AvailabilityДЄs you might expect, availability of the GTX 1060 is spotty. Unfortunately, the GTX 1060 does not support SLI, but AMDвЂ™s RX 480 supports CrossFire setups, making the latter companyвЂ™s solution a great, value-oriented choice for multi-GPU setups. Overall, consumers will have to choose a team and stick with it. Most of the reviews weвЂ™ve seen indicate this, giving AMDвЂ™s card extra props for its current position in DirectX 12 support. Even when using DirectX 12 and Vulkan, the AMD card provides a better price-per-frame value, costing gamers $3.27 per frame (60FPS) compared to the GTX 1060вЂ™s $4.16 per frame (61FPS).ДЇinally, if you look at the review from Hexus, youвЂ™ll see that the GTX 1060 goes head to head with the RX 480, sometimes pulling ahead and sometimes falling slightly behind. The RX 480 has an average of 52 frames per second, costing $3.84 per frame. So, theВ GTX 1060 has better performance using OpenGL, but falls behind when using Vulkan.Д«ased on its review, Techspot believes that the RX 480 is the better productВ for the price.В Under DirectX 11, the GTX 1060 deliveredВ an average of 58 frames per second overall, costing $4.31 per frame. Meanwhile, the GTX scored 121В FPSВ using Vulkan and 117 FPS using OpenGL. Using the Ultra Quality settings and a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, the Radeon RX 480 scored an average framerate of 143 using Vulkan and an average framerate of 102 using OpenGL. Interestingly enough, Techspot compares the GTX 1060 with the RX 480 using Doom (2016) and shows some interesting results. Yet, thanks to the GTX 980вЂ™s CUDA core count, itВ retakes the lead at 4K resolution. WhatвЂ™s youвЂ™ll see in both reviews is that the GTX 1060В is slightly faster than the older GTX 980,В with aВ 6-percent advantage in Rise of the Tomb Raider, and a slightly bigger advantage in other games.В Ars Technica points out that the GTX 1060 performs better at 2,560 x 1,440 than the GTX 980, leading by 7-percent in Metro Last Light and 14-percent in Hitman. Even in the 3DMark FireStrike benchmark running at a 3,840 Г— 2,160 resolution, NvidiaвЂ™s new card scored a 3,029, compared to the RX 480вЂ™s score of 2,674.

However, which card is best suited for DirectX 12 games is an ongoing discussion.ДЄrs TechnicaвЂ™s review of the GTX 1060 shows that the card outperforms the RX 480 in Rise of the Tomb Raider at 3,840 Г— 2,160 resolution, scoring significantly higher in both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 modes using its base clock speed and while overclocked. Ultimately, PCPerВ gives the GTX 1060 a thumbs up for mainstream gamers, stating that currently it provides better overall performance. Also, the RX 480 was shown to outperform the GTX 1060 when it came to using asynchronous compute shaders in DirectX 12. The difference in available on-board memory is not to blame (6GB on the 1060, 8GB on the RX 480), but rather the memory throughput performance. However, the site points out that, despite the GTA5 performance, the GTX 1060вЂ™s lead over the RX 480 starts to shrink when the resolution is set higher than 1080p. PCPerВ gives the GTX 1060 a thumbs up, stating it currently provides better overall performance than AMDвЂ™sВ RX 480.

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