saphire nitro rx-480 4gb or 1060 3gb?

[gec5741]

I'm looking to do a graphics card upgrade for the first time in a very long time. Currently I have a gtx 460 . So 200 bucks or under is my max for spending. The sapphire nitro rx-480 4gb is going for 194 on newegg currently. I have seen gtx 1060 3gb for 200 bucks. Seems to me the 480 is a better deal as it's a bit cheaper and has more vram. But looking at all the head to head benchmarks it almost seems like th 1060 is a bit faster. I'm not a huge gamer in the sense that I'll be playing wow legion, guild wars 2 mostly but I would like to also get battlefield 1. I'm leaning toward the 480 but I do like NVidia so it's a tough call. Any advice at this price point would be appreciated. My PC does have an intel i7 and I will be playing at least for now in 1080. No 4k for me in the relative future.

 

[hdgaming]

Both cards are good the gtx 1060 3gb outperforms the rx 480 4gb though even the rx 480 has 1gb vram more, for now the gtx 1060 is better but you never know whats going to happen in 2 years from now for example.

See this benchmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVM0Nb5crMM

 

[BlueHawk55]

I think you should go with the 4gb 480 just to be sure.3GB's is slowly becoming insufficient.(Shadow of mordor microstutters with 4K textures Gta 5 microstutters too sometimes).

 

[rcald2000]

I'm going against your direct question and interjecting unsolicited advice. I suggest that you buy the GTX 1060 6 GB. The 3 GB version has 10% fewer CUDA cores and is a fundamentally different card then the 6 GB version. Someone like you who has an i7 CPU probably has another, unused, computer part laying around. I suggest that you look hard around your bedroom and sell something that has at least $60 of value, to help you upgrade to the 6 GB version. Since this is your first upgrade in a long time, I assume that you'll be keeping this card for a while. I just want you to be happy with it for years to come.

If I had to choose between the two cards you mentioned, I "think" I'd go for the RX 480 4 GB. But again, I suggest you stretch the budget to include the GTX 1060 6 GB. If you sold something, or cut some small luxury out of your life for a few weeks or a month, you'd probably have that extra $60.