I'm looking at the Sapphire Nitro+ 480 8GB vs a Gigabyte MINI 1060 6GB.
From what I garnered Nvidia wins majority of the older titles under DX11, there are some games like F1 2016 and Batman Arkham Knight where the 480 wins, but only by few percents. Games like AC Black Flag, Syndicate, Shadow of Mordor, Crysis 3, GTA 5, Dirt Rally, etc... are all in favor of Nvidia up to 20fps at times, in Crysis 3 for example around 7-8fps faster.
So clearly Nvidia wins in older 2013-2015 DX11 games, sometimes by little, sometimes by up to 20fps. The thing is most of these games offer 60-90fps regardless at 1080p, so going for RX 480 doesn't really make it unplayable, sure there are some moments where a Crysis or Syndicate will go to the low 30's for like few seconds, but generally its smooth failing.
Now when it comes to DX12 titles and newer games, 480 seems to have a slight advantage, but also barely. For example Forza Horizon 3 is better for 480, but only by 2-3 frames at 1080p and its DX12. Gears of War another DX12 title is also pretty much neck and neck.
On the other side AMD has 3-6fps advantage in DX12 games like BF1, Deus:EX, The Division, Warhammer, but again its only few frames per second and most of the time DX11 is as fast on Nvidia compared to the DX12 on AMD, so with Nvidia you will run DX11 in these games, with AMD DX12 and you get pretty much the same performance.
Both cards cost pretty much the same here, a difference of 10 euros, so nothing major. The Gigabyte Mini is a lot smaller and consumes up to 130w, while the Sapphire consumes up to 185W and runs hotter and louder as well.
Do I basically forego some DX11 performance in current titles to gain as of now basically few more frames in DX12 and is going AMD route more future proof?
I mean we are seeing games like Forza, GOW, now Halo Wars 2 who are DX12 purely and offer as good, if not better performance for Nvidia.
Right now I don't have 1080p monitor, so most of my gaming will be bellow 1080p until the next 6 months, when I'm going to buy a new monitor. So in terms of futureproofing what is better?
From what I garnered Nvidia wins majority of the older titles under DX11, there are some games like F1 2016 and Batman Arkham Knight where the 480 wins, but only by few percents. Games like AC Black Flag, Syndicate, Shadow of Mordor, Crysis 3, GTA 5, Dirt Rally, etc... are all in favor of Nvidia up to 20fps at times, in Crysis 3 for example around 7-8fps faster.
So clearly Nvidia wins in older 2013-2015 DX11 games, sometimes by little, sometimes by up to 20fps. The thing is most of these games offer 60-90fps regardless at 1080p, so going for RX 480 doesn't really make it unplayable, sure there are some moments where a Crysis or Syndicate will go to the low 30's for like few seconds, but generally its smooth failing.
Now when it comes to DX12 titles and newer games, 480 seems to have a slight advantage, but also barely. For example Forza Horizon 3 is better for 480, but only by 2-3 frames at 1080p and its DX12. Gears of War another DX12 title is also pretty much neck and neck.
On the other side AMD has 3-6fps advantage in DX12 games like BF1, Deus:EX, The Division, Warhammer, but again its only few frames per second and most of the time DX11 is as fast on Nvidia compared to the DX12 on AMD, so with Nvidia you will run DX11 in these games, with AMD DX12 and you get pretty much the same performance.
Both cards cost pretty much the same here, a difference of 10 euros, so nothing major. The Gigabyte Mini is a lot smaller and consumes up to 130w, while the Sapphire consumes up to 185W and runs hotter and louder as well.
Do I basically forego some DX11 performance in current titles to gain as of now basically few more frames in DX12 and is going AMD route more future proof?
I mean we are seeing games like Forza, GOW, now Halo Wars 2 who are DX12 purely and offer as good, if not better performance for Nvidia.
Right now I don't have 1080p monitor, so most of my gaming will be bellow 1080p until the next 6 months, when I'm going to buy a new monitor. So in terms of futureproofing what is better?
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