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welcome back to harbor a box for the GPU battle recently I checked in how the Radeon rx 580 and GeForce GTX 1060 compared in 27 games and found that overall performance was very similar the RX 580 offered just two and a half percent more performance overall in the end I acknowledged you really could go either way depending on preference that said I picked the rx 580 as I appreciated it slightly better performance in modern titles its superior low-level API numbers and the fact that free sync is a strong selling point for mid-range graphics cards also the fact the MSRP is around $20 u.s. lower helped out and it got the red team over the line for me well the dust has settled on that one and 1400 comments later the Internet's a better place so I guess it's time to stir up the hornet's nest and do it all over again in an effort to do just that I'll be taking new Radeon rx 570 and putting it head-to-head against the geforce gtx 1063 gigabyte now in a perfect world where graphics card availability isn't an issue the RX 570 should come in at about 170 dollars u.s. making it a good bit cheaper than the $200 three gigabyte gtx 1060 right now though more than a month since the RX 570 was released cards are still selling for $200 u.s. and availability is poor at best therefore right now it's actually easier and cheaper to pick up a three gigabyte GTX 1060 and there's a nice MSI model selling for $180 u.s. for example anyway in terms of pricing they are quite similar and predictably availability will eventually improve for the RX 570 so I guess the next question is which one should you buy well to find out we have 29 games on the menu all of which have been tested at the 1080p and 1440p resolutions on our Intel Core i7 77 arcade test system which has been clocked at 4.9 to us please like my focus will almost be entirely on the 1080p resolution as I feel this is primarily where gamers seeking this caliber of graphics card will be gaming representing the green team at MSI with their GTX 1060 gaming x3g and for the red team we have gigabyte with their aura and rx5 74g MSI's applied a 4% factory overclock to their card while gigabytes gone with a slightly more mild 3% overclock so much of a muchness then kick starting things off we have a bit of an oldie but we did test with the updated HD client quite a few of you do seem to enjoy playing World of Tanks so this is a game I've started including it a lot of my tests the game does appear to prefer in video hardware as the 1060 was 8% faster that said though for those gaming at higher resolutions the green teams advantage in this title will become more significant now we're going from blowing up tanks to jacking cars and throwing grenades at prostitutes if you have Brian from tech city the yes man's an oddball anyway like World of Tanks we find that Grand Theft Auto is another game at favor the Green Team quite heavily I might add the 1060 offered 22% more frames at 1080p and in fact the minimum was greater than that of the RX 5 70s average The Witcher 3 is the last pre 2016 title that I've tested and it's another game that favors the gtx 1060 over the RX 570 this time by 9% margin that said though i do test this game with hair works enabled you know because nvidia bias and all that noise right so next up we have rise of the Tomb Raider you guys ever tried swimming in this game I recommend you check it out where was I yeah the 1080p results for the rx 570 it's a fraction fast on the GTX 1060 when comparing the average frame rate but a country mile ahead for the minimum whereas the GTX 1060 dropped down to 31 fps the radio and bottom data just 41 fps impressive stuff from the red team given this is an Nvidia sponsored title ashes the benchmark has been included because well it's a 29 game benchmark video how needed the numbers at 1080p we see a 53 FPS average for both GPUs though the 1060 did manage a slightly better minimum result moving to 1440p weighs heavily in the favor of the RX 570 Far Cry primal generally goes the way of the green team and we certainly see this one comparing the GTX 1060 and rx 570 I'm not going to say the margins were extreme but the 1060 was faster at both resolutions and enjoy the 9% advantage TEP Tom Clancy's the division was tested exclusively using DirectX 12 and you could argue that using DirectX 11 would afford the ten sixty one or two more frames an O'Brien would it's a fair point on it would see performance much the same between the two GPUs nevertheless this is an apples to apples comparison and the 570 was 3% faster I'd get this away much on the overall result next up we have hitman yes I've included hitman much to the delight of those Hulk colored fanboys this title does deal in video quite the below as the RX 570 was 18 percent faster hitting an average of 80 fps to the 10 60 68 fps whereas AMD fans get hitman Nvidia fans get quantum break see how that works here the 10 60 was 9 percent faster an average at 1080p with a rather healthy 70 FPS though the RX 570 did manage to keep the average above 60 FPS at all times so overall gameplay was very smooth okay time for overwatch or rather the Zarya benchmark where I let 12 areas set on easy mode loose to run around and pretty much just annoy each other tomatoe Thanos areas were harmed during this benchmark using the epic quality preset both mid-range GPUs provided very respectable performance and quite shockingly the rx 570 just managed to edge your head of the 10 60 in this one doing provides little challenge for these GPUs at 1080p and both averaged well over 100 FPS at all times in our test scene the RX 570 was on average 12% fast the GTX 1060 but again with both pushing over 120 FPS at 1080p and well over 60 FPS at 1440p it's not really a significant win for the red team total war Warhammer throws up some interesting results here we see the RX 570 leading when it comes to the average frame rate but falling quite far behind for the minimum result performance was still very smooth on the AMD card but it kind of makes it difficult to call a winner here the 1060 pulled back in the lead for Mirror's Edge catalyst beating the RX 570 by convincing 12 percent margin at Sony P that said though both cards did push over 60 FPS at all times the 1060 remained ahead for f1 2016 though with just three fps in it for the average and 1fps when comparing the minimum frame rate at yupi it was a close battle indeed although Deus Ex mankind divided is an AMD sponsored tile and we tested using the DirectX 12 API the GTX 1060 performs admirably at 1080p matching the rx 570 the GTX 1060 was overwhelmed at 1440p and I'd say this is a VRAM capacity issue that's it with an average of just 34 fps for the rx 570 it wasn't exactly smooth on either graphics card battlefield 1 provided a very even battle between these two budget heavyweights basically we ended up with a dead heat at 1080p while the RX 570 was able to edge a head by a 5% margin at 1440p as I mentioned earlier I am mostly concerned with type II performance in this video so it was great to see both GPUs maintaining well over 60 fps at all times Omar cs3 how is it that after six months since your release it still takes a gtx 1080 to play it tell you P using the higher quality settings and it's not like the games easy to tweak either it only offers a low medium or high preset so we're not testing with some kind of extreme hyper type quality setting anyway even at 1080p both GPUs fail to get anywhere near 60 FPS so the 1060 13 percent victory here is a bit hollow that's said downgrading to the medium quality preset will boost performance and the 1060 should maintain its lead Gears of War 4 is another Nvidia sponsored title this time a DX 12 title so this helps the 1060 hang in there with the rx 570 overall performance was much the same on both graphics cards at 1080p though the RX 570 did pull ahead at 1440p titanfall 2 is an AMD special though it has to be said I was expecting the RX 570 be more than 5% faster than the GTX 1060 here still though both did maintain over 60 FPS at all times when playing at the 1080p resolution we see yet another close battle in Civilization 6 this time the RX 570 was 6% faster at Sony P though this did only account for a for FPS advantage I should note that the minimum frame rate performance was much the same in fact the GTX 1060 was 1 FPS faster here black titanfall 2 called the dream front warfare is another AMD special and the time it really shows the are x57 you enjoyed a massive 16% performance advantage over the GTX 1060 at 1080p and here the five seventies minimum frame rate was greater than ten sixties average so a very strong wind frame D here indeed fresh off their biggest win AMD now suffers through their greatest loss in another title released in November of 2016 here we see when playing dishonored to the 1060 is 25% faster than the 570 and that's obviously a big deal whereas the 570 dips down to 40 fps the 1016 never dropped below 50 fps the GTX 1060 was again faster than the 570 this time when testing with watchdogs to hear it enjoyed a 10 percent performance advantage at 1080p when comparing the average frame rate that's as though the 570 did do better when comparing the minimum frame rate though it was just two fps faster and okay what's going on here before you ask no I didn't accidentally test the 10 60 at the 4k resolution using the very high quality preset Resident Evil 7 is extremely demanding on vrm as a result the 1063 gear like completely tanks I had planned to see how far you had to relax the quality settings before the three gigabyte card comes to life but sadly I ran out of time I'm actually going to end up putting the final touches on this video just hours before I end up getting on a plane to head to Computex so these results will have to do for now though I do feel they're a little incomplete moving on both GPUs did a great job with ferrata averaging over 70 FPS with a minimum of 57 FPS the GTX 1060 was a fraction faster overall but as you can see performance was very similar even at 1440p Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon wildlands played into favor of the GTX 1060 here it was 11% faster than the rx 570 at turvy P that said at 1440 Peter 5:7 he came back as it often does and match the GTX 1060 the GTX 1060 manages to come away with the win in Mass Effect Andromeda edging out the RX 570 by 6 percent margin at 1080p the 1600 also managed to maintain its lead at 1440p though with both GPUs rendering less than 40 FPS on average you will want to reduce the quality settings a bit more here next up we have dawn of war 3 and this one went the way of the red team here the RX 5 70 was 8% faster the GTX 1060 though both did perform very well at 1080p wrapping things up as prey and for the last game we have a rather well put together game with excellent optimization this means even with the very high quality settings in play both GPU smash through the 60 FPS barrier at 1080p the 1600 though did come out on top delivering 11% more performance and yes we did test with the latest version of the game in the words of Jeremy Clarkson power yes time to look at the power consumption and unfortunately in this case more isn't better Jeremy wouldn't understand the rx 570 push total system consumption almost 300 watts which frankly is still very manageable despite the fact that the same system with the 1060 consumed almost 20% less okay so we're nearing the end of our journey to discover which brand offers the best mid-range budget contender is it AMD or is it Nvidia - the swoosh effect and as we find all too often it's either or is it both well whatever the case the RX 570 ends up delivering just a single extra frame on average at IEP and surprisingly just 2 extra frames at 1440p that said this graph does take into account those resident evil 7 results which were massive outliers let me show you what I mean if we include all the results this is what the overall picture looks like as you can see it's pretty even across the board until you're throwing that one game where the GTX 1063 you get like completely tanked for now this game is clearly an outlier as we didn't see any other situations where the RX 570 provided playable performance while the GTX 10 63 gigabyte failed I'm keen to see just how much you have to downgrade the quality settings before the 1060 recovers in that title but like I said it'll have to wait till I get back from Computex for now if we remove the outlier the RX 570 actually ends up being 2% slower overall but to be fair the results are still very even the RX 570 was faster in 13 games and slower in 14 while they tied in a single title so as we often find there's really no clear winner here it simply boils down to what games you play when deciding which GPU is best for do they both have their strengths and weaknesses for 1063 gigabytes greatest weakness is of course the limited memory buffer but to be fair at 1080p this is rarely an issue the three-year buy model was released almost a year ago now and back then we heard how it was dead on arrival even for those gaming at 1080p well with the exception of one game we have 28 other examples that show the 3 gigabyte 1060 providing very playable performance at 1080p and no there wasn't any stuttering or micro stuttering or anything like that I've checked all the frame time data the three gigabyte card performs very well I just haven't shown the point one percent one percent lows for the GPU testings as most prefer the minimum and average this might be something I'll change in the future I am doing it for CPU testing but now for GPU testing the minimum seems to show exactly what the 1% does for almost every test anyway if you bought a three gigabyte model last year you're probably wondering what all the fuss is about the advantage of the 1060 is considerably better power consumption more overclocking Headroom and cooler operating temperatures the advantage of the RX 570 is of course the slightly larger VM buffer which did seem to help us out of trouble as we saw strong performance across the board and finally the availability of an impressive range of free sync monitors is also a big bonus so which one would I go with next question please really it comes down to which one's the cheapest and the games that you intend on playing I do feel like the RX 570 is probably the safest bet but I also really like the lower power consumption of the GTX 1063 gigabyte which generally allows board partners to put on cooler sound well create cooler graphics cards that are quieter that's what I'm trying to say cooler and quiet cool and quiet I think that was a thing once it's also a better pairing for budget builds in my opinion that use lesser quality power supplies really though basing your decision on which one I would pick might not be the best choice on this one and not just because I really don't know which one I would pick of the two comes down to a few things for example if you have a free sync monitor or you plan on getting one in the near future then I'd say the RX 570 becomes the obvious choice that said though if you already have a monitor that doesn't support an adaptive vsync technology and you have no plans to upgrade your monitor in the near future and you play games that tend to favor the green team then the GTX 1060 might be the smarter choice in the end of giving you a heap of information and data in the hope that you can now make an informed buying decision and I'm going to leave it at that for this one I really need to go pack my bags and head to the airport I'm super excited about the Computex trip this year and the fact that MSI has sponsored the channel is a seriously big deal if you love what we do at harbor unboxed and you really want to support the channel then please be sure to check out all our Computex coverage over the next week that'll really help us out after that though when I get back from combi Tex I will be jumping right back into the benchmarking I'm your host Steve C against there and guys you