Should i buy a GTX 1060 6gb or a RX 580 8gb right now or wait for GTX 2060?

watch the youtube reviews on the 2080. people are not very impressed

There is no special Ray Tracing Chip, they just lable those powerful ones from that generation as Ray Tracing Accelerators because they are better in compute then the last generation. Calculating fast is what is needed for Ray Tracing. Also the 2060 and lower will be better at it, no worry's.

Wait for the AMD refresh.

Same price?

1060 if you are using it for anything else than gaming, e.g. deep learning stuff where you need cuda.

Otherwise I would take the 580 since it is same speed/slightly faster and supports freesync

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The 580 is only better if you play at 1440p, which he probably won't.

RX570 and OC the shit out of it, I got one for 130 bucks on eBay, ASUS Strix with an Arctic IV cooler, it runs equal or better than a stock rx580.

If you can, get the 8gb version or just the RX 580, the 1060 is not aging as good.

2060 will come after christmas.
Amd is realesing next week the 670 and next month the 680 to take advantage of the absence of competition in the mid-range segment.
Personally, I would pick a 680 not only for the performance bump, but also for the price reset. Imagine getting it at $200

Buy either used. They're both excellent cards for 1080p gaming.

It's very much not worth it. You have to get a 2080ti if you want any hope of getting close to 60 fps with RTX on.

>buying a card new when it's over 2 years old
Unless you are in DESPERATE need, no, you should wait. At least if you do have to buy, the prices are pretty damn good now compared to how they were during the memeing boom.

Freesync is only useful if your card can't deliver the mad framerate on your monitor consistently. If you're looking at 1060 vs 580 you're probably playing at 1080p 60 fps, and both of those cards will be delivering that.

Same question as OP, but I have a gtx 960 now
Also doesn't AMD have better drivers for Linux? Playing the same games on Linux gets me 30% less fps than on windows

Yeah. You probably know firsthand how bad Nvidia Linux drivers are. Unless you need CUDA, get the RX580 if you care about Linux gaming. Or, hell, watching videos. I still can't get vsync to work reliably with video playback on my 960 under Linux.

Yes by far, if you are on a tighter budget wait for refresh and go for the AMD 64 or 56, or save some coin and jump right onto Vega 7nm.

Buy a used 1070 for less

What complete and utter bullshit. There are tons of games that the 1060 and 580 won't even come close to a locked 1080p/60fps in unless you turn down settings a fair bit.

RX680 if you can wait.

RX 680 my nigga

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580 8gb now, or 680 if you can wait a little while.

if 670 doesn't outperform 1060 6GB then AMD shouldn't even bother with a refresh.

be the mid-range hero we need.

RX 580 already outperform 1060, and RX 570 OC is close to RX580. Surely RX 670 could do better than that.

that's my logic as well, but I've been disappointed before

How about you don't get any GPU if you already have one, and do something productive.

Unless you need a gpu for work, yoou're just being a child.

GTX 1070, 2060 will be around the same performance mark but more expensive.

Vega 56.

Why do people even buy 1060's when 580 exist or 1070's when Vega 56 exist? Both cheaper but faster.
Plus if you're obviously cheaping out and not buying a Ti straight out, you're sure as Hell going to need a-sync, so don't tell me you have the money to buy a G-Sync monitor but not a decent Nvidia GPU, then a AMD GPU plus a FreeSync monitor is a cheaper and far better idea.

Downsampling.

Latency and frametime you pleb. FreeSync (or G-Sync) are a must for any gaming manchild.

Like what? You can play anything on at least "High", if not "Ultra", that includes supersampling anti-aliasing methods, i.e. (Ultra) might be too much but but one step down (High) will work fine 60+ FPS.

Gtx 1080 or ti
If your not worried about power consumption and get one cheap a Vega 64 is good value

>RX 570
I don't recommend getting the RX570. It's not that there is anything wrong with the card its just that there seems to always be some RX580 card on sale for less than any RX570.

Get this beauty for about $250, I'm very happy with it.

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what are ok temperatures for a 580?

Under 75°C at full load.

what a time to be alive

>£569 for a GPU less than 10% faster than a 1080.
nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/buy/

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