Alienware 15 with 1060 or 470?

Price being equal, which would you choose? I'm finding such a hard time finding ANY information, reviews, or benchmarks that compare the 1060 with the 470 in laptops. I understand the 1060 is a mobile variant while the 470 is a full desktop version, but I'm still wondering if the 470 will outperform the 1060 6GB mobile card by a good margin. Thanks

 

The mobile 1060 is the exact same one used in desktops, so there are tons of benchmarks out there, with which you can compare the two.

 

Both cards should perform almost the same. But in AMD has a history of poor mobile driver optimization. I would chose the GTX (It really is worth it save up money to upgrade to the GTX 1070 for up to 35% performance)

As you can see in NotebookChecks benchmarks, the 470 (desktop, mobile had not been tested) scores better in synthetic benchmarks; but the GTX 1060 (mobile) gets better FPS in Ulta and 4K in 80% of games

I would knock off about 5 - 10% from all Synthetic scores and FPS for the mobile variant of the 470

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-470.171188.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile...060-Laptop-Benchmarks-and-Specs.169547.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1070-Laptop.169549.0.html

 

When the cards are the same price, there's really no reason to go AMD.

What can the RX 470 do, that's worth the loss of G-Sync?

 

AMD drivers are good these days almost comparable to NVs because of newer Qt based UI for faster startup and fresh look. NV are known for Day 1 drivers that puts gpu in top performance whilst AMD is slower during day 1 and will pickup as time progresses. If your focus is on scoring more points in benchmarks or more FPS in games consider NV or else AMD. Both are quite powerful for running all games at High or Ultra High. Even VR is supported.
Are you buying it from the US? Because I can't find a config with rx 470.

 

Yeah its fron the US. I think Ill go with the 1060 over 470. Their website is really weird and have different configurations depending where you find links. If interested i can post a link.

 

Here is the link ...
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/prod...686865e6199295e400INT&ven3=100403584966810188

 

Thanks for this information. I think I'm convinced of going the 1060 route. I didn't realize that the 1060 is also a desktop version of the video card, so I was mostly impressed with how the 470 was a 'desktop' card.