Rx 480 8gb vs Gtx 1060 6gb

sayler350

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Hello everyone,
I cannot decide which graphic card to get, initially I went for gtx 1060 6gb g1 gaming, but than I see that gtx 1060 3gb preforms about same but is much cheaper. I did a bit research and people say that 3gb won't be enough for upcoming games(future proofing). In that reasearch I casually catch glipse of Rx 480 which reminded me that I have freesync monitor which in combination with that card would be really good. Now I have no idea which card to take. I know gtx 1060 preforms better in dx11 and rx480 in d12, but I cannot see a single reliable sorce about this 2 cards which would help me which one to pick. I would be useing this card for fairly long 6years+. Many people said that for people who change cards frequently gtx 1060 is better choise while rx480 in long run. I don't know why but I am so sceptical of Rx 480, I don't know will AMD improve it via driver updates and will developers massively start making games in dx12&vulkan, some people say AMD is just doing it's marketing for saying that card will improve in time and will have advantage in 'upcoming' dx12 titles. I would apprreciate any output on current user of rx 480(prerformance, temp,noice) because am leaning a little bit to it, mostly because I have freesync monitor. Feel free to comment pros and cons of both cards any advice is appreciated.
 
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I would get the AMD just for the extra VRAM and the fact you have a Freesync monitor. Why let the tech go to waste getting a gforce card. I would say the same thing if you had a gsync monitor, get a nvidia card in that case.

You paid for the tech, it makes gaming better, and honest those two cards trade blows back and forth in game for game benchmarks. Neither is going to be like, oh I should have gotten XXX over YYY, I would have gotten 100 more FPS. No, it's like single digit differences in a lot of games, so I'd go freesync capable and use that monitor to it's fullest.
I would get the AMD just for the extra VRAM and the fact you have a Freesync monitor. Why let the tech go to waste getting a gforce card. I would say the same thing if you had a gsync monitor, get a nvidia card in that case.

You paid for the tech, it makes gaming better, and honest those two cards trade blows back and forth in game for game benchmarks. Neither is going to be like, oh I should have gotten XXX over YYY, I would have gotten 100 more FPS. No, it's like single digit differences in a lot of games, so I'd go freesync capable and use that monitor to it's fullest.
 
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