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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we are revisiting the battle of the mid-range GPUs more specifically the Radeon rx 588 gigabyte and geforce gtx 1066 gigabyte it's been a little over a year since we last compared these two head-to-head in an epic 27 game battle so i thought it's about time we've got an update on the situation in that time we've received multiple driver and game updates as well as added quite a few new games to the list of titles that we test with of the 27 games that we are testing in this video just six of them were featured in last year's battle last time at the RX 580 was 2 percent faster than the gtx 1060 on average so i'll be interesting to see if anything's changed representing the green team is the gigabyte horas gtx 1066 g 9 gigabits per second and for the red team the gigabyte RS RX v 8 extr 8g although both models are pretty heavily overclocked out of the box we're still going to try and squeeze every last bit of performance from them with a custom overclocked stock the Auris RX 580 comes clocked at fourteen hundred and twenty five megahertz for the core and two thousand megahertz for the gddr5 memory we were only able to increase the core clock to fourteen hundred and ninety megahertz and that's a mere 5% overclock and in the memory of two thousand two hundred and fifty megahertz for a 13 percent overclock as for the Auris gtx 1060 it comes clocked at sixteen hundred and seven megahertz for the core and 2250 megahertz for the gddr5 memory we were able to hit seventeen hundred and ten megahertz for the core and this resulted in a boost frequency of nineteen hundred and fifty megahertz depending on load the memory also reached two thousand and seventy five megahertz so a six percent core overclock and a 10 percent memory overclock now as mentioned earlier we have 27 games in total all of which have been tested at 1080p using both stock and overclocked configurations however i'm only going to discuss the results for eight of the games and then jump to our performance breakdown this is a new format that i'm trying for these GPU updates so let me know if you prefer getting to the performance summary a bit quicker as usual our course a GPU test rig built inside the crystal series five seventy ex has been used and inside we have a core i7 87 or okay clocked at five gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3,200 memory I think that's about everything let's get to the good stuff first up we have battlefield one a well optimized game that's been out for over a year and a half now so I'm Dean NVIDIA have had plenty of time to get there drivers sorted and as a result it's a very even fight basically too close to call so let's move on the newest game added to the long list of titles we test with is a rec fest and it's a rare title in the sense that there appears to have been outside pressure on the game developer from any team not blue red or even the Green Team this makes the rx5 80s 12% victory we're looking at the average frame rate and 27% for the 1% low all that sweeter it's possible in video we'll release an updated driver for this title to improve performance but for now this is how the gtx 1060 and rx 580 stack up every time I forget to include Rainbow six siege in any kind of benchmark comparison you guys let me know about it in the comments section so I've made sure it was included in the few games that I'm going to discuss although both GPUs had no trouble cranking up big framerate at 1080 PS and the ultra quality settings the RX 580 was still 17 percent faster hitting an impressive 146 fps out of the box overclocking didn't really seem to help much netting us just 2% more performance far cry 5 was an even fight and it's another well optimised title that said the RX 580 did deliver slightly better 1% low performance making it around 8 percent faster here still overall I have to say the experience was much the same using either GPU fortnight uses the Unreal Engine and NVIDIA did have some influence on its development so unsurprisingly the GTX 1060 does enjoy a performance advantage here delivering 13% more frames again the experience was still very good with the rx 580 but for maximum formats for tonight players will want a graphics card from the Green Team Total War sage Thrones of Britannia is another recently added title and this one delivers very competitive results stock the GTX 1060 was only one to two fps faster and we see much the same once both GPUs are overclocked I have to say it's quite to see a radeon GPU actually winning in arma 3 back when we first tested the Radeon R X 480 the GTX 1060 was an incredible 55 percent faster in this title so clearly aim DS worked out whatever the issue was and incredibly we're actually seeing better 1% low performance on the rx 580 the last game we're going to discuss is Warhammer vermintide 2 and it seems aimed his recent driver update which claimed a performance improvement of up to 10% for the rx 588 gigabyte has given a clear advantage in this title the RX 580 was almost 20% fast and the GTX 1060 both stock and overclocked so a super result for the radio and graphics card the great thing about the RS RX 580 XG r 8g is it gets the most out of the RX 580 without the user really having to do anything the bad news though is it's very very power hungry under bolting could help here but the results will vary from card to card in any case without any tinkering you're looking at around a 25% increase in total system consumption with this radeon GPU that's a massive increase though it has to be said we are using a core i7 87 or okay clocked at 5 gigahertz and even then total system draw under heavy gaming load never exceeded 371 watts even with the GPU overclocked so under 400 watts this hardware configuration isn't exactly putting the hurt on your PSU ok so from that fairly small 8 game sample we saw a bit of back and forth and I guess that is to be expected based on what we have seen in the past that said though let's get the full picture now by looking at the results across all 27 games here we can see that overall the gtx 1066 gear by it was 3% faster on average at 1080p which i'm sure i don't need to tell you is a negligible margin of the 27 games test that we see there's almost a dozen 11 to be exact where the margin is less than 5% in either direction that means there were seven games where the GTX 1060 was slower by more than a 5 percent margin and 9 games are us faster than a 5 percent margin there's really only one major outlier here and that's frost Punk where the GTX 1060 was 46% faster for those of you wondering if we remove that title the GTX 1060 is now just a single percent fast in the RX 580 on average hopefully AMD can sort out whatever the issue is in frost Punk before too long for those of you who are interested in seeing the actual frame rates for the 19 games that we didn't look closely at please check the video description there'll be a link included there that'll take you to a public post on our patreon account and that will feature all that information right so last time we did this the RX 580 came out on top just on top by a 3% margin which at the time I declared close enough to be called a draw this time it was the GTX 1060 that came out on top by a 3% margin and once again I'm going to declare this one a draw depending on the games you play one model might be a better choice than the other but overall the experience was very similar in almost every title tested last time I did say that there was no right or wrong choice here they're just too close to call it so just get whichever one is cheapest if you want to take advantage of adaptive sync technology then the RX 580 does make more sense as free sync is much more affordable but the experience will vary from display to display so make sure you do your research personally I'd be just as happy with either of these graphics cards I'd happily take the GTX 1060 or the rx 580 and my advice really is just get whichever one is cheapest in your region right now they are both still quite overpriced it's not as extreme as it was you can expect to pay about $300 u.s. for either of these models about four hundred and fifty dollars Ozzy so not too bad about fifty dollars overpriced there having said all that though I'd highly recommend you just wait if you can if you're extremely desperate then Shaw bio new graphics card now but if you can wait I'd suggest doing so because prices should continue to fall and we are anticipating new models soon so it might pay to wait another month or two if you can and that is going to do it for this one I hope you did enjoy this video the new format you found that was a bit more optimized anyway I'm I'll be interested to hear what you guys think if you did enjoy the video please hit the like button subscribe for more content you've appreciate the work we do on our run box then consider supporting us on patreon also remember you can check out the rest of the graphs for free over our patreon account so get the link of the video description thanks for watching I'm your host Steve and I will see you again next time