Already told you this comparison makes no sense. How can you compare the resale value of 2 cards that released almost a year apart? Either compare $549 290X to $699 780Ti or if you are going to use a $549 980, the 290X cost $280-325 by then. Throughout 95% of the time 980 and 290X sold side-by-side, it was possible to find 290X for much less than the $549 MSRP.
RS, you're forgetting that the 960 has HDMI 2.0. Its the HTPC card. Gotta be forward thinking for those newer tvs
I know right because it was used for 4K HDTV gaming and 99% of the $200-300 target market has those TVs
I like the "under windows" stipulation there...
Probably knows that the 1070 gets a decent 31MH/s at 145W under Linux, but that doesn't matter because it doesn't fit his agenda to sell the red cards...
https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/7722/gtx-1070-fe-mining-benchmarks
Yes, because I used a scenario of mining on the side and gaming too. Good luck playing AAA games on Linux. I didn't say anything about buying a dedicated mining rig.
Btw, you ignored 290's 50%+ lead over 960 and 280X/380X's 15-20% lead over the 280X. Fully expect you to recommend the $200 480 4GB over $249-299 1060.
That has to be the dumbest "comparison" imaginable. It's difficult to believe you actually posted that with a straight face. Here's the CPU equivalent : If I bought an FX-8350 for $160 and an i5-6600K for $249, left the former unopened in a cupboard for a year but used the latter for work earning a $50,000 salary in the process, I hereby declare AMD CPU's are over 300x more expensive than Intel's ($160 vs -$49,751) using the same "
True TCO RussianSensation Cost/Profit Calculator" (tm)...
Honestly, the "quality" of "analysis" and borderline troll "comparisons" on these forums even by supposed "higher grade advice" members has completely fallen through the floor over the past couple of weeks... :thumbsdown:
I don't think you understand what an analogy is.
Let me know when you can make a $50,000+ salary with a GTX1060 instead of buying an RX 480. Mining is something that could have been done on the side, at night, etc. Can I buy a 1060 and hqce it pay for itself over time on the side right now while playing games under Windows? Seems you have no response to that other than snide remarks and digs.
I provided a solid alternative to mainstream/performance gamers to keep more $$$ in their pocket and have more money saved towards keeping their rig up-to-date in 2018. Your response to that was basically "I have nothing so I am just going to attack the poster by using a non-relevant analogy."
In the context of RS's post, the discussion was about someone who could pay off their gaming GPU by mining. In my mind, that is someone who buys a single card, maybe 2, not someone who is creating a mining farm. Either way, I can only speculate that the 1060 will be just as efficient as the 1070 while mining, maybe even more so since it is a full chip.
But to say only AMD cards can mine is disingenuous.
Not many RX 480 / 1060 will be interested in gaming under Linux. The mining rates you quoted are impossible to achieve under Windows 10 at the current time. Pascal 1070/1080 get 4.5-5MH/sec under Windows 10. Also, you need to use very old drivers to get good rates under Windows for even the Maxwell line. This limitation doesn't exist for RX 480.
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Regardless, as it stands, it's turning out like this:
$199 RX 480 4GB
$239 RX 480 8GB
$249 1060 6GB
$299 1060 FE
Going in knowing these cards aren't that powerful and are 2 year stop-gaps, it's easy to recommend the $200 480 because 1060 $249-299 is 25%-50% more expensive. That makes 1060 overpriced for the level of performance it has.
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