HELP! GTX 1060 3GB vs 6GB vs AMD RX480 4/8GB

[Auberdeen]

Want to upgrade for legion, and looks like Nvidia just came out with a new 3GB version of the GTX 1060! Trying to figure which to buy, either the 6GB, new 3GB, or AMD RX480 4 or 8GB.

Read this to provide some insite... not sure what I need to consider for Legion, just that my ancient Radeon HD 7700 needs to go.

"... The new GTX 1060 starts at $200, putting it on a collision course with AMD’s similarly priced 4GB Radeon RX 480...For $200, the GTX 1060 loses half of its memory, dropping from 6GB to 3GB in the cut-down version... The 3GB GTX 1060 also sees its CUDA cores reduced to 1152 from the full-fat version’s 1280. That cut-down combo results in performance that's roughly 5 percent slower than the full $250 GTX 1060 with 6GB of memory. To put that in perspective, the GTX 1060 3GB is about 3 frames per second slower if you're targeting 60fps.

While the original GeForce GTX 1060 is capable of hitting fine frame rates at 1440p, the new model's limited 3GB memory buffer will likely affect performance in some games at that resolution, despite the superb memory compression in Nvidia's new Pascal GPUs. Without having tested one of the 3GB GTX 1060s yet, based off that specification we'd recommend considering the new variant for 1080p gaming alone.

Everything else remains the same in the 3GB GTX 1060, including the base and boost clocks at 1.5GHz and 1.7GHz, respectively. Memory speed stands firm at 8Gbps, memory bandwidth is still 192-bit, and the card still requires 120W of power.."

would love some feedback because I want to buy it tonight! Thanks!

[Thunderball]

GTX 1060 6GB or RX 470 8GB, depending on what do you have the money for. For the RX 470 stay clear of the reference designs though.

[Fascinate]

Feel free to grab the 3gb 1060, good price for a great 1080p card. Most people dont understand games can use more memory if the card has it, but having less ram does not necessarily mean the card will automatically perform poorly, vram is funny this way.