Nvidia GeForce 10 Series versus AMD Radeon RX Series – performance per rand

The latest generation of graphics card has been available in South Africa for a while now, and although there are still some stock shortages, many local gamers are wondering which GPU will give them the best performance for their money.

Both Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10 Series and AMD’s Radeon RX lineup are available from South African retailers, with the former focusing on high-end gaming performance and the latter on high-value entry-level graphics processing.

We have measured the pricing of each AMD and Nvidia graphics card against its respective PassMark score in order to create a performance-per-rand value score.

It is important to use South African pricing, as the best-value card internationally may not be the same as the best card to buy locally.

Check out our Radeon RX Series and GeForce GTX 10 Series comparison below:

Specifications

Graphics Card	Stream Processors	Boost Clock	Memory Speed	Memory Amount	Memory Bandwidth
GeForce GTX 1060	1,280	1,708MHz	8Gbps	6 GDDR5	192GB/s
GeForce GTX 1070	1,920	1,683MHz	8Gbps	8GB GDDR5	256GB/s
GeForce GTX 1080	2,560	1,733MHz	10Gbps	8GB GDDR5X	320GB/s

Radeon RX 460	896	1,200MHz	7Gbps	2/4GB GDDR5	112GB/s
Radeon RX 470	2,048	1,206MHz	6.6Gbps	4GB GDDR5	211GB/s
Radeon RX 480	2,304	1,266MHz	8Gbps	4/8GB GDDR5	256GB/s

Pricing versus Performance

Because we want to depict an accurate difference in performance per rand, we have used pricing from a single source in order to avoid discrepancies in value score.

Pricing data is taken from Rebeltech and is accurate at the time of writing.

Graphics Card	PassMark Score	Price	Value Score
GeForce GTX 1060	9,493	R5,199	1.83
GeForce GTX 1070	11,625	R8,498	1.37
GeForce GTX 1080	12,692	R12,699	1.00
Radeon RX 460	4,462	R2,368	1.88
Radeon RX 470	7.526	R4,787	1.57
Radeon RX 480	7,614	R5,266	1.45