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recently the thing to do if you're a YouTube tech reviewer is to find the oldest most rubbish mother body cam and see if the rx4 ad will work it's a lot of fun I thought it might be interesting to get onboard this latest craze and in doing so add a little twist by also testing with the gtx 1060 so i began digging out the oldest - most forgotten about hardware in the office my search turned up a few am-3 boards along with a couple of LGA 1156 boards the only problem was they all worked with the RX 4 80 booted into windows played games and well they were rather than head down to local electronics recycling center to see what garbage had lying around I gave up on the idea and instead change gears to something else something I feel is even more interesting having already dusted off an old Core i5 750 system along with a phenom ii x4 955 system from the same era I had a light bulb moment why not test both systems using the RX 480 and gtx 1060 see how these new bid range GPUs compare in old systems more than likely game is making the upgrade to a current gen mid-range CPU I'm drafting the latest core i7 processor overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz instead many are probably running a more affordable previous gen core i3 or Core i5 processor or alternatively one of AMD's phenom or FX processors so we've seen how the 480 and 1060 compare when they aren't being restrained by CPU limitations to how they get on with a much lesser processor in this video we're going to find out I should point out that neither the i5 750 or x4 955 have been overclocked or tweaked in any way included purely for comparison is my standard GPU test rig as already have the results for both GPUs in this system this is an overclocked PC so I'm not trying to make a direct comparison here but rather show how fast is mid-range GPUs are we're not hampered by a system bottleneck starting with The Witcher 3 we see the gtx 1060 was 11% faster than the arcs for ad on my 6700 K test system moving to the i5 750 system reduced the 1060 performance by 30% but despite that the 1060 was still 10% faster than the rx 4 ad on the old core i5 rig moving to the phenom ii x4 system the 1060 drops are further 11% down to 38 fps here we find that on the AMD system the RX 480 and 10 60 deliver the same 38 FPS average for benchmarking Star Wars Battlefront we use a single player tutorial which is some very CPU demanding at all making this primarily a GPU test as such the GTX 1060 delivers very similar performance on all three systems the RX 4 80 provides very similar performance on both the Intel rigs but does slow down quite a bit on the Phenom system fallout 4 is a massive system resource hog so I'm not surprised to see some major variations in performance here that said the performance trends remain quite similar for the most part looking at the minimum frame rate the 1060 was 20% faster than the RX for 80 on the core i7 6700 K test system meanwhile on the core i5 750 system the 1060 s minimum frame rate was 27% higher finally on the phenom ii x4 system we find the 1060 is just 5% faster the division shows pretty similar performance trends across all three systems and it's really only the RX 480 and phenom ii x4 combo this is a big hit in the minimum frame rate Department ARMA 3 isn't a CPU intensive game at least not the way that many seem to believe the game is poorly optimized and doesn't utilize more than a single CPU thread heavily as a result CPUs with strong single thread IPC performance went out the highly clock 6700 K shows this is the GTX 1060 average 72 fps this result was reduced to just 40 FPS with the i5 750 and then 31 FPS with a phenom ii x4 interestingly the RX 4 ad actually compared better with the gtx 1060 on the slower processors Mirror's Edge catalyst isn't a CPU intensive game and as a result the margins remained fairly consistent across all three systems total war Warhammer is an interesting title the provided interesting results there be aware we only tested using DirectX 11 mode the RX 4 ad actually looks better in relation to the GTX 1060 on the slower systems which is pretty surprising the Doom results are particularly Italian honestly I was expecting to see more results like this using the OpenGL or Vulcan we see the RX 4 ad play is considerably worse than the GTX 1060 on the older systems while the arcs priority was faster on the 6700 K system using Vulcan by 16% margin it's actually 21% slower when using the core i5 750 rig and 29% lower on the Phenom 2 system in ashes of the singularity we see dx12 does a good job of keeping the RX 480 in the game when testing on the slower systems it was 15% slower than the 1060 on the 6700 K test system when running the game in DirectX 11 mode when we move to the core i5 750 machine the 480 is now 35% slower however using DirectX 12 we see the same 6% decline in performance well I didn't manage to run into any compatibility issues with my radiant rx 4 ad on these old systems but I did end up finding some interesting results for the most part the 480 didn't fare nearly as poorly against the gtx 1060 s i thought at mine there were of course exceptions those such as doom and ashes of the singularity using DirectX 11 it was interesting although admittedly not all that surprising to see just how much slower these new mid-range graphics cards were on these old quad-core systems it's also been quite a long time since I've seen the Core i5 750 phase 2 phenom ii x4 955 and honestly i forgotten how much better the intel processor was for gaming the performance difference is likely being amplified by the use of modern games that take full advantage of quad-core processors with the exception of arma 3 so in short it appears you're going to be seeing similar performance margins between the 480 and 1060 on older hardware on that note you're also going to see considerably greater performance when using a modern processor or at least a relatively modern processor overclocked I didn't have time to overclock the core i5 and phenom ii x4 processors for this video but perhaps i can do a more in-depth video in the near future featuring more GPU and CPU configurations for you guys if you guys are keen to see it what did you guys think of these results were they surprising let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to a heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the Amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware on box channel it means a lot to me and I really do appreciate it turn I'll continue to work as hard as I can to keep producing the content you enjoy