Alas fellow comrades. I am torn in twain betwixt thine illustrious Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Windforce OC and the ever-tenacious Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8GB paired with a 1080p Freesync display.
Use cases:
1080p gaming
Want that rock-solid 60-FPS+ at ultra settings with all the eye candy
If I were to get the 580, I’d get a Freesync monitor with the offset of the 1070
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($278.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-L12 37.8 CFM CPU Cooler ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350M-D3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($128.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($198.00 @ Shopping Express)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($219.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon R9 270X 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card
Case: Fractal Design - Arc Mini R2 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($129.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($135.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Monitor: BenQ VZ2350HM Flicker Free IPS
Total: $1166.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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RX 580:
GTX 1070:
Two of my local PC retailers are PC Case Gear and Scorptec, but other delivery retailers are cool too (Currency is Australian Dollars).
Budget is about $650 AUD and prices seem to be reasonable around this time of year for some reason. The reason the 270x is still around is because I desperately needed to upgrade the main system and the GPU was working fine so it’s stuck around til now! Other video card recommendations are welcome too.
That gigabyte makes me want to vomit a little but the 1070 is the obvious choice to me, unless there’s some kind of weird pricing where you are…Its cheaper and faster. On newegg the EVGA 1070 is the same price, I’d rather have that one…unless of course your build is black with orange pinstripes.
Yeah looking at the other 580s out there its a bit of a different story. I was only looking at the Nitro+ OP specified on newegg.
$449
VS the MSI variant
$329
Considering the $100 difference (for me) to the 1070 I would have to agree. Though I dont really care about freesync (or gsync for that matter) its still a much more fair comparison. Though I’m biased since I already have a 1070 and have been team green for quite some time.
I think if windows is the OS of choice though I would still recommend the 1070 where as if its intended to be a linux machine that 580 is probably the more sensible option.
Thanks for the replies everyone, nice input! I’ve updated the info in the original post. Just to clarify, I do actually have a monitor for this system already (BenQ VZ2350HM Flicker Free). The OS is Windows 10.
@psycho_666 Freesync with IPS? Damn that sounds good! That particular monitor is actually hard to come by in Australia. I am leaning towards the 580 for that extra monitor, although it seems like many people are recommending the 1070 for that raw compute power.