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#5309440 Posted on: 07/20/2016 09:48 PM
Asus included the benches , its 15-19 % over the ref cards 1266 boost. Of course the Ref card is throttling and its 1440 and 4k numbers they are quoting. Yes the 15-19% likely comes from holding the boost clock vs throttling it and more available board power. Either way it is a Ref 480 1266 mhz boost card they were comparing not a Boost disabled card which would be rediculous to include.
It means real world without touching any voltage / power sliders 15% - 19% in 1440p and 4k respectively , i think the test 3dmark in 1440p and hitman at 4k.
The ref card is the one in the reviews after all, and its looses by far less %s if at all in 1440p to a 1060 , so these will be significant gains for the AIB 480 cards in the reviews vs the 1060 ref / 1060 aibs.
Asus included the benches , its 15-19 % over the ref cards 1266 boost. Of course the Ref card is throttling and its 1440 and 4k numbers they are quoting. Yes the 15-19% likely comes from holding the boost clock vs throttling it and more available board power. Either way it is a Ref 480 1266 mhz boost card they were comparing not a Boost disabled card which would be rediculous to include.
It means real world without touching any voltage / power sliders 15% - 19% in 1440p and 4k respectively , i think the test 3dmark in 1440p and hitman at 4k.
The ref card is the one in the reviews after all, and its looses by far less %s if at all in 1440p to a 1060 , so these will be significant gains for the AIB 480 cards in the reviews vs the 1060 ref / 1060 aibs.
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#5309441 Posted on: 07/20/2016 09:51 PM
No need for that just pick a 2nd card which is something that the 1060 can't do SLi
I would wait and see how the RX 480 custom cards pan out as at the moment they are hitting power draw bottlenecks so with an 8pin power connector they may have very good overclocking potential RX480's have good performance gains from very modest overclocks no doubt this is due to the RX480 having higher IPC compared to Maxwell and Pascal. Must say the RX480 custom cards are taking quite a while to get to market and not seen a review on one yet.
No need for that just pick a 2nd card which is something that the 1060 can't do SLi
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#5309462 Posted on: 07/20/2016 10:29 PM
To the user worried about memory.... no, the 1060 is fine at what it is trying to do. Basically, you are getting a fancy 970 with a full set of RAM.
If you go 480 you have to remember so sacrifice all those little things like gameworks, SGSSAA, and the rest of it. For where you are gaming at with a 1060 you will rarely ever be limited unless you really plan on keeping that card for a LONG time. In that case I wouldn't get either of these cards and I would shell out for a 1070.
Simple fact is neither of these cards is all that great.
To the user worried about memory.... no, the 1060 is fine at what it is trying to do. Basically, you are getting a fancy 970 with a full set of RAM.
If you go 480 you have to remember so sacrifice all those little things like gameworks, SGSSAA, and the rest of it. For where you are gaming at with a 1060 you will rarely ever be limited unless you really plan on keeping that card for a LONG time. In that case I wouldn't get either of these cards and I would shell out for a 1070.
Simple fact is neither of these cards is all that great.
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#5309463 Posted on: 07/20/2016 10:30 PM
Asus included the benches , its 15-19 % over the ref cards 1266 boost. Of course the Ref card is throttling and its 1440 and 4k numbers they are quoting. Yes the 15-19% likely comes from holding the boost clock vs throttling it and more available board power. Either way it is a Ref 480 1266 mhz boost card they were comparing not a Boost disabled card which would be rediculous to include.
No need to disable boost.
Just heat up till ref. 480 hits 1120MHz, then bench. voila Up to +19%.
That's the only way to get +19% over ref. 480; to have at least +19% GPU clocks.
They are already throwing AMD under the buss mentioning PCIe power issue.
As they should. Why shouldn't they show their product in the best light?
Instead of being so naive as to put competing product in a great case so that it can maintain 1266MHz:
"Here is our awesome new product and it's almost 5% faster than ref."
Asus included the benches , its 15-19 % over the ref cards 1266 boost. Of course the Ref card is throttling and its 1440 and 4k numbers they are quoting. Yes the 15-19% likely comes from holding the boost clock vs throttling it and more available board power. Either way it is a Ref 480 1266 mhz boost card they were comparing not a Boost disabled card which would be rediculous to include.
No need to disable boost.
Just heat up till ref. 480 hits 1120MHz, then bench. voila Up to +19%.
That's the only way to get +19% over ref. 480; to have at least +19% GPU clocks.
They are already throwing AMD under the buss mentioning PCIe power issue.
As they should. Why shouldn't they show their product in the best light?
Instead of being so naive as to put competing product in a great case so that it can maintain 1266MHz:
"Here is our awesome new product and it's almost 5% faster than ref."
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#5309471 Posted on: 07/20/2016 10:40 PM
The elephant in the room is that we can talk all day about both cards but you pretty much cannot buy either. The buzz kill is the total and entire lack of availability.
The elephant in the room is that we can talk all day about both cards but you pretty much cannot buy either. The buzz kill is the total and entire lack of availability.
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#5309482 Posted on: 07/20/2016 11:20 PM
To the user worried about memory.... no, the 1060 is fine at what it is trying to do. Basically, you are getting a fancy 970 with a full set of RAM.
If you go 480 you have to remember so sacrifice all those little things like gameworks, SGSSAA, and the rest of it. For where you are gaming at with a 1060 you will rarely ever be limited unless you really plan on keeping that card for a LONG time. In that case I wouldn't get either of these cards and I would shell out for a 1070.
Simple fact is neither of these cards is all that great.
For a lot people they don't have big income it can take up to 2 years to save up that kind cash and there pushing card to over $400+US not counting S/H so it not good option
Right now most people have 3 option, I just go for RX 480 4GB which I have enough save up right now to replace my HD 7870 or could wait in tell Dec time and I should enough for 8GB model or maybe even GTX 1060.
To me Gameworks and SGSSAA not a big deal any way
The elephant in the room is that we can talk all day about both cards but you pretty much cannot buy either. The buzz kill is the total and entire lack of availability.
That true they Sold Out GTX 1060 really fast
To the user worried about memory.... no, the 1060 is fine at what it is trying to do. Basically, you are getting a fancy 970 with a full set of RAM.
If you go 480 you have to remember so sacrifice all those little things like gameworks, SGSSAA, and the rest of it. For where you are gaming at with a 1060 you will rarely ever be limited unless you really plan on keeping that card for a LONG time. In that case I wouldn't get either of these cards and I would shell out for a 1070.
Simple fact is neither of these cards is all that great.
For a lot people they don't have big income it can take up to 2 years to save up that kind cash and there pushing card to over $400+US not counting S/H so it not good option
Right now most people have 3 option, I just go for RX 480 4GB which I have enough save up right now to replace my HD 7870 or could wait in tell Dec time and I should enough for 8GB model or maybe even GTX 1060.
To me Gameworks and SGSSAA not a big deal any way
The elephant in the room is that we can talk all day about both cards but you pretty much cannot buy either. The buzz kill is the total and entire lack of availability.
That true they Sold Out GTX 1060 really fast
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#5309509 Posted on: 07/21/2016 12:17 AM
For me FreeSync is additional $100 value, for AMD cards. I don't imagine buying next graphic card without adaptive sync technology.
I'm on the same line. Both cards offer good value.
For me FreeSync is additional $100 value, for AMD cards. I don't imagine buying next graphic card without adaptive sync technology.
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#5309536 Posted on: 07/21/2016 01:01 AM
That true when you factor in cost of new Adaptive Sync Technology Monitor then start seeing really big diff in cost with the G-SYNC $600+ where Free sync 27" 144Hz can be found for $400 and even far less then that with 1080p Resolution and 60Hz Refresh Rate.
For me FreeSync is additional $100 value, for AMD cards. I don't imagine buying next graphic card without adaptive sync technology.
That true when you factor in cost of new Adaptive Sync Technology Monitor then start seeing really big diff in cost with the G-SYNC $600+ where Free sync 27" 144Hz can be found for $400 and even far less then that with 1080p Resolution and 60Hz Refresh Rate.
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#5309599 Posted on: 07/21/2016 03:08 AM
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
This is purely nVidia's fault. People did not care about power efficiency much. Then Maxwell came as power efficient and nearly everyone started to think that power efficiency means better fps or huge financial savings.
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
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#5309639 Posted on: 07/21/2016 06:55 AM
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
Everyone is making comparissons with what they think is in their advantage. The Question is, why bother compare reference temperatures in an AIB card article? The same case was with the r9 290x with "omg 90 celsius, omg, silent mode, uber mode bla bla", nobody cared once AIB card released and the 290x was in the same boat with 780ti temperature wise.
Lets not forget, the 480x is power hungry. The reference design was there to somehow please the "power eficiency/usage" freaks. Once AIB partner add the 8 pin required for the 480x and throw a good cooler on it (like this Asus Direct CU3) i bet it already performs better then the reference design. Increase the power target in the drivers with 10% and you dont need to change the clocks and still get arround 10% performance increase.
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
Everyone is making comparissons with what they think is in their advantage. The Question is, why bother compare reference temperatures in an AIB card article? The same case was with the r9 290x with "omg 90 celsius, omg, silent mode, uber mode bla bla", nobody cared once AIB card released and the 290x was in the same boat with 780ti temperature wise.
Lets not forget, the 480x is power hungry. The reference design was there to somehow please the "power eficiency/usage" freaks. Once AIB partner add the 8 pin required for the 480x and throw a good cooler on it (like this Asus Direct CU3) i bet it already performs better then the reference design. Increase the power target in the drivers with 10% and you dont need to change the clocks and still get arround 10% performance increase.
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#5309645 Posted on: 07/21/2016 07:28 AM
No need to disable boost.
Just heat up till ref. 480 hits 1120MHz, then bench. voila Up to +19%.
That's the only way to get +19% over ref. 480; to have at least +19% GPU clocks.
They are already throwing AMD under the buss mentioning PCIe power issue.
As they should. Why shouldn't they show their product in the best light?
Instead of being so naive as to put competing product in a great case so that it can maintain 1266MHz:
"Here is our awesome new product and it's almost 5% faster than ref."
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/5/
Thats a Fractal Design Define R5 with an RX480 after 20 mins, clocks speeds are down to 1160mhz in the games they tested at 1440p.
Now i'm not going to get into if you think thats a great case or not, the lans i go to where people would buy $240 cards its would probably be mid-upper end for them.
So could Asus engineer that result , absolutely , would they have to try hard to pick the case to do it .. i don't think it would be hard looking at that.
Whats telling is Asus's same card for the 1060 (strix) they report about a 6-7% gain , so would they put themselves in a worse light there than with a rx480 strix ? i doubt it - they would use the same methods i would think.
Asus is telling us there strix model will gain 10%+ on the 480 vs their 1060 strix is the point.
No need to disable boost.
Just heat up till ref. 480 hits 1120MHz, then bench. voila Up to +19%.
That's the only way to get +19% over ref. 480; to have at least +19% GPU clocks.
They are already throwing AMD under the buss mentioning PCIe power issue.
As they should. Why shouldn't they show their product in the best light?
Instead of being so naive as to put competing product in a great case so that it can maintain 1266MHz:
"Here is our awesome new product and it's almost 5% faster than ref."
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06/radeon-rx-480-test/5/
Thats a Fractal Design Define R5 with an RX480 after 20 mins, clocks speeds are down to 1160mhz in the games they tested at 1440p.
Now i'm not going to get into if you think thats a great case or not, the lans i go to where people would buy $240 cards its would probably be mid-upper end for them.
So could Asus engineer that result , absolutely , would they have to try hard to pick the case to do it .. i don't think it would be hard looking at that.
Whats telling is Asus's same card for the 1060 (strix) they report about a 6-7% gain , so would they put themselves in a worse light there than with a rx480 strix ? i doubt it - they would use the same methods i would think.
Asus is telling us there strix model will gain 10%+ on the 480 vs their 1060 strix is the point.
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#5309653 Posted on: 07/21/2016 08:03 AM
Yes
The rx 480 has a 256 bit bus to the 192 bit bus of the 1060.
That with the extra memory pulls a extra 30 watts so the power usage of these 2 cards is much much closer than it seems right now.
Nvidia appears to be more efficient and it likely is but its not as much as it seems because of the memory bus different power requirements.
It would be nice to know what that actually is.
The vulkan doom benchmark results say to me all i need to here.
Amd new architecture is only going to get better and better over time as game devs use more and more of its abilities so its only going to get faster and faster.
Right now 8 gig on this rx480 is way to much it will never use it without it being unplayable.
I do think however AMD know something we dont hence the 8 gig.
Like the playstation 4 has.
Yes
The rx 480 has a 256 bit bus to the 192 bit bus of the 1060.
That with the extra memory pulls a extra 30 watts so the power usage of these 2 cards is much much closer than it seems right now.
Nvidia appears to be more efficient and it likely is but its not as much as it seems because of the memory bus different power requirements.
It would be nice to know what that actually is.
The vulkan doom benchmark results say to me all i need to here.
Amd new architecture is only going to get better and better over time as game devs use more and more of its abilities so its only going to get faster and faster.
Right now 8 gig on this rx480 is way to much it will never use it without it being unplayable.
I do think however AMD know something we dont hence the 8 gig.
Like the playstation 4 has.
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#5309654 Posted on: 07/21/2016 08:05 AM
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
I like way you introduce your System configuration, but to your statement.
I can make my Fury X eat good 370W and it will still be kept under 50°C while being quieter than your blower kind of FE 1060.
And the fun part, Fury X with some voltage tuning eats like 250W max.
- - - -
But to give you some credit...
You have it nearly right, but you think in wrong properties. Temperature is function of generated heat vs cooling capacity.
What matters with Power efficiency is maximum performance extracted at 300W standard point where top cards aim at desktop.
But in end of the day, many people will run their cards out of specification and not one of us will care.
And in past even with nVidia having much more power efficient GPUs. Once things hit top of this 300W limit, there were not so big difference.
- - - -
And side note, You do not overclock till you reach certain temperature, You overclock till you reach limits of stability. GPUs are not Vishera clocked to 8GHz under LN2, they have other electrical limitations.
You actually do get better FPS with a more efficient architecture. Let's say the 1060 gets 60fps at 70C while the 480 gets 60fps at 80C, the 1060 can be overclocked until it reaches the 80C threshold and produce a higher framerate than the original 60fps.
Alternatively, you can maintain the same fps while producing less heat. This is far more important for my next mini-atx/htpc build. I am planning to buy a mini 1060 card so that I'm exhausting less heat and have greater airflow than if I were using either a Polaris chip or a fullsize card. Lower TDP = less heat to push out of my case, simple as that.
While the electricity savings are going to be minimal and that benefit is overblown (unless you game 24x7), there is no doubt that a more efficient chip provides real benefits to the consumer.
I like way you introduce your System configuration, but to your statement.
I can make my Fury X eat good 370W and it will still be kept under 50°C while being quieter than your blower kind of FE 1060.
And the fun part, Fury X with some voltage tuning eats like 250W max.
- - - -
But to give you some credit...
You have it nearly right, but you think in wrong properties. Temperature is function of generated heat vs cooling capacity.
What matters with Power efficiency is maximum performance extracted at 300W standard point where top cards aim at desktop.
But in end of the day, many people will run their cards out of specification and not one of us will care.
And in past even with nVidia having much more power efficient GPUs. Once things hit top of this 300W limit, there were not so big difference.
- - - -
And side note, You do not overclock till you reach certain temperature, You overclock till you reach limits of stability. GPUs are not Vishera clocked to 8GHz under LN2, they have other electrical limitations.
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#5309660 Posted on: 07/21/2016 08:18 AM
The rx 480 has a 256 bit bus to the 192 bit bus of the 1060.
That with the extra memory pulls a extra 30 watts so the power usage of these 2 cards is much much closer than it seems right now.
Nvidia appears to be more efficient and it likely is but its not as much as it seems because of the memory bus different power requirements.
It would be nice to know what that actually is.
The vulkan doom benchmark results say to me all i need to here.
Amd new architecture is only going to get better and better over time as game devs use more and more of its abilities so its only going to get faster and faster.
Right now 8 gig on this rx480 is way to much it will never use it without it being unplayable.
I do think however AMD know something we dont hence the 8 gig.
Like the playstation 4 has.
Yes, they know that several manufacturers are discontinuing 0.5GB/chip memories
And that 1GB per chip memories cost nearly same.
At this time, nVidia should not be selling cards with "only" 3GB vram. Not because it is insufficient for 1080p for which GTX 1060 is targeted. But because there will be bunch of lazy developers who will see 6/8GB of vram on a lot of GPUs and will not care about better texture management.
It is not problem for older 3GB gpus, because they are bit weaker and people are used to reduce some details a bit.
But people who will have degraded performance of will have to sacrifice details on 3GB GTX 1060 just because each 0.5GB chip did cost $2 less?
(Good thing is that nVidia said that they'll not introduce 3GB version at launch time.)
And if they do so later, not many people will buy them as everyone will consider 4GB+ as new standard.
The rx 480 has a 256 bit bus to the 192 bit bus of the 1060.
That with the extra memory pulls a extra 30 watts so the power usage of these 2 cards is much much closer than it seems right now.
Nvidia appears to be more efficient and it likely is but its not as much as it seems because of the memory bus different power requirements.
It would be nice to know what that actually is.
The vulkan doom benchmark results say to me all i need to here.
Amd new architecture is only going to get better and better over time as game devs use more and more of its abilities so its only going to get faster and faster.
Right now 8 gig on this rx480 is way to much it will never use it without it being unplayable.
I do think however AMD know something we dont hence the 8 gig.
Like the playstation 4 has.
Yes, they know that several manufacturers are discontinuing 0.5GB/chip memories
And that 1GB per chip memories cost nearly same.
At this time, nVidia should not be selling cards with "only" 3GB vram. Not because it is insufficient for 1080p for which GTX 1060 is targeted. But because there will be bunch of lazy developers who will see 6/8GB of vram on a lot of GPUs and will not care about better texture management.
It is not problem for older 3GB gpus, because they are bit weaker and people are used to reduce some details a bit.
But people who will have degraded performance of will have to sacrifice details on 3GB GTX 1060 just because each 0.5GB chip did cost $2 less?
(Good thing is that nVidia said that they'll not introduce 3GB version at launch time.)
And if they do so later, not many people will buy them as everyone will consider 4GB+ as new standard.
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I am desperately trying to decide between 480 and 1060. It seems to me that the 1060 has the edge overall. But one thing I wonder about is that extra 2GB of memory on the 480 (6GB vs 8GB).
Does anyone see that making a difference?
I would wait and see how the RX 480 custom cards pan out as at the moment they are hitting power draw bottlenecks so with an 8pin power connector they may have very good overclocking potential RX480's have good performance gains from very modest overclocks no doubt this is due to the RX480 having higher IPC compared to Maxwell and Pascal. Must say the RX480 custom cards are taking quite a while to get to market and not seen a review on one yet.