spdragoo]

I haven't found any benchmarks where they tested an actual 4GB version of the RX 480). I know that Techspot did a BIOS fix to limit their 8GB model to only use 4GB of VRAM, & there was no change in the performance. Unlike the GTX 1060, where the 3GB model also has some CUDA cores disabled, the only difference between the 4GB & 8GB models of the RX 480 is supposed to be the VRAM. Techspot seems to think that the extra VRAM on the 8GB model is wasted; not sure if they're 100% correct, if it's maybe just not as useful right now are there aren't that many games that are at the RX 480's processing level while also needing that much VRAM, or if VRAM was cheap enough that they added it for a marketing gimmick.

 

[RobCrezz]

The 8Gb vram model run the vram at a faster speed, so is a little faster.

 

[spdragoo]

Good to know. Are there any non-Youtube benchmarks out yet that test the 4GB model against the 8GB model?