GTX 970 vs GTX 1060

1060 if same price

>>59448854
ok, thanks

GTX 1060

Performance is same or higher than GTX 980 which in turn is higher than GTX 970
Full hardware decoders for HEVC Main10/Main12 & VP9
DisplayPort 1.4 support compared to 1.2 on Maxwell

There's no reason to buy any Maxwell gen GPUs when Pascal is faster and more power efficient with better feature set

>>59448835
An 8GB 480 is the actual proper choice

>>59448890
oh, didn't know that. Thanks for the information!

>>59448901
I don't intend on buying AMD cards anytime soon. I love shadowplay too much, and most games run better on Nvidia i find.

>>59448963
AMD has ReLive, same thing as shadowplay, actually faster in some cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWUY_zGv6Q

And the 480 has caught up to the 1060 in DX11, and surpasses it in DX12/Vulkan

In addition free-sync displays are generally far cheaper than G-sync for the same display type

Anything else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12S74umruY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEw3CaNSbUo

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

$265 CAD for this 4gb Armor OC model, the 4gb are something like 5-7% slower than the 8gb models, pricing in canada sucks apparently

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/9NZ2FT/msi-radeon-rx-480-4gb-video-card-rx-480-armor-4g-oc

I got the 1060 recently and regret not getting the 480, if they're the same price or if the 480 is cheaper you should really get it since it will only get better from now on