980Ti's at that price is well worth it.

Forget bout the 1060 and 480. Just get the 1070.

I second the 1060 will be 1.5k, local seller won't let go such a great GPU too cheap to affect their 1070 sales. I don't think a new product will increase the price of a superior product too, and only few model of 1070 is sold at RM2k.

Time to add RX490 to this thread

1080 > 1070 > RX490 > 1060 > RX480

am i right?

This post has been edited by DellMalaysia: Jul 11 2016, 12:55 AM

just wait for actual benchmarks 1st

490 isnt even announced, and custom cards still have to fight

This post has been edited by svfn: Jul 11 2016, 01:01 AM

typo =__= its 1080 > 1070 > rx490 > 1060 > rx480 but yeah lets wait for the official benchmark first

currently using R9 380 gaming at 1080p, will RX480 give much boost or I should just go for 1070? Reading some posts, seems that AMD is gaining a bit lately on new APIs, will RX490 expected to give much challenge to 1070?

490 is a long way now

wanna use just for a year -> nvidia.
wanna use much longer -> amd.

quite simple.

Yup. Another thing I nto consideration is if primarily gaming then stick with AMD but if multitaksing then nVidia

Could you elaborate on why use for one year go with Nvidia and want to use for much longer AMD?

Vis a vis, if gaming stick with AMD and if multitasking go with Nvidia?

Check nVidia driver support history.

AMD much cheaper than nVidia because the GPU are build primarily for gaming. nVidia however are build for both gaming and other tasks (graphic editing etc). Unless money is no issues, for purely gaming pc imho better stick with AMD because you'll get cheaper price for similar gaming performance than nvidia (in general).

I have been using multiple Nvidia GPUs (both old and new, eg. Geforce GT710, Geforce GTX580 and Geforce GTX970) with the latest drivers. I don't recall any problems (both low-end and high-end) with the driver support.

Nvidia built for gaming and other tasks? Not sure what do you mean by this. I thought the functions of both brands are about the same with some specific features tied to each of them.

Both AMD and Nvidia have their specific models for Graphic Editing, very little reason to get a gaming card to do graphic editing.

You drunk or something?

You should see how R9 Nano, R9 Fury and R9 Fury X vs GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti.

Nvidia not only tops out in performance, it blows AMD high-end out of the water when it comes to price to performance ratio.

Of course AMD has some good stuff towards mid / low side but the point is that your statement is pretty blanket and does not reflect accurately what it is.

As of this point of time, Nvidia is the one that provide best price to performance ratio. AMD has the best price to performance ratio on the RX 480 in other countries where the price is $249 but not in Malaysia.

Purely gaming PC - fact is any brand also can, AMD or Nvidia, just depends on what you want.

This one is utter bullshit.

If your argument of "primarily gaming" then stick to AMD is correct then explain applications that use OpenCL?

And good stuff like Mac Pro runs AMD FirePro systems http://www.apple.com/my/shop/buy-mac/mac-p...-kwgo-mac-slid-

And the above is yet another bullshit. I use both AMD and Nvidia cards and both of them you can use "much longer" with no issues.

U r right when it comes to driver support, older graphic card that keep on update to the latest driver will sometimes cause a performance degradation or worse

HOWEVER one can choose to not update to latest driver which is what I am doing currently, and I see NO problem at all on my GC so your statement on nvidia driver support is quite misleading

TLDR nvidia GC dont just become trash solely because the driver doesn't focus on them anymore

This post has been edited by Ryutaro: Jul 13 2016, 05:01 PM

if you're gamer who mostly play latest games, DX12/Vulkan API would be a future for some AAA titles which AMD performance shines, and it would likely be that way for a long time to come. AMD maybe slow in updating its hardware architecture, however on the bright side, it means driver supports for latest games still covers former generation series, hence the 290x rock solid performance compared to his supposedly superior peer 780Ti (link).

No doubt Nvidia driver is superior than AMD, but that probably for current Nvidia generation(link). That's why I said its perfectly fine to buy Nvidia if you update card annually. That being said, avoid buying their 900 and 700 series gpu. those are tuned for DX11 and likely left out on driver support.

2 links given on previous post.