GPUs for idiots

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>>58254074

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>>58254096
(You)

>>58254074
Because as a casual gamer with a full time job and family, I don't need a 1070 to play an enormous backlog of games from the past decade and beyond. The 1060 is perfect for that.

>>58254191
Why would you pay more for less

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>>58254074
Meme reason? 8 gigs of VRAM.

Real reason? Because it's cheaper and newer.

HBM is a meme

>>58254228
What costs less than the 1060 and has more value?

>>58254260
i mean 8 is a nice number :^)

I don't regret buying my 480, although I kind of regret getting the reference card. I should have held onto my 660 a little longer

>>58254260
8 gbs of ram is useless for a card as weak as the 480

and it's pretty much the same price, cheaper than some for much better performance especially at 1440p+

>>58254359
Not really. I was monitoring VRAM use when playing civ 6 and it climbed over 5GB fairly easily. I'd be suprised if newer games would not demand even more VRAM in future.

Besides even a low-end card can benefit from large memory pool. Textures eat shitloads of memory yet do not require that much of performance. It's AA or shaders and other effects that push cards to their limits

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DON'T WORRY BRO GAMES DON'T USE MORE THAN 3GB

>>58254074
Going to be buying several GTX 1050's because I need something that's only slot powered. They're going in a server for VDI, and aren't going to be used for gaming.

i took advantage of that pricing as well. too late now, but i'd almost be willing to trade for the inferior 480 just to get rid of the coil whine. these furies are noisy.

>>58254074
Ok OP i will make it easy for you

>They are roughly equal in power at 1080p
>1060 pulls ahead in DX11 games
>480 pulls ahead in DX12/vulcan and 1440p
>480's can crossfire
>1060's have SLI disabled because jewvidia knows people would have bought two of those cards for under 500$ instead of a 700$ 1080 for 1080p/1440p/144hz gaming
>AMD's drivers are more stable (less crashing)
>more annoying bugs though like your mouse icon getting fucked up
>AMD drivers less invasive so DDU less of a requirement for them than nvidia

If you have a 120hz or 144hz panel at 1080p the 1060 will drive higher FPS with settings lowered. If you have a 60/75hz 1080p panel both cards are fine. If you want 1440p then get the 480 because its faster but neither card does 1440p ultra at 60hz so settings have to crank down.

in your situation i lean towards AMD because the Crimson Drivers are more pleasant to deal with and less invasive. Also AMD cards seem to age better partly due to more memory and bandwidth and partly due to driver support being maintained longer.

480's have the option for SLI where the cheapest pascal card with SLI enabled is the 1070. Add onto that the larger memory bus it has over the 1060 and the extra 2gb of VRAM and its a card that has a better upgrade path with two in SLI running close to a gtx 1080.

>>58254599
no one cares lol