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welcome back to our unboxed today we're revisiting another mid-range GPU battle this time between the Radeon rx 574 gear button geforce gtx 1063 gigabyte it's been a little over a year since we last compared these two in an epic head-to-head battle so I thought it was about time we took another look since the original comparison we've received a multiple driver and game updates as well as quite a few new games which we've been able to add to our benchmark list of the 27 games that we'll be testing in this video just half a dozen of them were featured in last year's battle last time at the Radeon rx 570 was 2 percent slower overall so a very even fight there currently the RX 570 does cost around $10 us more than the 3 gigabyte version of the gtx 1060 and for reference it should cost 170 dollars us while the gtx 1060 should cost $200 us today though the 1060 starts at $230 us while the 570 starts at $240 us so like all graphics cards they were actually better priced a year ago representing the green team is the msi geforce gtx 1063 gigabyte x3g and for the red team the msi radeon RX 570 gaming x 4g although both models are pretty heavily overclocked down in the box we're still going to squeeze every last bit of performance from them with a custom overclocked stock the RX 570 game X comes clocked at 1280 one megahertz for the core and 17 hundred and 50 megahertz for the gddr5 memory we were only able to increase the core clock to fourteen hundred and thirty five megahertz a 12% core overclock and the memory to 1900 megahertz a nine percent overclock and just as a side note under vaulting didn't help us achieve a greater frequency or hold higher boost frequencies as for the gtx 1060 gaming x3g it comes with a base core clock of fifteen hundred and sixty nine megahertz and in the gddr5 memory is clocked at two thousand and two megahertz we were able to hit 770 megahertz for the core and this resulted in a boost frequency of about two thousand one hundred and fifty megahertz depending on load the memory also achieved 2,275 megahertz so a 13% core overclock and a 14% memory overclock now as mentioned earlier we have 27 games in total all of which have been tested at any pay using both stock and overclock configurations however I'm only going to discuss the results for eight of the games and then jump into our performance breakdown the rest of the grass will be available for free on our patreon page and the link will be in the video description I'll probably also add it as a pinned comment as usual our course our GPU test rig built inside the crystal series 570 X has been used and inside we have a core i7 8700 K clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3,200 memory I realize this hardware configuration is overkill for these GPUs the idea here though is to remove any potential system bottlenecks that might mask GPU performance ok so I think that's about everything let's get to the good stuff first up we have the battlefield 1 results and here the gtx 1060 was 6% faster out of the box and 11% faster once overclocked so a clear win here for NVIDIA but it has to be said the RX 570 still puts on a show delivering well over 60 FPS at 1080p using the maximum in-game quality settings unfortunately Nvidia still hasn't addressed their underwhelming breakfest performance now this is allowed AMD to rear end of them in brutal fashion as the RX 570 provides up to 45% more performance more critically the RX 570 average 60 FPS out of the box whereas the GTX 1060 3 gigabytes struggled to break the 40 FPS barrier moving on we have Tom Clancy's Rainbow six siege and this is another title that really favors the red team here the RX 570 beat the GTX 1060 by a 36 percent margin out of the box Varian video was able to reduce that to a twenty seven percent margin in favor of the RX 570 once both GPUs were overclocked although far cry 5 is an AMD sponsored title we saw a little to no bias upon release both the Radeon and GeForce GPU is performed as expected here we see the GTX 1063 gigabyte is slightly faster in the RX 570 out of the box and 11% faster once overclocked Fortnite is built upon the Unreal Engine 4 and therefore has a natural tendency to favor hardware from the green team here we see the GTX 10 providing 15% more performance stock and then 17% more once overclocked still it's worth keeping in mind that we are using the maximum in-game quality settings at 1080p and still seeing well over 60 fps at all times using the rx 570 Total War saga thrones of Britannia is a newly released title it plays very well on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware that said the GTX 1063 gigabyte has a reasonable performance advantage as it provided 11% more frames out of the box and 16% more once overclocked still it has to be said there was no shortage of frames at 1080p using either GPU moving on we see that AMD's ARMA 3 performance has improved at a site in the past year and although the rx 517 was slower than the GTX 1063 gigabyte it was only seven percent slower out of the box and provided well over 60 FPS at all times the last game that we're going to look at is Warhammer vermintide 2 and this is another title that plays nicely with AMD Hardware here the RX 570 sped out 70 FPS on average out of the box and that made it 13 percent faster than the GeForce GTX 1063 gigabyte when it comes to power consumption the rx 570 does suck down a little more than the GTX 1060 it's at a natural disadvantage here being the die is 16% larger so not that surprising that we see a 19% increase in total system consumption still even when overclocked we're only seeing system consumption hit around 332 watts and that includes a core i7 87 okay clocked at 5 gigahertz so with a lower end CPU it's unlikely you're gonna see system consumption climb above 300 watts ok so from that small act game sample we did see a bit of back and forth which is to be expected now though it's time to get the full picture by looking at the results across all 27 games okay so in stock out of the box trim the GTX 1063 gigabyte was on average 4 percent faster than the rx 570 not a big margin that but it has grown by a few percent since we last compared the two so the 3 gigabyte 1060 is still kicking along ok at 1080p the 1060 enjoyed solid wins in GTA 5 Warhammer - Assassin's Creed origins and battlefront - it was less impressive when testing with rat fest and Rainbow six siege then with both graphics cards overclocked the GTX 1063 gigabyte extended lead after 8% I was now able to deliver considerably more performance in six of the title's tests in providing in excess of twenty percent more frames we also see that losses in titles such as rec fest and Rainbow six siege were also reduced so if you plan on overclocking your graphics card the 1060 is a very attractive it also consumes less power and because of that it does run at lower temperatures though the temperatures will vary from one model to another so we haven't focused on that data here again for those of you who are interested in seeing the actual frame rates for those 19 games that we didn't look closely at please check the link in the video description which will point you in the direction of our patreon page and it is free to access all the graphs there as for picking one of these GPUs and working out which one's best for you well it's probably going to come down to the games you play as one model might be a little bit better than the other depending on the game a bit overall the experience was very similar in almost every title we tested that being the case last time out I did say there was no right or wrong choice yeah it's just too close to call and that is indeed the case again in 2018 so really I would go with whichever one is cheapest that being the case I do personally gravitate towards the GTX 1063 gigabyte at the moment and that's for a few reasons and I'll admit part of me is a little bit annoyed about this because I'm not happy about the naming of the three year byte model it's not merely a gtx 1066 gigabyte with half the memory it's missing an sm unit which takes the cruder coil count down from 1280 to eleven hundred and fifty-two this means despite having the same name it actually features 10% for your cause I've expressed my dismay for this quite a few times in the past so I won't bang on about it here as frustrating and misleading as it is it doesn't change the fact that the three gigabyte 1060 is actually still a really good value product a fact is right now it is slightly cheaper than the rx 570 while offering slightly better performance in our tests so if I had a little over $200 u.s. to spend on a graphics card right now that is the model I would be getting as a side note if you can afford to pony up the extra $50 or so for a fully fledged 6 gigabyte model then by all means do so but at 1080p there's no chance you're going to see 20% more performance so in terms of cost frame the three gigabyte version really does offer much more value and finally if you'll want to take advantage of adaptive sync technology then the RX 570 makes more sense as free sync is more affordable but as Tim has found in the past your experience may vary from display to display so make sure you do your research and that is going to do it for this one if you did enjoy the video well that's nice glad you did and if you want to show your appreciation hit the like button you can also subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the work we do in our box then consider supporting us on patreon one dollar a month will give you access to our monthly live stream and three dollars a month we'll gain access to our discord chat so you get a direct line to Tim myself and everyone else in the discord chats a really cool community there if you have any problems you can ask them there any suggestions or anything like that or you can just badger us all day like some of our patron members do but we love those guys anyway thanks for watching I'm yo Steve and I'll see you again next time