Hello !
I too was late to the party, started mining in Nov, just when ZCash had dropped, got some good earnings for a few days and then it was back to normal. I started with RX 480 and then got another one within a month, as I could only find videos and articles of ppl loving the card...
but that was only half of the story, as I involved more into mining I found out about the new miners being developed for nVidea cards and that I feel changed the game for nvidea. Though i still dont see soo much love for the GTX 10xx series.
Getting down to numbers -
I have 2 AMD RX 480 (8GB) , 1 r9 290(4GB) and 1 GTX 1060 ( 3GB ) ( all the cards are Gigabyte), and I totally love my GTX, it consumes less power, supports more algorithms ( can mine several coins which AMD cant ) and runs cooler.
Now each coin/algorithm has a different story and are too tough to compare as new miner ver. keep releasing each week and raise the efficiency. But I can say the AMD RX 480 does give me about 5% to 10% more hashrate but is 25% expensive and 15% less power efficient. So I would vouch for nVidea in present situation.
In b/w 1050, 1060 and 1070 I would still recommend 1060(3 GB) as its return over cost is best. You can roughly earn around 90 cents a day with 1060 at an average.
In my region, reselling a nvidea is also easier, so thats also a factor that counts. The card I am referring to is priced $199 at amazon at the moment.
Hope my long advice was help full.
Regards
i agree that the best card for the money depends by region, for reference, i paid $110-160 for each rx470 depending on sales at the time, while gtx 1060 also costs 199 here in the US. 480 4gb cards are about $160 after mir here during sales, but a 470 is better value at 130 ish, less power and hashrate is within 10% of 480
