From both NVIDIA and AMD
The graphics card is still the most important component in a gaming PC and they’re becoming significantly faster from generation to generation. In order to achieve higher framerates it is better usually better to spend more money on the graphics card instead of the CPU. When new graphics card hit the market, you will instantly find in-depth reviews but it's quite hard to find a comparison with their predecessors.
In order to get a good overview our friends over at ComputerBase have tested quite a few different graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD with the first models being from 2009. Since the graphics cards come from different generations, they have used old and more recent games. Regarding the green party ComputerBase tested the GeForce GTX 460, 560, 660, 760, 960 and 1060, while for the red faction they’ve tested the Radeon 5770, 6870, 7870, 270X, 380 & RX 480.
All benchmarks have been conducted on the same test system which is based on a Intel Core i7-6700K overclocked to 4.5 GHz, an ASUS Z170-Deluxe motherboard and 4x4GB G.Skill DDR4-3000 memory. The OS used is Windows 10 and they have used several different driver versions. Regarding AMD they have used Crimson ReLive 16.12.2 and Crimson 16.2.1 (for legacy graphics cards) drivers while on NVIDIA 376.33 driver has been used.
In the NVIDIA article, that has been published yesterday, they show that on average the gap between the GTX 460 and the GTX 1060 is about 450%. The difference in terms of power consumption is about 10%, in other words there is not a big gap in terms of wattage. The improvements in all the games are somewhat linear, only in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which has been released in 2011 the difference between the two models is about 358% and therefore quite a bit less than what we just mentioned.
Between the old Radeon HD 5770 and the latest RX 480 there is a 600% gap. There is also a huge difference in terms of power consumption; while with NVIDIA cards there were only a few percentage points difference, the AMD the Radeon HD 5770 required more than 50% watt less under load. Also on AMD the performance improvement is overall linear in all games.
If you want to have a look at all the results in detail we can highly recommend the German article over at Computerbase.
Source: Computerbase
In order to get a good overview our friends over at ComputerBase have tested quite a few different graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD with the first models being from 2009. Since the graphics cards come from different generations, they have used old and more recent games. Regarding the green party ComputerBase tested the GeForce GTX 460, 560, 660, 760, 960 and 1060, while for the red faction they’ve tested the Radeon 5770, 6870, 7870, 270X, 380 & RX 480.
All benchmarks have been conducted on the same test system which is based on a Intel Core i7-6700K overclocked to 4.5 GHz, an ASUS Z170-Deluxe motherboard and 4x4GB G.Skill DDR4-3000 memory. The OS used is Windows 10 and they have used several different driver versions. Regarding AMD they have used Crimson ReLive 16.12.2 and Crimson 16.2.1 (for legacy graphics cards) drivers while on NVIDIA 376.33 driver has been used.
In the NVIDIA article, that has been published yesterday, they show that on average the gap between the GTX 460 and the GTX 1060 is about 450%. The difference in terms of power consumption is about 10%, in other words there is not a big gap in terms of wattage. The improvements in all the games are somewhat linear, only in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which has been released in 2011 the difference between the two models is about 358% and therefore quite a bit less than what we just mentioned.
Between the old Radeon HD 5770 and the latest RX 480 there is a 600% gap. There is also a huge difference in terms of power consumption; while with NVIDIA cards there were only a few percentage points difference, the AMD the Radeon HD 5770 required more than 50% watt less under load. Also on AMD the performance improvement is overall linear in all games.
If you want to have a look at all the results in detail we can highly recommend the German article over at Computerbase.
Source: Computerbase
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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