NV GTX1060 versus RX 460?

VirtualLarry

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Let me get this straight. NV's newest '60 card, is equivalent the a previous-gen GTX980 card, but AMD's '60 card, is equal to a previous-gen R7 260X, only it doesn't require PCI-E power?

Is this correct?

Edit: And NV's '60 card is acceptable for VR, while AMD's '60 card is for MOBA / eSports gaming?

Edit: I'm interested in an AMD '60 card, IFF I can get one that's single-slot and low-profile, and has a DVI-I port that can be converted to VGA. Not interested in "heavy gaming", more interested in H.264/H.265/HEVC/VP9 web videos, at 1080P (or higher, if VSR is supported).
 
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R0H1T

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Let me get this straight. NV's newest '60 card, is equivalent the a previous-gen GTX980 card, but AMD's '60 card, is equal to a previous-gen R7 260X, only it doesn't require PCI-E power?

Is this correct?

Edit: And NV's '60 card is acceptable for VR, while AMD's '60 card is for MOBA / eSports gaming?

Edit: I'm interested in an AMD '60 card, IFF I can get one that's single-slot and low-profile, and has a DVI-I port that can be converted to VGA. Not interested in "heavy gaming", more interested in H.264/H.265/HEVC/VP9 web videos, at 1080P (or higher, if VSR is supported).
Yeah till the time you realize that there's no 39x equivalent from AMD yet & that unlike the 29x the new Halo card from AMD will (probably) be going with the Fury moniker. The previous gen as such isn't directly comparable but from I know ~
  • Fury X successor will be big Vega
  • Hawaii successor should be the small Vega
  • Tahiti has been (finally :D) replaced by big Polaris
  • Pitcairn & Bonaire will be replaced by small Polaris
 

mjdupuis

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They are not comparable. They are not in the same price bracket. The two cards would never be cross-shopped.
 

VirtualLarry

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The 460 competition will be the current 950.
So, would it make any sense to buy a couple of RX 460 cards, if one already owns a pair of 7950 3GB cards, and also owns a few OC GTX950 cards? I was going to swap to the GTX950s, for HDMI2.0 support, and H.265 decoding, but since I discovered VSR in AMD's newest drivers, I don't think I want to swap away from AMD. The VSR support for a 2560x1440 desktop on my 1920x1080 monitors is just way TOO good.

So I was thinking of some RX 460 cards, if they're $100 or less, mostly for the advanced video-decoding support.
 

Bacon1

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460 will be the low end card that we know about, no details yet on how it performs or the video performance, price will probably be $100-130
 

sm625

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I just saw the leaks of a 460 losing to a 950. This is looking pretty bad. It looks like it might beat the 750ti. Might...
 

USER8000

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I just saw the leaks of a 460 losing to a 950. This is looking pretty bad. It looks like it might beat the 750ti. Might...

What about this review then:

http://www.benchmark.rs/artikal/test_sapphire_radeon_rx_470_nitro_8_gb-4169/6

It is against a Gainward GTX960 2GB.

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Beats the GTX960 in GTA V,Ashes,Total War and Hitman,but gets thrashed in Crysis 3,Dragonage and Metro:Last Light.
 
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Doesnt nVidia have DSR, which does the same thing? And if you are gaming at 1080p or above, I doubt that either the 460 or GTX 950 will have the oomph you need to do it.

I would be very reluctant to go from a GTX 950 to a 460. I think we should have legitimate benchmarks and prices of the 460 tomorrow, but at best it will be a side-grade from the 950.
 

VirtualLarry

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People are saying that the RX 460 is around same or slower than GTX950. Whereas the GTX950, is comparable, performance-wise, to the 7950, although my GTX950 cards have 2GB, and my 7950 cards have 3GB.

So, does it make sense, to save power, and gain additional VRAM, to side-grade to an RX 460 4GB card?

Was looking at this one, for $135 shipped:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125897

Edit: Although, I use my 7950 cards for double-precision compute (DC with BOINC), during the cooler months. The RX 460, only has 896 stream processors, which seems a lot lower than the 17xx that my 7950 has. I would think that the 7950 would have the raw "grunt" to out-compute the RX 460, even if the RX 460 is about equal in games (owing to the "primitive discard acceleration").

Then again, the RX 460 has HDMI 2.0, and supports HEVC decode (and encode?). The 7950 only supports up to (4K, I think) H.264.
 

escrow4

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VP9 isn't supported (yet) on Polaris in drivers. Although Chrome doesn't seem to decode VP9 on my 1070 (yet, Edge does) its a moot point with the hardware I have. I would honestly wait until Nvidia releases a new GPU with a new decode block especially as a 950 is last gen and thus (in Nvidia's eyes) obsolete. That said I'm partial to Nvidia, only ever owned 2 AMD cards but spent thousands on Nvidia.

HEVC also looks dead in the water with AV1 and Daala coming. That and setting CUVID as the decoder in MPC-HC crashes some of the HEVC films I have (though DXVA2 decodes just fine). All in all, next gen media codecs and decoders are still very rough. You are not missing out on anything by waiting.
 
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Yuriman

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I was under the impression the GTX 950 was more of a HD7850 / HD7870 competitor than a 7950 competitor.