The most important services the hardware test results published
the latest graphics card Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060. Since its
Public release it raises great interest. offer is
Indeed performance GTX 980 GTX 970 in price, while at the same time the formal
successor to the GTX 960. Here, however, the shelf price had previously
rozgościło to AMD, with his first card in
Polaris microarchitecture, giving promising, yet having
its shortcomings Radeon RX 480. Let’s recap
what I discovered during testing, to answer the question -
if someone has to issue several hundred thousand zlotys for a new card
graphics, whether it should buy GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX
480?
On paper, the RX 480 was going to be great
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition in all its glory
it was known that the greens after the appropriation of high-end
their models GTX and 1080 GTX 1070 will not give up easily center
shelves his red rivals, who debuted here earlier.
As compared to comparably priced prior generation GeForce
(GTX 970), the RX 480 came out well, showing the most
Game efficient, with more VRAM, and at the same
comparable in terms of energy consumption.
processor architecture GP106
Whoa, but is that a reason to celebrate, that card with GPU
formed in the process of 14 nm overcome the card made in the process 28
nm? Direct rival RX 480 or GTX 1060, uses a similar
lithographic process (16 nm). It made it built from 4.4 billion
transistor processor GP106, which is depleted version of the flagship
GP104 units and providing after overclock peak power
4.3 TFLOPS computing. In the middle of 1280 CUDA cores, clocked from
1.7 to 2 GHz, 80 texture units, 48 units
renderers. For this card 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked 8 GHz,
with a capacity of 192 GB / s, connected by a 192-bit
controller. TDP card is 120 W.
r e k l and m and
As you can see, it is not difficult to make a short card 1060 to the housing Mini-ITX
On paper it appeared so RX 480 in terms of performance
better 5.7 billion transistors in architecture GCN 4th generation gave
higher peak computing power (5.1 TFLOPS), and more (8 GB)
faster memory (224 GB / s). Architecture of architecture
incommensurate, but on this issue the latest Radeon marketing
the numbers have improved: in 2304 unified shaders, 144 units
texturing, rendering 32 units. We paid for it expressly
higher TDP (150 W) and a much lower culture of work this one
available reference card from AMD, which from the beginning gave the
known as a noisy, hot and fraught with power problems
(Liquidated later at the level of the driver.
On the battlefield
the results of the Radeon RX 480 and GTX 1060 popular games. I think AMD will have to cut prices
Now, however, after the presentation of the results of both real test
games and synthetic benchmarks can see that this is what
paper, minor matters. Among the 20 titles of games that
They have been checked by services such as Ars Technica, Tom’s
Hardware and Hot Hardware, most clearly won GTX
1060. Measurements Tom’s Hardware that resolution
1080p new GeForce was on average 13.5% more efficient than the competitor, and
in 1440p on average 12.5% more efficient. Course we are talking about the results
tests Windowsach, because as shown by Phoronix, the RX 480 for
Linux users is rather poor choice (unless
they depend on the use of purely open source drivers).
1060 GTX completely nude
of course, over time, this may change. AMD quite effectively
already it managed to introduce in the media as a leader in the category
games for DirectX 12. In fact, the differences in favor of green
They were seen primarily in games written for DirectX 11. In
most popular FullHD resolution, the Radeon if it is,
more gained in games engines have both written to DirectX 12.
If NVIDIA does not improve with time their drivers for
Microsoft’s new API, card AMD will be able to spend the long term
a better investment.
a standard set of outputs GTX 1060
Performance, however, not everything. Not without significance
Yet clearly higher work culture of green cards – lower
temperature, lower power consumption, silence. The reference is, of course,
reference card, Founders Edition. In practice, the players will
They are using more of the cards produced by Nvidia partners in
where cooling is even better. There is also the question of
overclocking: from what I can see, GTX 1060 “revolves” very
well, while the RX 480 almost at all.
Prices powariowały, that no one should expect
So you finally decide the price? In the US, the price GTX 1060 Founders
Edition is $ 299, but this product only for die-hard fans.
The others can turn to a number of structures known manufacturers
cards (ASUS, EVGA, MSI, PNY, Gigabyte, Zotac), at prices starting
from $ 249. Contrary to appearances, this is not so much – for
such newegg.com prices available on the market RX 480 8 GB range
currently $ 299 per card VisionTek, and $ 359 for
Gigabyte card. Cheaper models like evaporated from the market.
Us, of course, primarily interested in the price Polish: for RX
480 8 GB Komputronik pay from 1329 to 1389 zł, in the x-coma
Prices range from 1299 to 1399 zł. Meanwhile, a number of models GTX
1060 appeared in the prices even better than competitive card
AMD card Asus 1060 GTX Turbo costs Komputronik and x-coma
1279 zł, and the great variety of chilled OC Strix this manufacturer
1649 zł (Komputronik) and 1699 zł (x-kom). We’ll find a card
priced at 1400-1500 zł. So we can say that for
Nvidia, the youngest of Pascali is priced very favorably -
you certainly can not say that it is significantly more expensive than cards
new Radeon, and in some cases they are cheaper.
In this situation, as you can see the choice is not easy. Biggest
services the hardware seem to be divided in their
opinions. On the one hand we have the example. Ars technique, which recognized GTX
1060 for better, more ambitious product
considering that it is not only faster, but also consumes less energy,
better spins and additionally offers a better experience in a virtual
reality. On the other hand Reviewer TechSpotu found that
much better choice today is the RX 480 (especially the
unattainable version 4 GB) – providing the best value
price performance. You have to admit, however, that the Nvidia card
He received several editorial awards major sites,
for which a generally higher productivity and excellent work culture
They meant that in this category, however, the Greens won.
Probably so the choice in many cases will be the liking
the colors. The author of this text, unfortunately, there is no choice, because once
AMD again failed to Linux users, providing
drivers that do not allow a new tab develop wings.
NVidia proprietary drivers for Linux meanwhile, are as usual
great in no way inferior MinGW. However, if
are mainly users of Microsoft OS, it
a decision should be taken Podług game in which you want to play.
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