interestingly enough within your price range you don ' t really have many choices . you simply have a 1070 which is expensive but obviously more powerful and then there is 480 48 gb trading blows with gtx 1060 6 gb 3 gb version is actually a worse card than those despite having the same name which are both cheaper compared to the 1070 but obviously a lot weaker . from those cards the 1060 is slightly faster in current dx 11 titles while the AMD wins out in dx 12 vulcan . in general , AMD hardware also gets better with time as the architecture is more optimized while nvidia will stop driver support once their new generation comes out so it ' s a question whether you want slightly better performance right now or if it should keep improving over time . of course this is assuming you want current card , you can also aim for either a second hand 980 ti deal which is slightly slower than 1070 and there are also AMD fury cards which dropped in price a lot and sometimes you can get them around 480 price but they will perform better . if it ' s PCIE 2 . 0 16 x you ' re still fine as it should be fast enough for anything you ' re getting