Intel cpu + nvidia gpu/amd gpu which combination is more reliable?

[Vatsal Balde]

what yields more optimum performance
1.intel i3 6100 paired with Sapphire rx 470 4gb.
2. intel i3 6100 paired with GTX 1060 3gb.

which gfx card should i buy amongst the two considering I want to just play game @1080p.
and cannot afford for an upgrade to any of these cards once i purchase any one of them.

which combination will be more promising one for future.

 

[geofelt]

The GTX1060 is generally considered stronger. Reliable, I have no idea.
If you play just one game primarily, look for benchmarks for just that game.

 

[dark_lord69]

I'd go with the GTX 1060.. I've had issues with Sapphire cards in the past.

 

[Vatsal Balde]

I'd go with the GTX 1060.. I've had issues with Sapphire cards in the past.

can u please eloborate what kind of issues so that i can also be on the safe side and go with the gtx 1060 instead of the rx470.

 

[dark_lord69]

I'd go with the GTX 1060.. I've had issues with Sapphire cards in the past.

can u please eloborate what kind of issues so that i can also be on the safe side and go with the gtx 1060 instead of the rx470.

Sapphire ATi X1950XT - Failed after a couple years
Sapphire AMD HD4870 - Had the issue described below
The issue I had was extremely complex and it would be very long winded just to explain but the bottom line is that it would not play any MPEG1 files in windows media player (I know totally seems like a software issue but it was not.) Formatting the hard drive didn't fix the issue but replacing the video card did. I won't go into details regarding the endless hours of troubleshooting driver downloads, codec downloads and all of the other things I did. In the end, the only thing that fixed the issue was a new video card.

Don't get me wrong you could still get the RX 470 but personally I won't be going down the Sapphire road again.
ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and XFX are brands I'd get if I was going down the AMD path.
Specifically, my MSI card was excellent.

 

[dontlistentome]

In the past Sapphire has been a budget brand, as opposed to companies such Asus or EVGA. Both cards are 1080p cards, with similar performance. Really, besides price, things like features should be the deciding factor. Nvidia has the Geforce Experience with Shadowplay and such, do you think you'd use that? What about freesync/gsync? If none of that stuff matters then I'd pick the less expensive of the two.

 

[Goran Petric]

gtx 1060 is more in range of rx 480, still both cards are strong enough, i would even say 1060 would be a little bit bottlenecked in some games, so you could save little money by going with 470, but if you are not broke, go get 1060, it would serve you good if later on you decide to put i5 7400 inside

 

[CRO5513Y]

I would go the RX 470 4GB for the VRAM mostly, it is pretty neck and neck with the watered-down 1060 3GB. On another note what is with all this Sapphire hate? Sapphire is considered the most reliable and experienced brand for Radeon GPUs like the EVGA of Nvidia... I owned one a while back and it was excellent. Back to the question at hand most games at 1080p High/Ultra (modern ones) will exceed 3GB VRAM pretty often hence my RX 470 suggestion unless you can expand to a RX 480 / GTX 1060 6GB. As already mentioned, use the saved cash for an RX 470 to get a stronger CPU, a i5 would be great.