Need some advice on which card to get for 1440p

>1060 has been out for just over a month and it's already falling behind

Any AAA games released recently will need something more than those two cards for that resolution at those frames, period

Forza is an unoptimized mess user. It's a horrible example. You're only cooking those out of that loop

Fooling becomes cooking apparently

>RX 480 is getting closer to 1070 performance

>1060 Medium setting is worse than the 480's high setting
And nvidiots still believe the 1060 is the better card.

Was a nice job cherry picking that game. It's the exception, not the rule. Working to prove you have something superior to justify ones purchase is pointless. Personally, i have neither one of these cards but looking through benchmarks of a larger number of games reveals the truth

Yeah, was the only examples i could find of the two against each other.

>getting closer
call me if it manages that in games that are actually not shit

everything is an unoptimized mess whenever nvidia gpus perform worse

480 for the vram

1070.

Agree. Nvidia cards perform better in all the games that matter. Unoptimzed garbage paid for by AMD to drag down everyone to their performance level is the only way they can keep up. Pathetic. Sad.

I also questioned what to get for 1440p. Besides graphics cards, what monitor? What refresh rate? Should I liquid cool?

What I ultimately decided is... This generation really isn't good for anything greater than 1080p. Go next generation, or the generation after that, and get a good 1180-1280 card that can go 1440p 144fps or 4k 60 fps no problem, and is relatively future proof too.

Trump 2016

For what it's worth, I'm running a 6600K with an EVGA 1070 SC clocked to +110mhz GPU/+200mhz memory and it runs Witcher 3 on 1080P Ultra @ ~70FPS and often drops to 45 FPS when shit goes down.

Can't see a 1060 doing much on Ultra @ 1440p

....but even my 390 is faster than a 480

overclocked, that is. the power solution on the 480 really makes me wonder.

It might be faster than a throttling reference 480, but it's in no way faster than a custom one overclocked to 1400MHz (which is a given now with voltage control).

1440 isn't the best resolution for midrange cards, imo you should focus on 1080p max settings, that's manageable for a midrange card for the next 2-3 years, they can do that right now, but in a year those cards won't max out games at 1440, you would probably need a 1070+ to do so, or wait for the next RX 4x5/10x0 ti if they'll be a thing

There are plenty of games that a 1060/480 can't max out at 1080p/60fps right now. Forza Horizon 3, Mankind Divided, Ass Creed Syndicate, Quantum Break, The Witcher 3... to name but a few. The list grows exponentially when you bring MSAA into it too.

i would personally go with rx 480 because i pirated DOOM 2016 and saw what vulkan is capable of at least with my r9 390
the performance highly varies per game and you might find some games favoring nvidia and some favoring amd
in a lot of cases you can reduce the amount of nvidia favoritism a game has by disabling gameworks features such as soft shadows
if these features are really important to you then you might wanna consider the 1060 instead but in a lot of cases i dont mind using other alternatives to soft shadows

you should check youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9cZ8nX4xmmJAMvagyNHVGMHE-dLc3NM as they have more videos with performance comparison between the rx 480 and gtx 1060

Is freesync a meme or will any 144hz monitor do?

I'm not sure if to get a 1070 or one of the other cards. My only concern about the 1070 is DX 12 and the apparent speeding up of Volta.

Here you go OP

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>muh super cheap super shit entry level budget card
how about you stop being a stupid fucking poorfag and buy something slightly more expensive that can run 1440p with no effort?

Go for the 480

Get an R9 fury it's faster then both of them.

>b-b-but is cherry picked
>look at all these shit goyimworks games, see nvidia is totally better right guys

Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro should have dropped in price enough to be a good alternative.

4gb vram

>implying HBM is the same as GDDR
Besides the Fury has memory compression that GCN 1 and 2 didn't have

>4gb vram

480 should handle 1440p better than the 1060 due to its higher memory bandwidth and texture rate

...

>4gb vram

Sorry to be rude, lads. I've never dabbled in 144hz before and I'm not sure if a TN panel would be detrimental as the last time I had one was 10 years ago and wondered if they've improved.

or do I cough up another £100 for an ips?

>2nd gen has 32gb
Gonna enjoy getting a cheap 2nd hand gtx1080 when that puppy drops

For what's it's worth, I run a 4690k @ 4.00 with a non-OC 290x at 1440 in Witcher 3 and get 58 fps