If we talk about GPUs, people choice a product over another by the current performance... but keeping an eye on the future.
If I had to decide between a GTX 1060 and a RX 480/580, I'd go with the AMD product despite being slightly slower in current games. And I'd do that because they have more VRAM, they're much better with DX12 games and for some unknown reason Nvidia can make better drivers out of the gate, meaning that their products improve less over time than their AMD counterparts, so that small difference between a 1060 and a 480/580 could turn around and make the AMD product faster in a year or less.
Sadly, that doesn't apply to the high end because, as we all know, AMD doesn't have a high end product. So choosing a 1080Ti over Vega doesn't have anything to do with focusing only on their current performance, because it doesn't matter how much AMD improves its drivers, a card destined to compete with the 1080 won't be able to compete with a product that's 30% faster than its smaller sibling.
1080Ti > 1080/Vega64 > 1070/Vega56 > 1060/580/480
Please excuse my bad English.
Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB
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