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Best Bench: 56% Gigabyte(1458 3724)
Worst Bench: 48% HP(103C 82FC) 3GB

Poor: 48% Great: 56%

SPEED RANK: 123^rd / 714

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Best Bench: 47% Sapphire(174B E353) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 32% XFX(1682 9470)

Poor: 32% Great: 47%

SPEED RANK: 150^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		52 %	Much faster effective speed. +31%		39.5 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	63.8 fps	Much better lighting effects. +34%	47.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	68.3 fps	Better reflection handling. +21%	56.5 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	65.2 fps	Faster multi rendering. +14%	57.1 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	66 fps	Faster NBody calculation. +20%	55.2 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	68.7 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +14%	60.1 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	96.2 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +61%	59.9 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	68.5 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +13%	60.7 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	70.3 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +9%	64.6 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	150 Fps	Slightly Better CSGO Fps. +7%	140 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	98 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +17%	84 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	64 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +21%	53 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	60 Fps	Better GTAV Fps. +22%	49 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	148 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +12%	132 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	100 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +14%	88 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	55 Fps	Better BF1 Fps. +12%	49 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	51 Fps	Slightly Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +7%	48 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	184 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +68%	109 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	116 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +20%	96 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	61 Fps	Better WoW Fps. +22%	50 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	95 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +16%	82 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.94 %	Hugely higher market share. +527%	0.15 %
Value Value For Money	103 %	Much better value. +39%	74.7 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	66 %	Slightly more popular. +6%	62 %
Price Price (score)	$119	Slightly cheaper. +5%	$126


Age Newest	92 Months		92 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	66.6 fps		80.2 fps	Better peak texture detail. +20%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	65.1 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +48%	44.1 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	60.7 fps		69.5 fps	Better texture detail. +14%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	60.2 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +43%	42.2 fps

The 3GB GTX 1060 follows last month’s release of the 6GB GTX 1060. The 3GB variant not only has reduced memory but Nvidia have also disabled 10 percent of the processing cores from 1,280 down to 1,152. There is no reference edition of the 3GB 1060 but the partner cards are already available (at launch). Comparing the GTX 6GB 1060 and 3GB 1060 shows that the 6GB 1060 leads, on average, by 7% but it is also currently 15% more expensive. The GTX 1060 is Nvidia’s answer to AMD’s new Polaris based RX 470. Comparing the RX 470 and 3GB 1060 shows that for pre DX12 games the 1060 edges ahead by 11%. The RX 470 is able to match the 3GB 1060 in DX12 games but this will remain a corner case until most games are optimized for DX12 (likely to take several years). The 3GB 1060 has the potential to become a hugely successful card, especially if prices drop below $200. ^{[Sep '16 GPUPro]}

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The RX 470 is the second Polaris based 14 nm graphics card released by AMD this year. The 470 follows hot on the heels of the hugely successful (though still mostly unavailable) RX 480. Based on specs the RX 470 has approximately 10% less processing horsepower than the RX 480. Looking at provisional average benchmarks (we only have three samples of the RX 470 at this time) of the RX 480 and RX 470 shows that the performance gap is just a few percent. This performance gap will likely widen as we get a more representative number of samples of the RX 470 but the fact that custom design 470s are already available will likely keep the gap between the 480 less than 10%, at least until custom 480s make it to market. The list prices of both the 4GB RX 480 and RX 470 cards are within 20 USD of each other so AMD have basically re-released the 480 at a slightly reduced price with slightly reduced specs, strange but true! ^{[Aug '16 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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