AtenRa
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Game requirements only keep going up, so he should get the best GPU that he can afford so that he doesn't have to upgrade as soon and can be assured of being able to max everything out today.
If he has the budget, the GTX 1070 is the best option. Recommending an RX 480 or GTX 1060 in this situation is poor advice, IMO.
Why are you telling the OP to buy a 480 and then either crossfire with another 480 down the line or wait for Vega when he can just buy a 1070 and be done?
Why ?? because as you said Game requirements only keep going up. Getting GTX 1070 today will make him need an upgrade next year if you want to max out everything.
So getting a RX 480 8GB at $229 and getting a second one later on to almost double the performance or waiting for Vega for a new and much better architecture/ memory is the better way today. GTX 1070 is not able to max all games at 1080p today, next year it will be worse. Not to mention when he will transition to 4K.
This is not the time to spend big bucks in Pascal IMO.
Forget the silly advices about Crossfire or SLI for that matter. You end up with an idle card most of the time.
Get the 1070.
Just because NVIDIAs SLI is lucking scaling and support this time it doesnt mean its the same with CF. There is CrossFire support for almost all major new games in 2016 and many from day one as with Watch Dogs 2.
RX 480 8GB CF (2x $229) equals GTX 1080 ($560 AR) at 1440p, day one