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what's up gas today's video comes as a bit of a follow up to my GTX 1060 and our X 480 reviews in order to take a closer look at both cards performance in modern AP eyes such as DirectX 12 in Vulcan over the past year or so I've locked down a number of go-to benchmarking apps to improve the efficiency and consistency of my testing but with so many new AP eyes on the rise in 2016 my existing suite of benchmarks could use a serious update especially when testing GPUs that are now more optimised for newer ap eyes than ever before so today I'm calling in a rematch between nvidia gtx 1060 and AMD Tsar X 480 where the two go head-to-head in 12 different applications across some of today's leading api's this is currently one of the more heated GPU matchups in the PC industry as the cards offer similar performance and fall into the sub $300 price range making them both attractive offerings for mainstream gamers hopefully today's results will help us paint a clearer picture of how the cards measure up overall on the test bench I'll be using the GTX 1060 founder's Edition and the reference rx 488 gigabyte model with the latest drivers on Windows 10 both cards were manually overclocked as far as I could take them without touching the voltage and were accompanied by my core i7 59 60 X at 4,400 megahertz and 16 gigs of DDR 4 at 21 33 on that notes keeping things short and sweet here let's cut right to the chase and have a look at the benchmarks all right and finally we have doom running Vulcan which like directx12 is not yet supported by fraps so here's some actual gameplay footage with the game's built-in Frank owner just a second ago we saw the R X 480 get trounced by the GTX 1060 when playing this game in OpenGL but with Vulcan the roles are completely reversed as the R X 480 consistently outperforms by as much as 50 FPS over the gtx 1060 now Vulcan has already made appearances as a proof of concept in games like the Talos principle but Doom is really the first title to showcase the api's performance benefits and the numbers we're seeing here should leave us excited to see more game supporting the new API but those are all the tests ladies and gentlemen and I think that's probably the most benchmarks I've ever shown in one video so one way I tried to make sense of all this data was to add up the total number of frames generated by each card per resolution over the games we tested and what we find is that the GTX 1060 is no doubt the faster card overall yielding 12 percent more frames than the RX 480 at 1920 by 1080 and just 2 percent more frames at 2560 by 1440 it's kind of interesting to see how much the our X 480 closes in on the GTX 1060 at the higher resolution presumably with the help of its larger frame buffer once again I added up the total number of frames from each card but this time based on API instead of resolution in 10 of the games tested half using DirectX 11 the other half DirectX 12 the GTX 1060 beats out the RX 480 in DirectX 11 gaming by 10% however our score shows the our X 480 taking a sizeable lead of nearly 18% in titles using DirectX 12 there's a more than likely chance that this is due to the rx 4 ATS vastly superior optimization for asynchronous compute which DirectX 12 can benefit from significantly in a way today's results represent a sort of transitionary period for pc gaming where newer api's and technologies like Aysen compute are just now starting to take hold and it seems as though AMD is notably more equipped to embrace these big changes than its competition with the majority of games still using DirectX 11 it's true that the GTX 1060 has the overall upper hand but I would imagine it won't be much longer before the scales tip in AMD's favor should Nvidia fail to effectively implement the use of async compute engines in their graphics cards but that is gonna do it for now guys let me know what side of this fence you're on in the comments and don't forget to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it before you go check the description below for shiny new torso chess ease or my Amazon affiliate link which I'm definitely not going to tell you to bookmark and use when you buy stuff for now I'm Cowell thousand size network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the next video