Question Which GPU to go for?

[dakiskendo]

For the same price in my country (200 Euro) I can buy either an ASUS TUF GAMING OC GTX 1660 or a SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX 590 SPECIAL EDITION
I've checked so many benchmarks,one has better performance than other in every other game,really hard to see whats holding up better.
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/nitro-rx-590-8g-g5-se_c OR https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GTX1660-O6G-GAMING/

My aim is 1080p @60FPS gaming and programming/blender modelling etc.
My pc specs: Ryzen 5 2600 Stock, 16gb G-skill aegis 3000mhz RAM, 250GB SSD, 500gb HDD. I have decent cooling.

The nvidia card is NON-super and NON-Ti.

I dont know what to go for as it's hard to find recent benchmarks and statistics,knowing that the AMD RX series gets better and better with new drivers.
Thanks in advance!

 

[dnm_13]

For the same price in my country (200 Euro) I can buy either an ASUS TUF GAMING OC GTX 1660 or a SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX 590 SPECIAL EDITION
I've checked so many benchmarks,one has better performance than other in every other game,really hard to see whats holding up better.
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/nitro-rx-590-8g-g5-se_c OR https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GTX1660-O6G-GAMING/

My aim is 1080p @60FPS gaming and programming/blender modelling etc.
My pc specs: Ryzen 5 2600 Stock, 16gb G-skill aegis 3000mhz RAM, 250GB SSD, 500gb HDD. I have decent cooling.

The nvidia card is NON-super and NON-Ti.

I dont know what to go for as it's hard to find recent benchmarks and statistics,knowing that the AMD RX series gets better and better with new drivers.
Thanks in advance!

RX 590 is a card released on 2017
GTX 1660 released on 2019

Also take your monitor on to account.
Does it support FreeSync or G-Sync?

 

[dakiskendo]

RX 590 is a card released on 2017
GTX 1660 released on 2019

Also take your monitor on to account.
Does it support FreeSync or G-Sync?

My monitor doesnt matter atm. I just wanna know which one is better to go for in terms of performance.

 

[dnm_13]

As you've said, they're very similar in term of performance.
And performance always vary depends on what task it's carrying on. Meaning different game will result in different winner.

RX 590 use 175W TDP
While GTX 1660 use 120W TDP
Meaning 1660 is more efficient in term of performance-per-watt
It's also 2 years newer
And some sites agreed that GTX 1660 will perform slightly better than RX 590 in most titles they tried.

Although RX 590 have 8Gb VRAM, which is the standard for modern games.

 

[dakiskendo]

As you've said, they're very similar in term of performance.
And performance always vary depends on what task it's carrying on. Meaning different game will result in different winner.

RX 590 use 175W TDP
While GTX 1660 use 120W TDP
Meaning 1660 is more efficient in term of performance-per-watt
It's also 2 years newer
And some sites agreed that GTX 1660 will perform slightly better than RX 590 in most titles they tried.

Although RX 590 have 8Gb VRAM, which is the standard for modern games.

So in conclusion do I go for 1660 or RX 590 in this scenario?
I wanna game on it for atleast next 2 years. Im really keen on getting the GTX knowing the RX 590 has issues in some games and also driver issues

 

[dnm_13]

So in conclusion do I go for 1660 or RX 590 in this scenario?
I wanna game on it for atleast next 2 years. Im really keen on getting the GTX knowing the RX 590 has issues in some games and also driver issues

Yes, if I were you, I would also go with GTX 1660.
The only thing that's appealing from RX 590 is its 8Gb VRAM (1660 have 6Gb), and FreeSync support if your monitor have it (although 1660 have G-Sync)