Question So I want to switch my graphics card from AMD Radeon RX 480, to NVIDIA GTX-1060 or higher is this possible?

[Legend Sins]

I have a Acer Aspire GX-785, with 16 gb of ram a 500w power, and I7-7700

 

[Farix]

Yes it is possible but switching from Rx 480 to gtx 1060 isn't going to make a big difference cuz there is not a big difference in performance between these two gpus you can only get 3 to 4 fps more that's it which is not worth upgrading. If you really need to upgrade then go with gtx 1070, it will give you much better performance. You have a decent psu which can handle gtx 1060 gtx 1070 and even gtx 1080 these cards require only 450 to 500 watts.

 

[Captaingadget]

RX480 will outperform GTX1060 in some games and overall there is negligible difference, so I wouldn't recommend changing, you really want to be looking at an RTX2060/2070 if you are going to upgrade. Do you know what make and model of PSU you have? There is a huge variability in quality and you don't want to be sinking £400-500 on a new GPU if you're existing PSU isn't up to the job and prebuilts often have cheaper, poor quality PSUs so I would definitely recommend checking.

 

[RobCrezz]

rx 480 and 1060 are the same class of card. Not worth changing.

 

[cats_Paw]

What Monitor are you using?
If its a 1080p/60Hz odds are you wont see any benefit in most games anyway, and as Others mentioned, 1060 and 480 are kinda in the same ballpark.

 

[geofelt]

What is the make/model of your PSU?
A quality 500w psu can handle a card as good as a RTX2070.
I might suggest that a GTX1660ti should run on your current psu and be a nice boost in graphics power.